I am pretty convinced that I understand OO programming with Java pretty well. I even think I have a pretty good grasp on most common programming design patterns. You'd think that I'd find reading an introductory book on those topics to be pretty dry and boring, right? Not these books.

I wrote earlier about the talk by Jared Diamond on the subject of societies collapsing. I have some further thoughts about the book that I wrote months ago but never got around to actually publishing on here.