Doomsday Book, trans-border jealousy, comic book logic tutor
The first ten pages of Doomsday Book are quite promising! I have been wanting to do some reading about history for a while now, and a time-travel scifi story is certainly one way to go about that. As long, I guess, as one take it with the same grain of salt one uses with any single, non-cross-checked source? "This is probably true, but I would need to verify it before I staked my life on it." Or something.
Ha ha, I am a little jealous of Andy's class. XD Perhaps I would even be able to relax and enjoy an English class under such circumstances? Surely more wondrous things than that have happened in the history of the world.
Also I think that reading xkcd makes me smarter. Or, well, it's like a collection of logic puzzles as much as a comic? It... illustrates a kind of structured, logical thinking that I'm not very good at. Makes for good practice. Or at least I felt that way today, as I seemed to have an easier time than normal figuring out how to deal with some problems I was having with the numbers at work. (It took forever because I was also exhausted, but the thinking itself managed to exploit some logic that it usually doesn't.)
Hmm. Read a little more? Maybe. Then sleep. Lots of sleep. I need a weekend after this weekend. >_>;
Ha ha, I am a little jealous of Andy's class. XD Perhaps I would even be able to relax and enjoy an English class under such circumstances? Surely more wondrous things than that have happened in the history of the world.
Also I think that reading xkcd makes me smarter. Or, well, it's like a collection of logic puzzles as much as a comic? It... illustrates a kind of structured, logical thinking that I'm not very good at. Makes for good practice. Or at least I felt that way today, as I seemed to have an easier time than normal figuring out how to deal with some problems I was having with the numbers at work. (It took forever because I was also exhausted, but the thinking itself managed to exploit some logic that it usually doesn't.)
Hmm. Read a little more? Maybe. Then sleep. Lots of sleep. I need a weekend after this weekend. >_>;