Before this latest reading orgy it had been a long time for me too. I find I have middling retention (higher when I am motivated). If I'm lucky, what I remember is that at least the issues were discussed, and then when I encounter them in code I may think "Meyers wrote something about this" and pick up the book. Then that time I'll retain more, because I have context. Is it the same for you?
(I have a harder time with this the higher the abstraction goes, of course. I look at code and don't always think all the right words to trigger the memories of reading.)
It is muchly too bad that my bait hasn't been taken. I think my first point (plastic surgery as a valid and proactive self-transformative act, better than whining about society) is the most interesting and the most likely to piss people off. But... silence. Perhaps I just confused them too much.
Good as I may be with the rationalization, my surgery was to change how I looked, and no excuse needed. I'm mine and can do what I want with me. :) And so, of course, can you. The blood vessel I think is the sort of thing they fix with a little laser zap,these days...
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Date: 2004-07-06 01:15 pm (UTC)(I have a harder time with this the higher the abstraction goes, of course. I look at code and don't always think all the right words to trigger the memories of reading.)
It is muchly too bad that my bait hasn't been taken. I think my first point (plastic surgery as a valid and proactive self-transformative act, better than whining about society) is the most interesting and the most likely to piss people off. But... silence. Perhaps I just confused them too much.
Good as I may be with the rationalization, my surgery was to change how I looked, and no excuse needed. I'm mine and can do what I want with me. :) And so, of course, can you. The blood vessel I think is the sort of thing they fix with a little laser zap,these days...