Author: Randy Rydberg

A fairly mellow fellow who likes to read history books.

My Leather-Bound Books

The leather-bound Easton Press and Barnes & Noble Collectors Editions section of my library.

I like beat-up books, old books, new books, books with deckle edges, and books with straight edges.

But leather-bound books, with sewn-in pages containing high-quality paper and ink and gilded edges… they feel great to hold while reading. I’m twenty pages away from finishing the first of four books by historian Ian Kershaw on Adolf Hitler, which is considered to be one of the best biographies ever written, while also being a very informative and entertaining read.

I found a set on Vladimir Lenin today, but it was in a different language… so, no. Makes sense as I think I would have been aware of a Lenin set like this?

Zoom Conference?

I think this is a scam to get someone to click on their link; very clever. I never looked at the links that zoom conferences came from, when I used to use Zoom, but I doubt that “tinyurl” is legitimate. If somebody’s mailbox is full of these, it would be easy to click on it, leading to who-knows-where.

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The Ugliest Building Ever

Driving to downtown on Colfax, I came across the ugliest building I’ve ever seen. They could have at least created something that would blend in, if they weren’t going to make the effort to build with a beautiful design, something uplifting, but no. We get a melted-plastic look.

I have read comments about the building, exclaiming that “at least it is different”. Just because something is different, doesn’t automatically make it good. Also, nearby, there is a courthouse that couldn’t be more cold and dystopian, as opposed to the one by the Capitol which is based more on Roman/Greek architecture.

This only makes me appreciate beautiful buildings that much more, as this monstrosity is the most shocking contrast between good, and bad. What they could have done with the money poured into this horrible idea is a missed opportunity to do something good for the millions of people who will pass by this building over its future.

More: This is the Populus Hotel, with 265 rooms. It is supposed to look like an aspen tree. I don’t have anything against the hotel itself, and don’t know if it is excellent or not, just that it is really ugly on the outside. I never thought for a moment of an aspen tree when looking at it.