I can't even hold a conversation when I drive, the verbal section of my brain is not online when I'm driving. The pattern recognition/geometry section is in control, and if I try to swap bad things happen.
Mal: Zoe, why do I have a wife? Jayne: You got a wife? All I got is that dumbass stick sounds like its raining. How come you got a wife?
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Sep 27, 2007 3:26:19 pm PDT #4048 of 28222
brillig
-t - Sep 27, 2007 3:27:41 pm PDT #4049 of 28222
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I get all lost in thinking about my breathing and technique (and this is is usually just walking) and keep having to rewind. It's a bummer, because it seems like the perfect opportunity to consume more books. I'm hopeful that I will not have to think quite so much at some point and audiobooks will be accessible to me.
Volans - Sep 27, 2007 3:54:03 pm PDT #4050 of 28222
move out and draw fire
connie, I just heard about a study that says that's exactly why it's hard for people to talk on the cellphone and drive - it's not the verbal so much, as that they are picturing the other person, to the detriment of watching traffic.
I hate audiobooks. I've tried and tried, but I hate them. Plus, $35 for a book you can't flip through? No.
§ ita § - Sep 27, 2007 3:56:29 pm PDT #4051 of 28222
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't buy audiobooks. I nabbed some in a free trial, or I borrow them from the library, rip to iPod and delete when I return them.
On my long commute it was perfect. These days, NSM. Now that I neither drive far nor exercise poor James Bond hasn't even gotten to the good bits yet.
Emily - Sep 27, 2007 5:23:28 pm PDT #4052 of 28222
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
No books in the bathroom. Sorry.
Glamcookie - Sep 27, 2007 6:18:47 pm PDT #4053 of 28222
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I bring reading materials into the bathroom and GF hates it.
sj - Sep 27, 2007 6:21:53 pm PDT #4054 of 28222
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
When I worked at the bookstore people would try to bring reading material into the bathrooms there, which is just too icky. Luckily there are alarms, so most of the time, we could stop them.
Glamcookie - Sep 28, 2007 6:52:27 am PDT #4055 of 28222
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
I'm going to booktalk Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer this morning and I haven't read it yet. I looked at the description on Amazon so I have some info. Any details anyone can add to "sell" the book to teenage boys?
sumi - Sep 28, 2007 6:57:25 am PDT #4056 of 28222
Art Crawl!!!
Well, there is danger and harrowing death. Complete with dying phonecalls to a beloved wife all the way in New Zealand.
Also, terrible frostbite.
Incredible stupidity and uh. . . yeah, that's all I remember.
-t - Sep 28, 2007 7:08:03 am PDT #4057 of 28222
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
It convinced me to never try mountain climbing, but I can't remember any details.
t /failing to be helpful