Rosio Pavoris

I went to class today, which was mostly a waste of time.
The OS/Networks practicum consisted of putting three computers (with fresh Windows 2003 installs) in a local domain, and creating user accounts and setting up permissions and whatnot. Would’ve been done in ten minutes had it not been for the incompetence of my teammates.
OO-Programming was spent getting annoyed at an IRC triviabot and the general ignorance of the people in my class, and I skipped English to go shopping~

I went to the Acco to get Darwin’s Origin of Species in English, since the Fnac didn’t have it, but it turns out the Acco didn’t have it either.
It did have God Als Misvatting, which is the Dutch translation of Dawkins’ The God Delusion, so I bought that for my mom.

I also bought A Devil’s Chaplain, also by Dawkins. I already own that in Dutch, but I can’t read Dutch. Now I just need River Out of Eden and The Ancestor’s Tale, and I’ll have all of his books.

I also bought Desmond Morris’ The Naked Ape, which I’d meant to buy before I wrote that neoteny post. My mom seems pretty excited about it.

I also bought John D. Barrow’s The Infinite Book, for no real reason. It looked interesting, and I don’t have enough stuff about mathematics.

For a similar reason, I also bought Stephen Hawking’s God Created the Integers, which seems to be about the history of mathematics from Euclid to Turing, including both biographies and actual mathematics. It’s 1160 pages. Whoever decided to release this as a single paperback needs to be kicked.
It’s also damaged, but it was the only copy left and the contents on its own are definitely worth the 25.65 € I paid for it.

So yeah. With those added to the stack, I think I have about thirty books to read. I’d like to say I’m going to stop buying new ones for a while, but as long as I have money left, that’s not going to happen.