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10-12-12, 07:29 AM
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I've taken a break from East of Eden to read Secret Race. I agree it's a page turner, and a further opening of the my eyes beyond what Bad Blood did. I also read through the USADA "Reasoned Decision", and much of it could have come straight out of Hamilton's book. All the cloak and dagger stuff is a mix between funny and tragic, especially considering the (low) quality of medical support most of them got/get.
10-12-12, 09:59 PM
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Finished Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitude and picked up Friel’s book. Hopefully I will be able to put some of the ideas into practice for next season: my first full race season.
08-25-13, 07:42 PM
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Recently re-read:
Sean Kelly book by David Walsh - I forgot how Kelly started. He's definitely bloomed from his beginnings.
Silent Warrior (sniper thing)
Secret Race (Tyler)
(Parts of) Armstrong's War (same writer as Secret Race, very good writer)
The Race (eerrrr I forget who but the main character is Ben Barnes... sort of a story disaster but it's better than reading a bad story about something I'm not interested in)
Couple of the many green Panzer books I have
Sean Kelly book by David Walsh - I forgot how Kelly started. He's definitely bloomed from his beginnings.
Silent Warrior (sniper thing)
Secret Race (Tyler)
(Parts of) Armstrong's War (same writer as Secret Race, very good writer)
The Race (eerrrr I forget who but the main character is Ben Barnes... sort of a story disaster but it's better than reading a bad story about something I'm not interested in)
Couple of the many green Panzer books I have
01-19-14, 03:24 PM
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Yesterday my wife and I decided to drive over 600 miles round trip to see a basketball game. (Don't ask; it is a Gator thing.) During the trip we listened to Orwell's "Down and Out in Paris and London". I read that over 40 years ago and it still has tremendous power.
02-10-14, 08:13 AM
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02-11-14, 12:36 AM
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commu*ist spy
They're actually analogous representations of space/time, not fishnets, fyi.
I want to read Tim Ferriss's books, Friel's bible, and Damn Few, highlighting what real suffering is all about during BUD/S, which I find very intriguing. Part of me wants to experience what it's like in real time.
I want to read Tim Ferriss's books, Friel's bible, and Damn Few, highlighting what real suffering is all about during BUD/S, which I find very intriguing. Part of me wants to experience what it's like in real time.
02-11-14, 03:54 PM
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02-11-14, 03:59 PM
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Though not a physics or science based thinker i find reading some of this stuff amazing. To be able to conceptualize and prove such amazing theories amazes me...
Kind of like a ........
02-11-14, 04:04 PM
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02-11-14, 04:05 PM
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02-11-14, 04:08 PM
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02-11-14, 04:09 PM
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Recently read Pynchon's "Bleeding Edge". OK for him which is pretty high praise, but not one of his awesome books. Kind of like a better "Vineland" set on the East Coast and a lot more edgy.
Then I read "When Madeline Was Young". Pretty good, but maybe because I am originally from Chicago I was predisposed to liking some of it.
Now bouncing back and forth between two books I am supposed to read, but neither is grabbing my interest: "Blood Meridian" and "A Confederacy of Dunces". I have read Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" and "The Road" and loved them, but I am not getting the same vibe early on with "Blood Meridian".
As for a "Confederacy of Dunces" I can't say I have read anything else by John Kennedy Toole. Duh. Perhaps it gets better, but for the most part in the early going I just find it "cute".
Then I read "When Madeline Was Young". Pretty good, but maybe because I am originally from Chicago I was predisposed to liking some of it.
Now bouncing back and forth between two books I am supposed to read, but neither is grabbing my interest: "Blood Meridian" and "A Confederacy of Dunces". I have read Cormac McCarthy's "All the Pretty Horses" and "The Road" and loved them, but I am not getting the same vibe early on with "Blood Meridian".
As for a "Confederacy of Dunces" I can't say I have read anything else by John Kennedy Toole. Duh. Perhaps it gets better, but for the most part in the early going I just find it "cute".
02-11-14, 04:25 PM
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All joking aside I am going to try to start reading more in 2014. I watch very little tv but seem to go nonstop (as you can imagine I am a little high strung) but need to start taking time for myself and just lay around and relax.
02-11-14, 04:34 PM
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Hey,
All this science stuff belongs in the Geek Thread ghetto!
Ah, screw that.
I am teaching the grad Classical Thermo course this term as well as the undergrad Intro to Thermo class. I was able to get talk to the grad students about how thermodynamics via the Second Law introduces "The arrow of time" while Newtonian mechanics is the same running forward or backward in time.
I also explained that the Second Law is only totally correct if you have an infinite number of possible states and that in reality you have less than that. Now if you have a reasonably large amount of particles you might have to wait longer than the age of the Universe to see a violation and for most things of interest on the macroscopic level you would need to have a google number of parallel universes running for the lifetimes of these universes in order to see that happen once. That does not mean that it can't happen.
Once again I get to talk about continuum level versus atomistic level. The major point is that the 2nd Law of Thermo is a continuum level concept. Any one that claims it is violated with a finite number of particles is someone that doesn't understand that. Even with the Caratheodory statement of the 2nd Law we have problems. Impossible and Improbable are not the same thing.
All this science stuff belongs in the Geek Thread ghetto!
Ah, screw that.
I am teaching the grad Classical Thermo course this term as well as the undergrad Intro to Thermo class. I was able to get talk to the grad students about how thermodynamics via the Second Law introduces "The arrow of time" while Newtonian mechanics is the same running forward or backward in time.
I also explained that the Second Law is only totally correct if you have an infinite number of possible states and that in reality you have less than that. Now if you have a reasonably large amount of particles you might have to wait longer than the age of the Universe to see a violation and for most things of interest on the macroscopic level you would need to have a google number of parallel universes running for the lifetimes of these universes in order to see that happen once. That does not mean that it can't happen.
Once again I get to talk about continuum level versus atomistic level. The major point is that the 2nd Law of Thermo is a continuum level concept. Any one that claims it is violated with a finite number of particles is someone that doesn't understand that. Even with the Caratheodory statement of the 2nd Law we have problems. Impossible and Improbable are not the same thing.
02-11-14, 04:40 PM
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