Looked at the sampler for this:
http://www.amazon.ca/Told-You-So-Wee.../dp/1609804740
Seems he called it right all along.
Looked at the sampler for this:
http://www.amazon.ca/Told-You-So-Wee.../dp/1609804740
Seems he called it right all along.
Ja-mata TosaInu
Anyone read any Borges and willing to provide this here man with a starting point? Thanks in advance.
Reading Ubik again, at least until I get my hands of The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
#Hillary4prism
BD:TW
Some piously affirm: "The truth is such and such. I know! I see!"
And hold that everything depends upon having the “right” religion.
But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra
Freedom necessarily involves risk. - Alan Watts
All I have of his is a collection.
Labyrinths Selected Short Stories & Other Writings: Jorge Luis Borges
Edited by Donald A. Yates & James E. Irby
It includes short stories, essays and the like. Can't for the life of me remember anything about it though.
Ja-mata TosaInu
Reading The Hobbit for the first time. After that, I may immediately jump into the Lord of the Rings for the first time.
Meh Tolkien. I am 99% sure it's a gay fantasy
Forcing myself to finish the third part of The Hunger Games to please my sister, but it sucks. Badly. I kinda liked the first, movie is better, second and third are meh.
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Read the Ice and Fire series in a roll and now trying not to think about what happens next...
Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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Ja mata, TosaInu. You will forever be remembered.
Proud
Been to:
Swords Made of Letters - 1938. The war is looming in France - and Alexandre Reythier does not have much time left to protect his country. A novel set before the war.
A Painted Shield of Honour - 1313. Templar Knights in France are in grave danger. Can they be saved?
Fundamentals of Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer
by Welty, James
Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering (4th Edition)
by Fogler, H. Scott
Quanta, Matter, and Change
by Atkins, Peter
Hooray for uni starting again today. :(
The Great Influenze by John Barry
It's ok and shockingly about the Great Flu Pandemic
I've started on the Mistborn series of Brandon Sanderson. (the guy who finished wheel of time). Very refreshing in the fantasy genre.
Status Emeritus
The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Safon. A fascinating book.
Andres is our Lord and Master and could strike us down with thunderbolts or beer cans at any time. ~Askthepizzaguy
Ja mata, TosaInu
Why the West Rules -for now
Ian Collins
Ja mata Tosa Inu-sama, Hore Tore, Adrian II, Sigurd, Fragony
Mouzafphaerre is known elsewhere as Urwendil/Urwendur/Kibilturg...
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The Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg.
I feel my Total War time is about to be cut short.
Also, James Clavell's Shogun.
The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason and the Laws of Nature. by Timothy Ferris
I have only read the first chapter so far. His basic premise he wants to show is that the democratic revolution during the Enlightenment was due in no small part to the rise of science in the Renaissance and Age of Reason. He harps on the fact multiple times already that science demands respect for different opinions (freedom of speech) and the ability to freely associate in order to spread scientific results and findings (freedom of association).
This is all fine and dandy but none of this really matters one bit to me because the very first question I have which he has not addressed yet is how science which was only available to rich aristocrats/middle class businessmen somehow promoted the ideals of democracy to the lower classes who probably had no idea why the elite were playing around with weights and measures.
The real reason is the rich continually talked about those ideas to get the poor on their side. In the same way they said to slaves at the time: "All men are created equal.... oh we won? Yea, we just meant white guys"
Getting poor people to parrot the points of the rich, even if it's science, isn't that hard.
I have been reading a series of books recently called Warrior of Rome.
Been finding it quite enjoyable. It follows a Angle barbarian called Marcus Claudius Ballista (Angle name: Dernhelm) later on in his career as a Roman Dux Ripae through various defeats and victories.
Days since the Apocalypse began
"We are living in space-age times but there's too many of us thinking with stone-age minds" | How to spot a Humanist
"Men of Quality do not fear Equality." | "Belief doesn't change facts. Facts, if you are reasonable, should change your beliefs."
Ok, I couldn't decide what to read that day. I eventually settled on more Sherlock Holmes. Just finished the Memoirs, so now I need to read two more novels and two more collections of short stores.
Hey folks,
I'm reading "The Eagle in the Sand" by Simon Scarrow. It's the 7th book in the "Eagle" series.
Not the most demanding of reads, but who doesn't enjoy a bit of Roman fiction?
This is so cool!
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
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Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
@Montmorency, Mrs. Lemur is a very high muckety-muck in the world of Behavior Analysis. If you ever want to talk to her, let me know. She's done favors all over the place for people who need their, um, I don't know what you call it, but the thing where someone trying to get their BCBA has to pay for time going over sessions and so forth. She knows a lot of people. I had no idea you were into the field.
What I'm reading: Equoid, but Charlie Stross. The best $1.99 I spent this week. (And he even forced the publisher to release it without DRM. How can I not reward that kind of behavior?)
I had no idea you were into the field.
I'm not (yet?), I'm just checking it out for, uh...
What can I say, I love behaviorism.
I might be able to heavily incorporate this stuff into something else that I might do in the future, though.
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Personally, behaviourism is not one of my favourites. It is like trying to look at basic instinctual responses, anything more complex and it starts to fall apart rather easily. Many other branches include looking at these underlying structures in a far more succinct manner.
Days since the Apocalypse began
"We are living in space-age times but there's too many of us thinking with stone-age minds" | How to spot a Humanist
"Men of Quality do not fear Equality." | "Belief doesn't change facts. Facts, if you are reasonable, should change your beliefs."
It's not so much about "instinct" as the fact that all biological mechanism and function is fundamentally stimulated.
Vitiate Man.
History repeats the old conceits
The glib replies, the same defeats
Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
It's been a while since I've finished reading it, but there's a book that I can highly recommend. It's originally written in German and titled "Melnitz", but it in the Dutch translation the title was "Het lot van de familie Meijer". Author's name: Charles Lewinsky.
Basically; it's about a jewish family in Switzerland throughout the years 1870 till 1945. The family and their experiences are entirely fictional, but a lot of work went into the historical background.
To me it gave a good deal of insight into jewish culture (which I otherwise know little about) and how they fared in the period before WW2. Not much else that I can tell about it without spoilers. It's a little early to tell because I tend to lose perspective once I'm impressed by something, but it might be one of the best books I've ever read.
The Rise of Nagash
If living is nothing dieing is nothing then nothing is everything and everything is nothing
Read Enders Game and the Speaker of Death. Might start on Xenocide soon.
I blame Lemur.
Days since the Apocalypse began
"We are living in space-age times but there's too many of us thinking with stone-age minds" | How to spot a Humanist
"Men of Quality do not fear Equality." | "Belief doesn't change facts. Facts, if you are reasonable, should change your beliefs."
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Oh no, you can't blame me for Xenocide. That's where the series begins its steep, sudden, and irreversible dive. I tell my friends the same thing about Ender's Game that I do about The Physiognomy: just read that one book. Ignore the others. Your life will be better for it.
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