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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:05 pm
by CitizenKane
k gotcha :icon14:

Posted: Sun Oct 22, 2006 9:24 pm
by CitizenKane
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

:icon14: :q3: :icon14:

Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 4:02 am
by R00k
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?

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 3:40 pm
by CitizenKane
a newspaper

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:16 pm
by Nightshade
R00k wrote:
Nightshade wrote:
R00k wrote: 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

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:29 pm
by mac
asimovs foundation trilogy

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:32 pm
by CitizenKane
mac wrote:asimovs foundation trilogy
russian writers, cant beat em.

chekhov? dostoevsky? anyone? :icon14:

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:32 pm
by MKJ
mac wrote:asimovs foundation trilogy
gg

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:03 pm
by werldhed
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)

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:05 pm
by CitizenKane
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:

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:20 pm
by CaseDogg
the net.

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:24 pm
by werldhed
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. :shrug:

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

Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:25 pm
by Grudge
Just got this from Amazon (or rather, the entire trilogy). Gonna start reading it tonight.

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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:29 am
by Wabbit
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.

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 6:01 am
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:12 am
by SplishSplash
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.

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 8:06 am
by LawL
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Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:55 pm
by [xeno]Julios
"This is your brain on Music"

Daniel J. Levitin

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 4:56 pm
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF
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.

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:02 pm
by plained
i have a large stack of x men comics to read.

also some operating procedre manuals :yay:

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:04 am
by a13n
Franz Kafka "The Metamorphosis".txt

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:17 am
by LawL
Whatever happened to Citizen Kunt?

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:48 am
by Wabbit
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.

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:26 am
by xer0s
You would be reading Shelley. :olo:

Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:29 am
by LawL
Ann Rule.

Green River Running Red.