“Assuming it’s all true, what people do privately is up to them."
Wow I wish we could get some rationality with our sex scandals over on this side of the pond.
It's good to have cargo. Makes us a target for every other scavenger out there, though, but sometimes that's fun too.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 57 Varieties
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laga - Mar 31, 2008 11:58:02 am PDT #8451 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Jesse - Mar 31, 2008 11:59:33 am PDT #8452 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ha! I love the Rick Roll.
aurelia - Mar 31, 2008 12:04:04 pm PDT #8453 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
note, the Dean walks to campus because she lives in the neighborhood, so this is not an issue for her.
Park at the Dean's house.
I think the reading thing is interesting, but it's really so much more complex than that article makes it out to be. What I read often depends on what else is going on in my life. If work is crazy busy I want pretty light reading. If I have a week off I might read something that requires more investment and concentration. And not everything I read is something I love or even agree with. I went through a phase of reading nothing but dystopias followed by all of Ayn Rand's fiction. I didn't become an Objectivist but I'm glad I read it.
And music... I dated a music composition major after college. I remember sitting in front of the stereo playing snippets of songs for each other, discussing various aspects of music. Everything was fine until he started criticizing the arrangements and musical styles of songs that I was playing for the lyrics. After a while I just ejected the CD, put it away, turned off the stereo, walked to the next room and picked up a book. He was seriously pissing me off, but I knew it would be a really stupid thing to fight about so I just didn't. I think it was the first time I ever saw him completely at a loss for words. Makes me laugh, now.
Gudanov - Mar 31, 2008 12:10:12 pm PDT #8454 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Right now I'm mostly on a Sci-Fi fiction kick reading Jack McDevitt in particular. I've mixed in some Christian apologetics as well. Before the Sci-Fi kick it was biblical archaeology preceeded by more Sci-Fi preceeded by some physics, cosmology and string theory in particular.
Daisy Jane - Mar 31, 2008 12:34:21 pm PDT #8455 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Huh. We seem to have tornados here.
Ginger - Mar 31, 2008 12:38:41 pm PDT #8456 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
reading Jack McDevitt in particular
A Talent for War is an amazing book with a very high HSQ. I keep reading McDevitt in the hope that he'll write another as good.
I've read a lot of sf, but for some reason I'm reading mostly mysteries right now, interspersed with nonfiction. It entirely depends on my mood. I sometimes stand in the midst of the hundreds of books in my den and none of them are the book I want.
aurelia - Mar 31, 2008 12:47:01 pm PDT #8457 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Duck and cover, DJ.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 31, 2008 12:49:13 pm PDT #8458 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I don't think any particular reading choice could necessarily motivate a breakup for me, however proselytizing about it might be able to. I'd regard Dianetics and The Watchtower as reasons to be watchful, at any rate.
Though considering I went to considerable effort to get a copy of The King in Yellow shipped over from Europe, this issue might be more likely to crop up for someone who dates me...
beth b - Mar 31, 2008 12:51:34 pm PDT #8459 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Keep safe, DJ.
currently I am reading a lot of books meant for 4th - 6th graders. Interspersed with adventure fiction ( Preston/Childs). Kind of looking forward to the third Thursday in May when I have my last book group meeting for the kids until October
Gudanov - Mar 31, 2008 12:52:08 pm PDT #8460 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
A Talent for War is an amazing book with a very high HSQ.
That's what I'm reading right now. Well, not right now, right now, but it's the book I'm reading. I'm 'reading' mysteries via audiobook in my car right now. Mostly Rex Stout at the moment, with the exception of 'Crocodile on the Sandbank' which I listened too while my next Rex Stout audiobook was on hold.