I might eventually add some notes.
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Roleplaying > Dungeons & Dragons >
Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition
https://dnd.wizards.com/
- Properly titled Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 5e
- Fifth edition
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I used roll20.net to play this.
dead-tree books
All posts tagged dead-tree books
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Entertainment > Reading >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0452273331
A famous work of philosophy, especially because it’s told using a story.
A terrible work of storytelling that entirely shrouds any philosophy it may have. From the first sentence I rolled my eyes and couldn’t make it through the first half-page before setting it down in disgust. I still haven’t been more than a handful of pages in.. it’s just so god damned bad.
This’ll sit on my shelf, among its betters, probably for years before I get around to trying to read more of it. Just as books in ancient Greek need translating, I think this needs a real writer to re-tell the story.
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Entertainment > Reading >
https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01GMQZ5ZA
https://www.rooshv.com/free-speech-isnt-free
Free Speech Isn’t Free – How 90 Men Stood Up Against The Establishment And Won, by Roosh Valizadeh
I like free speech, and already know the phrase “free speech isn’t free”, so this caught my attention.
It was cheap, and I’ve been making a habit of getting some more books in dead-tree format. I was bumbling around on Amazon when I found this. I have neither an idea who the author is nor do I know anything about this topic. I like that it’s “recent”.
After reading: It’s good storytelling, and even after its lengthy description of events I have definitely not heard of any of it. It describes the sorts of things people are willing to do once they succumb to an ideology, and the “two minutes of hate” they participate in. Even politicians must follow suit, if only with hollow rhetoric. Media are wholly in on it, as they are at best ambulance-chasers for entertainment-news, and at worst willing to start and stoke a fire to have any sort of relevancy.
- Available as an e-book.
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Chinese > Books for learning Chinese >
Highly recommended – Mnemonics, multiple pictures for stroke order and details for each character’s difficulty level give this book a completely different approach from the others I own.
Feel free to change the Amazon.com URL from .com to your language of choice. Odds are good that it’ll be available from another amazon.foo website.
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Chinese > Books for learning Chinese >
Highly recommended – A stark contrast to the traditional dictionary. Far more visual and friendly. Absolutely not a replacement for an actual dictionary.
Feel free to change the Amazon.com URL from .com to your language of choice. Odds are good that it’ll be available from another amazon.foo website.
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Chinese > Books for learning Chinese >
Recommended – This book has value above and beyond being a book of definitions.
Feel free to change the Amazon.com URL from .com to your language of choice. Odds are good that it’ll be available from another amazon.foo website.
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Chinese > Books for learning Chinese >
Highly recommended – Portable, durable and to-the-point.
- ISBN-10: 3468981333
- ISBN-13: 978-3468981333
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(amazon.com: look inside) (look inside unavailable as of 2013-10-11)
Feel free to change the Amazon.com URL from .com to your language of choice. Odds are good that it’ll be available from another amazon.foo website.
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Entertainment > Reading >
https://www.alibris.com/Philosophy-in-the-Flesh-George-Lakoff/book/10659440
To read
This book is mind blowing. I think the best description I can give of what it’s topic and goals are is to present the first chapter, in full. From here I think anyone interested in the subject will understand fully where this book is going and the intentions of the authors.
- Properly titled Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
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By George Lakoff and Mark Johnson.
- TODO – The various Wikipedia topics would need references to cognitive philosophy as a contraindication to the various topics, and in those topics to specifically cite passages in the introduction in this book.
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TODO – Finish the linking.
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Entertainment > Reading > Slackware >
(on Wikipedia)
www.slackbook.org
http://www.slackbook.org/html/index.html
The manual for Slackware Linux.
- Updated second edition
- 2005-06-01
- ISBN-10 1-57176-338-4
I just had a note that I was reading this. I can’t remember if I finished it or not.
