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One of the benefits of working 9-5 at a company that makes a million dollars a day is that I have my weekends free. So I bike to Fresh Pond[1], to the Arboretu
by lsb 16y ago
One of the benefits of working 9-5 at a company that makes a million dollars a day is that I have my weekends free. So I bike to Fresh Pond[1], to the Arboretum[2], or elsewhere, and read. It's like meditation, and it improves your vocabulary.
[1] http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fresh+pond+02138 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=fresh+pond+02138
[2] http://maps.google.com/maps?q=arnold+arboretum+02130 http://maps.google.com/maps?q=arnold+arboretum+02130
- kenjackson 16y agoSounds romantic. As an undergrad I set out to read Dante's Divine Comedy in Italian one summer. What could be a better use of a summer -- and I'd learn Italian at the same time. To this day I still haven't read it, nor do I know Italian. And oddly it does please me to know that there are people reading poetry simply for pleasure.
- officemonkey 16y agoYou may want to give it a shot now. I'm translating one of my favorite Jules Verne novels from French to English using vim and google translate (http://voyagesextraordinaires.tumblr.com/ http://voyagesextraordinaires.tumblr.com/ if anyone cares). The machine does a fairly crap translation and I then puzzle over the French until I figure out what it means.