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Old 03.22.2023, 09:25 AM   #5961
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Stopped reading Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All maladies (about the human history of dealing with cancer) becau se 250 pages in, I got bored with the endless cycles of reserahc, funding, politics, funding, research, funding, etc.

I just don;t care.
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Old 04.13.2023, 10:13 AM   #5962
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I have published reviews of the books I read for 9+ years.

Lawrence M. Krauss, physicist, has a new book coming out early May. UK Title - The Known Unknowns. USA Title - The Edge of Knowledge.

I follow Krauss on twitter and when he mentioned it I DM'd him to request a review copy and gave him the link to my blog.

He contacted his publisher and his agent emailed me a very advance proof copy. I read it. It is awesome.

https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2023/...ow-far-we.html

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Old 04.15.2023, 11:45 AM   #5963
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I have published reviews of the books I read for 9+ years.

Lawrence M. Krauss, physicist, has a new book coming out early May. UK Title - The Known Unknowns. USA Title - The Edge of Knowledge.

I follow Krauss on twitter and when he mentioned it I DM'd him to request a review copy and gave him the link to my blog.

He contacted his publisher and his agent emailed me a very advance proof copy. I read it. It is awesome.

https://rxttbooks.blogspot.com/2023/...ow-far-we.html

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Old 08.14.2023, 03:48 PM   #5964
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check this shit out. sonic life

One of the most exhilirating and unexpected results of reading weird and difficult books and writing reviews for ten years has occurred today, for it was only today I saw that theoretical physicist and author Lawrence Krauss had placed the final paragraph of my review of his latest book, "The Edge of Knowledge," on his personal homepage.
https://lawrencemkrauss.com/
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Old 08.14.2023, 09:19 PM   #5965
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Old 08.27.2023, 03:48 PM   #5966
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Congrats x2 Rob, that's awesome.

I'm reading The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki, so far I've read about 60 pages and it's ill AF
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Old 11.12.2023, 10:32 PM   #5967
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The Waste Lands by Stephen King. Book 3 in the Dark Tower series.



I haven't been as engaged with this one as the first two, but it's still good.
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Old 01.28.2024, 08:58 PM   #5968
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im rereading the iliad. very very very very slowly. this time in robert fitzgerald's translation, which is new to me. you can find the free audiobook here if you're curious:

https://archive.org/details/hmrio

i don't particularly like the reading in the audiobook, i think it should be a more brutal performance, so i just read the text myself instead. the thing is music to my ears, literally. i love it

first i tried reading the one that keats read and wrote about (chapman's) but that one didn't really work for me
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Old 02.22.2024, 07:32 AM   #5969
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not exactly "reading" in the sense of a book but i've recently discovered brian eno and peter schmidt's oblique strategies, and i started using them at work

see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

i was first tempted by a beautiful black card pack which i saw selling for $99, but considering my current bias against material object accummulation (because mobility is nobility) i went for the $2.50 ios app instead, and im loving it hahha

current card says:

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Allow an easement (an easement is the abandonment of a stricture)

easing...
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Old 02.22.2024, 08:21 PM   #5970
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i've recently discovered brian eno and peter schmidt's oblique strategies

WHAT? Were you born yesterday?
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no. today

you?
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no. today

you?

I'm already dead.
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I'm already dead.
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ah! jesuits!

More like Old 97's:

The Empty Bottle was half empty, tide was low, and I was thirsty
Saw her sitting at the bar, you know how some girls are
Always making eyes, well she wasn't making eyes
So I sidled up beside her, settled down and shouted, "Hi there."
"My name's Stewart Ransom Miller, I'm a serial lady-killer."
She said, "I'm already dead," that's exactly what she said...
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The Empty Bottle was half empty, tide was low, and I was thirsty
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So I sidled up beside her, settled down and shouted, "Hi there."
"My name's Stewart Ransom Miller, I'm a serial lady-killer."
She said, "I'm already dead," that's exactly what she said...
okay lolyola. so do you in your postmortem have the card stack?

mine said:

"Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities"
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okay lolyola. so do you in your postmortem have the card stack?

mine said:

"Remove specifics and convert to ambiguities"

I think you're going through the cards too fast, man. Pick one only when facing a "situation". Let the instruction sink in.
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I think you're going through the cards too fast, man. Pick one only when facing a "situation". Let the instruction sink in.
ah! jesuits after all! (the pope is jesuit)


the card was for your post about the dead lady. but for me not for you

e.g., to reread as: "dead like some woman in some song" hahahaha

next card!

"simple subtraction"

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okay since maybe assuming you don't have a stack, i'll draw you a card, then it's your turn to play:

"What is the reality of the situation?"

but also accidentally i clicked twice (there's a card about accepting errors as hidden intentions), so here is the second draw:

"Nobility of intentions"
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Old 02.22.2024, 10:11 PM   #5979
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These are not playing cards! They can be fun (and funny), though.

I do have a bona fide set. So does Mary Timony:

 
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These are not playing cards!
iggy and the estuches

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