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What are your biggest library mistakes EVER
Lol! Now I want to see a pic of Mike at 30!
I'm with ya, Mike and I think your definition was just fine personally. I know that they say M Theory might be Einstein's Ultimate Theory of Everything but it just Really bugs me that it's become so commonplace to theorize in such a way that we have no way to even attempt to Begin to prove said theories! It's widely held that we'll first have to develop a whole new type of math just to start.
I'm glad there are ridiculously intelligent people out there that can devote their lives to these kinds of things so guys like me can just read instead ;)
I'm with ya, Mike and I think your definition was just fine personally. I know that they say M Theory might be Einstein's Ultimate Theory of Everything but it just Really bugs me that it's become so commonplace to theorize in such a way that we have no way to even attempt to Begin to prove said theories! It's widely held that we'll first have to develop a whole new type of math just to start.
I'm glad there are ridiculously intelligent people out there that can devote their lives to these kinds of things so guys like me can just read instead ;)
I got interested back when but realized early on I didn't have the math to really grasp it...then it became clear no one does...there are just those that have a google times more than I do. And still none of the equations work when they try to prove the "singularity".... but oh well. Like I said, interesting but I have just enough knowledge to be dangerous.
Lol...knowledge is fun when applied properly...and occasionally fun when misapplied! My best friend and I made some homemade napalm just a few weeks ago...umm...I'm not entirely sure how legal that is but by gosh it was fun to play with :) It's amazing, in retrospect, that I'm not a scifi geek rather than a fantasy one
MrsJoseph wrote: "*head explodes*"
Lol...hilarious.
Lol...hilarious.
I won't go into it in detail.... (but I believe homemade napalm isn't real legal. Government officials can get so picky), but readers tend to know lot's of...."stuff".
Lol...ah well, no worries. I know I've got to be on some government watchlists anyways based solely on my background and the various survivalist magazines to which I subscribe ;) What's a little napalm and high explosives among friends ;)
MrsJoseph....all parts recovered and reassembled???? I hate it when my head explodes.
I think we're posting at the same time... Well, I belong to the NRA, have at different times subscribed to various hunting magazines, participated in "shooting" web sights...am politically conservative. My daughter says that I'm probably not only on several watch lists but that my phone conversations are all probably taped. (LOL)(Hi whoever happens to be monitoring our posts) (waves)
Lol, yeah I kinda figured that we were posting simultaneously as well. I subscribe to multiple survivalist mags, have weapons hidden all over my house and workplace, keep a disaster kit in all my vehicles, have riot gear, mobile gsm jammers etc etc. Wow that sounds so much worse typed out...lol. I love my country and even our interesting government but I've no doubt that Uncle Sam is looking at me out of the corner of his eye ;)
I think you should reconsider that last post...he doesn't have any weapons hidden around his house...there are none in his work place....he has no riot gear...these aren't the droids your looking for, move along, move along......
Lmao. Mike you are freaking awesome :)
Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "MrsJoseph....all parts recovered and reassembled???? I hate it when my head explodes."I'm doing better. Food applied liberally to belly helped a lot. :)
Hey, my one friend treats and respects all my books that I loan him. He keeps them in the same condition as given, like no spine crease, even though he creases his books. The first book I lead him, a hardcover, it break in half as he was reading it, he asked someone else if they knew a place to repair damages like that, then got it fixed for $15, which is more than the book is worth, bad condition book, on the comers with a damaged dust jacket, even though I just got the book a month before I lead it to him. I guess sleeping with the book may damage it.
Mike (the Paladin) wrote: "I think we're posting at the same time... Well, I belong to the NRA, have at different times subscribed to various hunting magazines, participated in "shooting" web sights...am politically conserva..."You'd hate DC. We have horrible gun laws here. My husband and I have plans to join, just haven't gotten around to it yet.
I had a friend who borrowed a hard cover book from me once. It was Brisingr by Christopher Paolini. A bottle of Coke he was going to drink exploded all over it, ruining some of the pages. He bought me a new one, which I thought was very nice, especially since I was there when it happend and I didn't get mad at him for it. It wasn't his fault, after all. I have to wonder what he would have done if I were not in the same room when the Coke blew up, though. LOL
The book was the SFBC edition of the Icewind Dale Trilogy by R.A. Salvatore, my favorite book of all time, even if he did not fix it I would have been fine with.
Had he stored the book in the freezer next to the coke???? :)
Actually, we have no idea how it exploded. He was sitting beside it for 20 minutes before opening it. It was a really, extremely hot day. Don't know if that had something to do with it, but it just blew up when he opened it. I remember immediately afterwards, we were staring at one another with a WTF? look on our faces. LOL
Wow!I loaned a friend Belgarath the Sorcerer - it was the paperback prior to the mass market. The cover was embossed and there was a color map.
She put a crease diagonally across the cover. :( Then said she would replace it. Then lost it. Then refused to replace it.
Pshk...she wouldn't be a friend much longer in my book. And her tires would mysteriously be slashed on her car. Just saying :)
MrsJoseph wrote: "I get the same thing. I hate to loan out books and I've learned my lesson: I only loan books to my husband. Myy mom is even out of the running (I'll give her books) cause she "forgets" which ones..."Thats why all of my mom's books gets translated into my books. She has no books and I have all books. Muahahaha. Majority of the books she buys on her own are...um....ify. But they trade just as good on PBS so it works for me!
