The Friday Post™ [modified]
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What are you doing this weekend? :) Catch my train to Coimbatore tonight, arrive tomorrow late morning/noon (awful train). Only been there 3 times this whole year; so I will be there 1 whole bloody week - woohoo! My brother will be there for a day in between, should be good to catch up. No laptop, just spend time lazing around, reading, with my parents, and the dog Chaarpaayn. Maybe catch up with a friend or two. In fact, I'd like some book recommendations; which of these would you recommend I take along? (I will be reading them at CBE, not on the train.)
Dragon's Egg and Starquake - Robert Forward
Blowback - Brad Thor
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Limping to the Centre of the World - Timeri N Murari
Wrinkles in Time - George Smoot
The Picador Book of Cricket
The Imperial Agent - Timeri N Murari
The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
An Imaginary Tale (The Story of √-1) - Paul J NahinI REALLY need this break and am SO glad to have it :)
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
modified on Friday, December 3, 2010 8:22 AM
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What are you doing this weekend? :) Catch my train to Coimbatore tonight, arrive tomorrow late morning/noon (awful train). Only been there 3 times this whole year; so I will be there 1 whole bloody week - woohoo! My brother will be there for a day in between, should be good to catch up. No laptop, just spend time lazing around, reading, with my parents, and the dog Chaarpaayn. Maybe catch up with a friend or two. In fact, I'd like some book recommendations; which of these would you recommend I take along? (I will be reading them at CBE, not on the train.)
Dragon's Egg and Starquake - Robert Forward
Blowback - Brad Thor
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Limping to the Centre of the World - Timeri N Murari
Wrinkles in Time - George Smoot
The Picador Book of Cricket
The Imperial Agent - Timeri N Murari
The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
An Imaginary Tale (The Story of √-1) - Paul J NahinI REALLY need this break and am SO glad to have it :)
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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The Forward books are good - I read Dragons Egg many years ago, still a goodie. Bill Bryson is very good - but not to read on a train. You get strange reactions laughing to yourself on long journeys. Penrose is good, but I find him a bit dry - I need to be in the right mood to read him.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
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What are you doing this weekend? :) Catch my train to Coimbatore tonight, arrive tomorrow late morning/noon (awful train). Only been there 3 times this whole year; so I will be there 1 whole bloody week - woohoo! My brother will be there for a day in between, should be good to catch up. No laptop, just spend time lazing around, reading, with my parents, and the dog Chaarpaayn. Maybe catch up with a friend or two. In fact, I'd like some book recommendations; which of these would you recommend I take along? (I will be reading them at CBE, not on the train.)
Dragon's Egg and Starquake - Robert Forward
Blowback - Brad Thor
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Limping to the Centre of the World - Timeri N Murari
Wrinkles in Time - George Smoot
The Picador Book of Cricket
The Imperial Agent - Timeri N Murari
The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
An Imaginary Tale (The Story of √-1) - Paul J NahinI REALLY need this break and am SO glad to have it :)
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
modified on Friday, December 3, 2010 8:22 AM
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Dragons Egg and Starquake are the only ones on that list I've read. I enjoyed both of them.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
I should have known better than to throw in a couple of SF novels into a list I put in front of a bunch of geeks ;P
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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The Forward books are good - I read Dragons Egg many years ago, still a goodie. Bill Bryson is very good - but not to read on a train. You get strange reactions laughing to yourself on long journeys. Penrose is good, but I find him a bit dry - I need to be in the right mood to read him.
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Bill Bryson is awesome. I finished Made in America in a couple of weeks a few months back. It didn't come across as a funny book though... except in one or two places.
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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What are you doing this weekend? :) Catch my train to Coimbatore tonight, arrive tomorrow late morning/noon (awful train). Only been there 3 times this whole year; so I will be there 1 whole bloody week - woohoo! My brother will be there for a day in between, should be good to catch up. No laptop, just spend time lazing around, reading, with my parents, and the dog Chaarpaayn. Maybe catch up with a friend or two. In fact, I'd like some book recommendations; which of these would you recommend I take along? (I will be reading them at CBE, not on the train.)
Dragon's Egg and Starquake - Robert Forward
Blowback - Brad Thor
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Limping to the Centre of the World - Timeri N Murari
Wrinkles in Time - George Smoot
The Picador Book of Cricket
The Imperial Agent - Timeri N Murari
The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
An Imaginary Tale (The Story of √-1) - Paul J NahinI REALLY need this break and am SO glad to have it :)
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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I'm currently re-reading "Smoking Frog Lives!" by Pete Goodman[^]
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What are you doing this weekend? :) Catch my train to Coimbatore tonight, arrive tomorrow late morning/noon (awful train). Only been there 3 times this whole year; so I will be there 1 whole bloody week - woohoo! My brother will be there for a day in between, should be good to catch up. No laptop, just spend time lazing around, reading, with my parents, and the dog Chaarpaayn. Maybe catch up with a friend or two. In fact, I'd like some book recommendations; which of these would you recommend I take along? (I will be reading them at CBE, not on the train.)
