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It's a younger Stanley from Dunder Miflin.

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George Snuffleupagus says it's Morgan Freeman.

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I think it's Steve Harvey


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It could be any of those. All black people look alike.


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Steve Harvey looks like Gordon from Sesame Street.


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I meant Morgan Freeman in the same style of George Stephenonopils.


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Finally finished the 5th Game of Thrones book. He's really turned the thing into a big mess. Splitting up the books wasn't the best idea.

And Cersei is still a cunt.


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The 10,000 Year Explosion

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The 10,000 Year Explosion

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Sounds kind if eugenicsy.

Somewhat related I did see an interesting article about some dude in South Carolina with a "very distinctive" Y chromosome.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23240-the-father-of-all-men-is-340000-years-old.html


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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife -- Basically, the history of 0. Good read about how zero didn't become a number until just a couple centuries ago. All the ancient civilizations didn't believe in it and didn't use it. Pythagoras actually put members of his math cult to death for talking about zero or irrational numbers (despite the fact that the Pythagorean theorem proves the existence of irrational numbers such as the square root of two). Also, he hated beans because they caused flatulence and looked like genitalia. The story goes that he died because of his hatred for beans. The church refused zero as well, sticking with Aristotle's view of the universe as long as it could. There is no infinity, therefore there is no void. They didn't believe in nothing. Lots of colorful characters along the way make it a fun read. It even proves that if zero doesn't exist then Winston Churchill is a carrot. Gets into more advanced stuff at the end about quantum physics and singularities but it's pretty accessible to non capgams. Good stuff.

SPOILER ALERT: It turns out -1 did it.

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Finished Ready Player One. It's not great literature but it's a shitload of fun. Like Diello, I zipped through the last half in almost one sitting. Thanks for the recommendation.


Ernest Cline has a new book called Armada. Not as nerdy as RP1 but still loads of fun. It's unabashedly a updating of Last Starfighter.

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Read Devil in the White City. I cannot recommend that book highly enough. It's history, but it reads like a novel.

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I have that book on my Kindle (yes, I have a Kindle.) I'll get to it soon. I have a queue and I might be able to slot it into spot 5 or 6.


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I have had that book on my nightstand since going to Chicago two years ago. Maybe now I will read it.

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I got a new kindle for Christmas b/c my other one broke. I bought it from fry's. If you ever want to go to a creepy ass, back in time, weirdorama store go to the fry's off of NW hwy in between Jupiter and Garland Rd. Bleh. I don't know what this place used to be but it's like random merchandising inside the Resistol Arena. They even have fake life size cows everywhere. Anyhoo, the first book up is The Martian. It's the book inspired by Matt Damon. I'm enjoying it immensely. Here are the 1st 3 sentences from chapter 1:

I’m pretty much fucked.
That’s my considered opinion.
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I got on Goodreads a little over a year ago. I have only one friend on there: a guy whose book I liked so he friended me. :bigtime: Anyhoo, I like the site/app cuz I can keep track of I'm reading and have read. After I finish my current book--a John D MacDonald crime thingy--I'll have read 40 books this year. That's really good for me. I'm a pretty slow reader. I haven't read The Martian. The hard science scares me off. I have no head for that stuff. I liked the movie tho.


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I decided this year to burn through the Game of Thrones books. #4 is starting to wear on me


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#4 it's easily the worst but I didn't much care for 5 either.


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I'm enjoying the greyjoy stuff, but this is a lot of wheel spinning so far


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I just missed a lot of the characters he left out of #4. I didn't much care for that decision and if I were reading each book as it was released, that may have been an ender for me. I was just really tired by the time I got to #5 and had to force myself to finish that one. It may actually be a lot better than I think it is.


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The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton. Very enjoyable. 1st book of his I've read. Will read more.


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Had to take a break from GoT. Too much wheel spinning
Reading some Doctor Who short stories and the Daniel Bryan memoir


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When I was a teenager, I loved Douglas Adams and his Hitchhiker's Guide series. I was 15 when I found out he had a new book called Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and asked for a copy for my birthday or Christmas. My parents got me a nice hardcover copy because it hadn't hit paperback yet. I started that book I dunno how many times over the years but never finished it...until this weekend. It took 30 years to get thru it start to finish. It was ok.


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I still stream the Musers on early morning dog walks and have particularly been interested in their AI talks of late. So much so that I bought and read Our Final Invention that Gordo talked about one day. Man, it’s good.


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I still stream the Musers too.


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You guys stream BaD Radio? PSC will unfriend you if you don't.


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I do not stream BaD. You can't unfriend me if I've never friended you.

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There's a new to me author that a helpful staffer recommended recently at this really cool local independent book store. An added bonus is the author is also regional and I think it's cool to read stories set in areas I either live around or am familiar with. Are you the same way?

At any rate, the author's name is Greg Iles. I'm currently on the 2nd book of a trilogy set in Natchez, MS. I just picked up the second book this past Saturday and what do you know there was a book signing going on with HGTV celebrities Ben and Erin Napier, Mississippi's aw shucks answer to Waco's annoying Chip and Joanna. I'm confident I could kick that candy ass-metro Chip's ass, but this Ben dude is all of a corn fed 6'6" and 300 L-bees. He's a bear of a dude.

I'm aware of these shows, but thankfully my HGTV faze ended long ago with Trading Spaces. I cringe when I remember the first fixer upper we owned. I did most of the work myself and laid on heavy textures and slapped on bright gaudy colors for every room like so much Paige Davis. I wonder whatever happened to that doll face.

Anyhoo, my wacky mother-in-law loves Our Town so I got a copy of their book while I was there, signed by Ben and the lovely Erin. True self promoters, like a lot extreme extroverts with ambition, they really knew how to work the room. They did actually seem really likeable though. Ben even signed the other book by Greg Iles.


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While on the treadmill, I have to watch something. Still making my way through Atlanta. But while I hit the weights, I've been audiobooking it. Just finished the latest Max Brooks.

Devolution: a Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

Not as big or grandiose as World War Z, but still fun. Mt. Rainier erupts causing chaos and a small, experimental eco-village gets cut off from the rest of the world. Also the eruption causes the local Sasquatch population to come out of their natural space and begin to tear the village to shreds. Some super-disturbing descriptions of death at the hands of various big feet. I had a basic problem with the premise that we are reading a journal left by one of the people in the village, but it still reads like a novelist wrote it. Way too descriptive of action that happened the previous day, but is written like it's happening right now. Getting over that, I still enjoyed it. Good audiobook cast with Judy Greer, Nathan Fillion, and Jeff Daniels among the cast. As an aside, World War Z works better as an audiobook in my opinion. Here there is a bit of a turn at the end that I don't think the story earned but it didn't take away too much from the rest of the story.

Cap would like this because it makes the pinko/greenie lefties all look like super-pussies that wouldn't last 30 seconds in the wild.

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I've been on the audiobook kick all Summer, mostly with non-fiction. I've liked most everything from Michael Lewis (highly recommend the Undoing Project) and now Chuck Klosterman. You should listen to/read his book the Nineties. Perfect for our generation. I'm now on But What if We're Wrong? Kinda mind melting.

So I've found that the books that dumb down science/philosophy/politics/economics/etc in an entertaining way are my bread and butter. So please recommend good strong funny accessible nonfiction books.

I use the Libby app to borrow the books from the local library and I only get them for two weeks, so less than 12 hours is about the limit. Hit me with your best shots.

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