What do I read?

On the internet, I read LW, the New York Times, and a Google feed of blogs. (Mostly math -- Terence Tao, Nuit Blanche, etc. -- but also Will Wilkinson and The American Scene on the political end, and The Geomblog for theoretical computer science.) When I need a cheerful pick-me-up I read BoingBoing. When I procrastinate I binge on The Atlantic or Yglesias or Reason, you know, the usual players in the news and commentary universe.

For school I read the predictable array of math textbooks. Most recently Caratheodory's book on conformal maps.

For pleasure reading -- normally I'm a literature person, but most recently I've just been going through Neal Stephenson books.

What's on my desk? Not a lot. File folders of papers, kleenex, desk lamp, notebook. My work (or "work") life is not very paper-intensive. My inbox? Now that's a mess.