I Eat Paint: Roundup

I absolutely love perceived-color optical illusions, so I set up an I Eat Paint page about them. Right now the only two up there are a big and small version of a picture of me, which is nice, as it combines my love of optical illusions and my egomania.

Now for the unabashedly self-indulgent parts of the entry. Those of you who don't know me can stop reading.

I was tagged by Diane a little while ago, and haven't done anything yet with it. So here are my answers. The tenth rule was I was supposed to select 5 others to do this, but I tend to take a laissez-faire attitude about memes. If you feel like doing it, do it and comment with a link.

One book that changed your life: Metamagical Themas, by Douglas Hofstadter. Math, music, logic, philosophy, and computer science aren't distinct things, but areas of study whose lines all blur together. Fascinating.
One book that you'd read more than once: Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland. A lot of this book resonated very deeply with me. It cemented my desire to be a programmer, and rereading it, astounds me in its casual accuracy.
One book you'd want on a deserted island: Although this was mentioned by handful of people already, reasearch suggests I bring the SAS Survival Handbook, by John Wiseman. Reading the book description suggest it has easy-to-follow diagrams for pretty much any situation you could ever be in, ever. I'd probably try and get a waterproof version.
One book that made you laugh: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, by Christopher Moore. Not exactly spiritual or accurate, but surprisingly reverent. And very funny.
One book that made you cry: The Pigman, by Paul Zindel. I read this at a young age, and saw more of myself in the children in the story than I was probably prepared to accept.
One book you wish you'd written: Coyote v. Acme, by Ian Frazier. The essays are clever, and the writing style such that you feel like you could have written it.
One book you wish had never been written: Mein Kampf, I guess. Such hate. No, I'm not linking to it.
One book you're currently reading: Julie & Julia, by Julie Powell. This is a blog-turned book about one woman's attempt to save herself by setting an almost impossible goal: in one year, cook all 524 recipes in Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking.
One book you've been meaning to read: Choose, by Carey Wallace. I've heard it describes as a Choose Your Own adventure book for adults.

I've been to two very fun halloween parties in the last couple of weeks, and saw a lot of friends I hadn't seen in a while, but then I tried to organize a little get-together of my own and that fell through. Oh well. We're not all organizers, I guess.