What's this site?
Hi there! You've reached the homepage of
Ben Lavender,
who partakes in varying sorts of tomfoolery, such as
programming, operations, data stuff, and sci fi, and thinks
those things are all
fun.
You've found his home on the web, with the caveat that most of
his personal stuff ends up on social networks. So this is
mostly his work stuff, and he's really not as stodgy as this
site would have him seem. You can find out more about Ben on
his
about page!
Enjoy your stay.
Learnin's
- Everything is going to Kill Everybody
- Good Calories, Bad Calories
- The Red Queen
- Sperm Wars
- The House of Morgan
- Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
- The Diamond Age
- Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
- Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
- Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
- Singularity Sky
- Spent: Sex, Evolution and Consumer Behavior
- Superfreakanomics
- Mother Tongue
- Illicit
- Democracy: The God that Failed
- Mobs, Messians and Markets
- The Watchmen
- Halting State
- Emergency!
- Catching Fire: How Cooking Made us Human
- More Joel on Software
- The Omnivore's Dilemma
- The Mythical Man-Month
- Diaspora
- Starship Troopers
- Brave New World
- Moral Minds
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
- The Fabric of Reality
- The Collapse of the Dollar and How to Profit from it
- The Panic of 1907
- The Four Pillars of Investing
- I.O.U.S.A.
- Quarantine
- Permutation City
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
- Survival of the Sickest
- Anathem
- The best American Science Writing 2008
- The Third Chimpanzee
- Programming the Universe
- McMafia: Crime without Frontiers
- The Atomic Bazaar
- The Transition Handbook
- Brave New War
- The Foundation Trilogy
- Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil
- The Long Emergency
- Beyond Oil
This site's amazing! How do I tell the author that?
Camels smell freaking terrible but I'm no hater.
Camels smell freaking terrible but I'm no hater.
While most mammals are still just sharing pictures, Ben is freaking Social Networking over here. Get with the program. Please choose a venue to contact him from the fine selection below.
See Ben's
code
on
Github,
report
bugs,
and make
snotty comments
about his choice of
stylistic dogma.
Follow Ben on
Twitter,
where you can hear him
complain
about products and services that he will usually
purchase anyway.
Ben is on
Facebook,
and feel free to contact him there if your inquiry involves
drinking
or cavorting in the
French Quarter,
the
Marigny, or
the
Bywater.
