It's Friday!
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I don't even know the big who-to-do about it. Everyone tells me I should read it, but when I read I like to read something truly entertaining and far away from work. I read enough tech stuff at work and after work for work, that if I pick up a book of my own, it is deep into fantasy or sci-fi. re-reading an old favorite, the Diana Tregarde series from Mercedes Lackey. It's been over a decade since the last. :) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
I totally agree with you. Besides programming, reading is my life. I am big fan of the Sci-Fi/Fantasy genre. I have the all of The Wheel of Time, Tolkien's Books, Redwall Series, Sword of Truth in hard back. I have more books than this just can't list them all. Generally, I read all my books each year and pick up one or two new series each year. Luckily, I don't have any kids or activities outside of work other than working out and church to take up my reading time. Brett A. Whittington Application Developer
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I don't even know the big who-to-do about it. Everyone tells me I should read it, but when I read I like to read something truly entertaining and far away from work. I read enough tech stuff at work and after work for work, that if I pick up a book of my own, it is deep into fantasy or sci-fi. re-reading an old favorite, the Diana Tregarde series from Mercedes Lackey. It's been over a decade since the last. :) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
Everyone tells me I should read it
Well let me be the solitary voice telling you not to waste your time on it. I supppose the story is moderately entertaining overall but the plot devices are contrived and pretty pathetic. (Spoiler) I very early realized I was in for a disapointment when the protagonists took about 4 chapters to realize that part of a "coded" message from the dead victim was an obvious anagram (considering the location of the crime scene at which it was found) that I solved in a minute or so before turning the page on which it appeared. Now I admit I'm a bit of a crossword enthusiast but the protagonists were supposed to be a world famous author/symbologist and a Paris Police cryptologist! D'oh! Steve T
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What are you doing this weekend? :) I have to come to office tomorrow for .net training. As for Sunday, I'll stay at home and get some repairs done. I will also try to read three parodies that I was able to persuade a friend to borrow from a library and lend me - The Va Dinci Cod, The McAtrix Derided and Star Warped. I'm halfway through the first, and it's had me guffawing. :) Cheers, Vikram.
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upsdude: when I looked at laurens profile, a couple of gears got stripped in my brain. Michael Martin: Too bad she bats for the other team.
Finally pull the overgrown weeds out of my hedge in the frontyard. I can barely contain myself, that's so exciting. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon
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Jeffry J. Brickley wrote:
Everyone tells me I should read it
Well let me be the solitary voice telling you not to waste your time on it. I supppose the story is moderately entertaining overall but the plot devices are contrived and pretty pathetic. (Spoiler) I very early realized I was in for a disapointment when the protagonists took about 4 chapters to realize that part of a "coded" message from the dead victim was an obvious anagram (considering the location of the crime scene at which it was found) that I solved in a minute or so before turning the page on which it appeared. Now I admit I'm a bit of a crossword enthusiast but the protagonists were supposed to be a world famous author/symbologist and a Paris Police cryptologist! D'oh! Steve T
FlyingTinman wrote:
a "coded" message from the dead victim was an obvious anagram (considering the location of the crime scene at which it was found) that I solved in a minute or so
hmmm... sounds like I would have the same issue. I am not a crossword enthusiast, however, I do cryptology for "fun". Anagram shuffles are easy for me I used to them as a child. My mom would buy me the anagram "fun books" and the cryptology one. She had to start shopping for the college ones because I was completing them faster than she had money to buy them, we could only afford one puzzle book a month. Even then I had to limit myself to a page a day if I recall. All the folks around me tell me I would love it because I am into computers and problem solving R&D type issues. The only book I have ever enjoyed "because" I am a programmer, was the wiz-biz books. Pure fantasy, and some are better than others, but a programmer as the hero? I couldn't pass it up. :laugh: _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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ahh, the most expensive pasttime ever discovered. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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What are you doing this weekend? :) I have to come to office tomorrow for .net training. As for Sunday, I'll stay at home and get some repairs done. I will also try to read three parodies that I was able to persuade a friend to borrow from a library and lend me - The Va Dinci Cod, The McAtrix Derided and Star Warped. I'm halfway through the first, and it's had me guffawing. :) Cheers, Vikram.
