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Len Sorensen's Journal  angrykat had this one so I figured I would try that out.Book list. I loves to read meme. The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see. 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you intend to read. 3) Underline the books you LOVE. 4) Put an asterisk next to the books you'd rather shove hot pokers in your eyes than read 5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-) 1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (OK, still working on 6 and have 7 to go) 5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6. The Bible * (some of it) 7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14. Complete Works of Shakespeare 15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger 19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 20. Middlemarch - George Eliot 21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald 23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens 24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 34. Emma - Jane Austen 35. Persuasion - Jane Austen 36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis 37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne 41. Animal Farm - George Orwell 42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery 47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood 49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding 50. Atonement - Ian McEwan 51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel 52. Dune - Frank Herbert 53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt 64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac 67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding 69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie 70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72. Dracula - Bram Stoker 73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75. Ulysses - James Joyce 76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 78. Germinal - Emile Zola 79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 80. Possession - AS Byatt 81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (although I guess I have seen plenty of TV versions) 82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker 84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 87. Charlotte's Web - EB White 88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (only a few) 90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 94. Watership Down - Richard Adams 95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas 98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare 99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl * 100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Well it seems I have read around 10 entries so far, which beats the average, but isn't great either. I have certainly heard of at least half the books on the list, and seen copies of close to that many, so I am aware of their existence. I have seen TV or movie versions of a number if them, although that doesn't quite count and in the few cases where I have both read the book and seen the movie, the movie has usually been quite disappointing. Current mood:  happy.
So chocolatecoffee posted about typing speed so I just had to go see how I was doing at it too. Well here is my result.71 words I know I don't follow quite normal typing patterns but something related to it modified to be efficient at hitting symbols required for programming too. I do wish someone would make a keyboard with a faster or stronger shift key spring since I very often manage to end up with the first two letters capitalized in a word by hitting the second key before the shift key has managed to be released fully. Current mood: busy. I don't seem to post here very often. I think about lots of things, but hardly ever figure what I am thinking about would be very interesting to anyone else. Perhaps I am wrong, or maybe I am just too shy to put my opinions in the open. Anyone have any suggestions? At least Carolyn is now off doing her Masters at UofT, which will of course go very well. She already has some interesting ideas for projects and such to work on. I hope she doesn't try to get involved in too many things at once, although too little is bad too. I think she needs just the right balance of things to keep her busy to be happy. I will help out where I can. Hmm, my lunch's fortune cookie says: Confucius Say: Top of ladder nice place... but very lonesome. A google search on that found a site with more clever little bits of wisdom here. Google always seems immensely helpful. Current mood: happy.Current music: None (headphone cable too short and chin on desk not comfortable for listening). We spent about half of last week cleaning up the house, adding more furniture (needed space to store stuff better), which involved spending close to $2000 at ikea (my poor credit card), but at least it seems much better now. We have actually eaten dinner at the kitchen table for almost a week straight. I still have to finish sorting the pile of random stuff in the basement to make it usable again (I emptied all the shelves and put the TV down there instead, complete with the mythtv box hooked up (finally) which will be nice). Having the TV downstairs rather than in the living room might actually make it easier to avoid leaving clutter in the living room, and hence make it much easier to spontaneously invite people over for dinner or playing board games (which by the way are now on new shelves in the living room, right next to the large table that is perfect for playing games or eating dinner). Getting all that done seemed helped a lot by having taken a week off and spending half of it cleaning up (doing it in the evenings only just never seems to get very far after a day at work). Current mood: calm.
