Hubbard-Software.com: Personal
Overview
This is going to end up more as a catalog of my personal library, than anything else, I can see that now. So far, I've got perhaps 0.01% of my books listed here. It's a start.
Table of Contents
- General
- Fiction
- History
- Military
- How capitalism works, and why socialism doesn't
- Humor
- Fencing
- Patents and copyrights
- Articles
- Pictures and more
General
Fiction
- The Secret History, by Donna Tartt. As far as I can tell, other than this novel, Donna Tartt never wrote anything else much worth reading. That's exceedingly odd, considering what a masterpiece this book is. Top of the short list for summer reading, for anyone.
- Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald, by Ron Carlson. Mr. Carlson came and spoke to our Utah State University honors creative writing class, a year or two after releasing this book. He was energetic, optimistic, entertaining, and full of information as to what it was really like to write a novel. The novel itself is simply a joy to read, and darn funny too.
History
- Delivered from Evil : The Saga of World War II: The First Complete One-Volume History (Paperback)
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Military
- The Kinder, Gentler Military : Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars? I was there in the Navy during the Tailhook scandal (although, as a submarine officer, I wasn't anywhere near the center of the storm; that was about Naval Aviators), which is one of the topics in this book. I experienced first-hand many of the social experiments that were being inflicted upon the military at the time. Stephanie Gutman got it right. Don't miss this brilliant piece of journalism and crystal-clear exposition.
How capitalism works, and why socialism doesn't
- Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman, 40th anniversary edition
- Free to Choose: A Person Statement, by Milton Friedman
- The Road to Serfdom, by F.A. Hayek
- The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
Humor
- The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
- The Onion: Iraqi Cop Moonlighting As Terrorist Just To Make Ends Meet
Fencing
- US Fencing
- The Fencing Center Of San Jose
- Key to steel: Properties of Maraging Steels
- The Fencing Post
- Salle Santa Cruz
- Bay Cup
- USFA Central California Division
- American Fencers Supply Co
- Leon Paul Equipment
- Uhlmann Fencing
- California Fencing Clubs
- EMFC [Elite Musketeer Fencer's Club]
Patents and copyrights
Articles
- A Reasoned Approach To Immigration Reform (May 24, 2006)
- The Parent Trap: How Safety Fanatics Help Drive Down Birth Rates (May 24, 2006)
- Iran and Diplomacy
- One Simple Rate (Flat Tax would work)
- The Roe Effect
- The Other Russian Revolution
- Peggy Noonan: After the Storm: Political Leadership in a crisis
- John Roberts, Minimalist
- The Property Rights Test
- What Ails Conservatives
- New Orleans had a failing public school system. Its children deserve better
- In Katrina's wake, Wal-Mart and Home Depot came to the rescue (10 Sep 2005)
- The U.N.'s prose--and policy--finally gets a close look (10 Sep 2005)
- Katrina, Juliana and Wilhelmina: Lesson from Dutch 1953 flood (10 Sep 2005)
- 20050929: OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan
- Why Does College Cost So Much
- OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan Archive
Pictures and more
Here's my computer center, which has been recently remodeled. I wrote a short blog entry about it, if you're interested in the details. Now the computer center is so neat and cozy it's a wonder I get out and do Real Life at all:
Here's our son, Kelly, doing his best to follow the Hubbard tradition of reading when you really should be sleeping (Jan, 2006):
Here are Kelly and Julia ( May, 2006):
And here is a picture of a bookshelf I recently reorganized. I do a lot of reading, and lately I've felt the urge to consolidate many of my favorite books in one place, instead of scattered throughout a dozen other bookshelves.
Last updated: 11 June 2006