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   On Mon, 24 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
      
   >>   
   >> Hah... wrong church and religion! ;)   
   >   
   > Lol.  I have been feeling pretty religious lately indeed. :)   
      
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   >> I don't actually read that many books on technology. My technology   
   >> exposure these days is more through blogs, usenet, and the occasional   
   >> networking event. Oh, and work of course, but that is more "organical"   
   >> exposure, and not really something I do actively.   
   >   
   > Yeah.  This probably implies you're getting a lot of screen reading   
   > time.  I like books because I can get off the screen.  And, the book   
   > being good, is usually so much more carefully written than most papers   
   > and blogs.   
      
   Too much screen reading if you ask me. But when I'm not working, I read a lot   
   of   
   regular books, or on my eInk device, which is much kinder to the eyes. Reading   
   is one of my greatest hobbies. My wife gets annoyed at the enormous number of   
   books I accumulate. She wants me to throw them away, but it would be like   
   throwing away my children. I cannot do it! =/   
      
   > I try to go to the beach every day.  Today, for instance, I biked to the   
   > beach, swam and then drank coconut water and do my reading.  If I'm not   
      
   Oh, wonderful! Where do you live?   
      
   > reading a book, then I go to Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) and I   
   > print out what I find interesting there.  It's so much slow and   
   > pleasurable to read off screen.  At the beach, I cannot just skip too   
   > many texts because I have just a few with me.  And I shouldn't read too   
   > fast because then I have nothing else to read.  So I take a long time on   
   > every word and so the reading is a lot more fun.   
      
   Wonderful! Sounds like an excellent idea! I do save online articles and stuff   
   as   
   pdf:s and do the same thing sometimes, going to a café or when flying. I find   
   the effect very similar to yours.   
      
   > I'm even reading non-technical stuff.  Since December, I read   
   > ``Hackers'' by Steven Levy (1984) and then I also read the book ``No   
   > Filter'' by Paulina Porizkova (2022), the model. :) She's an excellent   
   > writer.  I enjoy the music from The Cars.  Paulina was Ric Ocasek's   
   > wife.  He died in the pandemic, though not from COVID-19.  She seemed   
   > interesting and I found her book interview-ads while listening to The   
   > Cars songs on YouTube.  I enjoyed the book, but, yeah, I was just   
   > snooping into other people's lives, which perhaps I shouldn't.   
      
   I'm currently reading Mirrorshades by Bruce Sterling (and other authors). Some   
   good, classic cyberpunk. I'm also reading various texts by Schopenhauer trying   
   to figure out if he in fact did independently discover buddhism, as his   
   proponents are very fond of saying. I'm skeptical. But let's see!   
      
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