I am so sore today, after yesterday's ultimate game. Two hours of running around chasing a frisbee in the heat sure hurts afterward. Probably the occasional wipe outs don't help things. And we lost again (although only 13-10 which was better than the 21-11 last week). We were down 10-3 by half time, and then got 5 in a row to make it 10-8, after which things went back to more even resulting in 13-10. We were playing probably the best team in our little league of 6 teams, but neither team had very many players show up so we were rather short on substitutes. I think in general our team is outrun by most of the other teams, but we still put in a good effort. We also need to work on not throwing the disc away so much. No point playing good defense and forcing a turnover just to thrown it away on the first or second pass again. That just causes too much extra running without at least getting points rewarding it. Being my second year playing, I think I am doing pretty good. My passes are usually good, and my catches not too bad if I manage to get to the disc in time. My running is too slow, and I don't have enough endurance either. I seem to have a natural ability to make the disc go far and fairly straight, although I seem to have caused many sore fingers when people try to catch some of my passes. Well it's fun at least. So does anyone else want to come join us next year or for pickup games starting in august when the league games end? It's good exercise. Current mood:  sore.Current music: Does typing sounds count?. I still have one of these livejournal things it would seem. It seems I stopped reading it for a while, because some people where writing so much and I didn't have time to read it all, and for some reason I seem to have to read either everything or nothing, so it seems to have been nothing for the last 4 or 5 months, but I just read the last few weeks, and even wrote a few comments. I guess I haven't ever really posted very much here anyhow. Like who really cares what I think. 8^) Yesterday we went to a TMBG concert. Excellent (although a bit loud. Need to remember ear plugs for these types of concerts it seems, since I find the distorsion makes it hard to hear things at that volume, while dampened a bit, everything is much clearer). The encores managed to cover a couple of songs that they just had to do (Particle Man and Istanbul, including an amazing acustic bit as an intro) among others. Of course the concert did mean going to bed way way too late. chocolatecoffee somehow forgot about it. Like how is that possible? We got her the autographed CD though.... Of course LJ had to go down while I was typing this at 5pm yesterday, so well it gets to be posted now, only delayed by 18 hours. We had a few people come over for dinner yesterday on not much notice, which is about how I tend to plan things (in other words: not at all). Primerib turned out nicely, stirfry seemed OK (OK, so I really have no idea how to cook without meat involved, unless it is baking). Now I should plan my birthday party, invite people (which means decide who to invite, which in turn means, remember who you know that might come), clean up the house, etc. Any ideas for who I should invite? I also have to decide what to bring for the indulgence party at the end of the month. Brownies are always popular, but I shouldn't always be too predictable. My head is a bit sore, and I am not very enthusiastic about doing anything that I would normally love to do. I did just catch up on reading my LJ friends pages, after having apparently not done so for about 5 or 6 weeks. It seems my reading of LJ is almost as bad as my posting. Found a few interesting posts that I am glad I didn't miss. I think for this year I really should aim to: * Have people come over for dinner and hanging out more often. * Play board games and such more often (may be related to the previous idea). * Go diving more often (once just isn't very much). * Go biking more (that leg injury seemed to limit me to only a few times out last year). * Get more exercise (My weight is very slowly going up, which is not a good thing). I just got a bike trainer thing that I will put my bike on for the winter. Now I can exercise and watch tv (something I am apparently about 30 hours behind on) at the same time. * Post more thoughts on LJ. I am trying to get used to the new fact that when Carolyn listens to her ipod now, talking to her is completely pointless, since she won't even know. Apparently those Shure e3c earphones really do what they claim. I should probably go home from work now since it is Friday, and it's getting close to 18:00, and I am not actually accomplishing anything useful anymore. Current mood:  sick.Current music: None at all. Maybe I need speakers or headphones at work.. I finally managed to go diving this year. I went to a treasure dive/underwater pumpkin carving contest dive in Barrie. Water was about 10C, visibility was almost none by the time people had been swimming around looking for red and white floaty bobs on a string with a lead weight in the silt for a bit. I had trouble seeing my buddy an arms length away from me, and I nearly ran into the bottom and the rocks at the edge of the water a few times when it suddenly appeared out of nowhere. This means I finally got to try out my BCD, wetsuit, and whatever else new I got in the last year without actually getting a change to use it. Also meant I got to play with Carolyn's regulator set and her computer (which I still have to figure out a bit more) although I don't think I made it past 15feet depth at any point. It was fun though. Now I have to see if maybe Carolyn has time to go jump in humber bay some time before it gets too much colder. Current mood: happy.
Apparently SCO is still suing IBM. Someone at least tried to add to its humour factor: http://blogs.linux.ie/frankly/2003/12/0 On that note, I really should start watching some of the Flying Circus eppisodes the mythtv box has recorded. Current mood: hungry.
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