Member: grady.cameron

Thanks, I love that book, found it through a review a friend of mine wrote. If it's one of your favorites you should check this one out too:
http://www.librarything.com/work/13881315/98461856
Available here:
http://www.cookbooks.com/viewcbol.asp?id=1023&cat=2

It's a cookbook filled with recipes from old timers in a nursing home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Along with the obligatory jello desserts there are also directions on how to do things like cook a porcupine over an open fire.

posted by SmartDogs at 10:43 pm (EST) on May 23, 2013

Hey, thanks for responding to my review of Finite and Infinite Games. It is interesting how much earlier reviews influence the ones that come later. You wouldn't have written your review the way you did if the earlier ones hadn't been so slanted towards the positive. I wouldn't have written mine the way I did if it hadn't been for yours. And much like you, I could easily see myself having written something much like your review if both (a) I'd been in a somewhat different mood, and (b) yours wasn't already there.

I thought it was interesting the paragraph or two where you talk about Carse's treatment of adultery. There were some comments I wanted to work into my review on that subject, but it didn't really fit anywhere. I guess in Carse's loopy imagination, adultery isn't supposed to bother the infinite player, because of his/her radical awareness that his finite role as a husband, or her finite role as a wife, can be put on or taken off at will. Hence free love, I guess. But to me, that argument just shows how far out Carse has wandered. I hadn't thought of it in these terms, but Carse's infinite player, if there could be one, would be something like an exemplar of those "blank slate" theories of mind that keep getting debunked. Sexual jealousy and the concepts of monogamy and adultery are just part and parcel to the human condition; they can't be shrugged off the way that Carse imagines that they can.

Anyway, sorry to indulge in a somewhat long-winded rant. Thanks for stopping by my profile.

posted by polutropon at 8:39 pm (EST) on May 12, 2011

Weird. On my "weighted" list, you're #10, and you don't even show up on my "raw" and "recent" lists. I think we have a lot of esoteric books in common (like the Pricipia Discordia) that ranks us high, but there are a lot of nerds out there with a lot of chemistry and physics textbooks that push you down on my list.

posted by craigim at 1:44 am (EST) on May 3, 2011

If they have a copy of Ellipsometry and Polarized Light by Azzam and Bashara (unlikely), grab it for me.

posted by craigim at 1:34 pm (EST) on Feb 22, 2011

Abramowitz and Stegun, huh? What brought that on? Brushing up on your Bessel functions?

posted by craigim at 3:14 pm (EST) on Feb 21, 2011

Thanks.

posted by carterchristian1 at 1:49 am (EST) on Oct 16, 2010

I am trying to figure out how to "position" the Oxford Eng Dic in my life. Just bought it...with slipcase and magnifying glass. Where do you keep your 2 vols and have you gotten some other magnifying system for reading do go with it ?

posted by carterchristian1 at 9:50 am (EST) on Oct 15, 2010

You now have more books than I have! However, I just deleted a bunch that I am donating to PVQ. I will also be finishing up doing the history books in the bedroom in the next couple of weeks. Watch out I'll start catching up!

posted by mcraig at 3:15 pm (EST) on Jul 7, 2010

This is the LaTeX book you should start with: http://www.librarything.com/work/45922/book/20028285. It has everything you need in terms of basic document structure and tags. When you want to get a little fancier and in depth (and you will), pick up this one: http://www.librarything.com/work/46036/book/20028040.

posted by craigim at 5:20 pm (EST) on Jan 4, 2009

You are the only person on LibraryThing with 'If I Did It'. I want to hear how it is.

posted by craigim at 11:54 pm (EST) on Dec 9, 2008