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PostPosted: 10-20-2006 11:28 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Nightshade wrote:
quadrotor UAV attitude stabilization


Unintentionally funny typo. :)

(i think :paranoid: )
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PostPosted: 10-20-2006 11:31 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Nightshade wrote:
CitizenKane wrote:
Nightshade wrote:
A bunch of papers on quadrotor UAV attitude stabilization and Simulink aerospace blockset documentation.


i heard theyre making that into a blockbuster movie next year, you heard it here first


Hey, I heard you're a fucking idiot.


really, where?
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PostPosted: 10-20-2006 11:34 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Oh btw, I didn't think Brave New World was nearly as good as 1984. Orwell was more succinct and still interesting, not nearly as dry as Huxley.
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R00k wrote:
Oh btw, I didn't think Brave New World was nearly as good as 1984. Orwell was more succinct and still interesting, not nearly as dry as Huxley.


yeah? 1984 is defo one of my fav books. i duno, i'll let ya know when im finished
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actually have u read much other Orwell? i assume youve read animal farm cos everyone has. Homage to Catalonia is really good, as is Coming up for air and Burmese Days.
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what kind of moron reads books?...



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PostPosted: 10-20-2006 02:09 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Nightshade wrote:
A bunch of papers on quadrotor UAV attitude stabilization and Simulink aerospace blockset documentation.


RC Planes and Flow charts?

Holy Shit!

I'm reading Chess Openings: Traps and Zaps 2!!!11

Just got done reading Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
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R00k wrote:
Nightshade wrote:
quadrotor UAV attitude stabilization


Unintentionally funny typo. :)

(i think :paranoid: )


If you're thinking that it was supposed to be "altitude", it wasn't.
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PostPosted: 10-20-2006 04:57 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


ulysse by james joyce



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PostPosted: 10-21-2006 06:16 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


7zark7 wrote:
ulysse by james joyce


ulysses, yeah i tried to read that once, gave up. that stream of consiousness thing he does is fucking inpenetrable. ive read Dubliners and Portrait of the Aritst as a Young Man tho, both incredible.

u ever read Finnegans Wake?
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PostPosted: 10-21-2006 06:27 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


J. Storrs Hall's Nanofuture
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I read "Finnegans Wake" in highschool... It was good prep for Naked Lunch.

I find Im struggling with this one though, could be that I have a hectic life, but also......It drags a little TBH, and the stream of thought makes me forget WTF is going on sometimes.
but Im going for it...(and will not pick up a side book).... until the last page is turned... :icon32:



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PostPosted: 10-21-2006 06:41 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


7zark7 wrote:
I read "Finnegans Wake" in highschool... It was good prep for Naked Lunch.



finnegans wake is waaay harder to read than ulysses tho! or is that what ur impying here.....im not too familiar with ur vernacular in the above statement..... :dork:
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I meant that Finnegans wake, and its absurdist style, helped/prepared me to tackle/ read :William S Burroughs Naked Lunch..... Which later helped understand Antonin Artaud's writing.....

ie: I went on an absurdist reading frenzy in highschool....



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PostPosted: 10-21-2006 07:05 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


k gotcha :icon14:
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PostPosted: 10-22-2006 01:24 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


taking a break from Huxley to read a paper on 'Public Immunity in Defamation and the Democratic Imperative: Reynolds v. Times Newspapers (1998)' by John O'Keefe

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PostPosted: 10-22-2006 08:02 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Nightshade wrote:
R00k wrote:
Nightshade wrote:
quadrotor UAV attitude stabilization


Unintentionally funny typo. :)

(i think :paranoid: )


If you're thinking that it was supposed to be "altitude", it wasn't.


Yer that's what I was thinking. I suspected I might be wrong though, hence the qualification.

What the hell is attitude stabilization on a flying unmanned vehicle?
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PostPosted: 10-24-2006 07:40 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


a newspaper
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R00k wrote:
Nightshade wrote:
R00k wrote:
Nightshade wrote:
quadrotor UAV attitude stabilization


Unintentionally funny typo. :)

(i think :paranoid: )


If you're thinking that it was supposed to be "altitude", it wasn't.


