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    Man, if you ask around people will tell you about my screwy brain .

    Given the 30+ years of my addiction to orchids , the orchid related stuff is relatively easy.

    As to the theological stuff (with the exception of the City of G-d) , it seems that I may need a mystic experience to understand how to do sieving ( Aside to Moose: I will email you soon) .

    As to reading stuff in English , Alas all but the writings of St John of the Cross will be in English. Drat I remember my youngling days, when i was able to read stuff in Latin and Biblical Hebrew.

    Yes , I read mostly boring stuff. Long gone are the days when I wrote research projects that involved content analysis of porn and Mexican Political Cartoons or mappings of arrest locations with codings for gender , race and age of both the prostitutes and johns processed in Prostitution Court ( that quaint institution existed in Chicago for Years.)

    Ah to carry the cases of punched card thorugh the campus of Loyola University of Chicago Lake Shore Campus and latter Kent State University in Ohio in the middle of Winter. ( Yes, I am old: I punched cards to enter data.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by tiosuper
    Ah to carry the cases of punched card thorugh the campus of Loyola University of Chicago Lake Shore Campus and latter Kent State University in Ohio in the middle of Winter. ( Yes, I am old: I punched cards to enter data.)
    Ah - Chicago - center of the punch card universe. lots of those machines there.

    I got started in tech working on that stuff - everything from tube-type chassis keypunches to the biggest accounting machines with - get this - an electronic storage register using a sonic delay line. A big coil that got vibrated and the data "bits" moved along the length of the suspended coil. Weird!

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    Man that is old!!!!!!!
    I remember the computer on my Dads lab with all the on and of switches and the red and green lights that served to indicate the out put .

    Oh man: I better go back to my reading...I have aged about 30 years!!!!

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    Well,

    I just finished Voice of the Gods by Trudi Canavan 5 days before it's released in the US

    Fantastic stuff! I'm just a little sad that it was the last in the trilogy. I kind of guessed what was happening but it didn't stop it from being enthralling.

    Now I'm reading up on Oracle Portal and prototyping it. Got a 20 day study to see how we can incorporate all of our web stuff at work into this utilizing single-sign-on..

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    Whoever started this thread - Very Cool! Ya learn stuff about yer buds by seeing what books they're into. Neat stuff.

    Anyway, since the last time I posted... Nah, too many.

    Just finishing "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan & about to start "Pale Blue Dot", ditto. Very highly recommended!
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    I finished reading the second book in the Inheritence trilogy (Eragon was the first); Eldest. It's a pretty good story, throws some plot twists in it. Unfortunately, these books aren't for kids. I had to stop about every other page to look up some stupid word that is too advanced for the story...

    I started reading Leviathan, but quickly bored of it. So now, for the time being, I'm reading some FoxTrot and Dilbert comics...

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    I am currently reading "The Financier" by Theodore Dreiser. It is pretty good so far.

    From amazon:
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    Based on the life of flamboyant financier C.T. Yerkes, Dreiser's portrayal of the unscrupulous magnate Cowperwood embodies the idea that behind every great fortune there is a crime. You don't read Dreiser for literary finesse, but his great intensity and keen journalistic eye give this portrait a powerful reality

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