I just skimmed the first chapter of The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and it is awesome.
Still need to finish Blind Watchers first though, so now I think I'll try reading it at a faster pace.
I'll leave you with a quote:
Which brings us neatly to God. The Guide was begun just before reason trotted to the back of the bus and had a quiet smoke, leaving the front seats to be occupied by the gibbering prophets of the New Age.
The entire thing seems to be written like that.
These "the science-behind..." books, when done well, are such fun to read.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Blind Watchers; pg. 1-20 (Lucy)
"The author once dreamt that he was a partial derivative!" (pg. vii)
OMG. I am horrified and a little in love.
"Astronomers are haunted by the thought that discoveries are before their eyes but they are too blind to see them." (pg. 7)
O, I see what you did there! ;P But that is a scary thought, isn't it?
"When our ancestors first looked at the sky, it was with blind eyes." (pg. 8)
O, I see what you did there. ...Again.
"..., we are still blind watchers of the sky." (pg. 9)
OK YOU CAN STOP NOW. xP
Well, I'm a bit disappointed. It's not a bad book, but so far it hasn't told me anything new. And since I've taken 2 college courses that concerned cosmology some of it almost sounds like baby talk. (I do believe iron was referred to as "hard to digest" for stars or something like that. I didn't mark down the quote). I do feel like I like the author though, he seems to have a good sense of humor.
OMG. I am horrified and a little in love.
"Astronomers are haunted by the thought that discoveries are before their eyes but they are too blind to see them." (pg. 7)
O, I see what you did there! ;P But that is a scary thought, isn't it?
"When our ancestors first looked at the sky, it was with blind eyes." (pg. 8)
O, I see what you did there. ...Again.
"..., we are still blind watchers of the sky." (pg. 9)
OK YOU CAN STOP NOW. xP
Well, I'm a bit disappointed. It's not a bad book, but so far it hasn't told me anything new. And since I've taken 2 college courses that concerned cosmology some of it almost sounds like baby talk. (I do believe iron was referred to as "hard to digest" for stars or something like that. I didn't mark down the quote). I do feel like I like the author though, he seems to have a good sense of humor.
Blind Watchers p 1-20
Page 15:
"The German painter George Busch warned that the new star augured the coming of all sorts of calamities, such as "'inclement weather, pestilence, and Frenchmen.'"
Nick and I lol'ed.
How do you pronounce "zeitgeist"?
P 17: "Perhaps our eyes cannot see what our mind is not prepared to accept" makes me think of Gaiman's London Below Inhabitants and Pratchett's Death & Co.
Then, P 18:
"Many dismissed the apparition of 1572 as a tailless comet, some sort of atmospheric phenomenon, a condensation of the rising vapors of human sin..."
...I was not aware that human sin obeyed the laws of thermodynamics, much less state change, but I guess?
And P 19:
"Scientific genius, like musical genius or artistic genius, comes in all shapes, sizes, and types. Each one had his individual tint and coloring."
In my experience, all the scientific geniuses are all boring and human-shaped. I think the author lives in a more exciting world than I do.
And Tyco's from Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern? Seriously? (Okay so it's Rosenkrantz and Gyldenstierne but!)
...
Current opinion: Contains disappointingly less science and more history than I'd hoped, but not too bad.
"The German painter George Busch warned that the new star augured the coming of all sorts of calamities, such as "'inclement weather, pestilence, and Frenchmen.'"
Nick and I lol'ed.
How do you pronounce "zeitgeist"?
P 17: "Perhaps our eyes cannot see what our mind is not prepared to accept" makes me think of Gaiman's London Below Inhabitants and Pratchett's Death & Co.
Then, P 18:
"Many dismissed the apparition of 1572 as a tailless comet, some sort of atmospheric phenomenon, a condensation of the rising vapors of human sin..."
...I was not aware that human sin obeyed the laws of thermodynamics, much less state change, but I guess?
And P 19:
"Scientific genius, like musical genius or artistic genius, comes in all shapes, sizes, and types. Each one had his individual tint and coloring."
In my experience, all the scientific geniuses are all boring and human-shaped. I think the author lives in a more exciting world than I do.
And Tyco's from Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern? Seriously? (Okay so it's Rosenkrantz and Gyldenstierne but!)
...
Current opinion: Contains disappointingly less science and more history than I'd hoped, but not too bad.
Books read
Over the past week I've read:
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (p261, paperback)
Which is funny with the sort of absurd humor that reminds me vaguely of Ros. & Guil. Are Dead (except this is fiction, not play, and it's very, very...not-Hamlet in any sense) but with less depth. Unfortunately I don't like any of the characters, as fun as laughing at their foibles may be.(Which reminds me: what on earth does Bertie do for a living, anyway?) After one book I think I can safely conclude that this really isn't my cup of tea.
