The Romanov Ransom Clive Cussler.

Last week saw the usual collection of "junk" reading as I was out of the country. I think it was three books and a short story.
Only the short story stuck in my mind - Ian Rankin's "The Traveling Companion" which is an interesting take on a student's life in Paris and his encounter with a missing Stevenson text, so to start, accelerates in some strange directions and end up as "edge of the seat" by the last of its very few pages. It's actually one of a series of short stories by a number of crime writers so i might see if I can find the whole set.

---

Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

"Homo Deus", by Yuval Noah Harari. A Brief History of Tomorrow.
Very enlightening, and Yuval has a great sense of humor.

Dammit Jim, I hear you !

In my TRP/TRRP for the holidays. Perhaps too ambitious =:/ but I'll do my best to go through it (it's an "aim for the stars" thing). Happy holidays ya all ! =:)

---

Apr 3, 1999 - May 3, 2020

That's a nice stack, Pierre.

---

The mind is a weird and mysterious place

The Redemption of Althalus.

Cheers.

One Piece Manga(a Japanese Comicbook, online, translated to English)

Ah. The Straw Hat pirates sailing on the "Going Merry".
I read several others. Not this one yet.

---

"Map" (collected and last poems), by Wislawa Szymborska.

Source code.
I'm reading the source code.
The source code written in C++ and CUDA.
I do not know why, but it is rather captivating.

Petri

---

To overcome Heisenbergs:
"You can't always get what you want / but if you try sometimes you just might find / you get what you need." -- Rolling Stones

Yes, I will buy and read Fire and Fury. Kindle version.

---

~Sue~

"American War", by Omar el Akkad.

Various sources on 286 and 386 hardware, and how I'm going to try and upgrade a 286-16 to a 286-25... Oh and whether Windows 95 will dual boot with Windows 3.11 on a 386DX-40... utterly useless crap as my wife would put it, but then I am building both... You know, she may have a point?

Also, just had my 8086 running and realise I need some 5.25 discs to install Windows 1, so have been looking at eBay AND finally. I've decided I need to invest in a Socket 7 Mobo, and a quicker Super Socket 7 Mobo, but the prices for these have gone crazy already...

---

For Your Eyes Only
Rereading this, a collection of short stories incl. A View to a Kill, For Your Eyes only.....
FYEO was published in 1960 and almost reads like a history piece. Good fun though

---

Last time I read a book was 2000 ish as my sight got worse but enjoyed Traci Harding series as it covered past, present, and future with space and time, going back in time or forward..

Last time I read a book was 2000 ish as my sight got worse but enjoyed Traci Harding series as it covered past, present, and future with space and time, going back in time or forward..

You don't have to actually "read" a book. There are books on CD and there are also "audio books." Audible.com is the most well known and, if you're interested, it has a partnership with Amazon.

---

~Sue~

"Leonardo da Vinci", by Walter Isaacson.

The Robots of Dawn.

Cheers.

Last time I read a book was 2000 ish as my sight got worse but enjoyed Traci Harding series as it covered past, present, and future with space and time, going back in time or forward..

You don't have to actually "read" a book. There are books on CD and there are also "audio books." Audible.com is the most well known and, if you're interested, it has a partnership with Amazon.

I lister to stories on pod casts. I lister to Star Trek fan fiction. There are three I like with around 150-200 hours of "Theater of the Mind" listening.

---

Mmm...just installed IE5, I'll try running a version of BOINC on it eventually, but then installed some utilities, and an Application to run my Icom PCR-1000, must run out a long wire down the garden to have a listen.

I couldn't actually see the space, I think I need glasses.

I've got to invest in a couple of new PSUs for the rackmounts as the old 350 Watt units I have kicking about here don't supply enough to POST the motherboards, well one does but its unstable, the other gives up after briefly spinning the fans.

---

Your local public library may have a collection of audio books that can either be "read" on a regular CD player or an MP3 player.

Tom

---

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).

Tom
And using your public library will increase its chances of staying open when local authority expenditure is reviewed.

---