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ok, what books are people reading, and are they nerdy enough to meet muster?
I got: On the Asymptotic Behavior of Internal Layer Solutions of Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Equations - Karl Knaub, PhD Thesis
Now thats some nerdy shit.
I got: On the Asymptotic Behavior of Internal Layer Solutions of Advection-Diffusion-Reaction Equations - Karl Knaub, PhD Thesis
Now thats some nerdy shit.
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Sat, July 30, 2005 - 9:53 PMI'm reading Terry Prachet's new children's book... Only You can Save Mankind.
Is that nerdy or just geeky? I can never tell.
I work in a bookstore! Surely that counts for something.... Umm...
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Sun, July 31, 2005 - 12:24 PMjudges say: maybe not riot like, but reading children's novels as an adult is definetly an established sub-culture within the larger realm of nerdom. and working at a bookstore always earns you points. -
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Sun, July 31, 2005 - 4:11 PMThe real question is...are you doing it to learn something or are you doing it to impress/commune your friends? And is "or" an "and" in this case? -
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Sun, July 31, 2005 - 7:02 PMGodel Escher Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, or the big "G.E.B." to science nerds everywhere. It's great, check it out!
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Sun, July 31, 2005 - 8:08 PMI guess technically "to learn something," as in, is it worth other people's time to read it or should I recommend something else?
Finished it today, BTW... comes off a bit preachy but it's a message the human race would do well to learn in the face of current events.
Now I'm reading Magic and Mystery in Tibet by Alexandra David-Neel. I have this minor addiction to anthropological books written around the turn of last century.
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Thu, August 25, 2005 - 1:34 PMI just started reading the Anne of Green Gables books again... I guess I'm a delicate, feminine nerd.
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Tue, August 2, 2005 - 4:26 PMI'm just reading a bunch of science magazines. -
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Tue, August 2, 2005 - 11:19 PMwell they best be about say:
10 easy steps to world domination
how to make tactical nuclear weapons FUNctional
99 ways to get his lab coat off
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Wed, August 3, 2005 - 7:02 PMI'm reading a book called "Decypher" which is a hardcore SF book about the world coming to an end in 2012... -
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Tue, September 25, 2007 - 12:15 AMI have heard that the current cycle of the Mayan calendar ends on that year.
Not nerdy....
But the fact that I own a book on how to read Mayan hieroglyphs is.
I might look that book up.
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Thu, August 4, 2005 - 1:52 AMThis is a great book for those who like thinking outside of the box and who are willing to question their own perceptions:
The View from the Oak: The private worlds of other creatures, by Judith and Herbert Kohl.
Its an ethology book. Ethology is the study of the way animals perceive their environment. It is an, "exploration of the strange but marvelous ways in which living creatures experience space, time, and communicate with each other."
Oh, and its a children's book.
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Sun, August 21, 2005 - 12:23 PMI am SO not nerdy lately - recent books include the latest Harry Potter, Probability Space by Nancy Kress, and The Wild Machines: The book of Ash, #2 by Mary Gentle. So, fantasy, scifi, fantasy/scifi.
On the other hand, my recent reading has been curtailed by other stuff, like setting up MySQL databases and work. -
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Mon, August 22, 2005 - 11:32 AMI really liked Beggers in Spain by Nancy Kress, and the sequel, Beggers and Choosers. Check 'em out. -
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Mon, August 29, 2005 - 10:39 AMYeah. Me too. That's how I got into her to begin with.
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Thu, August 25, 2005 - 4:40 PMWicked Cool Shell Scripts by Dave Taylor. I was nerdy enough to salavate at the juxapostion of the words "wicked cool" to the words "shell scripts".
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Thu, August 25, 2005 - 7:26 PMWell it's not a book but perhaps the c't magazin für computer technik piece on Suchmaschinenoptimierung counts? I mean who doesn't want to know more about Krauts optimizing search engines? -
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Fri, October 14, 2005 - 12:55 PMI thought engines optimized Krauts? -
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Mon, October 24, 2005 - 11:19 PMI'm reading the History of Mathematics by Howard Eves. I'm reading it for a class, but I took the class by choice, so... -
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Thu, October 27, 2005 - 8:45 AMI'm reading Foundation's edge, the souls of black folk, che cguevarra- a revolutionary life, and cultivating female sexual energy. I figure I should at least get a point for a four book combo. -
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Wed, November 2, 2005 - 4:43 PMI'm a nerdy white guy reading "Look Out Whitey! Black Power Gon' Get Yo Mama", by Julius Lester, on the 22 Fillmore. I'm nerdy enough that I keep the cover out of view so people don't start weird conversations about it.
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Mon, December 26, 2005 - 2:13 PMWhat about the Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy? Or Neuromancer?
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Tue, September 25, 2007 - 12:30 AMWhen I saw the thread, the first books to come to mind were all the Higher Mathematics books Dover puts out.
I'm not a math nerdette, so I've resisted those.
I don't have anything right now in the nerd department, just some Geek stuff.
I do want to get a hold of some old folklore material, brush up on some Mayan for a visit to some local museums, and learn some Greek to help my intuitive knowledge of medical terms, but right now I'm taking it easy.
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Sun, December 30, 2007 - 3:09 PMI'm reading the new cosmic onion; I hear it's an update to the classic The Cosmic Onion. Hopefully it will be a light intro to the explaination of dark matter. If there is a better book for that, please post it :o) -
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Mon, December 31, 2007 - 11:58 AMWhat about Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson. At over 570 pages, it's probably the longest book I've ever read!
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