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (p55 hardcover)
Mostly because if there's a book-based movie out that I'm interested in I will want to read the book first (though time doesn't always permit this). The writing's not particularly memorable (you don't get a strong sense of the author's style the way you get with Gaiman, for instance), but the story is good and it speaks louder than the writing. Reads like a short folktale, not literature. Also: short. It won't be on my re-read list but I know I'll remember the story for a very long time, so it balances out.
Re-read:
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (370 paperback)
Every bit as good as I remembered and a lot more graphic than I remembered, too (though that is probably because I forgot a lot of the details over time). It's one of those fantasy stories that the author has put magic in. It also makes me want to paint. Or at least doodle Escher-isque scenes from London Below on the margins of my to-do list.
...
Starting Blind Watchers of the Sky today.
...
I got roped into Shelfari, so I'll be playing around with that, too.
Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse (p261, paperback)
Which is funny with the sort of absurd humor that reminds me vaguely of Ros. & Guil. Are Dead (except this is fiction, not play, and it's very, very...not-Hamlet in any sense) but with less depth. Unfortunately I don't like any of the characters, as fun as laughing at their foibles may be.(Which reminds me: what on earth does Bertie do for a living, anyway?) After one book I think I can safely conclude that this really isn't my cup of tea.
Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx (p55 hardcover)
Mostly because if there's a book-based movie out that I'm interested in I will want to read the book first (though time doesn't always permit this). The writing's not particularly memorable (you don't get a strong sense of the author's style the way you get with Gaiman, for instance), but the story is good and it speaks louder than the writing. Reads like a short folktale, not literature. Also: short. It won't be on my re-read list but I know I'll remember the story for a very long time, so it balances out.
Re-read:
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (370 paperback)
Every bit as good as I remembered and a lot more graphic than I remembered, too (though that is probably because I forgot a lot of the details over time). It's one of those fantasy stories that the author has put magic in. It also makes me want to paint. Or at least doodle Escher-isque scenes from London Below on the margins of my to-do list.
...
Starting Blind Watchers of the Sky today.
...
I got roped into Shelfari, so I'll be playing around with that, too.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Kate's list, reposted,
Eggers, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Lewycka, Marina A Short History of Tractors
Mitch, Cullin A Slight Trick of the Mind
Pelevin, Viktor A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia
Shteyngart, Gary Absurdistan
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Olsson, Linda Astrid and Veronika
McCabe, Patrick Breakfast on Pluto
Mitchell, David Cloud Atlas
Russo, Richard Empire Falls Foer, Jonathan Safran Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Blume, Judy Forever
Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey
Hartinger, Brent Geography Club
Pynchon, Thomas Gravity's Rainbow
Dickens, Charles Hard Times
Bradshaw, Gillian Hawk of May
Crick, Mark Kafka's Soup
O'Nan, Stewart Last Night at the Lobster
O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night
Eliot, George Middlemarch...?
Fry, Stephen Moab is my Washpot
Gaskell, Elizabeth North and South
Oren, Michael B. Power, Faith, and Fantasy
Docx, Edward Pravda
Senge, Peter Presence
Quindlen, Anna Rise and Shine
Pouncey, Peter Rules for Old Men Waiting
Swann, Maxine Serious Girls
Russo, Richard Straight Man
Gilbert, Daniel Stumbling on Happiness
Morrison, Tony The Bluest Eye
Morgan, Robin The Burning Time
Docx, Edward The Calligrapher
Harris, Sam The End of Faith
Appiah, Kwame Anthony The Ethics of Identity
Walls, Jeannette The Glass Castle
Hamer, Dean The God Gene
Doyle, Brian The Grail: A year ambling…
Solzhenitsin, Alexander The Gulag Archipelago
Krauss, Nicole The History of Love
Fowles, John The Magus
Feynman, Richard The Meaning of It All
Edwards, Kim The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Pollan, Michael The Omnivore's Dilemma
Stewart, Rory The Places In Between
Coe, Jonathan The Rotters' Club
Shteyngart, Gary The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Donohue, Keith The Stolen Child
Beaufort, Simon et al. The Tainted Relic
Setterfield, Diane The Thirteenth Tale
Slouka, Mark The Visible World
Didion, Joan The Year of Magical Thinking
Johnson, Ron Them: Adventures with Extremists
Ferris, Joshua Then We Came to the End
Bachelder, Chris U.S.!
