reading thread #2

[ammmmy]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptonomicon

[ammmmy]

le feelio when i still haven't gotten the rest of the dark tower books

[alyaza]

i bought the hunger games saga for like 20 bucks

[ammy]

i bought the hunger games saga for like 20 bucks

shitty series

1st one was okay-ish the rest piss me off

[alyaza]

the paperback covers to them were pretty cool though

[tomoko]

dem feeliatos

[admin]

le feelio when i still haven't gotten the rest of the dark tower books

im gonna be ordering it like today

[Helen]

http://www.amazon.com/Ikes-Bluff-President-Eisenhowers-Secret/dp/0316091030/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389820186&sr=1-1&keywords=evan+thomas

looking into this

[Jeanne d'Arc]

Still reading http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dragon_(novel)
I'm on chapter 23, and there's 54 chapters in total.

[LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramjet

[alyaza]

i am reading like sixteen books

[admin]

What the fuck, mordred

[LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

[admin]

215 pages

[admin]

302

[glorious master caster]

Why did the dead baby cross the road? Because it was stapled to the chicken, you dopey fuck!

[RICK ROSS]

i want to read the road

[admin]

Why did the dead baby cross the road? Because it was stapled to the chicken, you dopey fuck!

naturally the shittiest and edgiest line in the series is also the best one

blaine was a total fucking douchebag i was afraid i would wake up patients in the hospital from laughing

[alyaza]

im reading a world atlas

[admin]

The Gervais Principle

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/

[admin]

The Gervais Principle

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/

this whole thing is 100% sociology gold even if you haven't seen the office

In Part I, I noted that for the Clueless, “The most visible sign of their capacity for self-delusion is their complete inability to generate an original thought.” Why is lack of originality a clear indicator of cluelessness?

Here is why: delusions are closed logical schemes, where reality is mangled into the service of a fixed script through defense mechanisms, with the rest of the meaning thrown away. To manufacture original thought you have to look at/listen to reality in open ways for data. That is why Michael’s database is so full of movie lines. Movies are goldmines of canned situation-reactions that don’t require much present-reality data to retrieve. When kids quote adults or movies, they seem precocious, and gain approval. In an era where more kids are raised by TV than by parents, parroting movie lines comes more naturally than repeating bromides learned from parental figures or at churches and temples.

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If you are having trouble understanding this notion of status legibility, read this well-known Internet meme:

Aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno’t mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whoutit a pboerlm. Tihs is bucseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey ltteer by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Aaznmig, huh?

Status illegibility works a bit like this, but is stronger. It requires that the middle be jumbled up. There can be no correct rank ordering, but the group is still meaningfully coherent.

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In case you didn’t get the reference, I began this post with an homage to Garrison Keilor’s Lake Wobegon, where “all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.” Keilor’s classic nugget of mordant wit has since been used to bolster the theory of illusory superiority, a kind of delusion by which the mediocre convince themselves they are above average.

This is a partially true explanation. Loser dynamics are largely driven by Lake-Wobegon-effect snow jobs, which obscure pervasive mediocrity. But unlike the delusions of the Clueless (false confidence of the Duning-Kruger variety which we saw last time), which are maintained through the furious efforts and desperate denials on the part of the deluded individuals themselves, Loser delusions are maintained by groups.You scratch my delusion, I’ll scratch yours. I’ll call you a thoughtful critic if you agree to call me a fascinating blogger. And we’ll both convince ourselves that our lives are to be valued by these different measures.

[admin]

i have maybe 300 pages left in the last book of the series i'm reading and i can't pick it up and start reading again

it's not that i don't like it(i love it it changed my life) but i can't go on, it's draining because i've been so invested in it for so long and it's about to end

[admin]

Everybody read this

https://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm

[LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD]

Everybody read this

https://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm

read this way back when it's totally worth reading

asimov wasn't famous for science fiction for no reason

[admin]

Everybody read this

https://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm

read this way back when it's totally worth reading

asimov wasn't famous for science fiction for no reason

yeah, it's great. i might get his story compilation book later

the way Zee talks about 'the original galaxy' is a little eye-opening

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