Daily Reading (04-05 May 2015)

[nanila]

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

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[weaverbird]

Hmmm, let's see. Lots of Twitter - and bits of articles linked therein: Guardian, NPR, CBC and Wonkette. Oh, and a couple recipes found on Tastespotting. And my bedtime reading (still A Passage to India, but nearing the end.)

[nanila]

\o/ I hope you found a tasty recipe or two.

[davidgillon]

Various bits and bobs of military history from various websites. Middle of the night researching Greek gods (and more military history) on wiki for a story idea. Distracted onto more wiki (random walk style) by googling to see what all the Royal baby fuss was - I pretty much managed to miss the whole story given last week's op. And I've suddenly realised today is the day all the Toby Day books release on Kindle, so now I need to go pick one or two of those up.

[nanila]

Ah, the pleasure of an impending read that you expect to be good! :)

[ex_inklessej388]

I spent too much time on this political game this morning. http://www.politicsuk.net/britain/index.php

We also have an exciting election happening in Alberta so I put some good time in on Reddit r/CanadaPolitics. https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/

I've also been poking around Dreamwidth and I managed to mangle but not read much of today's edition of The Globe and Mail (national Canadian newspaper).

I hope to get back into a non-fiction book I am reading called The Constitution of Canada: An Introduction to its Development and Law by the first dean of the University of Toronto Law School, W.P.M. Kennedy.

What have *you* been reading?

[nanila]

I'm making my way slowly through The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert. It's really good, but I only have the energy for a chapter or two at a time.

[quoththeravyn]

perl code. :-/ @#$^@#%@#

[nanila]

Auggggh regular expressions augggggh

[thamesynne]

Larry Wall had a problem. Then he saw regular expressions. But he found they weren't powerful enough, so he thought, "Ah! I can build a programming language out of them!"

Now, everyone else has two problems...

[ironed_orchid]

A bunch of articles and Oxfam updates about Nepal.

[nanila]

Was there any heartening reading in there? :/

[ironed_orchid]

Yes! A 101 year old man was found and recovered from rubble, he has only minor injuries, and Oxfam have managed to get a convoy of trucks carrying much needed drinking water, tarpaulins, and other supplies into Gorkha.

[nanila]

Hurrah! Thanks for that; they were good to read.

[alexseanchai]

Lil bit of Walking with the Gods by W. D. Wilkerson.

[nanila]

\o/ Hurrah!