Zamyatin, Yevgeny We
Crutcher, Chris Whale Talk
Lewycka, Marina A Short History of Tractors
Mitch, Cullin A Slight Trick of the Mind
Pelevin, Viktor A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia
Shteyngart, Gary Absurdistan
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Olsson, Linda Astrid and Veronika
McCabe, Patrick Breakfast on Pluto
Mitchell, David Cloud Atlas
Russo, Richard Empire Falls Foer, Jonathan Safran Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Blume, Judy Forever
Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey
Hartinger, Brent Geography Club
Pynchon, Thomas Gravity's Rainbow
Dickens, Charles Hard Times
Bradshaw, Gillian Hawk of May
Crick, Mark Kafka's Soup
O'Nan, Stewart Last Night at the Lobster
O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night
Eliot, George Middlemarch...?
Fry, Stephen Moab is my Washpot
Gaskell, Elizabeth North and South
Oren, Michael B. Power, Faith, and Fantasy
Docx, Edward Pravda
Senge, Peter Presence
Quindlen, Anna Rise and Shine
Pouncey, Peter Rules for Old Men Waiting
Swann, Maxine Serious Girls
Russo, Richard Straight Man
Gilbert, Daniel Stumbling on Happiness
Morrison, Tony The Bluest Eye
Morgan, Robin The Burning Time
Docx, Edward The Calligrapher
Harris, Sam The End of Faith
Appiah, Kwame Anthony The Ethics of Identity
Walls, Jeannette The Glass Castle
Hamer, Dean The God Gene
Doyle, Brian The Grail: A year ambling…
Solzhenitsin, Alexander The Gulag Archipelago
Krauss, Nicole The History of Love
Fowles, John The Magus
Feynman, Richard The Meaning of It All
Edwards, Kim The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Pollan, Michael The Omnivore's Dilemma
Stewart, Rory The Places In Between
Coe, Jonathan The Rotters' Club
Shteyngart, Gary The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Donohue, Keith The Stolen Child
Beaufort, Simon et al. The Tainted Relic
Setterfield, Diane The Thirteenth Tale
Slouka, Mark The Visible World
Didion, Joan The Year of Magical Thinking
Johnson, Ron Them: Adventures with Extremists
Ferris, Joshua Then We Came to the End
Bachelder, Chris U.S.!
Zamyatin, Yevgeny We
Crutcher, Chris Whale Talk
Kate's book list
And because she's Kate she has the authors listed first before the titles, but at least it's in Excel so I re-alphabetized it using the titles....
Author Title
Eggers, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Lewycka, Marina A Short History of Tractors
Mitch, Cullin A Slight Trick of the Mind
Pelevin, Viktor A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia
Shteyngart, Gary Absurdistan
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Olsson, Linda Astrid and Veronika
McCabe, Patrick Breakfast on Pluto
Mitchell, David Cloud Atlas
Russo, Richard Empire Falls
Foer, Jonathan Safran Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Blume, Judy Forever
Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey
Hartinger, Brent Geography Club
Pynchon, Thomas Gravity's Rainbow
Dickens, Charles Hard Times
Bradshaw, Gillian Hawk of May
Crick, Mark Kafka's Soup
O'Nan, Stewart Last Night at the Lobster
O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night
Eliot, George Middlemarch
Fry, Stephen Moab is my Washpot
Gaskell, Elizabeth North and South
Oren, Michael B. Power, Faith, and Fantasy
Docx, Edward Pravda
Senge, Peter Presence
Quindlen, Anna Rise and Shine
Pouncey, Peter Rules for Old Men Waiting
Swann, Maxine Serious Girls
Russo, Richard Straight Man
Gilbert, Daniel Stumbling on Happiness
Morrison, Tony The Bluest Eye
Morgan, Robin The Burning Time
Docx, Edward The Calligrapher
Harris, Sam The End of Faith
Appiah, Kwame Anthony The Ethics of Identity
Walls, Jeannette The Glass Castle
Hamer, Dean The God Gene
Doyle, Brian The Grail: A year ambling…
Solzhenitsin, Alexander The Gulag Archipelago
Krauss, Nicole The History of Love
Fowles, John The Magus
Feynman, Richard The Meaning of It All
Edwards, Kim The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Pollan, Michael The Omnivore's Dilemma
Stewart, Rory The Places In Between
Coe, Jonathan The Rotters' Club
Shteyngart, Gary The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Donohue, Keith The Stolen Child
Beaufort, Simon et al. The Tainted Relic
Setterfield, Diane The Thirteenth Tale
Slouka, Mark The Visible World
Didion, Joan The Year of Magical Thinking
Johnson, Ron Them: Adventures with Extremists
Ferris, Joshua Then We Came to the End
Bachelder, Chris U.S.!
Zamyatin, Yevgeny We
Crutcher, Chris Whale Talk
P.S. That post by The Blog is strangely intimidating, considering that it came from a non-corporal conglomeration of data.
