I can't do podcasts or audiobooks if I need to pay attention to what I'm doing. Unless it's a book I'm already familiar with - I have cassettes of Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter (thanks, msbelle!) in the car. I like music when I'm studying, but I'm like Bev - no lyrics because they get mixed in with the subject at hand.
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
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EpicTangent - Aug 08, 2017 1:27:16 pm PDT #15077 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Calli - Aug 08, 2017 1:31:31 pm PDT #15078 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Timelies! I'm checking in from gorgeous Halifax, where I've been having a lovely vacation. Tonight Sue kindly met up for drinks, dinner, and a delightful conversation. It was so nice to meet you, Sue!
Steph L. - Aug 08, 2017 1:36:00 pm PDT #15079 of 30002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Unless it's a book I'm already familiar with - I have cassettes of Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter (thanks, msbelle!) in the car.
It's starting to get creepy how much we are the same person, because I am the same way -- I can't listen to an audiobook while I'm driving unless I've already read it. Otherwise I focus on it and not on the road, which is bad.
EpicTangent - Aug 08, 2017 1:41:55 pm PDT #15080 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Otherwise I focus on it and not on the road, which is bad.
I tend to focus on the road and lose track of what's going on in the book. Which, if you'll forgive my saying, feels like the wiser choice.
-t - Aug 08, 2017 1:43:23 pm PDT #15081 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Driving is one of those tasks where it takes just enough of my attention that other parts of my brain can get some good thinking done. Like how people get good ideas in the shower. Having a short commute might be messing with my ability to come up with solutions to my every day problems, come to think of it. Interesting.
-t - Aug 08, 2017 1:44:56 pm PDT #15082 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'll lose track of what I'm listening to and need to rewind in traffic or going somewhere unfamiliar, but on long stretches of interstate audiobooks are my friends.
EpicTangent - Aug 08, 2017 1:54:22 pm PDT #15083 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
-t is pretty much me, I just don't roadtrip much, so those long stretches that don't require much attention are rare, especially with how bad our traffic's gotten.
When I was still in school and had to go to a campus 30ish miles away, I listened to a few books on the drives, but, thankfully haven't had a regular commute of that length in a while. I may never finish Tess of the D'urbervilles.
Calli - Aug 08, 2017 2:14:28 pm PDT #15084 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I like listening to some podcasts while driving, but I haven't tried driving while listening to books.
Connie Neil - Aug 08, 2017 2:34:02 pm PDT #15085 of 30002
brillig
I have trouble hving conversations when I'm driving, because the driving part of my brain overrides the verbal part and vice versa.
Jesse - Aug 08, 2017 2:51:29 pm PDT #15086 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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