EWolfe Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Biomimicry: Innovations Inspired by Nature by Janine M. Benyus from the back cover: "Biomimicry is a revolutionary science that analyzes natures best ideas-spider silk and prairie grass, seashells and braincells-and adapts them for human use." Cool book about learning from nature rather than forcing ourselves upon the natural world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Necronomicon Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Dune...again...awesome book... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 I did not know brain cells needed to be adapted for human use. Mine seem to work fine as is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fence_Sitter Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 reading (er trying) to read tolstoj in original russian... my best friend is my english-russian-english dictionary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erik Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 teachings of don juan!!! gearing up for an "experience" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
layton Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Don Juan is made up hippy bs (ala way of the peaceful warrior). Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintence/Natural History of the Senses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWolfe Posted August 5, 2003 Author Share Posted August 5, 2003 michael_layton said: Don Juan is made up hippy bs (ala way of the peaceful warrior). Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintence/Natural History of the Senses. Dan Milliman Zen an Motorcycle maintenance has way too much physics for my brain... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is TOTALLY made up hippy BS. The dude doesn't even know fuck all about motorcycles. Ed Abbey wrote a funny review of it pointing out all the mistakes in motorcycle maintenace and suggesting maybe that is why the dude is so fucked up cause he chestbeats so much about fixing a cycle he knows nothing about. The Don Juan books are all made up BS except the first one, but they are still worth reading I got through four before I lost interest. I think there are 7 or 8 altogether? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratboy Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Trying to finish Lord of the Rings. Just finished Beowulf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairweather Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 "The Whole Shebang-A State of the Universe Report" by Timothy Ferris. A great little book that puts the latest comological/physics theories (well, as of 1998 anyhow) into layman's terms....almost. There is some cool/weird shit in this book about the commonly accepted origins of the universe, and where it is headed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EWolfe Posted August 5, 2003 Author Share Posted August 5, 2003 Dru said: I did not know brain cells needed to be adapted for human use. Mine seem to work fine as is? too well, some might say... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpine_Tom Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Dru said: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is TOTALLY made up hippy BS. The dude doesn't even know fuck all about motorcycles. Ed Abbey wrote a funny review of it pointing out all the mistakes in motorcycle maintenace and suggesting maybe that is why the dude is so fucked up cause he chestbeats so much about fixing a cycle he knows nothing about. My father is a (now retired) history prof. A buddy of his taught with Pirsig, and said that Pirsig's reason for writing that book was so make some money off these gullible kids and get out of teaching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glacier Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Just finished 'The Years of Salt and Rice' by Kim Stanley Robinson, 'Invisible Man' by H.G. Wells, 'Sword & Brush' by Dave Lowry, 'The Persistence of Vision' by John Varley, 'Jennifer Government' by Max Barry, a couple of Carl Hiassen books, and started picking through a Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Yeah, slow field job with lots of downtime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fairweather Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 glacier said: Just finished 'The Years of Salt and Rice' by Kim Stanley Robinson, 'Invisible Man' by H.G. Wells, 'Sword & Brush' by Dave Lowry, 'The Persistence of Vision' by John Varley, 'Jennifer Government' by Max Barry, a couple of Carl Hiassen books, and started picking through a Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Yeah, slow field job with lots of downtime. Hope your paycheck doesn't come from our taxes.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marylou Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Got nuttin' right now. Already read most of what's been posted. I can recommend Jarhead and Reefer Madness thought the latter is not as good as I'd hoped. Jennifer Gummint was a fun read eh? They oughtta make a blockbuster movie out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 "How To Kill With Your Bare Hands", by Mike O'Bannion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pope Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 TEACING CHARACTER THROUGH SPORT by Bruce Brown. Here's a thought-provoking quote from the book (author unknown): PASSING THE BUCK Said the professor, "Such rawness in a student is a shame. Lack of preparation in high school is to blame." Said the high school teacher, "Good heavens, that boy's a fool. The fault, of course, is with the middle school." The middle school teacher said, "From such stupidity may I be spared. They sent him to me so unprepared." The primary teacher huffed, "Kindergarten blockheads all. They call that preparation? Why this is worse than none at all." The kindergarten teacher said, "Such lack of training never did I see. What kind of woman must the mother be?" The mother said, "Poor helpless child. He's not to blame. His father's folks were just the same." Said the father at the end of the line, "I doubt the rascal's even mine." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chirp Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 That Krak book on the Mormons. Actually pretty fun read, and interesting too since I lived and worked there during portions of the mid to late 80's. I met some really unique folks and got to hear some interesting views. Funny memory tho, grocery shopping in Hurricane or LaVerkin or even St George to a degree, You could tell the polys cause the men wore dark suits and the women always has the 1930's style dresses with their hair dome up in a similar period style. What an awesome part of the country tho, the most beautiful state IMHO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skykilo Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 (edited) Light on Yoga, BKS Iyengar. That old guy rocks. An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory, Peskin and Schroeder. Guaranteed sedative. Harry Potter books. More entertaining than cc.com? Hustler is aid. Edited August 5, 2003 by skykilo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Howard Zinn's 'A People's History of the United States'. Picking it up again after losing steam/interest about a third of the way through the first time. Interesting thoughts on the evolution of what is now the two-party system, and interesting to see how politicians back in the 1800s were using red herrings and false choices even then to keep the public content and feeling like they had some power. Learning is fun; burn down the government! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braumeister Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 "Spy on the Roof of the World" by Sydney Wignall. Story of the Welsh Himalayan Expedition of 1955 to climb Ghurla Mandhata and spy on the Chinese buildup of troops on the border of Tibet & Nepal (of course, they were captured). The ignorance of Wygnall's Chinese communist interrogators was more than amusing: "You lie about this Everest, this Chomolugma. If it did in fact exist, our Great Teacher, Mao, would have provided us a political directive regarding such a high mountain. The highest mountain in the world lies in China and is called Mustah Ghata." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 "The Muller-Fokker Effect" John Sladek. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 "The Mullah-Fucker Effect"? Something about Middle Eastern rulers and their harems or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dru Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 naw its some weird 70's Vonnegutty stuff by way of an American who emigrated to Britain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Flash_Amazing Posted August 5, 2003 Share Posted August 5, 2003 Bitchin'. Is it any good? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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