***Are you currently in the middle of reading a 300+ page book?
Yes, I read for at least an hour before bed, during the afternoon, and/or time off of work
Yes, I read while on the can (what can I say, it can be a long process)
I would be if comics had 300+ pages
I don't have time to read that long of a book
Nope
I've said it before, I don't read! ****
Uh.. bad question. Real nerds are NEVER 'in the middle' of a book. I read 300 page books cover-to-cover. There are three possibilities: Never opened it, actively engaged in reading it right now, and finished.
There's the book I keep in my purse in case I get stuck in a long line somewhere, chosen for it's portable size. Then there's the book I keep on the nightstand, usually something I've already read at least once so there are no shocking surprises to keep me reading too late. There's a book in the bathroom for tub-reading, usually a nice cozy book, and another book on my computer desk, probably non-fiction.
Sometimes there is a floating book, and this is the book I read cover-to-cover, starting in a chair in the living-room and then migrating to the dinner table, back to the chair, and finishing in the bubble bath.
I'm a Cool Nerd Queen. You should have seen my son's expression when I told him that! My first personal computer exposure was when I worked at The Computer Store in Charleston, WV in the mid-1970's. We sold MITS ALTAIR - in kit form! (I'd already been working as a programmer for three years by then.) First time I saw a listing was when my cousin's new husband came for our Grandmother's funeral the summer of 1968. It was some sort of assembler, I guess. Just pages of lists of numbers and letters. I was fascinated.
I can't find my slide rule! My brother seems to remember our Dad putting mine, his, and probably my grandfather's together in a drawer somewhere and no-one can find them.
I don't have a slide rule, so I think that's why I didn't reach "Uber" status. : ( However, I cut my teeth on a TRS-80 Model I with a cassette deck to save and load programs. I thought it was the coolest thing. In high school, we had Model III's. I think I still have some of my disks. They were single sided so we notched them on the opposite side so we could turn them over and double our disk space. Yep . . . Nerds-R-Us.
I'm so totally there with you. Cassette tapes and notched disks and all.
I have a terrible time throwing away old computer stuff, even though I'm not really that much of a tech-y.
What I want, desperately, is a data transfer system, that I can plug my current laptop into, and has the necessary hard & software to access my ancient disks, so I can put them on CD's or DVD's. 90% is probably trash, but I've got disks in nearly every size & type - and no way to get the old ones to spill their data.
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Now I'm going to get back to prick-stitching this edge... ;)
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Yes, I read for at least an hour before bed, during the afternoon, and/or time off of work
Yes, I read while on the can (what can I say, it can be a long process)
I would be if comics had 300+ pages
I don't have time to read that long of a book
Nope
I've said it before, I don't read!
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Uh.. bad question. Real nerds are NEVER 'in the middle' of a book. I read 300 page books cover-to-cover. There are three possibilities: Never opened it, actively engaged in reading it right now, and finished.
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No, I'm 'in the middle' of four books.
There's the book I keep in my purse in case I get stuck in a long line somewhere, chosen for it's portable size. Then there's the book I keep on the nightstand, usually something I've already read at least once so there are no shocking surprises to keep me reading too late. There's a book in the bathroom for tub-reading, usually a nice cozy book, and another book on my computer desk, probably non-fiction.
Sometimes there is a floating book, and this is the book I read cover-to-cover, starting in a chair in the living-room and then migrating to the dinner table, back to the chair, and finishing in the bubble bath.
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My first personal computer exposure was when I worked at The Computer Store in Charleston, WV in the mid-1970's. We sold MITS ALTAIR - in kit form! (I'd already been working as a programmer for three years by then.)
First time I saw a listing was when my cousin's new husband came for our Grandmother's funeral the summer of 1968. It was some sort of assembler, I guess. Just pages of lists of numbers and letters. I was fascinated.
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I think the slide rule pushed me over.
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I have a terrible time throwing away old computer stuff, even though I'm not really that much of a tech-y.
What I want, desperately, is a data transfer system, that I can plug my current laptop into, and has the necessary hard & software to access my ancient disks, so I can put them on CD's or DVD's. 90% is probably trash, but I've got disks in nearly every size & type - and no way to get the old ones to spill their data.
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