currently reading....

Post by **CitizenKane** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:05 pm

k gotcha :icon14:

Post by **CitizenKane** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:24 pm

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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Post by **R00k** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:02 am

Nightshade wrote:
R00k wrote:
Nightshade wrote:quadrotor UAV attitude stabilization
Unintentionally funny typo.

(i think )
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?

Post by **CitizenKane** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:40 pm

a newspaper

Post by **Nightshade** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:16 pm

R00k wrote:
Nightshade wrote:
R00k wrote: Unintentionally funny typo.

(i think )
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

Post by **mac** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:29 pm

asimovs foundation trilogy

Post by **CitizenKane** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:32 pm

mac wrote:asimovs foundation trilogy

russian writers, cant beat em.

chekhov? dostoevsky? anyone? :icon14:

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:32 pm

mac wrote:asimovs foundation trilogy

gg

Post by **werldhed** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:03 pm

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)

Post by **CitizenKane** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:05 pm

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:

Post by **CaseDogg** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:20 pm

the net.

Post by **werldhed** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:24 pm

CitizenKane wrote:
werldhed wrote:
CitizenKane wrote: 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.

And so you don't think I just dislike his works: C&P is ace.

Post by **Grudge** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:25 pm

Just got this from Amazon (or rather, the entire trilogy). Gonna start reading it tonight.

Post by **Wabbit** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:29 am

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.

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.

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:01 am

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zahir-Novel-Lov ... 0007204167

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:12 am

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.

Post by **LawL** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:06 am

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:55 pm

"This is your brain on Music"

Daniel J. Levitin

Post by **HM-PuFFNSTuFF** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:56 pm

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.

Post by **plained** » Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:02 pm

i have a large stack of x men comics to read.

also some operating procedre manuals :yay:

Post by **a13n** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:04 am

Franz Kafka "The Metamorphosis".txt

Post by **LawL** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:17 am

Whatever happened to Citizen Kunt?

Post by **Wabbit** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:48 am

A little Shelley.

OZYMANDIAS
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Post by **xer0s** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:26 am

You would be reading Shelley.

Post by **LawL** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:29 am

Ann Rule.

Green River Running Red.