The Saturday night Random

[eleneariel]

-I only know my bank account numbers backwards.

-crystallia wins Gold Stars and whatever other virtual accolades I can heap upon her, for behold, I have in my possession a Cranberries CD and it is Good. I knew nothing about the band when I first listened to it, and I kept thinking, "gosh, what a classic Celtic-sounding voice encased in such non-Celtic music," and lo and behold, it turns out the lead (only?) vocalist is from Ireland. She has the sound of the music I used to listen to on Thistle and Shamrock... I miss that program. Celtic music has the power to move me so deeply.

- I like dark wash jeans very much.

- I went for a spin in the new Mercedes. *geeky grin* I still haven't gotten a decent picture of it, but one will come along one of these days.

- patrick___ asked me which was my favorite of the books I've read so far this year. I take this reading stuff Seriously, so I've taken some time to ponder and I believe I have come upon the answer: Malcolm Gladwell's The Tipping Point. I've read a whole bunch of good books, fiction and non, and it's so hard to pick favorites, but wow, that one kept me riveted. Go read it.

- Part of me wishes I was doing NaNo again this year, and the other part says "Been there, wrote that, got the novel to prove it."

[Poll #855439]

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/patrick___/]

That book sounds really interesting. I did a Google search on it. The first review I read was kind of negative, but it still sounded like an interesting book. I like reading interesting theories about society like that.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Gah, I want to see this negative review! And then strangle the reviewer.

I cannot give that book enough superlatives - it was WONDERFUL. A fast read, too (I read it on the plane back from Georgia), but so interesting. You should start with his first one, though. It's called Blink and it's just as good.

[http://users.livejournal.com/patrick___/]

Here it is: http://www.brothersjudd.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/835/
He's not totally negative about it, but just kind of cynical about his premise I guess.

Blink sounds like an interesting book too!

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Okay, I can understand where he was coming from, so I guess I won't strangle him this time. My facination with the book comes more from the interestingness of the ideas, not believing they are inheriently correct in all points.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I like reading books like that too. I'll definitely have to add those to my reading list.

[http://users.livejournal.com/patrick___/]

Oops, that was me... :-) For some reason it didn't have me logged on.

[eattheolives.livejournal.com]

Oh, do! And let me know when you read them what you think.

Freakonomics was the same sort of thing, but I liked these two books a lot better.