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    Book Hauls!

    Library freebie. Mine doesn’t have a dust jacket.
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    Spotting old books and magazines and dummy newspapers in TV, movies and old photos

    Looks like it the way the lower corner of the box extends into the dark area. I was spending too much time checking out the 120s.
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    Book Hauls!

    Went book hunting today, looking for one thing and finding another:
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    Book Hauls!

    The author has won both a Pulitzer and National Book Award. Not too shabby I suppose for having neither a Hugo nor a Nebula.
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    Flat Earth/Round Earth

    I was thinking about paranoid marvin’s comment “integration before assimilation” (post #10). Is this why the Copilot AI got it so wrong about being able to see the curvature of the earth at sea level when evidence overwhelmingly proves otherwise? When posed with a question does AI search both...
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    Flat Earth/Round Earth

    Thank you both. I suspected as much. But just out of curiosity I asked my AI program, Copilot, the following question: “if you are on a small boat in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight, could be able to see the curvature of the Earth?” and it replied with this:
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    Flat Earth/Round Earth

    The following quote is from chapter 8 in Nathaniel Philbrick’s tale about the sinking of the whale ship Essex In The Heart Of The Sea. The survivors are in a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean when he makes this statement: Is this true? I thought one of the reasons silly people believe the...
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    Book Hauls!

    Arrived today, another used hardback that looks rarely touched and never read:
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    Book Hauls!

    Today’s mail delivery:
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    Book Hauls!

    Just arrived today from Better World Books. Ex-library copy appears brand new and unread except for maybe being cracked open to check for pictures. Contains mostly unpublished and uncollected stories.
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    What was the last movie you saw?

    Library has a copy, just put it on hold.
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    Book Hauls!

    I asked my Copilot AI if Elleston Trevor ever wrote science fiction and it said no. He wrote in other genres but not sf. Then I asked if his novel The Theta Syndrome could be considered sf and it said, “Certainly.” I guess Damon Knight was right, science fiction is whatever you point your finger...
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    Book Hauls!

    Library freebie:
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    March Reading Thread

    I splurged and bought the hardback when it came out rather than waiting for the paperback and remember enjoying it though can’t recall anything about it.
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    March Reading Thread

    Starting this next:
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    Old Tech thread

    The technology may be old but the hair may start a new trend.
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    Brian Stableford (1948 – 2024) RIP

    Sad news indeed.
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    What was the last movie you saw?

    Didn’t know that (or have forgotten, hard to tell nowadays). Cool info.
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    What was the last movie you saw?

    Somewhere between The Prince And The Pauper and The Parent Trap there was: Enjoyable pre-code (beat the cutoff date by about two months) romantic comedy with Cary Grant an Sylvia Sydney who seemed born to play this double roll.
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