I realized amidst the delightful haze of Bolano's "The Savage Detectives" on the metro that I hadn't mentioned my sugar shackin' adventures.
For those of you who aren't from Quebec, the sugar shack or "la cabane a sucre" is a giant log cabin type place near a grove of maple trees out in the middle of nowhere.
So you drive out there and have a massive meal in the springtime when the maple syrup is running from the trees. The meal includes pea soup, bread, ham, bacon, strange pickled things, pancakes, bread pudding, maple syrup, potatoes, and more and more and more food. Usually you get tanked as well and coat everything in the freshest and tastiest maple syrup that you'll ever eat in your life - fresh from the tree. Then they play old school lumberjack music and you dance around. It's pretty sweet. Imagine like turkey dinner full. It's especially fun if you go with a bus full of cute female university students.
A few questions:
1. If you'd just bought a bunch of smart drugs (nootropics) what kind of activity would you do to see how effective they were?
2. What's a book that's either had a significant impact on your life or "changed your life" ? What in it caused you to change? And should I read it? (if you say anything by Ayn Rand I'm totally going to punch you in the noune )
For those of you who aren't from Quebec, the sugar shack or "la cabane a sucre" is a giant log cabin type place near a grove of maple trees out in the middle of nowhere.
So you drive out there and have a massive meal in the springtime when the maple syrup is running from the trees. The meal includes pea soup, bread, ham, bacon, strange pickled things, pancakes, bread pudding, maple syrup, potatoes, and more and more and more food. Usually you get tanked as well and coat everything in the freshest and tastiest maple syrup that you'll ever eat in your life - fresh from the tree. Then they play old school lumberjack music and you dance around. It's pretty sweet. Imagine like turkey dinner full. It's especially fun if you go with a bus full of cute female university students.
A few questions:
1. If you'd just bought a bunch of smart drugs (nootropics) what kind of activity would you do to see how effective they were?
2. What's a book that's either had a significant impact on your life or "changed your life" ? What in it caused you to change? And should I read it? (if you say anything by Ayn Rand I'm totally going to punch you in the noune )
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2. All books worth mentioning change your life in small but subtle ways. Some books can provide a strong push either towards or away from a though process. Here are some of the books which have influenced me one way or the other:
Non-fiction: Kant's critique of pure reason & Logick, Works of Karl Raimund Popper, and Nassim Taleb's Fooled by Randomness and the Black Swan, The Sabaki Method, Works of Henri Poincare, the Sword and the Mind, The Tao of Jeet kune do.
Fiction:Ender's Game, Dune, Elric of Melnibone, Illuminati trilogy, The Fountainhead, Sherlock Holmes, Lord of the Rings, works of Howard Phillip Lovecraft, Fahrenheit 451, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, James and the Giant peach, The new and old testaments, x-Men comics.
There is nothing there I wouldn't recommend reading, at least to some extent(you are probably familiar with some of it already), you could prolly leave off the last 4 fiction books without any concern.
No Problem. Enjoy. Let me know if you have any interesting thoughts from them.