craigb

Moshkiae
Hi,
 
Having been a part of a house with 45k books of Portuguese, Spanish and Brazilian literature, has made me a bit slanted towards the paper, and the book. I have yet to come up to the electronic version and most of it ahs to be with the bad eye sight, as with the book I can put it down and then walk away, and then come back. On the Kindle, I have a much harder time finding my way around, specially if the page moved up or down.
 
I suppose I could get used to the Kindle and such, but all in all, for writing purposes, I have not seen the Kindle Books used in too many References, although many of them these days are new, as folks are no longer trying to "publish" these things directly anymore.
 
I actually like that better, but unlike the music business, the "books" will be buried for way too long before anyone finds anything and actually reads it.
 
But, imagine Bapu reading "War and Peace" ... ain't gonna happen! Or Craig reading "Moby Dick".
 
Ciao baby!

Gosh, maybe if they had made your house out of normal building materials and not 45,000 books, you could have read them instead of being slanted Pedro!
 ...

There is a side of the family that is really slanted and I think, ugly. My mom is a total snob and so are some of my sisters. They think that being a professor is higher class than working for a cable company, for example.
At least, you know I am not that bad!
 
But it's hard to argue with mom having published in 34 years MORE, than my actual dad did in his lifetime of 59 years! But this is a level of "success" that is really hard to talk about here, without people trashing me. Having been a part of it, there is a good side, and there is the bad side. The bad side is that the children do not mean much to the legacy at all! It's all about the name and the "star", even after it has long died out. So, in some ways, I have known a very ugly side of fame, and that would explain a lot of my "disdain" for it. But I am NOT cynical enough to go around saying that all those books are toilet paper, despite all of Carlos Castaneda's jokes! While funny, in many ways, it is also a serious disrespect for people's abilities and studies, and some of those studies and works are very good.
 
A poem about an "intelectual pursuit" is good. A poem about one of the childrrn playing, is pedestrial and bad! That kind of thing!
 
I say the same thing about music all the time, and while I might joke about this and that, I do not like to trash it, though I have no qualms making fun of someone's smugness.

Rain

ampfixer
The current Canadian government is FUBAR at all levels. The Toronto mayor drives drunk and smokes crack. If he was a young black kid he'd be in prison. The trend continues up the chain full of liars, pimps and thieves. It's good that we can't have a political thread because I'd likely have a stroke.

Well, considering how polite we are, I'm sure we could have a nice Canadian thread. :P

Best laugh I've had today, Rain! Then I scrolled the image down. It was the "press 2 for French" that had me on the floor. 
 
Quebec is an especially schizophrenic culture. They forced British Columbia to be bilingual, even though Ukrainian speakers probably outnumber French speakers there and the true second-language of Vancouver is Chinese.

bitflipper

Rain

ampfixer
The current Canadian government is FUBAR at all levels. The Toronto mayor drives drunk and smokes crack. If he was a young black kid he'd be in prison. The trend continues up the chain full of liars, pimps and thieves. It's good that we can't have a political thread because I'd likely have a stroke.

Well, considering how polite we are, I'm sure we could have a nice Canadian thread. :P

Best laugh I've had today, Rain! Then I scrolled the image down. It was the "press 2 for French" that had me on the floor. 
 
Quebec is an especially schizophrenic culture. They forced British Columbia to be bilingual, even though Ukrainian speakers probably outnumber French speakers there and the true second-language of Vancouver is Chinese.

:)
 
I've come to realize a lot of things about Quebec since I've left that place, how most of what I'd been told and grew up taking for granted was absolute nonsense.
 
There are very simple questions we/they need to ask themselves, but unfortunately, unless one steps out for long enough, he's too caught up into this language/cultural war for which we're recruited in the cradle.
 
I'd most likely be considered a traitor by a majority of people back there. I'm not kidding.
 
I'm thinking of writing a little book about it.