Resistors and Memories of a Terrible Book
Facebook reminded of that time I found Atlas Shrugged on cassette at a thrift store and *tried* to read it.
Having just put a pizza in the oven downstairs, I was looking around for my phone to set an alarm to go check it. It wasn't in the couple places it was supposed to be. Then, my eye hit on it. I picked it up, sarcastically exclaiming "Thanks, Ayn Rand."
"Huh?" Said Lisa?
"You know that ad campaign or whatever it is with "Thanks Obama?" Well, my phone was sitting on top of the box for Atlas Shrugged. If people can blame Obama for any number of things he didn't do, I can blame Ayn Rand for losing my phone."
"Well, she does have a lot to answer for."
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By the way. Atlas Shrugged? I'm not impressed so far. The protagonists are not terribly likable. The antagonists, whether individuals or the horrible over-regulating government, are not believable. The sex is edging into creepy.
She has a few moments. I got a bit of a thrill out her description of Dagny Taggert running the first train on the John Galt line, built of untried Rearden Metal, as it sailed across the desert. But that might be as much me being a train fanatic as her storytelling. In general, this feels like a big straw-man argument being set up against dumbed-down overly large government. I'm not sure how much more I'm going to listen to. (Though if I stop now, I gather I miss a riveting *sixty page speech* by Mr. Galt.... Given that this is an abridged version though, who knows if that's in there.)
What I do like getting out of it it is the sense that, maybe some folks on the reactionary right *really think government is like this*. It helps me understand their position a little better.
Also, these arrived today and I can swap out the resistors on my Heathkit now! ...If I can find the right values. That's a lot of resistors! And all my little plastic parts drawers are in the states...
Having just put a pizza in the oven downstairs, I was looking around for my phone to set an alarm to go check it. It wasn't in the couple places it was supposed to be. Then, my eye hit on it. I picked it up, sarcastically exclaiming "Thanks, Ayn Rand."
"Huh?" Said Lisa?
"You know that ad campaign or whatever it is with "Thanks Obama?" Well, my phone was sitting on top of the box for Atlas Shrugged. If people can blame Obama for any number of things he didn't do, I can blame Ayn Rand for losing my phone."
"Well, she does have a lot to answer for."
--
By the way. Atlas Shrugged? I'm not impressed so far. The protagonists are not terribly likable. The antagonists, whether individuals or the horrible over-regulating government, are not believable. The sex is edging into creepy.
She has a few moments. I got a bit of a thrill out her description of Dagny Taggert running the first train on the John Galt line, built of untried Rearden Metal, as it sailed across the desert. But that might be as much me being a train fanatic as her storytelling. In general, this feels like a big straw-man argument being set up against dumbed-down overly large government. I'm not sure how much more I'm going to listen to. (Though if I stop now, I gather I miss a riveting *sixty page speech* by Mr. Galt.... Given that this is an abridged version though, who knows if that's in there.)
What I do like getting out of it it is the sense that, maybe some folks on the reactionary right *really think government is like this*. It helps me understand their position a little better.
Also, these arrived today and I can swap out the resistors on my Heathkit now! ...If I can find the right values. That's a lot of resistors! And all my little plastic parts drawers are in the states...
