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 What are you reading?What's your pleasure? |
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I read my Flying magazine and my Discover magazine and I think I'm "keeping up". Once in a while I'll read a book... a good one was "The Singularity is Near" by Ray Kurzweil. I'm getting "checked out" in a Piper Malibu next week so I'm reading the Pilots Operating Handbook for the Malibu. That's more than enough for right now... I'm getting to the age where my brain operates on the FIFO principal... first in, first out. |
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I like a variety 1. The Dead Room by Heather Graham 2. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain 3. Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter 4. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 5. Chess for Dummies |
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Bach www.youtube.com Stravinsky www.youtube.com Tchaikovsky www.youtube.com (one of my favorites) |
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i like History |
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Thumper I like and enjoy each of those. But, maybe for reason you won't expect... My relatives are mostly all great musicians and have played in orchestras or bands that you may have heard about: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Sunny Dunham, Gene Kupra, Natlaie Cole (daughter of Nat King Cole). I have NO musical talent but these guys were raised on the Iron Range of Minnesota, in the 40's and they expanded music talent in classical and jazz to new levels. I hope to be able to say that I matched what they accomplished in music to anything in what I do today. |
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I like words... and notes A Dance with Dragons, George RR Martin The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith Adam Smith, The Man and His Works, E.G. West National Geographic magazine - May, June & July (trying to catch up) BetterInvesting magazine - August Tarrasch - The Game of Chess Silman - Essential Chess Endings Kallai - Basic Chess Openings Reshevsky - The Art of Positional Play Euwe - Judgment and Planning in Chess I play the piano to calm and clear my mind after a long day's work... Beethoven - Adagio from Sonata Pathetique Stauss - Blue Danube Mozart - Rondo movement of Sonata A major (Turkish March) Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43 Charles Williams - The Dream of Olwen Paul Williams/Kenny Ascher - The Rainbow Connection Ellmenreich - Spinning Song And... I just finished DVDs of the first two seasons of Downton Abbey |
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What I've read lately During the last 2 years I've read several interesting pieces: War and Peace, The Kingdom of God and Anna Karenina- Tolstoy The Selfish Gene, The Extended Phenotype, The Blind Watchmaker, The God Delusion, Climbing Mount Improbable, The Ancestor's Tale and The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution- Richard Dawkins Divine Comedy- Dante The Lord of the Rings trilogy (again!)- Tolkien A Brief History of Time (1988), Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays, The Universe in a Nutshell, On The Shoulders of Giants, God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History,The Grand Design- Stephen Hawking The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing, Security Analysis and World Commodities and World Currency- Benjamin Graham Warren Buffett wealth: principles and practical methods used by the world's greatest investor- Robert P. Miles The Warren Buffett Way- Robert G. Hagstrom An inconvenient Truth- Al Gore On the Origin of Species- Darwin I also read a lot of books about financial planning, stock markets, technical and fundamental analysis; I am studying in the direction of financial planning and advisor. When I get the time, I read fantasy or science fiction, but that seems to be getting less and less often. |
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You will find This is NOT just a personal feeling... there have been studies on it and it is true that time actually speeds up as you get older. It must be true because I saw Morgan Freeman narrate/host a segment of "Through the Wormhole" about it not too long ago. Anyway, it seems that time is different for differently aged people. I can attest to the idea that time is going faster for me. Time speeding up for anybody else? If everything else in the universe can be relative, so can time??? |
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I agree, Softy.... But a minute is still a minute, an hour still an hour. I don't get it. |
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mistee The study I watch was a tour of several different countries where the examiner asked random people on the streets as he met them to give him their age, which he jotted down on the paper. Then he asked them to close their eyes and tell him when one minute was up. They could count or whatever they wanted... just tell him when they thought a minute was up. He had a stopwatch. Invariable young people said to stop well after a minute... meaning their minutes were longer. Invariably older people said to stop well short of a minute... meaning their minutes were shorter, time was going faster. That's a little spooky. |
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I forgot these: There is so much information I want to know, that I don't get around to fiction anymore. I agree that time is speeding up- that's why I sleep less, to fit more into the day. |
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A girlfriend of mine gave me this book Its a bit of homework, it is called "the way of the superior man" most of it is common sense but there is a few good points in it. |
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