Author Title
Eggers, Dave A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Lewycka, Marina A Short History of Tractors
Mitch, Cullin A Slight Trick of the Mind
Pelevin, Viktor A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia
Shteyngart, Gary Absurdistan
Kingsolver, Barbara Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Olsson, Linda Astrid and Veronika
McCabe, Patrick Breakfast on Pluto
Mitchell, David Cloud Atlas
Russo, Richard Empire Falls
Foer, Jonathan Safran Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Blume, Judy Forever
Salinger, J.D. Franny and Zooey
Hartinger, Brent Geography Club
Pynchon, Thomas Gravity's Rainbow
Dickens, Charles Hard Times
Bradshaw, Gillian Hawk of May
Crick, Mark Kafka's Soup
O'Nan, Stewart Last Night at the Lobster
O'Neill, Eugene Long Day's Journey into Night
Eliot, George Middlemarch
Fry, Stephen Moab is my Washpot
Gaskell, Elizabeth North and South
Oren, Michael B. Power, Faith, and Fantasy
Docx, Edward Pravda
Senge, Peter Presence
Quindlen, Anna Rise and Shine
Pouncey, Peter Rules for Old Men Waiting
Swann, Maxine Serious Girls
Russo, Richard Straight Man
Gilbert, Daniel Stumbling on Happiness
Morrison, Tony The Bluest Eye
Morgan, Robin The Burning Time
Docx, Edward The Calligrapher
Harris, Sam The End of Faith
Appiah, Kwame Anthony The Ethics of Identity
Walls, Jeannette The Glass Castle
Hamer, Dean The God Gene
Doyle, Brian The Grail: A year ambling…
Solzhenitsin, Alexander The Gulag Archipelago
Krauss, Nicole The History of Love
Fowles, John The Magus
Feynman, Richard The Meaning of It All
Edwards, Kim The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Pollan, Michael The Omnivore's Dilemma
Stewart, Rory The Places In Between
Coe, Jonathan The Rotters' Club
Shteyngart, Gary The Russian Debutante's Handbook
Donohue, Keith The Stolen Child
Beaufort, Simon et al. The Tainted Relic
Setterfield, Diane The Thirteenth Tale
Slouka, Mark The Visible World
Didion, Joan The Year of Magical Thinking
Johnson, Ron Them: Adventures with Extremists
Ferris, Joshua Then We Came to the End
Bachelder, Chris U.S.!
Zamyatin, Yevgeny We
Crutcher, Chris Whale Talk
P.S. That post by The Blog is strangely intimidating, considering that it came from a non-corporal conglomeration of data.
Sunday, June 08, 2008
You have angered the blog. I am alive, but just barely. I have been drinking unicorn blood to stay alive this last year.
I shall take my revenge by ridding the world of non-posters. These people think they can kill me, but they're WRONG. I have my supporters and I know where all of you live.
I have sent out my minions to hunt down the following people:
Anna
Victoria
That Kate
The Other Kate
Malvina
Christine
If your name is on this list, post soon or face the consequences. Remember: the blog is unhappy and the blog knows where you live!!!
I shall take my revenge by ridding the world of non-posters. These people think they can kill me, but they're WRONG. I have my supporters and I know where all of you live.
I have sent out my minions to hunt down the following people:
Anna
Victoria
That Kate
The Other Kate
Malvina
Christine
If your name is on this list, post soon or face the consequences. Remember: the blog is unhappy and the blog knows where you live!!!
Monday, June 02, 2008
Lucy's list, re-posted
Following the same bolding/italics format
Anything by Terry Pratchett: have read Reaper Man, Mort, Soul Music, Hogsfather, Thief of Time (the Deaths story arc), Carpe Jugulum and Masquerade - I wouldn't mind re-reading any one of those.
100 Years of Solitude
Absurdistan (by Gary Shteyngart)
Bartimaeus Trilogy: have read the first one
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (by McKinley)
Confederacy of Dunces, A
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams!
Freakonomics
Pillars of the World
Yeah, that's why my book list tends to grow fairly easily.
Is anyone else doing this?
Anything by Terry Pratchett: have read Reaper Man, Mort, Soul Music, Hogsfather, Thief of Time (the Deaths story arc), Carpe Jugulum and Masquerade - I wouldn't mind re-reading any one of those.
100 Years of Solitude
Absurdistan (by Gary Shteyngart)
Bartimaeus Trilogy: have read the first one
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (by McKinley)
Confederacy of Dunces, A
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Douglas Adams!
Freakonomics
Pillars of the World
Yeah, that's why my book list tends to grow fairly easily.
Is anyone else doing this?
Sunday, June 01, 2008
Lucy's list
I don't really keep a list :/ These are a couple titles I've managed to save up somewhere:
Anything by Terry Pratchett. And no, that's not a book title.
