IMO that's how the internet should look... Can we go back to BBSs?

If there's anything I've learned about powershell it's how messy the documentation is. How is that Lean Architecture book? My degree is actually in computer science but I've always done either sysadmin jobs or electronics repair. So I've always been interested in different methods of agile software development. I'm pretty sure SCRUM is still pretty popular but I honestly have no idea how it works...

Same, I've been reading some books on linux system administration and I've been perusing a powershell book. It's powershell 2.0 though. So far I've not learned much that I didn't know from experience powershell wise.

Yeah, Stephenson can be an exhausting read at times. I wish I had gotten more into Cryptonomicon. I started it but just couldn't get past the beginning.

Anymore the only reading I do is either technical or SciFi/Fantasy. And I haven't read a fantasy book in a couple of months. I've got a couple of autobiographies of musicians I want to get through but my list of books is just never ending...

I quite enjoyed "Ready Player One".

I just bought "The Martian: A Novel" which is about a a guy stuck on mars, it's in the style of a logbook. It should be okay. If this book doesn't satisfy me I think I'm going to go back and start the "Red Mars" series again. I got halfway through book two and then just stopped reading previously.

Oh and I also just finished "Nymphomation" by Jeff Noon. That guys writing style is insane, but the book was actually quite interesting. The end was a bit of a disappointment but it could have been much worse.

Also, sorry for putting all my reading in a comment to you Kaius, I forgot where I was posting for a moment... But on the note of Neal Stephenson, have you read Anathem? That book is a commitment, but it's totally worth it.

May not be worth it, just a heads up. I've tried in the past, it's usually in your best interest to find a better server.

Don't use my phone in class unless it's a work call.

We also generally have computers in front of us in classes, my solution to that is just to stay off the computer. I do enough of that at work and home.

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who knows voltaire

I wish I could get through dune, holy crap that book is dull. And there's like 40 of them.

Well honestly, if you count the entire internet that is sort of cheating. But I've never seen someone reference him or have any clue what I'm talking about when I do. I mean the man did a song for billy and mandy you'd think everyone would know...

e-ink readers last a month on a single charge. But then again, there's a huge difference between a tablet for reading and an e-ink tablet. E-ink tablets lack all of those fancy facebook bells and whistles. They're kind of in their own category.

I love my kindle, but I still love a good print book. I can write in a print book, I can flip through pages and quickly recognize what I'm looking for. Print books really do smell nice too.

But I like reading for pleasure on my kindle, it's much more convenient, there's a built-in backlight so I don't have to worry about a light source or I can lay in bed with the lights off and still read until I fall asleep. There's advantages and disadvantages to both.

but one of the selling points of the CODE keyboard for me was the ability to turn caps lock into a CTRL key.

I always map my CAPS LOCK to CTRL on my linux computers. It's so dang convenient.

Speaking of! I just bought a mechanical mod, and I liken it to smoking a pipe. It takes a decent amount of preparation, the maintenance is a bit of a pain, but you definitely take time to enjoy it. It's an interesting hobby. Trying to get the perfect setup for your particular juice. Optimizing flavor or throat hit. Building your own coils like a mad scientist. It feels good man.

You mean... like computer programming? Plenty of people get by just fine not knowing programming. But for people who enjoy it, they will always find a reason to program. It makes life so much easier. Once you get decent with it you learn that you can pretty much accomplish any task and automate away dull parts of your life. Not to say the time invested automating something couldn't be longer than the time it would take to just do the task yourself, but hey we all need challenges.

I read Samsara as Sinatra because the first word of the sentence was "Frank", I was like, hell yeah I'll have to check that out. Upon further inspection I realized my mistake, but I still want to check it out.

I got drunk and watched watchmen and house instead...

I just checked the end scores after it was over...

There's always a relevant xkcd... always.

Have golden axe for my genesis, oh my god I love those games. Right up there with fireshark, which I really like as well. Although I'm not sure why I like that one so much...

I've definitely looked into it, and thought of doing similar things. What I've found is that matching strings like that and finding a good sample size can be difficult. Not to mention 400 other little things that I didn't run into that you will...

I've never worked with the twitter API as well, so that may have it's own hurdles.

I one day hope to make a digital assistant of my own. I think that would just be awesome and it's been a goal for me since I was young. Best luck to you on your bot endeavors!

Awesome! Glad you found it, time to hit up ebay it sounds like ;)

That looks delicious, I'm going to have to try that next time I'm sick. If this is the cure I'm going be rather upset with my immune system for not letting me get sick more often.

That was pretty darn cool

55 - Feminine 60 - Masculine 70 - Androgynous.

Androgynous as fuck. I don't know anything about the test to speak for it's validity, but I've always felt more androgynous than straight up masculine. It's not very often I feel like I'm a feminine person. So I guess it was accurate in a way.

There's a ton to take away from Buddhist teachings, and even more from meditation practice. Definitely keep at it. But it's an old and varied religion so remember to take what you read with a grain of salt. That aside though, the best times of my life were spent reading up on buddhism and practicing meditation. Good luck!

I actually just said this same thing to a girl I go to class with who was having some social anxiety issues. I hope it helped, I really do.

Well I certainly won't be dating your sister. This much has been shown.

Aaaand, the videos been taken down :(

Oh man, this is awesome. I love Sufjan Stevens. I haven't heard a new song from him in at least 4 years.

It's sad that this is the world we live in.