Yer that's what I was thinking. I suspected I might be wrong though, hence the qualification.

What the hell is attitude stabilization on a flying unmanned vehicle?


Designing a controller to ensure smooth motion in pitch, roll, and yaw. Here's a pdf on the subject:
http://asl.epfl.ch/aslInternalWeb/ASL/p ... es/325.pdf
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asimovs foundation trilogy
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mac wrote:
asimovs foundation trilogy


russian writers, cant beat em.

chekhov? dostoevsky? anyone? :icon14:
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PostPosted: 10-24-2006 08:32 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


mac wrote:
asimovs foundation trilogy


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CitizenKane wrote:
mac wrote:
asimovs foundation trilogy


russian writers, cant beat em.

chekhov? dostoevsky? anyone? :icon14:


Dostoevsky has some good stuff, but he also has some equally terrible stuff (e.g. The Idiot)
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werldhed wrote:
CitizenKane wrote:
mac wrote:
asimovs foundation trilogy


russian writers, cant beat em.

chekhov? dostoevsky? anyone? :icon14:


Dostoevsky has some good stuff, but he also has some equally terrible stuff (e.g. The Idiot)


i bought The Idiot the other day with the intention of reading it some time inthe near future. do u not like it? to be honest the only reason i bought it is because i read that the movie The Machinist alluded to it a lot.
Crime and Punishment = :icon14: :icon14:
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the net.
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CitizenKane wrote:
werldhed wrote:
CitizenKane wrote:
mac wrote:
asimovs foundation trilogy


russian writers, cant beat em.

chekhov? dostoevsky? anyone? :icon14:


Dostoevsky has some good stuff, but he also has some equally terrible stuff (e.g. The Idiot)


i bought The Idiot the other day with the intention of reading it some time inthe near future. do u not like it? to be honest the only reason i bought it is because i read that the movie The Machinist alluded to it a lot.
Crime and Punishment = :icon14: :icon14:

I hated The Idiot mostly because it seemed to lose its purpose in a mire of excessive and pointless dialogue. It was a noble idea for a novel, but the characters and dialogue were too unbelievable. The main theme of the whole thing gets lost as you stop to ponder, "who the hell are these people?" There are also a lot of things that happen in the book that seen to have no point whatsoever. (and it's an excessively long book to begin with)

If you're a huge Dost. fan, you might want to read it just for the sake of making it through all his works... or, if you're in the position to have deep literary conversations about it... but it wasn't for me. :shrug:

And so you don't think I just dislike his works: C&P is ace.
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Just got this from Amazon (or rather, the entire trilogy). Gonna start reading it tonight.

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Twisted - Tales From The Wacky Side of Life by Bob Fenster
http://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Tales-Wac ... 0740760505 Unfortunately I read the entire book in about 3 hours.

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When he was a guest on the Tonight Show, movie star Tom Hanks and host Jay Leno chatted about uncomfortable moments in public restrooms. "Do you ever want to ask the guy next to you to leave so you can go?" Leno asked. "No," Hanks said. "I usually say, 'Come here. I want to show you something.'"


I just picked up "Lost Cities From the Ancient World" Edited by Guaitoli and Rambaldi.
Click for pics I love this subject.
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zahir-Novel-Lov ... 0007204167
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HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zahir-Novel-Love-Longing-Obsession/dp/0007204167


Is it as boring as the text on the back makes it sound?

This novel has as much appeal to me as that new Russell Crowe movie.
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SplishSplash wrote:
HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zahir-Novel-Love-Longing-Obsession/dp/0007204167


Is it as boring as the text on the back makes it sound?

This novel has as much appeal to me as that new Russell Crowe movie.


I really just started it but so far it's quite good.
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i have a large stack of x men comics to read.

also some operating procedre manuals :yay:



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