100 Years of Solitude
Absurdistan (by Gary Shteyngart)
Bartimaeus Trilogy
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (by McKinley)
Confederacy of Dunces, A
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Freakonomics
Pillars of the World
Here's Susan's list reposted. I italicized the few titles that I've read. In one case I also bolded it, because I wouldn't mind reading again.
A Million Little Pieces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Atonement
Black Earth
Blind Watchers of the Sky Kolb, Rocky
Blink Gladwell, Malcolm
Bridge to Terabithia Paterson, Katherine
Brokeback Mountain Annie Proulx
Canterbury Tales, The Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cheating Culture, the
Crashing Through Kurson, Robert
Darkly Dreaming Dextor Russell, Frank Eric
Deep Time Darling, David
Descartes' Error Damasio, Antonio R.
Divine Comedy, The- Dante
E: the Story of a Number
Education of Robert Nifkin, the- Pinkwater, Daniel
Einstein's Dreams Lightman, Alan
Ethnobotany Martin, Gary J.
Fabric of the Cosmos Greene
Faerie Queene, the- Spenser
Fixer, the- Malamud, Bernard
Fuente Orejuna- Lope de Vega
Geeks Katz, Jon
Gift, the Hyde, Lewis
Greener Than You Think Moore, Ward
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies- Diamond, Jared
Hermes Serres, Michel
Hiroshima- Hersey, John
Hot Zone Preston, Richard
How to Cure Fanatic Oz, Amos
Humanoids, the Williamson, Jack
I Am The Cheese Grogan, John
Idiot, the Dostoyevsky
Iliad, the translated by Rober Fagles
I'm Okay--You're Okay Harris, Thomas
In Search of Memory Kandel, Eric R.
Junkbots, Bugbots, and Bots On Wheels Hrynkiw, Dave
Lamb
Language in Motion
Last Letters Home
Level 7 Roshwald, Mordecai
Leviathan- Hobbes, Thomas
Lysistrata
Man Who Mistook His wife For A Hat, the Sacks, Oliver
Marley & Me
Master and Commander: the far side of the world McEwan, Ian
Master and Magarita, the
Memory Bible, the- Small, Gary, MD
Myth of Sisyphus, the Camus, Albert
Name of the Rose, The Eco, Umberto
Natural History of California
Notes from the Underground
Odyssey" Homer- translated by Robert Fagles
On The Beach Shute, Nevil
Our Inner Ape De Waal
Out of Gas Goodstein, David
Painted Bird- Kosinski, Jerzy
Parable of the Sower- Olamina, Lauren
People's Act of Love, the Meek, James
Power of One, the Courtenay
Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math
Reading Lolita in Tehran Nafisi, Azar
Republic, the Plato (PLATO WAS CREEPY. Just from what I learned this quarter)
Right Ho, Jeeves Wodehouse, P. G.
Road, the McCarthy, Cormac
Rubble Byles, Jeff
Russia, Youth, and the Present Day World Lindsay, Jeff
Satan Is Alive and Well On Planet Earth Lindsey,
Scion's Lady Bradley, Rebecca
Search for King Arthur, the
Selfish Gene, the Dawkins, Richard
Solaris Stanislaw, Lem
Star Thrower, the
Stones from the River- Hurstone, Hegi, Ursula
Story of English, the McCrum, Robert
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
Tending the Wild Anderson, Kat
The Singularity Is Near Kurzweil, Ray
Ubiquity: The science of History Buchanan, Mark
Virtual Terror Fink, Jeri
Voyage of the Beagle, the Darwin
Wasp Russell, Eric
What Do You Care What Other People Think
Women on War Daniela Gioseffi
===
A lot of these sounded way too depressing D:
Anything by Terry Pratchett. And no, that's not a book title.
100 Years of Solitude
Absurdistan (by Gary Shteyngart)
Bartimaeus Trilogy
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast (by McKinley)
Confederacy of Dunces, A
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Freakonomics
Pillars of the World
Here's Susan's list reposted. I italicized the few titles that I've read. In one case I also bolded it, because I wouldn't mind reading again.
A Million Little Pieces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Atonement
Black Earth
Blind Watchers of the Sky Kolb, Rocky
Blink Gladwell, Malcolm
Bridge to Terabithia Paterson, Katherine
Brokeback Mountain Annie Proulx
Canterbury Tales, The Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cheating Culture, the
Crashing Through Kurson, Robert
Darkly Dreaming Dextor Russell, Frank Eric
Deep Time Darling, David
Descartes' Error Damasio, Antonio R.
Divine Comedy, The- Dante
E: the Story of a Number
Education of Robert Nifkin, the- Pinkwater, Daniel
Einstein's Dreams Lightman, Alan
Ethnobotany Martin, Gary J.
