rooneymcnibnug started reading The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
Why do we remember the past and not the future? What does it mean for …
Started listening to the audiobook of this while doing yardwork and stuff.
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rooneymcnibnug commented on Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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Chapter 29 was very very good - really brought the feel and paranoia of early American parapolitics in poetic fashion.
rooneymcnibnug started reading Learning Perl by Randal L. Schwartz
Learning Perl, also known as the llama book, is a tutorial book for the Perl …
Taking a step back from some other technical stuff to get sharper with Perl by beginning this from the start (never finished through it) while I dig through a bunch of code in parallel :)
rooneymcnibnug commented on Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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Reading this after V is very interesting - much more of a "chill" experience while still getting to some very core "mortal coil" subject matter. I found the recent pieces with the interactions between Mason and his father touching.
rooneymcnibnug commented on Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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The most romantic thing you can do to someone is save them from a massive wheel of cheese flattening you from higher grounds.
rooneymcnibnug commented on Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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Descriptions of the landscapes, towns, and their weather have all been incredible. The transitions between the narration by Revd. Cherrycoke to the evens with Mason and/or Dixon have all been so well executed.
I laughed really hard at the part where Mason and Dixon were sitting in two different rooms, trying to have a religious experience in solitude/"feel god"
rooneymcnibnug commented on Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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Great to see Pynchon doing 18th century style while keeping his flavor so far. And there is a talking dog contemplating his own existence within the first 40 pages so… I think I will probably like this.
rooneymcnibnug rated Chess Story: 4 stars
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (New York Review Books Classics)
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final achievement, completed in Brazilian exile …
rooneymcnibnug finished reading Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (New York Review Books Classics)
Chess Story, also known as The Royal Game, is the Austrian master Stefan Zweig's final …
Nice short read, crossing boundaries between the analytical and the existential. Was looking for something chess-related and this itched that scratch, but also was very emotional. People pour themselves over the board given the right circumstances.
rooneymcnibnug reviewed V. by Thomas Pynchon
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The end stuck the landing really well on this one. Liked it a lot for very early Pynchon - you could really feel the formulations of ideas used with his later works, albeit these are a bit more scattery.
rooneymcnibnug commented on The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk
“ Let me interject for a moment - What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is
rooneymcnibnug commented on V. by Thomas Pynchon
Lots of great ruminations on history and rich visuals of perceived landscapes of time, and how people graft themselves to different arrangements of time or try and transcend them. I’m liking the surging back in and out of scenes with The Whole Sick Crew a lot.
rooneymcnibnug rated Lucretius III: 5 stars
rooneymcnibnug started reading The passion of the Western mind by Richard Tarnas
Finally finished Thomas Nail's 'Lucretius' series.
For my next read I want to apply some of the ideas around kinetic materialism, pedesis, and mostly what he calls out (via Lucretian thought) as Western history's hatred of motion and fear of death. I'll be doing this through a reading of Tarnas' 'The Passion of the Western Mind'.
I think this will be an interesting exercise.
