Holiday preparations checklist

[andrewducker]

Checked shorts still fit*: Check
Four t-shirts, 8 socks, 4 pairs** of boxers, one jumper, and one pair of trousers in suitcase: Check
The remaining episodes of Lost Girl and Once Upon A Time dumped onto my laptop, along with the two-part season opener of Mad Men: Check
Realise that that's never enough TV for a week, and copy episodes 4-12 of season one of Burn Notice as well: Check
Toothbrush, hairbrush, etc: Check
Mad moment of panic about train tickets which turned out to be in the safe place you'd expect: Check
Updating LJ/DW rather than packing: Check
Worrying what I've forgotten: Check

Oh - what should I read while I'm away? I'm 38% of the way through The Kingdom Of Gods, and could do with something to follow it up with. Suggestions?


*It's summer temperatures outside. Well, summer for Edinburgh. A nice spring day in civilised parts of the world.
**Why, exactly, are they _pairs_ of boxer shorts? There's only one of each. Same with trousers.

Comments

Oh - what should I read while I'm away

[zornhau.livejournal.com]

James Enge "Wolf Age" - sword and sorcery adventure set in a werewolf civilisation.
Howard A Jones "Desert of Souls" sword and sorcery set in an authentic 8th century Islamic setting.
Simon R Green "Deathstalker" - Star Wars meets Conan.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I can recommend a bunch of excellent non-fiction if you like?

[andrewducker]

Recommend away.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Stephen Pinker, "The Better Angels of Our Nature" - the talk it sprang from made a huge difference to my thinking at the time. After the book-length treatment you'll never think about human nature the same way again.

Daniel Kahneman, "Thinking, Fast and Slow" - the systematic failings of the human mind, from the master himself. Fascinating stuff.

Just read Clarisse Thorn's "Confessions of a Pickup Artist Chaser" - fascinating treatment of a very curious subculture.

And of course I'm always going to recommend Eliezer's blog posts as a powerful improvement to clarity of thought.

Cheers!

[skington.livejournal.com]

David Graeber's "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" is supposedly one to read as well.

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

The French have singular trousers and jeans -- "un pantalon" and "un jean". :)

Also, I highly recommend the "Hunger Games" trilogy, based mostly on my wife's rave review, not to mention its impressive string of awards. :)

[skington.livejournal.com]

I believe trousers used to actually be pairs - i.e. you'd put each leg on separately, and could take one of them off independently of the other.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

and sleeves came seperate from (fancy rich people's) dresses in Elizabethan times, for sure.