Fabric of the Cosmos Greene
Faerie Queene, the- Spenser
Fixer, the- Malamud, Bernard
Fuente Orejuna- Lope de Vega
Geeks Katz, Jon
Gift, the Hyde, Lewis
Greener Than You Think Moore, Ward
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies- Diamond, Jared
Hermes Serres, Michel
Hiroshima- Hersey, John
Hot Zone Preston, Richard
How to Cure Fanatic Oz, Amos
Humanoids, the Williamson, Jack
I Am The Cheese Grogan, John
Idiot, the Dostoyevsky
Iliad, the translated by Rober Fagles
I'm Okay--You're Okay Harris, Thomas
In Search of Memory Kandel, Eric R.
Junkbots, Bugbots, and Bots On Wheels Hrynkiw, Dave
Lamb
Language in Motion
Last Letters Home
Level 7 Roshwald, Mordecai
Leviathan- Hobbes, Thomas
Lysistrata
Man Who Mistook His wife For A Hat, the Sacks, Oliver
Marley & Me
Master and Commander: the far side of the world McEwan, Ian
Master and Magarita, the
Memory Bible, the- Small, Gary, MD
Myth of Sisyphus, the Camus, Albert
Name of the Rose, The Eco, Umberto
Natural History of California
Notes from the Underground
Odyssey" Homer- translated by Robert Fagles
On The Beach Shute, Nevil
Our Inner Ape De Waal
Out of Gas Goodstein, David
Painted Bird- Kosinski, Jerzy
Parable of the Sower- Olamina, Lauren
People's Act of Love, the Meek, James
Power of One, the Courtenay
Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math
Reading Lolita in Tehran Nafisi, Azar
Republic, the Plato (PLATO WAS CREEPY. Just from what I learned this quarter)
Right Ho, Jeeves Wodehouse, P. G.
Road, the McCarthy, Cormac
Rubble Byles, Jeff
Russia, Youth, and the Present Day World Lindsay, Jeff
Satan Is Alive and Well On Planet Earth Lindsey,
Scion's Lady Bradley, Rebecca
Search for King Arthur, the
Selfish Gene, the Dawkins, Richard
Solaris Stanislaw, Lem
Star Thrower, the
Stones from the River- Hurstone, Hegi, Ursula
Story of English, the McCrum, Robert
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
Tending the Wild Anderson, Kat
The Singularity Is Near Kurzweil, Ray
Ubiquity: The science of History Buchanan, Mark
Virtual Terror Fink, Jeri
Voyage of the Beagle, the Darwin
Wasp Russell, Eric
What Do You Care What Other People Think
Women on War Daniela Gioseffi
===
A lot of these sounded way too depressing D:
What I hope to one day read
Yes I changed the blog layout. I don't have time to make a new one yet, so we're sticking with something that's blogger-made.
Directions? Paste your own list, then copy this list, paste it, and bold anything you want to read.
(Also, using labels for the posts will make organization later easier. I hope.)
...
I actually managed to reduce the list to under 100 within the past two years?? When did that happen?!
A Million Little Pieces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Atonement
Black Earth
Blind Watchers of the Sky Kolb, Rocky
Blink Gladwell, Malcolm
Bridge to Terabithia Paterson, Katherine
Brokeback Mountain Annie Proulx
Canterbury Tales, The Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cheating Culture, the
Crashing Through Kurson, Robert
Darkly Dreaming Dextor Russell, Frank Eric
Deep Time Darling, David
Descartes' Error Damasio, Antonio R.
Divine Comedy, The- Dante
E: the Story of a Number
Education of Robert Nifkin, the- Pinkwater, Daniel
Einstein's Dreams Lightman, Alan
Ethnobotany Martin, Gary J.
Fabric of the Cosmos Greene
Faerie Queene, the- Spenser
Fixer, the- Malamud, Bernard
Fuente Orejuna- Lope de Vega
Geeks Katz, Jon
Gift, the Hyde, Lewis
Greener Than You Think Moore, Ward
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies- Diamond, Jared
Hermes Serres, Michel
Hiroshima- Hersey, John
Hot Zone Preston, Richard
How to Cure Fanatic Oz, Amos
Humanoids, the Williamson, Jack
I Am The Cheese Grogan, John
Idiot, the Dostoyevsky
Iliad, the translated by Rober Fagles
I'm Okay--You're Okay Harris, Thomas
In Search of Memory Kandel, Eric R.
