The copy of "Dostoyevsky: NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND; WHITE NIGHTS; THE DREAM OF A RIDICULOUS MAN, and selections from THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD" that I got from the discarded books pile from CHS way back. This is the Andrew MacAndrew version (what a name, huh?)
Am currently trudging my way through the somewhat intimidating A SHORT HISTORY OF NEARLY EVERYTHING by Bryson. I am on page 163 out of 478 (not counting notes and references). On page 162 I came across the quote where Fermi supposedly said "Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist."
"?!" I thought.
Well, life goes on.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Finished reading
SURELY YOU'RE JOKING, MR. FREYNMAN
Worth reading at least once, I think. (I didn't finish the entire thing the last time I picked it up.) Though it does nothing to dispel the notion that physicists are insane.
Except now I have to return my books to the library and begin the long, long process of Other Matters in Life. I'll aim to finish a few more books before summer ends.
Worth reading at least once, I think. (I didn't finish the entire thing the last time I picked it up.) Though it does nothing to dispel the notion that physicists are insane.
Except now I have to return my books to the library and begin the long, long process of Other Matters in Life. I'll aim to finish a few more books before summer ends.
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