Dragon's Egg and Starquake - Robert Forward
Blowback - Brad Thor
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Limping to the Centre of the World - Timeri N Murari
Wrinkles in Time - George Smoot
The Picador Book of Cricket
The Imperial Agent - Timeri N Murari
The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
An Imaginary Tale (The Story of √-1) - Paul J NahinI REALLY need this break and am SO glad to have it :)
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
modified on Friday, December 3, 2010 8:22 AM
I suspect you'll find many different responses to this, for my 2 cents I heartily recommend Pinker and Penrose, but if you go with one of those be sure to take some light reading too.
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What are you doing this weekend? :) Catch my train to Coimbatore tonight, arrive tomorrow late morning/noon (awful train). Only been there 3 times this whole year; so I will be there 1 whole bloody week - woohoo! My brother will be there for a day in between, should be good to catch up. No laptop, just spend time lazing around, reading, with my parents, and the dog Chaarpaayn. Maybe catch up with a friend or two. In fact, I'd like some book recommendations; which of these would you recommend I take along? (I will be reading them at CBE, not on the train.)
Dragon's Egg and Starquake - Robert Forward
Blowback - Brad Thor
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Limping to the Centre of the World - Timeri N Murari
Wrinkles in Time - George Smoot
The Picador Book of Cricket
The Imperial Agent - Timeri N Murari
The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
An Imaginary Tale (The Story of √-1) - Paul J NahinI REALLY need this break and am SO glad to have it :)
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
What are you doing this weekend? Smile
Hoping to go on an adventure from London to Monmouth (South-East Wales) due to the snow (I'm driving our Uni's teams and partaking in a clay shooting Christmas Cup between various other Unis there) :-)
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What are you doing this weekend? :) Catch my train to Coimbatore tonight, arrive tomorrow late morning/noon (awful train). Only been there 3 times this whole year; so I will be there 1 whole bloody week - woohoo! My brother will be there for a day in between, should be good to catch up. No laptop, just spend time lazing around, reading, with my parents, and the dog Chaarpaayn. Maybe catch up with a friend or two. In fact, I'd like some book recommendations; which of these would you recommend I take along? (I will be reading them at CBE, not on the train.)
Dragon's Egg and Starquake - Robert Forward
Blowback - Brad Thor
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Limping to the Centre of the World - Timeri N Murari
Wrinkles in Time - George Smoot
The Picador Book of Cricket
The Imperial Agent - Timeri N Murari
The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
An Imaginary Tale (The Story of √-1) - Paul J NahinI REALLY need this break and am SO glad to have it :)
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
An Imaginary Tale (The Story of √-1) - Paul J Nahin
Don't read this one - it just makes simple numbers complex! :laugh:
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What are you doing this weekend? :) Catch my train to Coimbatore tonight, arrive tomorrow late morning/noon (awful train). Only been there 3 times this whole year; so I will be there 1 whole bloody week - woohoo! My brother will be there for a day in between, should be good to catch up. No laptop, just spend time lazing around, reading, with my parents, and the dog Chaarpaayn. Maybe catch up with a friend or two. In fact, I'd like some book recommendations; which of these would you recommend I take along? (I will be reading them at CBE, not on the train.)
Dragon's Egg and Starquake - Robert Forward
Blowback - Brad Thor
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Limping to the Centre of the World - Timeri N Murari
Wrinkles in Time - George Smoot
The Picador Book of Cricket
The Imperial Agent - Timeri N Murari
The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
An Imaginary Tale (The Story of √-1) - Paul J NahinI REALLY need this break and am SO glad to have it :)
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
modified on Friday, December 3, 2010 8:22 AM
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
What are you doing this weekend?
Watching a movie tonight, and finishing a homemade wahoo board tomorrow.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius
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What are you doing this weekend? :) Catch my train to Coimbatore tonight, arrive tomorrow late morning/noon (awful train). Only been there 3 times this whole year; so I will be there 1 whole bloody week - woohoo! My brother will be there for a day in between, should be good to catch up. No laptop, just spend time lazing around, reading, with my parents, and the dog Chaarpaayn. Maybe catch up with a friend or two. In fact, I'd like some book recommendations; which of these would you recommend I take along? (I will be reading them at CBE, not on the train.)
Dragon's Egg and Starquake - Robert Forward
Blowback - Brad Thor
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson
Limping to the Centre of the World - Timeri N Murari
Wrinkles in Time - George Smoot
The Picador Book of Cricket
The Imperial Agent - Timeri N Murari
The Emperor's New Mind - Roger Penrose
An Imaginary Tale (The Story of √-1) - Paul J NahinI REALLY need this break and am SO glad to have it :)
Cheers, विक्रम (Have gone past my troika - 4 CCCs!) "We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread :doh:
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Girlfriends birthday drinks have been rolled up into end of month \ payday drinks, so we've got a table booked in a bar and 20 or so people turning up. Promises to get messy Tomorrow day, my football game has been called off, frozen pitch. So will spend all day recovering on the sofa, maybe order a pizza :) Tomorrow night, it's my football clubs Christmas do. Out on the town for drinks, then onto a club. Will definitely get messy. Sunday. Couch. Pizza Monday, off to a gig, Neurosis @ Koko. Drinks etc. Tuesday, couch, pizza....lol no, will be in work bright & early But yeah, this weekend is a bit hectic....it's the start of party season where I'm out most of the time.