Junkbots, Bugbots, and Bots On Wheels Hrynkiw, Dave
Lamb
Language in Motion
Last Letters Home
Level 7 Roshwald, Mordecai
Leviathan- Hobbes, Thomas
Lysistrata
Man Who Mistook His wife For A Hat, the Sacks, Oliver
Marley & Me
Master and Commander: the far side of the world McEwan, Ian
Master and Magarita, the
Memory Bible, the- Small, Gary, MD
Myth of Sisyphus, the Camus, Albert
Name of the Rose, The Eco, Umberto
Natural History of California
Notes from the Underground
Odyssey" Homer- translated by Robert Fagles
On The Beach Shute, Nevil
Our Inner Ape De Waal
Out of Gas Goodstein, David
Painted Bird- Kosinski, Jerzy
Parable of the Sower- Olamina, Lauren
People's Act of Love, the Meek, James
Power of One, the Courtenay
Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math
Reading Lolita in Tehran Nafisi, Azar
Republic, the Plato
Right Ho, Jeeves Wodehouse, P. G.
Road, the McCarthy, Cormac
Rubble Byles, Jeff
Russia, Youth, and the Present Day World Lindsay, Jeff
Satan Is Alive and Well On Planet Earth Lindsey,
Scion's Lady Bradley, Rebecca
Search for King Arthur, the
Selfish Gene, the Dawkins, Richard
Solaris Stanislaw, Lem
Star Thrower, the
Stones from the River- Hurstone, Hegi, Ursula
Story of English, the McCrum, Robert
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
Tending the Wild Anderson, Kat
The Singularity Is Near Kurzweil, Ray
Ubiquity: The science of History Buchanan, Mark
Virtual Terror Fink, Jeri
Voyage of the Beagle, the Darwin
Wasp Russell, Eric
What Do You Care What Other People Think
Women on War Daniela Gioseffi
[ETA: We're not doing re-reads right now. Re-reads = separate list, later.]
Directions? Paste your own list, then copy this list, paste it, and bold anything you want to read.
(Also, using labels for the posts will make organization later easier. I hope.)
...
I actually managed to reduce the list to under 100 within the past two years?? When did that happen?!
A Million Little Pieces
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Atonement
Black Earth
Blind Watchers of the Sky Kolb, Rocky
Blink Gladwell, Malcolm
Bridge to Terabithia Paterson, Katherine
Brokeback Mountain Annie Proulx
Canterbury Tales, The Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cheating Culture, the
Crashing Through Kurson, Robert
Darkly Dreaming Dextor Russell, Frank Eric
Deep Time Darling, David
Descartes' Error Damasio, Antonio R.
Divine Comedy, The- Dante
E: the Story of a Number
Education of Robert Nifkin, the- Pinkwater, Daniel
Einstein's Dreams Lightman, Alan
Ethnobotany Martin, Gary J.
Fabric of the Cosmos Greene
Faerie Queene, the- Spenser
Fixer, the- Malamud, Bernard
Fuente Orejuna- Lope de Vega
Geeks Katz, Jon
Gift, the Hyde, Lewis
Greener Than You Think Moore, Ward
Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies- Diamond, Jared
Hermes Serres, Michel
Hiroshima- Hersey, John
Hot Zone Preston, Richard
How to Cure Fanatic Oz, Amos
Humanoids, the Williamson, Jack
I Am The Cheese Grogan, John
Idiot, the Dostoyevsky
Iliad, the translated by Rober Fagles
I'm Okay--You're Okay Harris, Thomas
In Search of Memory Kandel, Eric R.
Junkbots, Bugbots, and Bots On Wheels Hrynkiw, Dave
Lamb
Language in Motion
Last Letters Home
Level 7 Roshwald, Mordecai
Leviathan- Hobbes, Thomas
Lysistrata
Man Who Mistook His wife For A Hat, the Sacks, Oliver
Marley & Me
Master and Commander: the far side of the world McEwan, Ian
Master and Magarita, the
Memory Bible, the- Small, Gary, MD
Myth of Sisyphus, the Camus, Albert
Name of the Rose, The Eco, Umberto
Natural History of California
Notes from the Underground
Odyssey" Homer- translated by Robert Fagles
On The Beach Shute, Nevil
Our Inner Ape De Waal
Out of Gas Goodstein, David
Painted Bird- Kosinski, Jerzy
Parable of the Sower- Olamina, Lauren
People's Act of Love, the Meek, James
Power of One, the Courtenay
Prime Numbers: The Most Mysterious Figures in Math
Reading Lolita in Tehran Nafisi, Azar
Republic, the Plato
Right Ho, Jeeves Wodehouse, P. G.
Road, the McCarthy, Cormac
Rubble Byles, Jeff
Russia, Youth, and the Present Day World Lindsay, Jeff
Satan Is Alive and Well On Planet Earth Lindsey,
Scion's Lady Bradley, Rebecca
Search for King Arthur, the
Selfish Gene, the Dawkins, Richard
Solaris Stanislaw, Lem
Star Thrower, the
Stones from the River- Hurstone, Hegi, Ursula
Story of English, the McCrum, Robert
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
Tending the Wild Anderson, Kat
The Singularity Is Near Kurzweil, Ray
Ubiquity: The science of History Buchanan, Mark
Virtual Terror Fink, Jeri
Voyage of the Beagle, the Darwin
Wasp Russell, Eric
What Do You Care What Other People Think
Women on War Daniela Gioseffi
[ETA: We're not doing re-reads right now. Re-reads = separate list, later.]
