Killing Time

[bounce_ko]

The weather here has been stretches of humid, muggy, sticky heat interrupted by frequent (twice daily) thunderstorms and downpours. My plans to walk/bike/run my way to some sort of fitness have been postponed indefinitely. Yay

Comments

[kinumeiga]

When you're done with the book, can I read it? I'm looking for new authors, as Mercedes Lackey hasn't put anything new out recently.

Yes!

[bounce_ko]

Sure! I'll trade you my copy of Uplift Wars and some Lemon Chicken in exchange for my manga book, OK?

Various points

[anonymous]

1) I'm not in Jamaica, I just don't have internet access in my house, thus I seem to be gone.

2) Politics suck and should be avoided if you intend to relax and it isn't near an election or an important vote.

3) Running/biking/rollerskiing =P is a good way to spend free time.

4) If running/biking/rollerskiing =P is done early (5:30), it's not as hot as it is later, making said workout more enjoyable; Later in the day, try running whilst it rainest, because that helps you stay cool.

5) Cooking is a great thing to do with free time. Those of us who don't have free time but want to cook are sad... and annoyed at how easily we cave in to hunger by making something fast.

6) I'll pass on the plant.

[picarisque]

near noctournal? You can't be as bad as I am... I stayed up until 6:30am last night, and 9:00am the night before, and now it's 5:36am, and I'm not tired. I swear this is my body's natural state. :-( I have so much energy! And 5:30 am is a great time to be full of energy... if you've already gotten a night of rest...

Interesting, I'll have to read The Uplift War

As for books to recommend... I just finished book one of the A Song of Ice and Fire sequence, A Game of Thrones, by George R.R. Martin. Brilliance! Pure Brilliance. And long- it will keep you hooked for a while, I promise. I took me two obsessive all-nighters to finish it. It's not high fantasy... only a hint of magic and mythology, but the characters are amazing. If you don't read it this summer, I'll pester you about it all year, and there's a LOT of reading to do so you'd be wisest to get it out of the way while you don't have classwork :-p

[anonymous]

Nocturnal, eh? A few days ago, I was reading about a guy, I believe he was named Mitchell Feigenbaum, who experimented for a while (presumably a few months) with a 26 hour day. It went on to talk about how he noticed impressively strong relationships between natural objects (in Java computing language it would be something like implements textured). The things he looked at were random, yet somehow there were patterns to the randomness. And now for the shameless book plug: for more absolutely stunning descriptions of how chaos theory came into existence, James Gleick's Chaos: The Making of a New Science is great. The book is meant for laypeople, and doesn't go into the nitty gritty details of the mathematics behind it. Or the nitty gritty details behind those nitty gritty details. And recursively on forever, in a chaotic fashion. It's a very interesting philosophical read, and is definitely worth picking up.

[navi_di]

Hey.

You (and anyone else planning on reading The Uplift War) should read Startide Rising -- same author, same universe, although the events of Uplift War are only tangentially related. A ship of humans and neo-dolphins are actually the ones responsible for the invasion of Garth, thanks to an archeological find that set off a galaxy-wide religious upheaval and got them stranded on a mostly-ocean planet with a battle going on overhead -- mostly over who gets to kill them first. Slightly more of a war story than The Uplift War.

If you want book recs, just say the word. ^^

Psst. Flobberworms. Just sayin'. And, no, no spider-plants for us, thanks. :D Want some pothos? (They also thrive on being ignored, with the added benefit of preferring shade.)

Uh…

[bounce_ko]

Er, Ginny? Is that you?

Re: Uh…

[navi_di]

Yep. :D

Seriously, if you're short on things to read? Our bookshelf just had a shelf collapse, again, under the weight of authors C-H.