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Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson by Steve Johnson

It's easy to understand why someone would read a biography of a person long dead. Times change, details are lost, and it takes skill to put the facts back together and re-contextualize a life from a different era. It's harder to get excited about a biography when you've been watching the subject's every move for a decade, living through the same events, experiencing things as they happen, and forming your own judgements about their actions in real time.

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Quotes from This Week's CWRU Student Newspaper

"Woe are the student groups that try to reserve rooms on this campus." – Editorial

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The First Programming Book I Ever Read

Over the holidays someone gave me a copy of the first programming book I ever read. In rereading it, I found much more than when I first experienced it at nine years old.

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