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Friday, September 14, 2007
No harm done
It's been a while.
Also - Lucy, I think you might've post while under the "compose" tab, because blogger has inserted its own tags into your target url and the link doesn't work. (Going to quizfarm and typing in the quiz name word for word does work, though.)
Yes, really. Surprise, surprise. Don't suppose engineering is really in my near future.
My first three areas are so...not related (seriously, I think they're even under different colleges).
Also - Lucy, I think you might've post while under the "compose" tab, because blogger has inserted its own tags into your target url and the link doesn't work. (Going to quizfarm and typing in the quiz name word for word does work, though.)
| You scored as Biology/Chemistry/Geology, You should strongly consider majoring (or minoring) in Biology, Chemistry, Geology, or related majors (e.g., Biochemistry, Environmental Science, Forestry, Fisheries and Wildlife, Genetics, Marine Biology, Zoology). It is possible that the best major for you is your 2nd, 3rd, or even 5th listed category, so be sure to consider ALL majors in your OTHER high scoring categories (below). You may score high in a category you didnt think you would--it is possible that a great major for you is something you once dismissed as not for you. The right major for you will be something 1) you love and enjoy and 2) are really great at it. Consider adding a minor or double majoring to make yourself standout and to combine your interests. Please post your results in your myspace/blog/journal.
WHAT MAJOR IS RIGHT FOR YOU? created with QuizFarm.com |
Yes, really. Surprise, surprise. Don't suppose engineering is really in my near future.
My first three areas are so...not related (seriously, I think they're even under different colleges).
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
If anyone still checks this, I'm sorry for the shock of SEEIN AN UPDATE. I hope you didn't get a heart attack :(
| You scored as Visual&PerformingArts, You should strongly consider majoring (or minoring) in the Visual or Performing Arts (e.g., Art, Art Education, Art History, Ceramics, Culinary Arts, Dance, Drawing, Fashion Design, Film, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Marketing (advertising), Music, Music Education, Music Theory, Painting, Photography, Theatre). It is possible that the best major for you is your 2nd, 3rd, or even 5th listed category, so be sure to consider ALL majors in your OTHER high scoring categories (below). You may score high in a category you didnt think you would--it is possible that a great major for you is something you once dismissed as not for you. The right major for you will be something 1) you love and enjoy and 2) are really great at it. Consider adding a minor or double majoring to make yourself standout and to combine your interests. Please post your results in your myspace/blog/journal.
WHAT MAJOR IS RIGHT FOR YOU? created with QuizFarm.com |
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Happy Summer!
I think all Lunatics (except for Kateryna) are done with finals now! Woohoo!!
p.s. ANNA I'M STILL WAITING FOR THOSE HAWAII PICTURES!
[EDIT] Wow, just got an email from you with 'em. Probably a coincidence but awesome.
p.s. ANNA I'M STILL WAITING FOR THOSE HAWAII PICTURES!
[EDIT] Wow, just got an email from you with 'em. Probably a coincidence but awesome.
Monday, April 02, 2007
Schedule, spring quarter
My classes are the rectangles with writing in them, the question marks are for the hours that I left open for work because the greenhouse lab place have no set shifts.
Kate's schedule can be derived from this also. She's busy in any rectangles that are colored in either blue or green.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Friday, February 23, 2007
Friday, February 09, 2007
Hmm
Half of the time I try to make a post here the blogger won't let me since I've switched over to the new version and this blog's still running on the old version, which is very discouraging in terms of post-making but oh well.
I'll try to make a note to post here more often, though I'm not quite sure what the end result might be.
Look Lusine, we're apparently the same standard of units in terms of digging moles.
I'll try to make a note to post here more often, though I'm not quite sure what the end result might be.
Ten Top Trivia Tips about Susan!
- A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but Susan can not!
- It takes a lobster approximately 7 years to grow to be Susan.
- In Japan it is considered rude to talk with Susan in your mouth.
- If you toss Susan 10000 times, she will not land heads 5000 times, but more like 4950, because her head weighs more and thus ends up on the bottom!
- Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of Susan in a day.
- If your ear itches, this means that someone is talking about Susan!
- Susan can smell some things up to six miles away.
- Susan is the only one of the original Seven Wonders of the World that still survives.
- Banging your head against Susan uses 150 calories an hour.
- There are more than two hundred different kinds of Susan!
Look Lusine, we're apparently the same standard of units in terms of digging moles.
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