Gradually degenerating into ignorance and complacency.

Thursday, October 04, 2007

ooo, I'm drivin' my life away

While I drive I find the radio -- pitiful, so I have taken to audio books. I last heard Frederick Douglas' "Fugitive Slave" memoirs. I later obtained the pdf. It was quite interesting. I also heard part of Bill Bryson's "History of Just About Everything", but found his style not to my liking. Sadly, his material was interesting, but his narration was not.

I am now with David McCullough's 1776, which is okay, but his "laddy-friggin' dah" parts need removed. I would, if time allows, recommend experiencing Frederick Douglas' work, which really speaks about a slave, boy, and man. How, with being given the taste of reading, he pursued it regardless of the pain it caused him.

There were many things in the life of a slave of I didn't know, as well as the painful to hear, stark reality of slavery. I am going to, again, try to digest Stephen Hawking's works, as the last time, on chapter 3 -- he lost me. I remember going from gravity to gravitational constants and number theories that were as meaningful to me as neaderthal grunts or an language with implied manner and required clicks and visuals signs -- beyond the scope of graphical representation.

So, this fifteen times nested function means what now?