So, what books are you reading right now?

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How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

Stephen Greenblatt

Greenblatt knows more about [Shakespeare] than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did."―John Leonard, ?Harper’s

A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright. ?A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist.

Object-relational mapping and Hibernate.

I am cursed in that I despise reading. I will begin and then stop and then do it on my own. So I started writing my own ORM.

Which is definitively not a good idea because I’m not going to be able to learn enough for the exam. So what do I do? I stop writing my ORM and stop reading the book. I do nothing and simply wait for the last moment. Then I do everything and, strangely, things always work out fine.

So I am not doing any reading actually.

No patience for reading? I love to read. If there were no books to read, I might just go and jump off a bridge.

What is object-relational mapping and hibernate - of each word separately, I understand their meaning but what is it?

There is always a first time that it won’t – but I wish you well in all of your endeavors – in everything.

Data persistence… making computers save things.

He might be referring to technical reading specifically. It can be mind numbing.

Thanks phoneutria.
Maybe that was what he was referring to. I can’t understand why the likes of himself would not enjoy reading.

oh, and to answer your question from over there. No, I am not. I’m causasion.

ORM is mapping objects, which are hierarchical, onto tables, which are relational. Objects is how OOP programs store their data in working memory, tables is how relational databases store them. Here, RDB’s are used for persistence, though I have no clue why, why would anyone use relational databases to persist object-based data.

You know what kind of technology we need? We need a tech which will allow us to pull certain parts of our brains out of our brains and plug them into a robot which will use the knowledge and skills contained in these parts. This will be very useful for people like me, for example. I know everything about computer programming but I cannot for life of me sit down and program. So what does this mean? It means I have plenty of skills and knowledge which I’ll never manage to use in a useful way, like make money out of it, monetize it. Now with the aforementioned tech I could “castrate” these parts dealing with computer programming from my mind and then “sell” them or “rent” them to those who need someone who will do the coding for them. Everyone wins! So this is what Trixie should be working on . . .

yeah i have all this music in my head but I don’t want to sit around doing arpeggios all day

creation/invention is 90% sweat or something

Uh, no we don’t. We really, really don’t.

Christopher Hitchens

letters to a young contrarian

Some people can’t bear solitude, let alone the idea that the heavens are empty and that we do not even succeed in troubling their deafness with our bootless cries. To be an exile or outcast on a remote shore – many minds turn away in terror and seek any source of cosiness. – Christopher Hitchens

A ceiling fan assembly instruction manual. Never in my life have I ever had so much trouble hanging a ceiling fan. This thing has got me pulling my hair out, but I ain’t gonna let it whoop me. I can do this…you have to be smarter than the fan, see. So I’m gonna take a deep breath and read the instructions. Then I’m gonna send an email to the manufacturer and give them a piece of my mind. You should NEVER have to read instructions for one of these things. This is a design flaw.

Ah. I didn’t put the rubber gasket on before I screwed in the blade plate… so the screws were too long. By adding the gasket, the plate becomes wider, and the screws don’t hit the mount before they tighten the plate. See I thought the gasket was optional. I’ve never put them on before and the fan mounted just fine. These assholes have to design their ceiling fans differently and make it all complicated.

Next week I’ll post pics of this screened-in porch we just built…or should I say ‘I’ because David did only twenty percent of the work, and badly at that. Show you people what happens when you give Zoot some good tools and a lumber package.

How to win friends and influence people.-Dale Carnegie.

The Magic Mountain in the Woods translation – quite exellent.

And for fun, Coroner’s Pidgin – an Inspector Campion mystery, quite witty in places

I hear that a nice strong cup of coffee helps in opening up the mind. Or you might want to just go pull some woman off the street. She could probably do it easily. :stuck_out_tongue:

Where exactly are you hanging it - I mean on what ceiling?

John Grey, ‘False Dawn’, The Delusions of Global Capitalism, New Press

And Robert Skidelsky’s review of said John Grey

Animal Farm

  • George Orwell

and

Finders Keepers

  • Stephen King

Mr. Mercedes came first.

The Divine Comedy and The Principles of Psychology vol.1

I’m thinking of creating an epic poem centered around the post-war travels of Diomedes, one of the heroes from the Trojan war.

Tennyson’s ‘Rizpa’ an epic poem