chawks64 is offline chawks64 Post #1  September 18,2009, 3:54pm
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I just got back from the library (bookstore trips are banned when I'm the sole income) and returned some books on horses, pie baking, geology, quilting and electricity, along with The Misfits DVD (Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable). Yes, I do know I'm a bit odd. Of course, I had to get more, so I chose:

Opportunities in Biotechnology Careers

She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff

The Scientist As Rebel

Biotechnology: Careers for the Twenty-First Century

Science Friction and

It Girl Knits (knitting patterns)

Now I'm curious. What did you get on your last trip to the library or the bookstore?
 
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Within the past month, I've bought A Fine Fleece (knitting patterns for handspun yarns), Handspun Handknit, The Demon-Haunted World (Carl Sagan), Your Inner Fish (Neil Shubin - about paleontology and evolution).

I've got Dawkins' newest on order, and hope to read it soon (The Greatest Show on Earth).
 
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On my previous trip, I'd picked up a book "The Hidden Family" by Charles Stross. Before I got to far I noticed it was the second book of a series, "The Merchant Princes". So on my last trip, I picked up the first and third book. "The Family Trade" and the "The Clan Corporate" I also picked up a copy of a British magazine "Fly Fishing and Fly Tying to keep up on the fly patterns the Brits are tying.
I'm now at of reading material. Sounds like tomorrow would be a good day to hit the book stores and browse the SciFi and Fantasy section.
My last trip to the library was to drop off a dozen large boxes of paper backs, Gothic, Gothic Romance and Romance with Fabio on the cover that my mom used to read for the library book sale.
 
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My last trip to the library was to drop off a dozen large boxes of paper backs, Gothic, Gothic Romance and Romance with Fabio on the cover that my mom used to read for the library book sale.
Thank you for qualifying that!
 
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She also read mysteries, but my buddy claimed two boxes of them.
I did go to the book store today and picked up three books and a CD. Nothing enlightening, educational or intellectual, nice escapist stuff.

The Sword of the Lady- S.M. Stirling

Claws that Catch- John Ringo

The Accidental Sorcerer- K. E. Mills

And a double CD- The Allman Brothers- Eat a Peach and Live at the Fillmore.
 
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chawks64 wrote :
I just got back from the library (bookstore trips are banned when I'm the sole income) and returned some books on horses, pie baking, geology, quilting and electricity, along with The Misfits DVD (Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable). Yes, I do know I'm a bit odd. Of course, I had to get more, so I chose:

Opportunities in Biotechnology Careers

She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff

The Scientist As Rebel

Biotechnology: Careers for the Twenty-First Century

Science Friction and

It Girl Knits (knitting patterns)

Now I'm curious. What did you get on your last trip to the library or the bookstore?
Wow... biotechnology and electricity... impressive...

I'm curious, what are the most interesting things that facinates you about these two subjects?

Every time I travel, I carry a book and buy a new magazine at the airport. It is usually National Geographic, Discover, or Scientific American. I don't purchase many books these days because I have three book shelves stacked with books I haven't read yet.

I have a collection of old mysteries. I happened upon a Perry Mason one last year that I grabbed randomly out of a box that I hadn't unpacked yet after moving. I was in a hurry to catch a plane... As it turned out, I sat next to an elderly lady from New York and when I told her how I happened to have this book she told me her own story. The author of the original Perry Mason series was her neighbor. What are the chances of that?

Anyway, when I do purchase a book lately it is mostly physics or cosmology (for laymen) as I am no physicist but I find the subjects facinating...
 
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DennisWisconsin wrote :
Wow... biotechnology and electricity... impressive...

I'm curious, what are the most interesting things that facinates you about these two subjects?
Electricity - because that's the company I work for. It's really to be able to advance and get out of my current "dog bait" job. Self preservation.

Biotechnology - because, at 44, I really haven't decided what I want to be when I grow up. I know I love science, and I'm not brain dead, so I keep coming back to various forms of science. My problem is that I am too old to work my way up from the ground floor anywhere, so I have to be picky as to a specialty.

Having ADHD and liking a wide variety of subjects does NOT make this whole thing any easier. I can be fascinated by a hundred different fields within a week. And subsequently get nowhere with any of them.
 
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What facinated (facinates) me about electricity is:
1) That a motor (a device that uses energy) can also be a generator (a device that creates energy.)

2) That electricity is generated by sweeping magnets over copper wire, hense the term electro-magnetic energy.

The most important factor influencing human civilization? Without magnets, Christopher Columbus would not have 'discovered America', we would still be reading by candle light, and you and I would not be having this conversation on a computer.
 
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A friend showed me how to make a motor using just a piece of bent copper wire, a rare earth magnet and a battery. I play with it just about every time I walk by it! I wish we had been amazed more than just bored in my high school sciences, then I would know so much more about so many things that I can barely understand now.
 
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A friend showed me how to make a motor using just a piece of bent copper wire, a rare earth magnet and a battery. I play with it just about every time I walk by it! I wish we had been amazed more than just bored in my high school sciences, then I would know so much more about so many things that I can barely understand now.
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