What are You Reading as You Smoke?
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the General Discussion is my go to place . Members post news one might not ordinarily come across, weird personal stories such as bigfoots,etc. Its a hodge podge of information
I do YouTube music on my phone while I smoke in the garage with a drink sitting on my Hemi Dodge Charger. Lately it has been Paul Simon. What a library of music. Also Bruce Hornsby. When I can read, it's usually Moby Dick. Not kidding.
Currently reading, "I am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj. Alongside a German repair manual for a BMW R100RT motorcycle I'm trying to bring back to life in the garage.
Listening, incidentally, to "Puff" by Erykah Badu. FWIW. I can relate.
Best wishes, all -
C.Rorrer
Listening, incidentally, to "Puff" by Erykah Badu. FWIW. I can relate.
Best wishes, all -
C.Rorrer
Part of my job (academia) is copy editing submitted papers before they get published in our journal. I don't get much time to read for pleasure these days. Currently as I smoke I am reading a paper on the impact of Covid on prostitution and sex trafficking in Italy. Interesting paper, but worse referencing than I've seen in freshman essays. This one is taking a lot of work to get it up to standard.
Looking forward to reading these two.
Hero of Kumaon- The life of Jim Corbett by Duff Hart-Davis
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
I’ve been a fan of Jim Corbett as well as Kenneth Anderson since childhood.
Happy reading and smokes
Ettrick puffer
Hero of Kumaon- The life of Jim Corbett by Duff Hart-Davis
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
I’ve been a fan of Jim Corbett as well as Kenneth Anderson since childhood.
Happy reading and smokes
Ettrick puffer
Dadants Bee Keeping 101! Just got my first hives. Smoking Hal o the wynd in a cob while doing so!
Me too! I ordered both their complete works, published in India, years ago. My cat used to jump on me when she saw me reading Corbett at night, I thought I could hear her chuckle afterward. His autobio is interesting also.
I personally think Anderson embellished a good bit, no one gets that lucky that many times and lives.
@romaso Yes I agree that Anderson embellished some stories. I too bought the Indian printed omnibus of Corbett. I appreciate Corbett’s empathy for both humans and the animals he hunted. There’s a very watchable YouTube programme on Corbett
Happy smokes
Ettrick puffer
Can you send it back and have them revise it? Use your red pen! Tell them your freshman write better; that will motivate them!
I wish, haha. It's a bit of an industry secret but the higher you climb the academic ladder, the more mistakes you're allowed to make, because there are more people (like me, the lowly copy editor) there to correct things for you.
The paper is very good - the research is current, the methodology is sound, it's engaging and generally a worthwhile contribution to the discipline. It just doesn't tick the right boxes in terms of language and formatting for our publication. So, we could send it back to the author and receive a better version in three weeks, or I can clean it up in three days, which I did. That's just how it goes.
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