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Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2015 6:38 pm
by Cognoscente
I'm listening to Amy Poehler's audiobook of Yes Please! and it's inspiring and really funny.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 4:56 pm
by mic0
I liked her book but didn't really find it particularly funny. It was sweet, though, and inspiring for sure.
Today I listened to my ipod on shuffle during my commute and an EFY song came on! Man, most of those were terrible music in general, including this one.
It was funny though to hear it and think about the lyrics differently than I did as a teenager and of course still remember all the lyrics.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 4:53 pm
by Zedability
This article about fasting in different religious traditions was interesting, if a little sparser on details than I'd like.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2015 8:49 pm
by Violet
So for the last ~24 hours, I've been listening to the cast recording for Hamilton thanks to
NPR's first listen.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2015 11:08 pm
by Shrinky Dink
I listened to the entire audio recording of Mockingjay yesterday. That was fun. I hate the super long work days. Now I just need to find some more good audiobooks to listen to. Preferably ones I can get for free by renting them through the school's library or salt lake county's library. Any recommendations?
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 12:46 am
by Violet
Have you read Yes, Please or BossyPants? I really appreciated them as audiobooks. Also, good for you for taking advantage of OverDrive.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 7:07 am
by Digit
Good
answer on Quora about the Matrix. So Neo was never a human; he was a program programmed to think he was a human, and the "real world" viewers saw was just another simulation to transfer the minds of rebellious humans to when they caused too much disturbance in the 20th century simulation, and at the end of the trilogy, the machines don't release humans into the real world, they just stop fighting in the runoff simulation (Zion).
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:37 am
by Whistler
is it head canon, or is it real??
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:41 am
by Whistler
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2015 9:15 am
by Portia
Reading Kate Bolick's Spinster. There's a lot I can relate to -- not least that we both lost our mother to cancer at the same age -- and I enjoy her examination of being unmarried from an unconventional angle.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2015 8:57 pm
by Imogen
Hamilton. Can't stop listening to it. It's INCREDIBLE. It's funny, smart, quick. Parts of it literally leave me breathless. I still cry when listening to act 2.
Hamilton. Listen to it now.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:50 pm
by Portia
You and Me (But Mostly Me) just came up on my iTunes, shuffled. Usually I can't handle this album, but this song is hilarious.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:53 pm
by Portia
Followed by "Friend is a Four Letter Word," which seems à propos for this past couple of months. -_-
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2015 6:57 pm
by Emiliana
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 5:28 pm
by Portia
Listened to "Smile, my @$$" on Radiolab today. Yay Radiolab!
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2015 10:23 am
by Digit
How is Ben Carson both so incredibly smart and so spectacularly stupid? I have wondered this quite a bit whenever he came up in the news.
Part of that article:
So how do we explain this contradiction? All of us have some things we know a lot about and some things of which we're ignorant. Some of us are extraordinarily good at reading people and understanding social relations, but are helpless when it comes to math; others are just the opposite. Some of us pick up languages easily, others don't. Intelligence is complex and varied.
But what's so odd about Carson is that science is the very thing he was trained in, and the thing at which he excelled. Yet his religious beliefs are apparently so powerful that they completely overwhelm his ability to look objectively at any scientific area that might give some answers to what people once thought were purely metaphysical questions.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2015 7:38 am
by Digit
Interesting. Tony Dow, Wally from the old TV show
Leave it to Beaver is a
pretty good sculptor.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 1:23 pm
by Portia
Cognoscente wrote:I'm listening to Amy Poehler's audiobook of Yes Please! and it's inspiring and really funny.
So I had misremembered this as Mindy Kaling's
Why Not Me?. Read it in a day yesterday. Had some laugh-out-loud funny parts, but overall, I like structured narratives more than anecdotal books.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:52 am
by Portia
Listening to Stromae's Racine Carrée. Holy crap it's good.
Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to
Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2015 12:03 pm
by Portia
Go watch
this video.
And then think about this:
Stromae revealed that his father was killed during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
... ...
Incroyable.