currently reading....

[U4EA]

WoW-bot, ur trolling the wrong forumz lewl!

[Tsakali]

lol

[Tsakali]

Good general introduction with some sprinkles of wtf due (do?) to lack of any explanation on the ideas being presented...yet, somewhat lacking fresh content but that's probably my fault for misunderstanding the audience intended. Also a little too short, but I can imagine an undertaking like writing a book is not such a trivial matter for him.

[werldhed]

[Ryoki]

barbara tuchman, she awesome

[Mat Linnett]

Therac-25, after you reminding me about this series, I've started reading The Dark Tower, and am now up to book 5, The Wolves of Calla.
It's an excellent series, and a far cry from standard fantasy fare.
So thankee sai

[obsidian]

[Dark Metal]

obsidian is my black friend.

[Kenrohan]

My friend gave me an interesting book called Drylor The First Artifact since he didn't really care for it (he said it just wasn't for him). I read the first few chapters in a single sitting and I must say I think it's a pretty cool book so far. I highly recommend it to anyone looking for a Fantasy fix.

[werldhed]

Ah yes... books. I always forget to bump this thread. Then again, nobody really cares wtf you read.

Whatever.

Currently reading:
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins. meh. Kind of sucks. Dawkins is a pretty crappy arguer.

Also reading a bunch of students' reports that I need to grade by the end of the week.

[Therac-25]

Currently reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. It's a rewrite of Harry Potter by Yudkowsky, illustrating his various ideas about rationality. It's a bit of a slow start, but hilarious in it's own way.

(If you click on the author link there, it takes you to a page with an .epub file if that's how you roll).

So not only is the wizarding economy almost completely decoupled from the Muggle economy, no one here has ever heard of arbitrage. The larger Muggle economy had a fluctuating trading range of gold to silver, so every time the Muggle gold-to-silver ratio got more than 5% away from the weight of seventeen Sickles to one Galleon, either gold or silver should have drained from the wizarding economy until it became impossible to maintain the exchange rate. Bring in a ton of silver, change to Sickles (and pay 5%), change the Sickles for Galleons, take the gold to the Muggle world, exchange it for more silver than you started with, and repeat.

Wasn't the Muggle gold to silver ratio somewhere around fifty to one? Harry didn't think it was seventeen, anyway. And it looked like the silver coins were actually smaller than the gold coins.

Then again, Harry was standing in a bank that literally stored your money in vaults full of gold coins guarded by dragons, where you had to go in and take out coins out of your vault whenever you wanted to spend money. The finer points of arbitraging away market inefficiencies might well be lost on them. He'd been tempted to make some sort of snide remark about the crudity of their financial system...

[Don Carlos]

Keith Richards - Life

[Wabbit]

The Constant Art of Being a Writer - N.M. Kelby

Writing Down the Bones - Natalie Goldberg

The collected works of William Shakespeare (more referencing than straight reading).

Just finished the last of the Earthsea books by Ursula K. Le Guin.

[seremtan]

Living in the End Times - Slavoj Zizek
The Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson

[Scourge]

Dragonworld - Byron Priess, Micheal Reaves. I read it years ago and enjoyed it. I thought it was well written. Decided to give it a second run.

[xer0s]

I'm almost done with this. Pretty good so far. Some of the dialoge isn't very believable, but I can look past that. And we're fuct if we ever get EMPed...

[Tsakali]

lmao, was that under sum kind fox recommendation list?

[seremtan]

William Gibson - Distrust that Particular Flavor
Domenico Losurdo - Liberalism: A Counter History
Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

yeah i read more than one book at a time. u jelly?

[xer0s]

lmao, was that under sum kind fox recommendation list?

Not that I know of. And from the text alone, I can't see a reason why it would be...

[EtUL]

all hail sagan

[Unisaw]

Steve Jobs - just finished and I recommend it. You won't like him but it's a good read.
Unbroken:A WWII Story of Survival

[U4EA]

Dan Simmons' Endymion [sequel to Hyperion & The Fall of Hyperion]:

[xer0s]

Whoa! I know you're not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but that looks fucking awesome!

[EtUL]

lol came here expecting xeros to post the bible but it was better than I expected

reading the authoritarians now

[xer0s]

I was gonna read the Bible, but started Dune instead...