Muli Ben-Yehuda's journal

It’s the end of the vacation. Back to the slave grind tomorrow. For some odd reason, I’m looking forward to it – I’m all vacationed out.

Bought lots of books today, both off and on-line. The loot includes:

• Miles,
  Mystery & Mayhem, by Lois McMaster Bujold. This is another Baen omnibus edition in the Vorkosigan
  saga, following Cordelia’s
  Honor (which I’ve just finished) and Young
  Miles (which I recently read). The Vorkosigan saga is the best
  kind of space opera, engrossing, riveting, and does not shy away from
  the messier sides of life, both in the moral and physical sense.
• Hacking
  the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering, by Andrew “Bunny”
  Huang. I’ve heard lots of good things about this book, and look
  forward to getting my hands on it. The fact that I don’t currently own
  an xbox is immaterial.
• The
  Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (Conan of Cimmeria, Book 1), by
  Robert E. Howard. Those of you that have known me for some time know
  that I have somewhat of a Conan fetish.
• Principles
  of War, by Carl von Clausewitz. No home is complete without
  it.
• The Art of War, by
  Sun Tzu. Too bad the store didn’t also have a copy of A Book of Five Rings (Go Rin No
  Sho), by Miyamoto Musashi.