Bulldog

New year's resolution - read 12 new books in 2019 at a rate of one per month.

And I'm starting tomorrow with the biggest, baddest, un-read motherfucker in my house

Janszoon

You're a brave man. Nice to see you around again!

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A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man

Time & Place

25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die

last.fm

Bulldog

You too, man Good to see the place is still here and stuff.

And yeah, we'll see how I do eh. Couldn't get past the first few pages last time I tried, but I'm gonna read that cover-to-cover in a month this time, whatever happens

rostasi

Good to see you again Bulldog.
One of the guys from our Finnegans Wake reading group
is starting a Gravity's Rainbow group next month.
I may find the time.

Bulldog

Ah, Finnegan's Wake, there's another one I'm gonna read this year.

I remember years ago we tried to start a book club on here. I think it was Sleepyjack who did it. Never really took off though. It's a shame, as it was a good idea and all.

Lisnaholic

@ Janszoon: An audiobook sounds like a great option for a long commute though I've never tried it myself. Given the option - which of course a driver is not- I agree with MicShazam:-@ mindfulness: I never guessed that Dimensioning and Tolerancing was a big enough topic to have a book about it. Do you ever feel that engineering is suffering from Too Much Information these days?

@ rostasi & Bulldog: good luck with those demanding reads!
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I'm really enjoying this book which has a good balance of literature and history - and when those topics get a bit dry, I'm planning to check out the index for:

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grindy

GD&T is hard as **** and doing the tolerances in a smart way is quite the art.

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grindy

Weird.
I work in quality and sure, it's good to be able to read a drawing, but in-depth knowledge of GD&T seems really unnecessary.
On the other hand, if you're not actually designing something yourself, all this stuff isn't that hard.

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rostasi

My very special holiday gift signed by Shirin Neshat herself.

grindy

I now work in Quality Planning and it's incredibly chill. But it's also a gigantic company so things move pretty slowly and relaxed anyway.
I used to be the head of Quality Management in a small, chaotic company and it was ridiculously stressful, since stuff went wrong in the production process all the time and we had to react fast and also because I had to deal with (often dissatisfied) customers a lot.

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