That's the way they do it in Minnesota.Quote:
Originally Posted by N2NH
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That's the way they do it in Minnesota.Quote:
Originally Posted by N2NH
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Originally Posted by NA4BH
They have laptops in Minnesota? Who gnu?
Beasts me
Third base.
Your horse won't fit there
Jah, no need to get snippy, now.Quote:
Originally Posted by NA4BH
Whoa !! They only have 9,999 lakes, that would make anybody snippy. 10,000 my ass.................Quote:
Originally Posted by WU9G
i see you've been to my house ... the stacks of books occasionally annoy the cats.Quote:
Originally Posted by N7YA
actually, that slows the changeover since eResources cost libraries much more than dead tree resources. your XYL should know this.Quote:
Originally Posted by N2NH
Same here. It pushes them out of their sleeping spots.Quote:
Originally Posted by n6hcm
She does. She also knows that many corporate libraries were shut down and went electronic with Fed Dollars during Bvsh II too.Quote:
Originally Posted by n6hcm
Half way through QB VII by Leon Uris.
A masterpiece.
Sharp Objects, another Gillian Flynn novel. She's good at her craft, which is writing compelling and insightful fiction.
You know that fiddle of his? A gift from his boss...
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Originally Posted by WØTKX
Currently finishing up "Homeland", by Cory Doctorow. It's the sequel to his book,"Little Brother". Marketed as "Teen reader" and "Yound Adult", but a great book, nonetheless.
11,842, over 10 acres.Quote:
Originally Posted by NA4BH
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Medium Raw, by Anthony Bourdain. The XYL went on a used book buying spree a while back, lots of Neil Gaiman, Anthony Bourdain and Gillian Flynn, so I'm working my way though it all.
Born In Blood: The Lost Secrets of Freemasonry, By John J. Robinson
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Ive gone through a couple of books from my last post here. Im now on to Ghosts by Paul Roland.
Dark Places, the last of the Gillian Flynn novels. Done with all the Bourdain and Gaiman books the XYL bought too; I don't know what I'm going to do once I'm done with this one.
Runelore by Edred Thorsson just arrived today...i have about 30 books ahead of it.
"The Radical Right and the Murder of John F. Kennedy. - Stunning evidence in the assassination of the President."
By Harrison E. Livingston
In time for the half centenary of the assassination.
Interesting premise.
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying arrived yesterday. Just picked up Haunted America at B&N and Seven Daughters of Eve came in the other day....books arriving daily. We have issues.
Almost finished with the Aleppo Codex, follwed by Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley,
After that by Who Discovered America?
Finished the others, now on Who Discovered America? which is making a rather loose case that the Chinese did in 1421. Others are mentioned in passing. I think 1000AD (Vikings) and 450AD (Irish) have that beat, and I doubt if they were even the first since remains have been found going back to 30,000 BCE.
Asians did "discover" the new world. They did it via the Bering land bridge sometime between 15,000 and 40,000 years ago, depending on the theory to which you choose to subscribe.Quote:
Originally Posted by N2NH
I have no doubt that there have been numerous migrations into the western hemisphere. Most Native Americans are considered to be Siberian. Siberians are related to Indians/Pakistanis and are caucasian. Many Indians when given a DNA test are found to be caucasian. Columbus was right for all the wrong reasons. This group, it is sometimes theorized, was preceded by Polynesians/Indians who ended up at the remotest reaches of South America in Tierra del Fuego. They are of a different culture and DNA from Native Americans. The theory is that they arrived between 55,000 to 30,000 years ago and the wave of Siberians who came afterwards did pretty much to them what Europeans did to Native Americans later.Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
Saw it on NOVA a few years ago.
No matter who got here first, i think most of the country can tell Chris Columbus to go fuck himself now.
But......but.......but.... he's the one that discovered Las Vegas.Quote:
Originally Posted by N7YA
He can seriously go fuck himself then! :lol:
I thought that was Bugsy Siegel.Quote:
Originally Posted by K7SGJ
Damn. I always get those two mixed up. Loved him in "Retired At 35".Quote:
Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
Just finished "Lost Towns of the Hudson Valley" by Wesley Gottlcok. In the middle of "Hidden History of the Mid-Hudson Valley" by Carney Rhinevault, mostly in the colonial era before the Revolutionary War in 1776. First story was about a the First British Governor of New York who also was a Transvestite and had an ear fetish among other idiosyncrasies. :lol:
Simultaneously reading "The Hudson: America's River" by Frances F. Dunwell, a history of the Hudson Valley, centering on Rt. 9W. Three presidents, and a number of inventors including Samuel Morse lived in the area.
and "Grand Central: How a Train Station Transformed America" by Sam Roberts a history of the great terminal, the busiest in the world and one of the world's largest. Airports and Malls got started by the design of Grand Central Terminal, as did 'air rights.'
Picked up The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern. Nice Jewish girl.
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Didn't she paly Rhoda in "That Girl"?
Presently reading Haldeman's "The Forever War" for the 3rd time. New version that replaces the original edited one from the early '70s.
I am looking for Brian Garfield's* "The Paladin" but not an easy find. Seems it isn't an eBook yet either.
*Famous for writing Death Wish.
Finished The Night Circus, a fun read. I'm sure someone is going go make a movie out of it eventually. After that, I read Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman's latest. Not bad, but not his best effort either. Currently reading Home Town, by Tracy Kidder.
Just finished Celtic Traditions, started Close To The Light....but its turning into a Christian marketing handbook so im losing interest rapidly. But Devie just got me Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan. Its an account of Edward Curtis, a famous and well off photographer from the turn of the last century and how he threw it all away to live among, document and photograph that last free bands of Native Americans before they disappeared.
This morning, as part of our "Ok, i cant wait...lets open just one" Yule tradition, i selected one present and it turned out to be Fire In The Head; Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit by Tom Cowan. Im looking forward to that one! I have been eyeing Haunted America for the last week or two, so im guessing it will be promoted to the night stand very soon.
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Well, listening anyway...