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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

Just started

Earth by David Brin

just finished

Your Brain is God by Timothy Leary

Beginning Visual C++ 6.

For entertainment, nothing at the moment.

edit: wtf, when I hit submit I saw a big ad at the top of the page for a couple seconds.

rgoer wrote:I read earth, it's pretty good--this is a funny time to read it, too, since they're about to fire up the large hadron collider haha

David Brin's Earth? Because I have that sitting around since 1996 and never read it.

ATM I'm reading Heart of Darkness

Fender wrote:I just finished The DaVinci Code, first book I've read in quite some time. I should read more... dunno what's next.

i stopped reading the da vinci code about 20 chapters in cos i realised that it was exactly the same as that other book he wrote, Angles and Demons, which i read a few months previous....and also sucked.

some interesting (infeasible however) theories put forth...albeit in a writing style that would make a 3rd grade creative writing student cringe

SplishSplash wrote:

rgoer wrote:I read earth, it's pretty good--this is a funny time to read it, too, since they're about to fire up the large hadron collider haha

David Brin's Earth? Because I have that sitting around since 1996 and never read it.

ATM I'm reading Heart of Darkness

Awesome book, if you want the whole experience watch Apocalypse Now after you read it then watch Hearts of Darkness (Coppola's moive about the making of Apocalypse Now - the similiraties between him and Marlow are astounding).

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.

Just started reading Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson.

I tried to read Snowcrash, but all that cyberpunk crap really turned me off -- especially since the technical aspects were dumbed down to the point of being meaningless. I only read about 100 pages or so.

Quicksilver is good so far, I just hope it focuses a little less on alchemy later on.

I put down my Hunter S. Thompson for a bit to read it.

Nightshade wrote:quadrotor UAV attitude stabilization

Unintentionally funny typo.

(i think )

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?

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.

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

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.

what kind of moron reads books?...

what kind of misanthropic boob wears tinfoil like it's this season's fabric?

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

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.

ulysse by james joyce

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?

J. Storrs Hall's Nanofuture

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:

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.....

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....