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It's Sunday, therefore I am short of sleep [message #46597]

Sun, 27 November 2011 19:31

Robin
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http://robinmckinleysblog.com/2011/11/28/it%e2%80%99s-sunday -therefore-i-am-short-of-sleep/

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Re: It's Sunday, therefore I am short of sleep [message #46598 is a reply to message #46597 ]

Sun, 27 November 2011 19:43

rainycity1
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Meanwhile . . . Hannah is going to read CHAOS too. We’re going to have a book club of two.

You probably could get an online book club of more than two without trying very hard at all...

FairyTales - http://xkcd.com/872/

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Sun, 27 November 2011 19:51

b_twin_1
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And all the bells rang out. . . .
It's so nice when that happens. We had all 8 on the go yesterday as well. We even had extra ringers. We had to take turns!! The congregation had bells on the way into church and on the way out! LOL Smile

Another day passes as a seventeen-year-old named Maggie.
mmmmm spoilers Very Happy

I should have my new laptop next week.
Hurrah! Smile

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Re: It's Sunday, therefore I am short of sleep [message #46601 is a reply to message #46597 ]

Sun, 27 November 2011 21:11

abigailmm
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I enjoyed Chaos, and became quite fascinated with fractal art for a time.

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Re: It's Sunday, therefore I am short of sleep [message #46604 is a reply to message #46597 ]

Sun, 27 November 2011 23:23

blondviolinist
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Oooh, snippets about SHADOWS! Very Happy

(I was going to type something more, but I'm so tired I forgot what it was. Off to bed for me.)

"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard

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Re: It's Sunday, therefore I am short of sleep [message #46606 is a reply to message #46597 ]

Mon, 28 November 2011 03:40

Diane in MN
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So if a dragon†† flew into the courtyard at the mews††† tomorrow would I be more or less likely than the average bystanding human to say, oh, hey, cool, that’s a dragon, or run screaming?

I suppose it would depend on the dragon. Although there's always the option of saying, wow, cool, dragon and THEN running off screaming. Smile

Yay new laptop! May the switchover be as transparent and seamless as possible.

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Re: It's Sunday, therefore I am short of sleep [message #46610 is a reply to message #46597 ]

Mon, 28 November 2011 15:40

Mrs Redboots
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Love the snippets about SHADOWS.

But yes, Dylan Thomas. And especially yes UNDER MILK WOOD. Even having to do it as a Set Book at school couldn't spoil it - mind you, I was in the Sixth Form then, and it wasn't for an exam. And our headmistress - whose good qualities one could appreciate by the time one was in the Sixth Form - did make it fun and amusing, rather than killing it the way so many literature teachers kill books for you (I can't read Trollope, not after having had THE WARDEN as a Set Book for O level).

Mrs Redboots
I love my computer because my friends live in it!

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Re: It's Sunday, therefore I am short of sleep [message #46613 is a reply to message #46597 ]

Mon, 28 November 2011 19:11

Aaron
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Quote:

And . . . um . . . well, there are no equations§§§ but the illustrations make it worse. Electron interference (p 98)? Feynman diagram of Virtual Particle/Antiparticle Pair (p 123)? What?

Somewhat surprisingly I can recommend Feynman's QED for an explanation of the Feynman diagram.

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Tue, 29 November 2011 01:42

Diane in MN
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Mrs Redboots wrote on Mon, 28 November 2011 14:40

(I can't read Trollope, not after having had THE WARDEN as a Set Book for O level).

Unless you really dislike nineteenth-century novels, you might want to give Trollope another try. Orley Farm centers around a trial for the forgery of a will, and The Way We Live Now around financial shenanigans that will seem all too familiar. Neither one of them is set in Barchester. Trollope is a leisurely writer, so they're long books, but I don't think either of them wander off into lengthy minor-character digressions the way some of his books do. And both are lots better than The Warden. (I love Trollope--can you tell? Smile

)

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Tue, 29 November 2011 09:31

Birdreader
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Chaos is a user friendly book. He makes sense of the subjects in simple layman terms. I was lucky enough to hear him lecture at the Chicago Humanity's Festival. A wonderful speaker.

Birdreader

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Re: It's Sunday, therefore I am short of sleep [message #46635 is a reply to message #46597 ]

Tue, 29 November 2011 16:39

maggie
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Another day passes as a seventeen-year-old named Maggie.
Shadows will be about a seventeen-year-old named Maggie... and will most likely come out when *I* am a seventeen-year-old named Maggie. YAAAY!

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Tue, 29 November 2011 18:58

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Hey, that's great! Hi, Maggie, welcome to the forum! Smile

_{"The time is always right to do what's right."--MLK Jr.}

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Re: It's Sunday, therefore I am short of sleep [message #46639 is a reply to message #46635 ]

Tue, 29 November 2011 20:06

Aaron
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maggie wrote on Tue, 29 November 2011 13:39

Another day passes as a seventeen-year-old named Maggie.
Shadows will be about a seventeen-year-old named Maggie... and will most likely come out when *I* am a seventeen-year-old named Maggie. YAAAY!

I take it that we are to accept this on face value and not suspect Robin of getting a little too lost in the character?

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Tue, 29 November 2011 22:17

maggie
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Thank you! I'd been meaning to sign up for a while, but hadn't actually done so.

[Updated on: Tue, 29 November 2011 22:18]

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Re: It's Sunday, therefore I am short of sleep [message #46648 is a reply to message #46635 ]

Tue, 29 November 2011 23:38

rainycity1
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maggie wrote on Tue, 29 November 2011 13:39

Shadows will be about a seventeen-year-old named Maggie... and will most likely come out when *I* am a seventeen-year-old named Maggie. YAAAY!

*Like* (that's neat!)

FairyTales - http://xkcd.com/872/

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