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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: Low Quality People: The Proof
Date: 9 Jan 2025 13:52:26 GMT
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On Thu, 09 Jan 2025 12:57:06 +0000, Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux>
wrote in <1819078b4e833630$34272$1948878$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>:

> Low quality people don't read books.
> 
> Name the book or books that you are currently reading.
> 
> Here's mine:
> 
> "The Philosophy of Space and Time,"  Hans Reichenbach
> Dover Publications, 1958
> 
> "The Shape of Space," Jeffrey R. Weeks
> Chapman and Hall, 2019
> 
> Now list yours.
> 
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
> 
> Here come the "Alien Space Invaders From Planet Slime."
> 
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
>   
> Don't go away mad, just go away.

When someone makes these sorts of blurts, I suggest they run:

$ /usr/libexec/xscreensaver/xjack

....and then stare at the screen until they are enlightened.

ObLinux: later on today, we're setting up Mrs. vallor's new Linux 
workstation in her office.  It already has Mint 21.3 on it, but
I'm bumping that up to Mint 22 for better WiFi happiness.  Still
going to use X11, with XFCE, and adding Cairo Dock so she doesn't
feel like a stranger.

Her own Logitech X52 Pro HOTAS is ready to be plugged in for Elite
Dangerous Odyssey goodness.  We had it running on her iMac before (under
Windows), and she's already flown successfully.  Also keeping an eye on
Microsoft Flight Sim 2024 for when it gets a little more stable on Linux.

Fine, I'll answer your question:

Last tech book I read was _UNIX: A History and a Memoir_ by Brian 
Kernighan, which I finished on our flight to Costa Rica.

Currently reading _Ecolitan Prime_ by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.  The Missus was 
interested in my description of a murder mystery set on the moon, so we're 
about to read _The Patchwork Girl_ in our very own "book club of two".

A lot of people do plenty of reading nowadays -- it's just at their 
computer instead of dead trees, and it's not always dry textbooks.

-- 
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