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My library has a Darwin bobblehead, a 4-bit relais computer, a rock from the top of Vesuvius, a small meteor, a 1kg pure tungsten cylinder and a magnesium one o
by Luc 17y ago
My library has a Darwin bobblehead, a 4-bit relais computer, a rock from the top of Vesuvius, a small meteor, a 1kg pure tungsten cylinder and a magnesium one of the same size, some robot arms, a variety of Game&Watches, a Sterling engine and a steam engine, and a 1 cm scale cube. It all feels kind of inadequate now (on the other hand, that's enough crap already!).
- mtts 17y agoMine has books.
- Luc 17y agoYeah, but then those are implied. > 2500 last time I counted.
- ryandvm 17y agoA bookworm pissing contest? Really?
- Ixiaus 17y agoImpressive. Have you read all of them (that would be even more impressive)? I know a lot of people with incredible libraries in their homes but they don't read any of the books the have...
- Luc 17y agoIt's quite an unordered mess, so it looks less impressive than it sounds! I'm just getting old and have been buying for a while. I think it is compensation for my _awful_ memory - I read books with pencil in hand, underlining and making notes in the margins, so I like to keep the books around after I have read them. Also libraries here often don't carry the books I want to read (or they're translated), so buying makes sense for me. I don't do this with novels of course. Lately I have been thinking I should make notes on the computer instead, like Derek Sivers does, e.g. http://sivers.org/book/ArtOfProfitability http://sivers.org/book/ArtOfProfitability To finally answer your question, I have a stack of about 250 books I haven't read yet. Some of them I'll probably never read - I once bought the 10 best poker books, but I just can't get interested in the subject anymore.
- joshu 17y agoWhere'd you get the cylinders?
- Luc 17y agoEbay, from a guy in Spain that was selling a lot of element samples. They're great fun for visitors - they pick up one, then go 'What the?!' when they pick up the other one :)