Michael

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 21:04:39 -0400

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Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:09:35 -0400

Moby Dick is on hold. I am currently reading Aasmund Olavsson Vinje's articles from Drammens Tidende from 1851. Norway fell under Danish rule for over 400 years, till we got our own constitution in 1814, just before we were forced into union with Sweden till 1905. Today, Vinje is famous in Norway for breaking with writing Norwegian in Danish, and rather write in a manner closer to the language of rural Norway - nynorsk or new Norwegian, like Ivar Aasen. However, in my local newspaper from 1851, this has not happened yet... He writes in Danish about the growth of the journals, journalism and its growing influence as a fourth power in Europe. Entertaining, biting and very interesting.

Jake Moomaw

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:47:02 -0400

Black Theology and Black Power -- James H, Cone
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants -- John Drury Clark

I can't recommend Ignition enough! It is hilarious, dark, and super informative.

James D Morgan

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:09:59 -0400

I finished Angel of the Revolution and am now listening to The Invasion of 1910 by William Le Queux. It was written several years prior to WW1 but is about a German invasion of England. It is not bad but a little on the technical side. The librivox reader speaks a little on the fast side but is ok.

#^LibriVox

Librivox

Michael

Tue, 17 May 2016 17:00:23 -0400

@science fiction group+

#^Joel Kinnaman to Lead Netflix's Sci-Fi Series Altered Carbon

Netflix has announced the casting of Suicide Squad and House of Cards' Joel Kinnaman in the lead role in their upcoming sci-fi series Altered Carbon.

I am not a fan of Mr. Kinnaman's acting, but this could be interesting. The book has been sitting unread on my shelf for a while.

Photo Montage

Michael

Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:53:28 -0500

@Gimp Dojo+

Michael

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:51:44 -0400

@TV series point+

#^'Twin Peaks' to return for limited series on Showtime in 2016

That gum you like &c.

Michael

Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:13:19 -0400

@Bookclub+

Anyone else looking forward to William Gibson's new one?

The Peripheral tells the story of a brave new world of drones, outsourcing and kleptocracy, and of a crime that can only be solved across time.

Upcoming4.me has a more complete synopsis.

CC: @Charles Roth MPC because, well, I think he'll know why.

elmussol

Sat, 04 Oct 2014 13:01:04 -0400

Yes.

Michael

Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:37:32 -0400

#^The Pleasure of Reading to Impress Yourself - The New Yorker

But there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of feeling oneâ€™s range and capacities expanding; the pleasure of entering into an unfamiliar world, and being led into empathy with a consciousness very different from oneâ€™s own; the pleasure of knowing what others have already thought it worth knowing, and entering a larger conversation.

@Bookclub+

Michael

Tue, 06 May 2014 21:41:01 -0400

How are we?

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Oliver

Wed, 07 May 2014 09:02:50 -0400

Fine.

Jake Moomaw

Malastare, Wed, 07 May 2014 13:29:28 -0400

It isn't mosquito season out here just yet, but I'm not looking forward to it. My blood type is "Yummy" as far as the skeeters are concerned. I can go out into a field with four other people and be the only one with bites. Six-legged assholes!

Jake Moomaw

Utapau, Wed, 07 May 2014 14:16:59 -0400

The lack of mosquitoes is the best thing about winter.

Michael

Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:23:41 -0400

Oliver wrote the following post Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:39:44 -0400

The RedMatrix
Go here NOW and applaud the RedMatrix:
#^The Red Matrix
Spread the word.

Image/photo

This is how the internet should have worked from the beginning.

Michael

Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:21:20 -0500

Do you more often regret the things you say or the things you don't say?

@Questions

Thomas Willingham

Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:29:41 -0500

Depends...how carefully was that question worded?

More often, the things I say, but most qualitatively, it's always the things you don't.

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:53:22 -0500

I'm probably going to regret answering this, so I won't.

Michael

Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:23:24 -0400

Paper books or ebooks?

@Questions

Thomas Willingham

Wed, 18 Sep 2013 19:32:44 -0400

Until you can have a pile of 16 e-readers all open on the table at the same time while you're cross referencing stuff, I'll stick with dead trees.

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 03:35:17 -0400

Yes.

AFAIK the authors get a little bit more from a sold ebook then from a paper book, from the endprice. But some books feel better on paper then as epub.

Haakon Meland Eriksen

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 06:55:27 -0400 last edited: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 06:56:14 -0400

Ebooks - for fiction and non-fiction.

- any font size and font you need.
- remembers where you stopped reading, it is on the right page.
- you can have several open at the same time and switch back and forth.
- bookmarks for your own specific favourite parts.
- can read in sun-light and at night without flash-light.
- searchable
- text-to-speech for reading support. English, German, French and Spanish on my phone.
- retrieve books from all over the world whereever you are.
- comments and high-lights can be created - and shared, i.e. quotes.
- none-text material like diagrams and 3D and multimedia can be integrated for a richer experience if appropriate. "Then the composer thought..." DA-DA-DA-DAAAA (hit play to listen).

I am sure I forgot something.

My favourites are

* FBReader for Android, http://fbreader.org/
* Lucifox for Firefox, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lucifox/