What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
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This is it? Just Chapter 2?
Peterson field guide to animal tracks. It has illustration of poop as well. We have rabbit poop in the back yard. I saw the bunny, though.
Peterson field guide to animal tracks. It has illustration of poop as well. We have rabbit poop in the back yard. I saw the bunny, though.
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Atomic man, embossed on hues of
Money greens that swell and ooze, will
Scratch his chin as if to muse that
All this winning meant to lose
Though he slaved and hate his dues
Here he was, no time to choose...Grass for Blades by Wigwam
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Atomic man, embossed on hues of
Money greens that swell and ooze, will
Scratch his chin as if to muse that
All this winning meant to lose
Though he slaved and hate his dues
Here he was, no time to choose...Grass for Blades by Wigwam
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Such a smart guy. Died too soon.
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I read a trio last year, brilliant! (Watson ejaculates a lot )Rum wrote:Got the Sherlock Holmes collected works for my Ipad yesterday - its copyright free - and started reading it last night. I'm amazed at how entertaining it still is and how modern the language feels relatively speaking. Enjoying!
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Too many books. I'm mostly focusing on Russell's History of Western Philosophy at the moment.
Imagine that. I guess it's only coincidental that you'd already be the perfect citizen in the ideal world you're selling.
Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Impossibility - the limits of science and the science of limits. John D. Barrow.
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Excellent book.Sean Hayden wrote:Too many books. I'm mostly focusing on Russell's History of Western Philosophy at the moment.
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Yeah, I'm enjoying it.
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Just like my old Biggles books!Trinity wrote:I read a trio last year, brilliant! (Watson ejaculates a lot )Rum wrote:Got the Sherlock Holmes collected works for my Ipad yesterday - its copyright free - and started reading it last night. I'm amazed at how entertaining it still is and how modern the language feels relatively speaking. Enjoying!
"Dash it, the Hun put up a good show this morning" Biggles ejaculated...
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
I Am A Strange Loop. Brillinat.
Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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A few just came in the mail for me (I don't use a Kindle):
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The video game I was playing froze up on me so I actually opened up a book Been sitting on my nightstand since last Christmas. The Professor and the Madman. Starts out in old England with a murder. The murderer used a gun, which is quite unusual in England. Even amongst hardened criminals in the most unpleasant of areas, a shooting death is a most extraordinary occurrence.
People think "queue" is just "q" followed by 4 silent letters.
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They're just waiting their turn.
But those letters are not silent.
They're just waiting their turn.
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My Spendid Concubine...
one of those stories that if conceived entirely as fiction would not fly but because it is fact based and well researched.....defies belief in an entirely positive way.
A window into a very very different world.
Based on this
really incredible to consider he was in his twenties when he began along with the Imperial Court the transformation
The Diaries of Sir Robert Hart
Sir Robert Hart (1935-1911, 2nd IG 1864-1911) wrote in his diary during his long career in imperial China on a daily basis. The 77-volume diaries start from 27 August 1854 and end on 19 April 1908. During this period, he was deeply invovled in every single project of China’s modernisation and witnessed the restoration and decline of the Qing empire. Although he would usually claim to be an outsider, Hart’s role in the imperial government was incontrovertibly that of an insider. He was highly trusted by the Throne, the Manchu royals, and Chinese officials. Not only was Hart the most powerful foreigner in nineteenth-century China but also one of the most powerful officials in the imperial court.
As Qing officials’ diaries are usually plain and lack explicit descriptions, Hart’s diaries provide us with a complete account of Qing China’s paces in catching up with the world in the nineteenth century and with pen protraits of his Chinese colleagues. His diaries disclose the true thoughts of the Empress Dowadger, Prince Gong, Wenxiang, etc, towards China’s modernisation. His diaries, in other words, can be considered as a piece of modern Chinese history.
The 77-volume diaries are preserved at the Library of the Queen’s University of Belfast (The Sir Robert Hart Collection at the Queen’s University of Belfast, click here). In 1970, Harvard modern Chinese historian John King Fairbank and his research team started to decipher Hart’s handwritings in the diaries. With the assistance of Richard Smith, they successfully transcribed, edited, and annotated volumes I-VIII and published: Entering China’s Service: Robert Hart’s Journals, 1854-1863 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986), and Robert Hart and China’s Early Modernization: His Journals 1863-1866(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991). In 2005 the Library of Queen’s University of Belfast finished the draft of the transcriptions of Volume XXXI (for the transcriptions, click here).
astounding - I reallllllllly enjoyed this after a slow start. Highly recommended.he was deeply invovled in every single project of China’s modernisation
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Still reading Russell, but I also finished The Moral Landscape. I didn't like it and I kept thinking meh. I'll read it again later to see if I just missed something.
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I've just met Cathy Ames, oh my.
Imagine that. I guess it's only coincidental that you'd already be the perfect citizen in the ideal world you're selling.
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