What are you reading mark II

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

yeah well for some reason I missed it while I was scanning... but theres value in making a Mark II page  to break it up for others


Topsail & Battleaxe: A Voyage in the Wake of the Vikings
by Tom Cunliffe 1988

The opening paragraph-

"Mike came scrambling aft along the steeply canted deck. It was 3.00am on an early august morning. There was ice in his eyebrows. His bare feet gripped well enough, but there was a blueness about them that would have done little to reassure his mother, if she could have seen him. Fog Swirled past the bowsprit as Hirta smashed into a wave sending freezing spray ripping across the foredeck like shrapnel. Mike sank grtefully into the cockpit qnd made the classic 'after you' gesture to Patrick who was clambering out onto the streaming deck, with an expression like an infantryman going over the top."

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

isn't that the same as the so... what's everyone reading? thread?

[Mistress of Darkness]

Built to Last. It's an interesting look at companies that have been around for at least 50 years and are still doing well financially.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

What are the biggies?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

HunterLab



ok, so i'm just plugging my own company. We've been around 50 years and still going. But we're not a "big" company.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

/me obtenebrates  

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

what word are you mis-spelling there?

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

obtenebrate
v.t. darken; cast shadow over

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

its Latin

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

and english mainly because its anglicised

the noun form is

Obtenebration

\Ob*ten`e*bra"tion\, n. [L. obtenebrate to make dark.] The act of darkening; the state of being darkened; darkness. [Obs.]

In every megrim or vertigo, there is an obtenebration joined with a semblance of turning round. --Bacon.

[Mistress of Darkness]

HP, Sony, Disney, 3M, Marriott, Walmart, Johnson & Johnson, and a few more. They pick a comparison company in order to extrapolate the business practices they have in common (example: a core ideal for the company, i.e. "The customer is our priority"), but don't generally show up in the comparison companies. It's well written, so an enjoyable read.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

fun... I'll have to check it out...

[Onion of Death]

Mitch Albom "The Five People You Meet In Heaven"

It's really good. I'm also in the middle of C.S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity," which is very thought provoking.

[EUOL]

I just finished SOMETIMES THE MAGIC WORKS, the Terry Brooks writing book.  

It was pretty good.  Maybe I'll do a review.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Highlanders: A History of the Gaels

I'm assuming this will give me a good general picture of the Scottish history, but it is FAR from being objective and ground breaking research. After about 50 pages, it's clear that he's mostly going to express his opinion on various historical stories and make an assumption that Scottish Presbyterianism is better than any other form of Christianity. While he has said he's going to have biases, that doesn't make it ok to be so blatant. Anyway, it's not annoying me enough to stop reading, but I probably shan't recommend it for serious history readers, since it's not very serious.