tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290475723451787293.post4523534125847612348..comments2023-06-18T04:17:59.375-04:00Comments on Dogslandia: but i am an engineer...J m mcdermotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16433637277106963701noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290475723451787293.post-56133830327574443142008-03-16T22:22:00.000-04:002008-03-16T22:22:00.000-04:00Not fiction magazines, though. ;)These engineers.....Not fiction magazines, though. ;)<BR/><BR/>These engineers... have they heard of Arthur C. Clarke? Isaac Asimov?<BR/><BR/>Sadly, probably not.<BR/><BR/>"Is it going to be made into a movie" isn't a question I hear, but I got out of SE Texas a while ago.kaolin firehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03189379933688231445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290475723451787293.post-91385897337197748182008-03-11T12:29:00.000-04:002008-03-11T12:29:00.000-04:00Coffee and magazines.Coffee and magazines.Pony Englishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08311690443485392951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290475723451787293.post-31987281552660986852008-03-11T09:45:00.000-04:002008-03-11T09:45:00.000-04:00Don't be so hard on teen pregnancy. Kids make mist...Don't be so hard on teen pregnancy. Kids make mistakes. Heck, adults make the same mistakes but no moralists makes us a dangerous statistic.<BR/><BR/>It isn't the mistakes that measure a person, but what people do after the mistake.<BR/><BR/>What's really amazing is how many of these functionally illiterate people are in bookstores. What are they doing in a bookstore if they don't like books? <BR/><BR/>Amazing.J m mcdermotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16433637277106963701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4290475723451787293.post-62853845345353965362008-03-11T01:53:00.000-04:002008-03-11T01:53:00.000-04:00What I hate when I recommend books is, "Is it goin...What I hate when I recommend books is, "Is it going to be made into a movie?" or something akin the question. I usually stop talking after that. Gaiman pointed out in his blog how 1 out of 4 people don't read books at all, and if they do it's about 5 books. Most of the book readers however are college grads or people over 50. I'm surprised it isn't 1 out of 4 people read books for pleasure. But I live in south Texas where teenage pregnancy is our favorite past time.<BR/><BR/>It's sad.Pony Englishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08311690443485392951noreply@blogger.com