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January 5 2007 Friday
Topic Started: Jan 5 2007, 08:22 AM (75 Views)
JohnMaier
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John -- Delhi NY Western.Catskill Mts.
'morning Folks,

Spring continues in the northeast--58 degrees yesterday, when the average high is 31 for this time of year. Rain today, instead of snow. The snow season is half over, and there's none on the ground!

On the reading list today is "The Fabric of The Cosmos: Space, Time..." from the same physicist, Brian Greene, who wrote "The Elegant Universe" a few years back. This book is already two years old, so there is undoubtedly outdated information in it. But I have always been fascinated by the questions these texts inspire about the nature of what we commonly think of as reality.

Tonight I'll get the work at the Think Tank on my new (used) computer. Since the guy who is making the offer already got one for himself, odds are that they become available on a regular basis.

Youz guys have a nice day, stay dry,

JM
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Good afternoon, all,

And it stormed like the hammers of hell today! We had a front come through with gusting winds up to a good 40 MPH, driving rains and we're still under a tornado watch until 4 PM.

Exciting.

Humor is a funny thing. (An obvious statement if there ever was one!) I don't respond well to written humor. Oh yeah, I'd chuckle over something Dave Barry wrote, but real humor - for me - required visual prompts. Old silent movies with Harold Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton could have me rolling in the aisles, but I was half-way through the 20 volume set of Patrick O'Brian's Jack Aubrey books before it dawned on me that Aubrey was a dundering fool about most everything and a comical character.

With that as background, I gotta say that Bill Bryson's "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" is the funniest thing I've ever read! We're not talking Dave Barry chuckles but laughing so hard it hurts.

Bryson is about 5 years younger than I and we shared the common history of growing up in the '50s. And that just made the book even funnier.

If you want to brighten your day... read it!

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cmoehle
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Chris - San Antonio TX
Bryson's a great writer. You mentioned A Walk in the Woods other day, it was one of the best "travel" books I've ever read.
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