Google talk: binarybandit
upsdude: when I looked at laurens profile, a couple of gears got stripped in my brain. Michael Martin: Too bad she bats for the other team.
Not sure yet... it depends. For sure I'm taking a karate belt test in the morning, and I'm invited to a wedding tomorrow night. But I'm also expecting delivery of my new truck tonight or tomorrow, so I may just be out cruising in the desert.:-D "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9
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Finally pull the overgrown weeds out of my hedge in the frontyard. I can barely contain myself, that's so exciting. :laugh: Jeremy Falcon
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So what are you doing the other 47 hours and 50 minutes this Sat/Sun? ;P BW
Meanwhile, behind the facade of this innocent looking bookstore...
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here tomorrow we have a tournament in Age of Empires II... i'm gonna take the spanish civilization. any 'tips n tricks'are appriciated. please suggest something thatz really useful . He is like a one-legged man in a bum kicking competition. -Novjot Sidhu --[v]--
I recommend buying AOE III. :rolleyes: I'll be checking that out this weekend some time. :-> Tips... Get that economy going like gangbusters and pick away at the enemies villagers until you get a nice army built up. BW
Meanwhile, behind the facade of this innocent looking bookstore...
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So what are you doing the other 47 hours and 50 minutes this Sat/Sun? ;P BW
Meanwhile, behind the facade of this innocent looking bookstore...
:laugh: Ouch...
Picture a huge catholic cathedral. In it there's many people, including a gregorian monk choir. You know, those who sing beautifully. Then they start singing, in latin, as they always do: "Ad hominem..." -Jörgen Sigvardsson
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What are you doing this weekend? :) I have to come to office tomorrow for .net training. As for Sunday, I'll stay at home and get some repairs done. I will also try to read three parodies that I was able to persuade a friend to borrow from a library and lend me - The Va Dinci Cod, The McAtrix Derided and Star Warped. I'm halfway through the first, and it's had me guffawing. :) Cheers, Vikram.
Google talk: binarybandit
upsdude: when I looked at laurens profile, a couple of gears got stripped in my brain. Michael Martin: Too bad she bats for the other team.
Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
I have to come to office tomorrow for .net training.
Is the dude actually going to be there this time? :rolleyes:
Picture a huge catholic cathedral. In it there's many people, including a gregorian monk choir. You know, those who sing beautifully. Then they start singing, in latin, as they always do: "Ad hominem..." -Jörgen Sigvardsson
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
I have to come to office tomorrow for .net training.
Is the dude actually going to be there this time? :rolleyes:
Picture a huge catholic cathedral. In it there's many people, including a gregorian monk choir. You know, those who sing beautifully. Then they start singing, in latin, as they always do: "Ad hominem..." -Jörgen Sigvardsson
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I'd have thought every man, woman and child on the planet to have read The DaVinci Code by now...twice!
I Dream of Absolute Zero
Vikram said he was going to read the parody "The Va Dinci Cod". Yeah, he used tiny letters. So get your eyes checked! :)
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Anna-Jayne Metcalfe wrote:
watch paint dry
Sounds a little action-oriented to me; I prefer watching the cracks in my sidewalk get bigger.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
I have to come to office tomorrow for .net training.
Is the dude actually going to be there this time? :rolleyes:
Picture a huge catholic cathedral. In it there's many people, including a gregorian monk choir. You know, those who sing beautifully. Then they start singing, in latin, as they always do: "Ad hominem..." -Jörgen Sigvardsson
It's 10:45 AM saturday, and I'm checking mails and browsing... though he's supposed to come only at 11:30. Let's see. :) Cheers, Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar
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After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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I'd have thought every man, woman and child on the planet to have read The DaVinci Code by now...twice!
I Dream of Absolute Zero
I said The Va Dinci Cod. It's a parody of the original Da Vinci Code which I read many moons ago, and it's hilarious! I finished it last night. Cheers, Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar
Google talk: binarybandit
After all is said and done, much is said and little is done.
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I recommend buying AOE III. :rolleyes: I'll be checking that out this weekend some time. :-> Tips... Get that economy going like gangbusters and pick away at the enemies villagers until you get a nice army built up. BW
Meanwhile, behind the facade of this innocent looking bookstore...