AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 31 — Today's newspapers. Machine Beauty by David Gelernter.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 30 — Today's newspapers. Finished The Pattern on the Stone by W. Daniel Hillis. This is the kind of overview of computing ideas that I like to read once in a while. I used to be a big fan of AI reading, a couple of decades ago. I started Machine Beauty by David Gelernter.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 29 — Today's newspapers. The Pattern on the Stone by W. Daniel Hillis. Some older newspapers. Glanced through a few magazines.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 28 — Today's newspapers. The Pattern on the Stone by W. Daniel Hillis.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 27 — A bunch of newspapers. The Pattern on the Stone by W. Daniel Hillis.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 26 — A bunch of newspapers. The Pattern on the Stone by W. Daniel Hillis.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 25 — A few newspapers.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 24 — A few newspapers. The Austin Chronicle. Glanced through my Christmas books.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 23 — A few newspapers.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 22 — No time for reading today.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 21 — Papers. I started a book I found during cleaning: The Pattern on the Stone by W. Daniel Hillis. Subtitle: The Simple Ideas that Make Computers Work. You know Boolean logic, finite state machines.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 20 — Papers. Finished 1939 The Lost World of the Fair. A scholarly book with a bit of whimsy with the fictional part. But it drug a little here and there. Worth reading for the dust jacket and the attention and conversations that it started. Well, at least one, in the gym.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 19 — Papers.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 18 — Papers. 1939 The Lost World of the Fair. This book is nearing the end. It's an interesing format. It's a novel but mostly it's facts about 1939-1940 and this fair.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 17 — Papers mostly. 1939 The Lost World of the Fair.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 16 — Papers mostly.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 15 — 1939 The Lost World of the Fair. Papers.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 14 — 1939 The Lost World of the Fair. Papers. Few bits from magazines at Dad's house.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 13 — 1939 The Lost World of the Fair. Papers.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 12 — 1939 The Lost World of the Fair. Papers.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 11 — 1939 The Lost World of the Fair. Interestingly I also read a New York Times editorial (for yesterday's paper, I think) by David Gelernter about how PCs are immature technology. I read some other papers, too.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 10 — Just newspapers and a copy of Family Circle.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 9— Just newspapers.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 8 — 1939 The Lost World of the Fair. Newspapers. I like being roughly in the middle of a book. Where you feel all friendly with it, enjoying it but it isn't threatening to run out and make you choose another.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 7 — 1939 The Lost World of the Fair. Newspapers. I'm boring.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 6 — 1939 The Lost World of the Fair. Newspapers.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 5 — 1939 The Lost World of the Fair. Newspapers. Same old stuff.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 4 — 1939 The Lost World of the Fair. Newspapers.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 3 — 1939 The Lost World of the Fair. Makes me think about attending the Hemisfair in San Antonio in 1968 or 1969.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 2 — A little of 1939 The Lost World of the Fair.

AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 1 — Finished Let Me Go by Helga Schneider. Such a personal account of complicity with the Nazis. Newspapers.