It was a difficult relationship in many ways. She had a lot of good qualities but her bad ones...horrible. We had a big blow up over that book though, she was never allowed to borrow another.
Ah see I don't deal with relationships like that. One of my best(or worst) qualities is that I have no issue permanently cutting someone from my life if I feel they're a poor friend. I'm a loving, caring friend and a cold, cruel enemy.
I agree Grant. I am a huge proponent of the small circle of close best friends. I don't understand people who have to have 100 casual friends who usually walk all over them. Give me 7 to 10 awesome friends and I'm happy. I'll walk away from someone who doesn't try as hard as I do to keep a friendship.
I couldn't agree more Felina. I meet people for a living and I'm a very friendly outgoing person however I'm very, very picky about who I call friend. Now don't get me wrong, I'm as nice as can be to all my acquaintances and I'd give the shirt off my back to a stranger if need be but I'd die for my friends. I don't really have family left and so my friends Are my family and I work hard to be the best bud a person could have so it's hard when someone you care about doesn't give you the same type of consideration. I have a whopping 4 friends I'd go through hell for and about 5 more for whom I'd at least take a bullet. I think I'm one of the lucky ones to even have that many in truth.
I'm usually the same way - she was different. She was a good friend in most aspects. You've never had that one friend that you love to death but you want to strangle on a regular basis? That's her. She'd walk through a snowstorm for you, then get in an arguement.
In college I had 6 through hell for friends. Now I only have 2 and one of them is someone I want to strangle on a regular basis. Ha ha. But she's still a through hell for friend because we have so much history and I know she'd do it for me to. Now talk about off topic. :)
Lol..I think it's different with guys...at least some of us. I've gotten into fist fights with most of my closest friends at one point or another. I don't think girls usually follow through with their desires to strangle while guys do on occasion ;) Then we one armed hug it out and have a beer and are all the better for it
I do, Grant. I hate that stupid girl catty crap. If you have a problem with me tell me and lets speak our peace and move on. Of course there is no actual fists flying but if there's a problem lets lay it out and get it resolved. Girls are so frustrating in general though. They never say what they mean then if you don't read their minds their mad and then talk shit about you. I feel bad for dudes cause I know I'm like that from time to time but I prefer the airing of dirty laundry to the inner turmoil.
There are 2 in the world I'd call friend. I might add one more, but I haven't had any contact with him in thirty years, so....I have a few "close acquaintances" but that's different.
I like Harry Dresden's view of how men size each other up. it has 2 points.
Point 1. Does he have beer?
Point 2. Will he share?
Lol...fair enough to both of you :)
I like that Mike. Thats how you can tell if you've found a true friend. They'll share their beer with you. Ha ha
lol!None of my female friends are catty but a few are dramatic, lol.
I share beer. :)
Oh they are catty. You just haven't found out yet. ; )
LOL! I've known them for a long, long time. I don't have any "new" friends. Most of my friends have been around for 10 years or more.
My wife is my best friend. She is the one I trust the most, at any rate. As for others, all my true friends moved away, got married, had kids, and lost touch. It's hard to make friends these days.
That's very true. My husband is my best friend. :) I've known him forever, too.
Mistakes? Yes, lending books to people who don't return what you ask for back. Lesson learned! Don't lend books that you want back. Lent two books last summer to friends who needed something to read on the trip home. When we visited them recently they had not yet begun to read them. The last time they did this I removed the book from their shelves and brought it home again. I don't think they even noticed!
Rusty wrote: "Mistakes? Yes, lending books to people who don't return what you ask for back. Lesson learned! Don't lend books that you want back. Lent two books last summer to friends who needed something to..."I hate that. I really really hate that. I've stopped lending books to people for the most part. I just hate the feeling I get when they don't return my book or when they mess my book up. :(
I love gifting books to friends. It's alot easier when you can just give them freely rather than loan them. Though my ulterior motive is to bring more folks into the fantasy fold ;)
I'm guilty of that too. Open their eyes to the genre so to speak.
Yes, I give one friend my unpostable fantasy reads!
I do give books, no problem there. :) But it's when they come to my house and want to take off my shelves. *shudder*
Lol I've never had that problem :P
This thread makes me laugh, because I judge friends partly on how they treat my books and new acquaintances partly on whether they're interested in good beer - especially our area's local stuff.My friends return books and replace them if something bad happened when the book was in their care. I only loan books to a few of my best friends though, because too many have wandered off over the years.
I think my biggest library mistake is hoarding books that I didn't like all that much and probably won't read again. Now that I'm reading more e-books, I keep telling myself that I should replace a lot of those "maybe I'll get around to this one again" books with electronic copies and weed out my shelves. I keep putting it off, even though it's something I'm really interested in doing.
I just have a thing for regular books, hardbacks especially. IMHO, a hardback is the pinnacle a book can reach. Any book I have in eformat will eventually be purchased as a hardback - if I really enjoy the book and an hb is available.
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