So, what books are you reading right now?

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

The Sacred Stones, by William Sarabande -excellent novel.

Reading some of the reviews for this novel, people seem to either love this book or hate it. I think I know why this is. If you start with the premise that all our fools (Young or old, great or small, ugly or beautiful, man or woman, good or bad), then this is a story that more or less confirms that premise, and the few who do obtain true wisdom share a fate similar to Socrates. As to why people either love this novel or hate it, I think its because we can all identify with at least one of the characters in this story, even though the novel is set in prehistoric times. Those who cannot accept that humanity is a race of fools would probably hate this novel. Those who have accepted this and can recognize their own foolishness would probably enjoy this novel.

Sophie’s World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
Jostein Gaarder

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie%27s_World
I loved this book, being that I’m kind of in the basement as a philosopher, it was wonderful. It’s like my bible.

Paris The Novel
Edward Rutherfurd

h-france.net/fffh/maybe-missed/e … the-novel/
I so love historical novels. This one at times was a bit confusing insofar as the chronology is concerned.
You really have to re-adjust your mind to the chronological changes and characters. It gets a bit disorienting like traveling back and forth in time without any notice. But it was so highly interested. I don’t think that I would have given it the ending that Rutherfurd did either but I guess it worked.

The Graveyard Book
Neil Gaiman

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Graveyard_Book

A children’s book but I so enjoyed it. Wasn’t bored for an instant. More delicious read at night in the silence when all are asleep but yourself. Loved the character Bod Owens.

The Eight
Katherine Neville

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eight_(novel

Reading this now. Am enjoying it. This book also goes back and forth in time but easier to follow. I love this stuff. lol

Existentialism- for and against
Paul Roubiczek

cambridge.org/us/academic/su … nd-against

Just beginning to read this. Maybe I should finish The Eight first and then devote my undivided attention to it.
Looking forward to it. I eat this stuff up though I have to ruminate quite some time.