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Hippasus500

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Husband
Father (“Papa” to the grandkids)
Hacker (rusty, working on that)
Lover of philosophy (deontology, noetics)
Apple Fanboy
Outlander Fanboy
Atheist
One-time actor
Foundational books: The Bible (I wasn’t always an atheist); The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings; Future Shock; Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance; Gödel, Escher, Bach, Doubt, A History; Good Without God; What We Owe To Each Other. There are many more. But who am I, how I think derives from these.

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pretensesoup, to bookstodon
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Ok, if you're in a book club and the book really doesn't speak to you...do you force yourself to finish it?

Maybe a result of being in the middle of a lengthy and serious writing project, but I've bounced out of a lot of books this year, and a lot of them have been from book club. Maybe I should be pushing myself more, but this isn't grad school, so...I don't know.

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@pretensesoup @bookstodon
I do my best. I don’t always succeed. My attitude is that my friends make the effort to read what I choose. The least I can do is return the favor.

rabbit_fighter, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon I'm looking for book recommendations for an 11yo who reads at a much more advanced level. He likes sci-fi. He has read the Hitchhiker's Guide series and loved them. I think he would enjoy some more 'hard' sci-fi as well. He needs something challenging but without subject matter that is too mature. Thanks for any help!

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@rayckeith @rabbit_fighter @bookstodon

Asimov’s Robot series, definitely. It’s simultaneously prescient and dated. I’m not sure if that’s a recommendation. But his Three Laws profoundly affected how many scientists and philosophers have thought about artificial intelligence.

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I posted this earlier today. Quoting myself is a bit outré, but it seems a good place to do it. — Not that the good citizens of Iowa are likely to see it…

https://federate.social/@Hippasus500/110917396275650582

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@bookstodon @kenthompson

But I sent the link to the members of the Mason City school board.

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@johnrakestraw @bookstodon

Despite the stack of unread books I’ve accumulated, along with the wishlist of ebooks I haven’t yet purchased, I don’t have a specific plan of what and when I will read. The exception is when I have a specific goal in mind, or books my book club demands I read. 😉 Otherwise there are topics that interest me, and books that come along in those areas will make it onto the mental list I keep.

You’re blog is getting added, btw.😁

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Shocking, eh? <wink> I write nearly daily in my journal. I haven’t the courage to publish it in a blog.

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@johnrakestraw @bookstodon @bibliolater

There is no such thing as “multi-tasking.” <wink> Even computers only do one thing at a time, albeit quickly. Humans, being far less reliable, with a far more complex OS, are far less successful at switching contexts.

The older I get, the more I realize it’s better to concentrate on one task at a time…or maybe it’s dementia.

TheCozyCat, to bookstodon
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Finally started reading the series and I am not disappointed. 😍
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@TheCozyCat @bookstodon
It only gets deeper, wider, better and better.

I’ve read all the main novels twice, and a number of the other books in the oeuvre of , including, a collection of SF she edited a few years ago, and never been disappointed.

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