What are you reading now?

[Q.]

Started reading Glue by Irvine Walsh.
Have also just bought Wayne Carey autobiography.

Ay, you'll pish yersel at that yin.

[Dogwatcher]

Wayne Carey, Quichey?

[Q.]

Wayne Carey, Quichey?

"Ye eywis huv tae pey fir yir fun at some point, and, generally speakin, the mair ye party, the mair ye pey."

[Mythical Creature]

Started reading Glue by Irvine Walsh.
Have also just bought Wayne Carey autobiography.

Ay, you'll pish yersel at that yin.

I take you've read it then. I must admit I have literally only just started reading it and the accent is quite tough to get my head around but I am getting used to it. See how I go as I read on further. Have heard good things about Glue so am looking forward to giving it a good read.

[Mythical Creature]

Wayne Carey, Quichey?

"Ye eywis huv tae pey fir yir fun at some point, and, generally speakin, the mair ye party, the mair ye pey."

Gold!

[Dogwatcher]

Wayne Carey, Quichey?

"Ye eywis huv tae pey fir yir fun at some point, and, generally speakin, the mair ye party, the mair ye pey."

Its ne'er a smart idea tae jobby whaur ye eat.

[Dogwatcher]

Yep, Clapton's a twat. Certainly not God.

Now reading:

[Dogwatcher]

[Pseudo]

Loving every page

[Dogwatcher]

Tell us about it...

[Pseudo]

Tell us about it...

Did you ever know that the Babylonians had no concept of non-unitary fractions? They had notation for 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 etc. but not for stuff like 3/5. They did have a symbol for 2/3 but this was regarded as the complement of 1/3 (i.e. 1-1/3). All other fractions had to be expressed as a sum of unitary fractions, and they had extensive tables detailing unitary fraction expansions for all sorts of divisions.

Or did you ever know that the ancient Greeks - more specifically the Pythagoreans - could not deal with non-commensurable (read: irrational) numbers? The philosopher Zeno raised a number of objections to the Pythagorean school of thought, including a lovely little proof of the fact that the ratio of the diagonal of a square to its edge length could not be expressed as a fraction of two integers. This rocked the foundations of Pythagorean thought and may have been responsible for the subsequent prevalence of geometric, rather than algebraic, reasoning in later Greek mathematics.

Seriously, I love this stuff....

[Dogwatcher]

You lost me at "no concept".
Funny that.

[JAS]

Sounds fascinating Pseudo but maybe a bit beyond my long forgotten high school mathematics despite being my joint favourite subject along with physics.

But thanks, you've reminded me of a book I had forgotten about...now retrieved from a dark corner of the bookcase and placed next in line.

"Ancient Meteorology discusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included not only "weather", but occurrences such as earthquakes and comets that today would be regarded as geological, astronomical or seismological."


Regards
JAS

[Media Park]

Eclipse...

[fisho mcspaz]

I'm doing the childhood nostalgia thing and reading 'Come to the Circus' by Enid Blyton. Jeez, those were the days of innocence all right! Cue this passage: 'Willie whistled like a great tit. "Pee-ter-pee-ter-pee-ter, pee!' And three great tits answered and came flying down.'

[Dogwatcher]

As compared to great tits these days eh?

I'm finding that sort of thing in many ways whilst reading Lolita - there are some very funny, outdated passages about how young women should act when in society.

[Rik E Boy]

I'm doing the childhood nostalgia thing and reading 'Come to the Circus' by Enid Blyton. Jeez, those were the days of innocence all right! Cue this passage: 'Willie whistled like a great tit. "Pee-ter-pee-ter-pee-ter, pee!' And three great tits answered and came flying down.'

I saw that scene in Total Recall......they didn't look real though. Go Enid Blyton.

regards,

REB

[Dogwatcher]

You must have Total Recall to recall that scene REB.

But now you mention it, that scene was updated in Mallrats too - three nipples.

[smac]

[Magpiespower]

smac, only read bits of that.

Great read, especially about the Luna Park ghost train fire.

Does Marx include an account of the time he got absolutely legless at lunch and lead a failed coup at ACP to become editor of Picture magazine, holing up in the editor's office for hours?