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I think it depends on whether the ,ahem, one handed literature counts as reading 
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
- Hermann Goering
At the Nuremberg Trials after World War II
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where can I get some of that?
sounds kind of like atlantis to me  ;P
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I second that. And if I had any spare time I highly doubt I would spend any of it reading anything non work related as I don't have enough patients to read.
John
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Some of the people here are obviously living in an uptopia. My days can not have enough hours. I have so many ideas I would like to work on and whenever I get a chance to get some work done, my girlfriend suddenly appears between me and my monitor...
I wish that I had some more time.. 
Behind every great black man...
... is the police. - Conspiracy brother
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Bob Stanneveld wrote:
and whenever I get a chance to get some work done, my girlfriend suddenly appears between me and my monitor
Same here. But there are definitely rewards to this...
John
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Behind every great black man...
... is the police. - Conspiracy brother
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About three months ago i was talking the same way you do.I got sick and the doctor said because of stress.Today is the second day i'm not taking medication.For a year and half i was working on a crazy schedule because i was under the analysis and development of the e-prescribing project for the biggest social insurance provider of my country.
Fellows there's nothing more precious than our health.You say you got "so many ideas".So what???They can wait.I was getting out of my sleep because something occured to me and i couldn't wait to implement it.Relax.
No deadline,no milestone, no crazy schedule or overnight job is more precious than your health.In the first place if you don't have your health none of those can be met.Secondly if you are an employee none will pay attention for you because : public class Employee:IDisposable {}
It's obligatory to have spare time.Additionally we have to spend "quality" spare time otherwise it makes no sense (e.g. What's the point of sleeping 10 hrs?Go play some football(i love football...you can go fishing,climbing etc)).
There is also a very tricky point in this conversation.Coding was my hobby(and i believe of many of the people in here).It made me happy and that's why i was tireless and need no spare time.Don't let other people or deadlines ruin your happiness or take advantage of your hobby.I did so and now i got to find a new hobby.
Relax and there is a solution for everything as long as we're healthy.
Take care all of you.I'm going vacation for the first time in my life.
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Can't argue with that!  .
Behind every great black man...
... is the police. - Conspiracy brother
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What?
I mostly read science fiction, primarily space opera. Favorite recent books include Red Thunder by John Varley and The Excalibur Alternative by David Weber.
When?
Usually at night before I go to bed. I also take a book with me whenever I'm going to have to wait somewhere (doctor's office, for example).
Where?
In bed, sometimes on the couch.
Why?
It helps me unwind. I hate being bored, hence the book when I'm waiting (see 'when' above).
Software Zen: delete this;
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I subscribed to Asimov's Scencine Fiction magazine. The stories are short enough to read while in the toilet.
That is where you get your spare time 
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Living in South London, and working in North London, I get to spend two hours on the tube[^] a day. Like just about every other tube user, I bury my head in a good book, or the free paper they give out at stations.
It means I get to read a fair bit, but only ever do so in cramped, hot, sweaty, smelly conditions. It's a good job I keep myself entertained in such situations...
-Dy
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Anybody noticed that the graph looks almost like a normal curve with a slight asymmetry? 
Do you read only one book at a time, or do you 'interlace' books? Sometimes I read a tech book at office in my spare time, then part of one book in the evening, and part of a friend's book at bedtime. 
Cheers,
Vikram.
http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar
"I don't have time to read all that, but I do believe those stats to be ludicrous." — Stan Shannon.
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One novel at a time. I've never been able to interleave reading more than one piece of fiction at a time; I lose track of the story line, or get them confused.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I sometimes have a couple on the go at any one time - normally of different genres - perhaps one comedy and one crime for example;
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I usually have at least two stories that I am working one, one in the car (audio books - http://www.codeproject.com/script/survey/detail.asp?survey=478#xx1155469xx[^]) and also one that I read in the evenings.
Additionally I have started reading various current issues books because of some of the opinions that I come across in the soapbox. Trying to get a better perspective of how/why people can have some of the opinions that they do.
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I normally do read a tech book ( as part of my homework actually ), and two or three different books, choosing them according to my mood ( e.g. some piece of high literature, a crime story and some SciFi novel).
My zodiac sign is Virgo and I once read that this is the normal behaviour of that kinf of persons
There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
stolen from some message board
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Hmmm ...
Lets see, I have 2 tech books I am reading ... (VB.Net and ASP.Net)
yeah a VB 'Noob'
add to that Sherlock Holmes (compliation of all stories) and the Lord of the Ring trilogy and the 2 books on writing fiction (no, I am not management )
Plus the Linux System Admin certification books and Javascript
and I wonder why I have no time for a life  :-p
Cegarman
"When you get to the fork in the road, take it! ..Yogi Berra"
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My valuable spare time is for game not reading.
eric
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Game as in buck, deer, wild pig and other wild animals?
regards,
Paul Watson
South Africa
PMW Photography
Gary Wheeler wrote:
It's people like you that keep me heading for my big debut on CNN...
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:groan:
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
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eric feng wrote:
My valuable spare time is for game not reading.
I couldn't go a week without reading a book. Reading is my favourite lesiure activity.
Michael
CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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I read:
- the news (online)
- news and discussion forums linked to my hobbies (airsoft, music, film)
- the community forums on the Code Project
- IM discussions with my friends
All of those are read from a computer screen. About 4-5 hours a day, usually interlaced with my work. I subscribe to just one printed magazine, which I flick through for about thirty minutes a month. My only regular printed reading is my mail each morning. I will read two or three novels in a year. I used to read a lot more (when I was 12 I would read 2-3 adult novels* a week), but I have found the gap those used to fill is getting less and less. Yet despite the fact most of my reading is from a computer screen I still have to print educational text (i.e. articles on the Code Project) off and read it from paper.
* you know what I mean
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David Wulff wrote:
when I was 12 I would read 2-3 adult novels* a week
No I don't know what you mean, Dave.
<italic>Work hard, Work effectively.
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I love reading good books. I also read science mags etc for pleasure. However I have to ration my book reading because it can become an obsession, and I miss out on sleep just to carry on reading.
However at the start of this year, I started doing Sudoku puzzles, and haven't been able to stop. The amount of time that I spent reading books has gone way down. I try keep doing just two puzzles a day, in order to give me time to do other things, but they have to be the fiendish ones, otherwise I don't get so much of a buzz. Oh well.
I expect that when the new Harry Potter comes out, that will stop my puzzle playing for a few days.
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