RSS dump 03

[sorspeakswords]

Man, I am not doing a good job of making these daily at all, am I?

All I hope is to have 50 items or fewer in my RSS reader by the end of break. Current status: 512. Sigh.

*Basic sign language. How convenient!

*Gala Darling swoons over magnifique earrings!

*Warren Ellis reports on a dude who stuck his head in a particle accelerator

*Dubious

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RSS Titanic

[woozle]

Total unread posts across all feeds: 291,233. It doesn't provide a count of how many I have read but marked to be filed later. I am going on the theory that some day I will write a program to make filing links a much quicker process.

Teenage Literary Angst

[woozle]

I'm tentatively proud to say that none of those books were on my reading list as a teenager -- or at anytime thereafter, really.

I knew about Dhalgren because it was SF, but I tried another Delany novel and... decided Dhalgren wasn't worth the purchase. I read Catcher because someone gave it to me (possibly Tigger) -- there were some bits I related to, but nothing startling. I became slightly worried about being "phony", but eventually decided this was the wrong question.

My Highly Influential books at that age, to the best of my recollection:

* Ringworld: light on characters, but... dude... an artificial ring-shaped world with a habitable surface area many thousands of times that of Earth. COOL.
* 2001: A Space Odyssey (yes, the book, not the movie1) because, like, realistic spaceships with shiny buttons and graphical displays and little tablets that play newscasts3. Dude