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Old 09.14.2017, 11:09 AM   #4721
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The Goldseekers - W. R. Burnett

adult story of men going to look for gold in the Yukon

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Old 09.14.2017, 11:12 AM   #4722
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thnx!

I am myself a caffeine addict (in the AM). used to be a sugar addict. used to be tobacco addict.

I can't seem to stop smoking completely. One in the morning, just after getting up, and one at night, immediately before bed. Sometimes two if I need to knock myself out/speed myself up. I've been trying take that final step for years now.

No coffee and very little sugar though. In case you were wondering. Which, I mean.... how could you not?
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Old 09.14.2017, 11:19 AM   #4723
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im completely off the sugars these days

the current epidemic of obesity & diabetes is due to it
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Old 09.14.2017, 11:20 AM   #4724
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Just finished this. Very enthralling read. Emotionally resonant. Heartbreaking. Also, a nice use of science fiction and fantasy elements in a story that doesn't really fit in either genre. Twisting SF so that it's just "fiction with awesome stuff" is something I value a lot, as a lifelong fan of SF who's sick of reading "SF books."

There are some awkward and intentional "millennialisms" in the prose — attempts to connect with 20/30-something audiences, but the bigger picture is definitely aimed at mature adults, so I can handle it. Good book.
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Old 09.14.2017, 11:20 AM   #4725
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written in 1928, covers from Civil War to 1915 or so, draft riots in Civil War are particularly interesting. Some great names..
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Old 09.14.2017, 11:24 AM   #4726
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im completely off the sugars these days

the current epidemic of obesity & diabetes is due to it

Funny you should mention obesity. I was just going to say I've never really fully quit smoking, and people tell me I'll gain weight. I've seen it happen to other people. But I'm rail thin and I've never really had a chubby phase — not even in childhood or after high school — so I'm kind of curious about what fat me would be like.
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I'd take the plunge just to find out if I wasn't terrified of being more on-edge and restless and foul-tempered than I already am.
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Old 09.17.2017, 05:46 AM   #4727
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i'm on a robert mitchell kick ever since i watched cloud atlas. 'the bone clocks' was great. now i'm in the middle of 'slade house', not as good but still fun.
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Old 09.17.2017, 03:37 PM   #4728
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Old 09.18.2017, 09:21 AM   #4729
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i'm on a robert mitchell kick ever since i watched cloud atlas. 'the bone clocks' was great. now i'm in the middle of 'slade house', not as good but still fun.

I read half of Cloud Atlas and then I think I gave up or got distracted. I almost never leave a book half-finished. Maybe I should give it another go. Hmm.
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Old 09.18.2017, 09:37 AM   #4730
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I read half of Cloud Atlas and then I think I gave up or got distracted. I almost never leave a book half-finished. Maybe I should give it another go. Hmm.
maybe you should give up more books half-finished!

life is too short to be doing homework all the time

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just read your beetus comments. just know that too much fat won't give you healthy mass. if you want mass you need weight exercise plus protein. this doesn't mean you'll necessarily get huge-- i used to know some wiry people who could outmuscle any steroid meat packets.

gotta run to work..
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Old 09.18.2017, 11:15 AM   #4731
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maybe you should give up more books half-finished!

life is too short to be doing homework all the time

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just read your beetus comments. just know that too much fat won't give you healthy mass. if you want mass you need weight exercise plus protein. this doesn't mean you'll necessarily get huge-- i used to know some wiry people who could outmuscle any steroid meat packets.

gotta run to work..

I'm actually super secure with being scrawny as fuck, but I feel like if I had to punch someone I would do almost no damage. Actually, that has totally happened. Anyway, yeah, hah. Wilford Brimley.
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Old 09.18.2017, 11:43 AM   #4732
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I'm actually super secure with being scrawny as fuck, but I feel like if I had to punch someone I would do almost no damage. Actually, that has totally happened. Anyway, yeah, hah. Wilford Brimley.

e = .5mv^2

so speed is more determinant than mass

 


anyway don't look forward to getting fat is what im trying to say. it's not a good thing-- it's actually worse for "skinny fat" thin people.
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Old 09.18.2017, 12:58 PM   #4733
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Yeah yeah I know. I don't actually want to get fat. All my friends got fat. I'd be ok with not looking like a high schooler at the 49 mark, but whatever.

I'm going to read "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” by Yuval Noah Harari next. Just ordered it on Amazon.

Think I'm gonna read some comics to dumb down while until it arrives.
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Old 09.18.2017, 01:49 PM   #4734
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Yeah yeah I know. I don't actually want to get fat. All my friends got fat. I'd be ok with not looking like a high schooler at the 49 mark, but whatever.

I'm going to read "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind,” by Yuval Noah Harari next. Just ordered it on Amazon.

Think I'm gonna read some comics to dumb down while until it arrives.

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Old 09.18.2017, 02:51 PM   #4735
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i read multiple reviews of that book and feel like "nothing to see here". in the sense that there are no new ideas advanced by it, but rather it's a compendium of common knowledge plus some errors (see the review on "the guardian" for a list of gaffes).

no new ideas except for maybe the bit about humans rallying around fictions. that's a great model to see things. human rights as religion, sure. but do i need to read 500 pages to grasp that? nope. it's immediately graspable, thanks-- next?

i sort of don't believe in books anymore. sad but true. all that fattening of pages for what could take 2.
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Old 09.18.2017, 03:09 PM   #4736
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i sort of don't believe in books anymore. sad but true. all that fattening of pages for what could take 2.


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so now yr a poet?
borges made the case for all that long ago

i won't repeat his argument, but it's all over his work

and sure, why not!

no poetry slams though please
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e.g., im reading this book right now (well not this instant but this afternoon)

 


i started by having to skip 10% of it which is pure introduction and fluff

i have yet to get to the meat of the book-- how to build an earthen floor

by the time i'm done reading and taking notes it will probably be reduced to less than 10 pages

but publishers must justify the cost and need 200 pages for 3 ideas

the world needs more pamphlets
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Old 09.18.2017, 07:07 PM   #4739
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e.g., im reading this book right now (well not this instant but this afternoon)

 


i started by having to skip 10% of it which is pure introduction and fluff

i have yet to get to the meat of the book-- how to build an earthen floor

by the time i'm done reading and taking notes it will probably be reduced to less than 10 pages

but publishers must justify the cost and need 200 pages for 3 ideas

the world needs more pamphlets

Hey you weirdo, my mother has that book! Yeah, she bought it (and, like, twenty others) with aspirations for some property she has in New Mexico that she no longer has time to visit because the world is a cold dark place and she had to go back to work a few years ago despite having worked for a quarter century as a college professor.

I hope she gets back there at some point. And I hope I can help. Fucking love it out there.
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Old 09.18.2017, 07:15 PM   #4740
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nice! but so many bullshit words in that book man.

im working on reducing all the gibberish and hippy talk into a simple flowchart

fuck! turns out i have to start from the end where subfloors are discussed

first subfloor, then floor

for the subfloor: drainage gravel, vapor barrier, insulation, compacted gravel,

for the floor: 1/2"-2"of a cob mixture

cure with linseed oil with a solvent in a 3:1 mix in a single pour

fuckers SHOULD START WITH THE CONCLUSIONS

then give you the filler

they should take a lesson from journalism

same with everything: gimme the executive summary and then the full report

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY!
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