European Tribune - Comments - Lazy Saturday Open Thread

I always have it on my list of required reading for new agers

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 04:15:55 PM EST
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Aaaaahh. Perhaps that explains why I have started it several times but never gotten very far.

Now where are we going and what's with the handbasket?

by budr on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 06:19:02 PM EST
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Well, I did read and enjoy it...

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères

by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 06:37:20 PM EST
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So I'm not the only one. Yay!

Wait this is important. Someone is wrong on the Internet.

by generic on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 06:59:08 PM EST
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No, I enjoyed it very much too!

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 15th, 2008 at 10:51:00 AM EST
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Am I really the only one who enjoyed it?

Wait this is important. Someone is wrong on the Internet.

by generic on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 06:50:50 PM EST
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put the two cookboks to one side, they are purely reference books, dont read them cover to cover, dip in and grab what you need.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 04:17:38 PM EST
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Oh, I know that. I probably have a dozen of O'Reilly's cookbooks laying around. One or more of them is always in the pile, by definition within arm's reach.

Now where are we going and what's with the handbasket?

by budr on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 06:17:56 PM EST
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All praise the great god O'Reilly

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 06:31:46 PM EST
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Heh. I'm an O'Reilly fan I suppose. They taught me perl, among other things, and that has been absolutely priceless in my current position. I read the llama book from cover to cover, and actually enjoyed Randal's gentle humor and easy to follow style. Then I bought the Perl CD Bookshelf which at that time had the llama book and the cookbook, full text and searchable, on a CD. I literally learned both how to program and how to program perl by cutting and pasting out of those two books on the CD. My code probably shows it too, but it gets the job done.

Now where are we going and what's with the handbasket?

by budr on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 07:19:07 PM EST
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The whole range has rescued me from disaster so many times its not worth saying. With my current job coming to an end im going to have to give some back, it'll be like losing an arm, I'll have to go out and buy more.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Jun 15th, 2008 at 06:16:40 AM EST
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BTW, your sig always reminds me of what was for a long time the Momcat's standard email sig:

Keep a very firm grip on reality,
so you can strangle it at any time.

Now where are we going and what's with the handbasket?

by budr on Sun Jun 15th, 2008 at 09:24:36 AM EST
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its an edited quote from Humphrey Lyttleton, but I was short of space for attribution.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sun Jun 15th, 2008 at 01:16:44 PM EST
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What's that "Paper Economy" book?

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 05:34:16 PM EST
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Amazon.com: The Paper Economy: David T. Bazelon: Books

Review
The author argues that the American "economy is doing a poor job of allocating the nation's resources. Thus hunger and grain surpluses exist side by side, and education is pauperized while millions are invested in to redundant promotion of identical toothpastes and cosmetics."Saturday Review

Now where are we going and what's with the handbasket?

by budr on Sat Jun 14th, 2008 at 06:12:23 PM EST
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