What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Mastering Regular Expressions

Have you got to "the smirk" yet? That's my favourite.

[Animavore]

Just starting Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist by Christof Koch, a neuroscientist, about how consciousness arises out of complexity.

[Sean Hayden]

Mastering Regular Expressions

Have you got to "the smirk" yet? That's my favourite.

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[Pappa]

Mastering Regular Expressions

Excellent book.

[Pappa]

The Pragmatic Programmer. Very similar in purpose to The Clean Coder, but loads better.

[SteveB]

Dan Brown's Inferno.

Yeah, I'm not reading very good lit right now.

[Azathoth]

Rather cool elderly sci fi from project Gutenberg

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[Clinton Huxley]

Just finished Lost In The Jungle by Yossi Ghinsberg about a gaggle of arseholes who..get lost in the jungle. I retty much hated everyone involved.

Also just finished The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Kang Chol-Hwan, about a 9 year old chap who, with the rest of his family, got sent to a North Korean concentration camp. Truly horrific.

Currently have Parisians by Graham Robb and The Adventures of Paddington on the go.

[rasetsu]

[orpheus]

In this morning's mail arrived a birthday gift from my wife. She always gets me something I love. But this time she outdid herself. This I did not expect.

A boxed set of facsimiles of five notebooks of sculptor Richard Serra (one of my favorite artists. He's had a huge influence on my life and work). Before his recent show at the Met, he'd never shown them. They were never intended for display; they're his private visual note-taking. This is one of a limited edition of 1000 copies. Autographed by Serra.

I didn't think these were still available; I have no idea how she got her hands on one. Priced well beyond my means. Gorgeous reproductions – you can almost feel the charcoal and heavy pencil staining your fingers.

[rasetsu]

That's awesome, orpheus.

[tattuchu]

I'm suffering through another indie book that reads as if it were written by a third grader, and that's being unkind to third graders. I don't know how I'm going to review it as promised. It will be a struggle to find anything positive to say about it.

[rasetsu]

In coaching, my sisters appeal to the idea of the "compliment sandwich." The idea is, you start with a compliment, end with a compliment, and sandwich your criticism between the two. Keep it simple. And don't try to be helpful. For example, just point out what could have been done differently; don't explain how to do it differently. Best of luck.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

In coaching, my sisters appeal to the idea of the "compliment sandwich." The idea is, you start with a compliment, end with a compliment, and sandwich your criticism between the two. Keep it simple. And don't try to be helpful. For example, just point out what could have been done differently; don't explain how to do it differently. Best of luck.

Yeah - that's a proven management technique.

Smithers! How the devil are you? Do come in. Just a little chat, mate.

OK. First of all let me say that I really love that tie. That's a go-getting, high-achieving tie if I ever saw one.

Now, about your recent figures. Basically, they're shit. I would expect a spotty-faced urchin, straight out of training to piss all over them. Frankly, anything less than a 300% increase on this month's numbers and you're out of here, buddy.

By the way, Heard you made the department squash team. That's really great! Lot of competition for that place. Good luck with that, Pal. Don't let us down. Give those assholes in Accounts hell, you hear!

Thanks. That'll be all. Miss Dimtitz, send the next slacker in, would you?

[pErvinalia]

I enjoyed that much more than Crime and Punishment. Got a few more of D's books to read when I regain my concentration abilities in 2030 or thereabouts.

Currently I'm reading a book called "Next" by Crichton about genetic engineering. I'm half way through it and there still isn't one coherent story evolving. There's been about 8,700 characters so far, and I've pretty much got them all confused now. But there's chimp human transgenic thingies and grey parrots that can do algebra. So it's fun, even if I'm totally lost.