bitesizedreading | Daily Reading (02 July 2015)

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(Haven't done one of these for a while and today is Dedicated Social Media Catchup Day, so...!)

What have you been reading today? Everything counts, from a novel-length fic to the labels on your washing!

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nanila

I'm still gobbling up Skunk Works. It's now gone back in time from the stealth fighter chapters, which ended with successful deployment during Desert Storm, and is about the U-2 spy plane and the origins of the Skunk Works at Lockheed.

I'm enjoying it very much but part of me is pretty bummed out that there are thus far zero female engineers in this book. In fact the only women that have appeared thus far are his wife (briefly) and his secretary (even more briefly - I think she gets half a sentence). I know that in the 1950s (during the U-2's development) it was unlikely, but the stealth fighter was developed in the 1980s and by then there should have been at least a few. Rich addresses the lack of minority engineers (pretty defensively) in a couple of pages where Lockheed/Skunk Works is criticised for not hiring Latino engineers when the plant was so close to a large Latino community ("because they didn't go to engineering school", he replies), but he seems to be oblivious to the gender imbalance.

Edited (more details) Date: 2015-07-02 11:08 am (UTC)

From:

ironed_orchid

Forms. So many forms.

From:

nanila

Oof. Good luck with the forms.

From:

alexseanchai

my email dammit.

long story. don't really want to discuss outside lock. but DAMMIT I AM READING MY EMAIL.

also the poems my classmates wrote for our poetry class.

and I will almost certainly miss tomorrow's weekend-plans post (same story), so: planning to read at least a couple chapters of some researchy books for the current nonfiction project, and reread notes on a past fiction project in hopes of figuring out where to go with the rebooted concept.

From:

nanila

Good luck with the planned reading, and also with the other thing re: e-mail.

From:

weaverbird

Day spent on QuickBooks and Excel, doing a large invoicing run. Just now catching up with Twitter.

From:

nanila

Hope the invoicing run is complete!

Catching up with Twitter is now an impossible task for me - I either need to unfollow or mute retweets from heavy users.

From:

weaverbird

Yep, all done, after nearly 7 hours steady going. I wanted it off my plate before the long weekend.

Oh man, I know what you mean about Twitter. There are people I have had to unfollow, even though I really enjoy reading them, because of the flood of retweets. If I had the time (or interest) to follow their lengthy conversations with dozens of followers, it would be one thing, but there simply aren't enough hours in the day (or brain cells available LOL).