I still buy books. They're ergonomically superior to on-line documentation in many ways. If I want reference, I search, but if I want to learn, I'll read a book.

Speaking of, I'm packing to move, and just packed some old-school stuff. 2nd edition Foley and Van Dam, an old Dragon Book, Wizard Book, Stevens, Knuth, C Programming Language, so on.

I don't think I've opened them in years, but I'm sentimentally attached to that era of computing.

Page 123 was the end of a chapter, with only a couple of sentences, so on page 124:

He wore a black shirt, black pajama pants, a gray ammunition belt, a gold ring on the third finger of his right hand. His rubber sandals had been blown off. One lay beside him, the other a few meters up the trail.

Tim O'Brien, "The Things They Carried"

"Merely to act bravely without knowing what bravery is belongs only to the ignorant and inferior. To be virtuous without any clear idea of virtue itself is of small importance -- 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' He tells them that the whole company had best go to school again and try to get educated."

It's from an intro to Laches in The Collected Dialogues of Plato.

From my grad school class. I can't say as I much care for the text but it's what I read on my commute to/from work.

Then there is also Brook's (1975) "mythical man-month" effect which was discovered in the IS field but applies just as well in projects. As workers are hired, either for additional capacity or to replace those who leave, they require training in the project environment before they become productive. The training is, of course, informal on-the-job training conducted by their coworkers who must take time from their own project tasks, thus resulting in ever more reduced capacity as more workers are hired.

META: Hyperkalemia, hypokalemia, alkalosis, hypernatremia
INTEG: Rash, urticaria
SYST: Anaphylaxis, respiratory distrress, serum sickness, superinfection

2004 copy of Mosby's Nursing Drug Reference