Books I'm not reading

[the_same_andrew]

Many of you know I don't read books.  I look things up in books, and read parts of books, but "Reading a book" is typically a task that defeats me.

"Oh,"  says that bit of the soul which is connected to that bit of the brain.  "I see where this is going."  And that's that.  The pleasure's just gone.  Of course I don't believe in souls separate from

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[handslive]

Did I ever think you'd be doing that? Maybe not for letters and eventual publishing of results. :-) I always sort of assumed most former D&D types were engaged in this activity for shits and giggles. Most dungeon crawls won't get past the IRB, though, will they?

If you don't like reading engineering texts as a way of warding off fellow travellers, you could try something on infectious disease, I suppose.

Reading on the train

[the_same_andrew]

O no, I did enjoy what I was reading-- but, although PID control makes sense to me, it isn't something I would yet say I knew how to do.