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From: "der.hans" <PLUGd@LuftHans.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2002 1:25 AM
Subject: RE: FotR


> Am 07. Feb, 2002 schwätzte Jeffrey Pyne so:
>
> > What's cool about this is that it seems to be "in" to read books these
days.
>
> Yes, that is a most cool thing. Unfortunately I've got nieces and nephews
> who are glad the movies came out, so they can finally learn the stories
:(.
>
> I've got others that love books, though. It's fun reading to them or
giving
> them books to check out. Most of them have also memorized everything from
> Barney or Jim Carrey or whatever fits their age group.
>
> > I'm glad a lot of kids seem to be putting down their video game
joysticks
> > long enough to pick up a book.  (Gawd, I'm starting to sound like
somebody's
> > parent....)  I don't care if it's Harry Potter, J.R.R. Tolkien or
whatever,
> > the fact that kids are reading is A Good Thing.  My wife tells me all
the
> > time that I don't read anymore, which is untrue-- I read all the time.
But
> > she doesn't consider reading "A Programmer's Introduction to PHP 4.0" to
be
> > "real reading."  :)
>
> php's easy enough that I don't either ;-). Save your email for a couple of
> weeks, then do a wordcount on it and you'll probably amaze her. I bet most
> of us also do a ton of reading at tech and news sites. Then there's
> documentation and finally dead tree stuff like what you mention. Most of
us
> probably use irc as well.
>
> Then, after all that, we can get to leisure reading :).
>

leisure reading? whats that again?

Nige

> ciao,
>
> der.hans
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