If your degree is in psychology, your textbook will make a good firestarter within the year.
I did take my fluid mechanics textbook to the range and put 50 rnds of 9mm into it.
Made a blindfold out of a tracker bar wrapper IIRC.
Made a blindfold out of a tracker bar wrapper IIRC.
Fuck Israel
rip. some 300 or so pages into infinite jest right now and i'm blown away. funny and yet heart-rending at the same time.
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Might get this next.
Looks like fun, to me at least....
http://www.springer.com/economics/r+%26 … 419-5848-8Advanced Public Procurement as Industrial Policy
The primary theme of this book is to investigate the macroeconomic significance of the "cloud" of technological spillovers that surrounds advanced industrial production: In what ways do technological innovations spread and contribute to economic growth? What policies can be developed to maximize the economic potential of innovations? These themes are particularly timely in the context of global economic crisis, government-sponsored stimulus packages, and the ongoing evolution from manufacturing-based to knowledge-based economies. To explore these issues in depth, Gunnar Eliasson focuses on a detailed case study of the development of Saab's military aircraft, the JAS 39 Gripen system -a project that involves advanced technological innovations, a complex network of suppliers, public-private sector collaboration, and both military and commercial applications. The experience in the aircraft industry is also compared with spillover effects in telephony, computers, and medical technologies. The study emphasizes the role of customer competence in raising the quality of innovation supply, and of entrepreneurship and industrially competent venture capital for commercializing spillovers. Eliasson integrates micro-econometrics and case study analysis with macroeconomics, innovation study methods, and business administration theory to measure the effects of technology spillovers and generate a solid empirical foundation for policy analysis. In particular, he considers:
-the role of competent public (government) procurement as a new demand policy to support innovation supply
-the emergence of the advanced firms as "technical university," where continual learning takes place and entrepreneurship among customers and other stakeholders is encouraged
-issues of intellectual property rights and the social value of technological innovations
-the implications for strategic business practice and public policy
The result is a book that will appeal to a broad spectrum of academics, industry leaders, and policymakers interested in the dynamics of innovation supply, commercialization of technologies and economic growth.
Looks like fun, to me at least....
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Fuck Israel
Found Robin Hobb's fantasy novels on a chance grocery store pickup. Not bad. Ordered the second book in 'The Rain Wilds Chronicles' before I was done with the first, but the next two aren't due out until 2012. Looked them up and found out they were a part of a universe containing more sets of books. So I order the closest prequels (geologically and chronologically): 'The Liveship Traders' trilogy. Books 2 and 3 show up, but book one is somehow delayed.
FUUUUUU.
FUUUUUU.
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i bought a paperback yesterday of a title i had read in a library, some 20 odd years ago. i don't disagree with the story - there are titles that i want that i can't get on my particular platform. it's just given a choice between an ebook and not reading at all, i'm downloading.Uzique wrote:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/ebooks-not-there-yet/
Well!? Don't keep us in suspense, what happened to the "little engine that could"?13urnzz wrote:
i bought a paperback yesterday of a title i had read in a library, some 20 odd years ago. i don't disagree with the story - there are titles that i want that i can't get on my particular platform. it's just given a choice between an ebook and not reading at all, i'm downloading.Uzique wrote:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/ebooks-not-there-yet/
I'm reading Mario Puzo's the fortunate pilgrim.
I expected more mafia
I expected more mafia
try The Godfather.
If you like it so far, you will surely adore it by the end.Uzique wrote:
rip. some 300 or so pages into infinite jest right now and i'm blown away. funny and yet heart-rending at the same time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39UJuPogwiY
I've never read a book that I enjoyed more. The way he dissects addiction and entertainment, and how the two are intertwined, was amazing to me. All told through characters that become so real to you by the end that you feel like you personally know them. I cried a little, I laughed even more, and in the end realized that I had read something that made an indelible mark on my psyche.
It's truly a masterpiece.
good to see someone else with such enthusiasm for books (and a demanding one, at that!)
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
I still haven't made the plunge into e-book readers. It is mostly for the ambiguous reason pointed out in that article that an ebook doesn't have the same sort of 'analog feel' to it that a traditional book does that I prefer the old way. I can see the huge advantage in portability, so if I did more overnighters away from home, I'd be tempted.Uzique wrote:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/ebooks-not-there-yet/
how can you pull a sophisticated and smart girl with a list of purchased .pdf's? come on, poor show
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
marry her first, and then show her a list of pdf's.Uzique wrote:
how can you pull a sophisticated and smart girl with a list of purchased .pdf's? come on, poor show
What an extraordinarily shallow analysis. I know you don't like e-readers but that article doesn't vindicate your argument in any way. It was a bunch of rubbish. The only solid point it made was the fact that buying an e-book should not be the same (or in some cases, higher) price as a paperback. Who writes in their books? I certainly don't do anything more than dogear the corners. Who needs a physical reminder to finish a book? I don't feel guilty about not finishing a book. If it's interesting, it's not an issue. If it's not, then why am I reading it at all?Uzique wrote:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/ebooks-not-there-yet/
I'm not trying to convince you to buy an e-reader or anything like that, I just found the article to be... sorry FEOS... retarded.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
just to be fair... i write in all of my book's margins. i also mark certain sections with little stoppers.
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
I write in most of my books too. I don't mark sections but I read with a highlighter in hand too. Part of the reason I don't really like loaning out books.
I feel bad even dogearing the pages. Pretty sure I've never written in any book.
If that's a real issue, then yeah, a physical book is better for you.
If that's a real issue, then yeah, a physical book is better for you.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
if i'm reading 500 pages a week... i need to be able to mark shit to remember any cogent idea
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
I take notes in a notebook.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
hurrr durrrrr that works a lot
libertarian benefit collector - anti-academic super-intellectual. http://mixlr.com/the-little-phrase/
stupidJay wrote:
What an extraordinarily shallow analysis. I know you don't like e-readers but that article doesn't vindicate your argument in any way. It was a bunch of rubbish. The only solid point it made was the fact that buying an e-book should not be the same (or in some cases, higher) price as a paperback. Who writes in their books? I certainly don't do anything more than dogear the corners. Who needs a physical reminder to finish a book? I don't feel guilty about not finishing a book. If it's interesting, it's not an issue. If it's not, then why am I reading it at all?Uzique wrote:
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/ebooks-not-there-yet/
I'm not trying to convince you to buy an e-reader or anything like that, I just found the article to be... sorry FEOS... retarded.
idiotic
moronic
wrong
So many other easy choices in context that get the point across without denigrating those who are mentally/physically challenged.
But I'm banging my head against a wall here.
OT: I love "regular" books. But they clutter the place the fuck up. I occasionally highlight/underline a passage that speaks to me...then dogear the page so I can find it again. Then I end up giving the book to Goodwill later, anyway (to keep the clutter down). Just can't pull the trigger on an e-reader for some reason. I guess I'm worried about availability/selection/longevity of platform. However, not really an issue for me until I finish my current coursework, anyway.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
I apparently need to read The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down prior to class next fall.
Culture clash between East and West, with the fate of an epileptic Hmong girl hanging in the balance.
(It's probably actually decent, and I'm probably a huge prick)
Culture clash between East and West, with the fate of an epileptic Hmong girl hanging in the balance.
(It's probably actually decent, and I'm probably a huge prick)
yeah i did something like that in high school, read joy luck club, it was an alright book.
