Question for the Bot-man.... - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

iwrock · #1 08-18-2008, 05:55 PM

This came up at mini-meet, but where do you get your articles??

You always come up with some off the wall stuff....

And also, how are the Bees doing?

Botnst · #2 08-18-2008, 06:47 PM

Where do you get your articles?

Thanks for asking.

My homepage is: http://news.google.com/news?promo=houseads
I regularly read BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
less regularly I read Al Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/ and the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/pages/index.html?partner=rssnyt which I started reading online back in the late 1990's, IIRC.
I subscribe to a local newspaper that comes to my driveway at 5:30AM. I read it all except sports & classifieds.
That's it for news.

Several years ago Kerry Edwards posted a link which is one of my favorites:
http://www.aldaily.com/ which I use because it is so wide-ranging.

I have a snail mail subscription to the Wilson Quarterly ( http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=wq.welcome ), and to National Geographic ( http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ ). I read the WQ cover-to-cover every issue and sometimes buy books from it's book review section. I confess to reading few Nat Geogr articles, but have loved the pictures and captions since I was a boy.

That's about it for regular and semi-regular general reading.

I also subscribe to several prof journals and have been struggling to read and understand bayesian probability and apply it to my work, biogeography.

My book-reading comes mostly from conversations. I have read more than a few good books suggested by people who subscribe to O.D.

My habits are such that I read about an hour each night. I started that as a high school senior and continued through the USN, into business, and into university and grad school. I'm not a slave to habit and there are usually a couple of nights a week or even a couple of weeks in the year when I don't read.

Having said all of that, I haven't kept-up with the bees. CMAC's your man with that one.

B

Dee8go · #3 08-19-2008, 10:08 AM

I think a guy named Bert has all the bees. I see that he's making a lot of products from them. I hope he's not abusing them.

SwampYankee · #4 08-19-2008, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Dee8go

I think a guy named Bert has all the bees. I see that he's making a lot of products from them. I hope he's not abusing them.

Stop Factory Beeing!

Dee8go · #5 08-19-2008, 10:31 AM

Somebody call PETA!

SwampYankee · #6 08-19-2008, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Dee8go

Somebody call PETA!

MMMMMMM...honey glazed chicken...

Dee8go · #7 08-19-2008, 10:46 AM

People brought tons of food to our house last week after Mom died. I said to somebody that one whole village of chickens had sacrificed their lives so that we could overeat.

SwampYankee · #8 08-19-2008, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dee8go

People brought tons of food to our house last week after Mom died. I said to somebody that one whole village of chickens had sacrificed their lives so that we could overeat.

It takes a village...

Dee8go · #9 08-19-2008, 11:08 AM

Thank you Hillary . . . . Would that village offer free medical care perchance?

SwampYankee · #10 08-19-2008, 11:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iwrock

This came up at mini-meet, but where do you get your articles??

You always come up with some off the wall stuff....

And also, how are the Bees doing?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Botnst

Where do you get your articles?

Thanks for asking.

My homepage is: http://news.google.com/news?promo=houseads
I regularly read BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
less regularly I read Al Jazeera: http://english.aljazeera.net/ and the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/pages/index.html?partner=rssnyt which I started reading online back in the late 1990's, IIRC.
I subscribe to a local newspaper that comes to my driveway at 5:30AM. I read it all except sports & classifieds.
That's it for news.

Several years ago Kerry Edwards posted a link which is one of my favorites:
http://www.aldaily.com/ which I use because it is so wide-ranging.

I have a snail mail subscription to the Wilson Quarterly ( http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cf...ion=wq.welcome ), and to National Geographic ( http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ ). I read the WQ cover-to-cover every issue and sometimes buy books from it's book review section. I confess to reading few Nat Geogr articles, but have loved the pictures and captions since I was a boy.

That's about it for regular and semi-regular general reading.

I also subscribe to several prof journals and have been struggling to read and understand bayesian probability and apply it to my work, biogeography.

My book-reading comes mostly from conversations. I have read more than a few good books suggested by people who subscribe to O.D.

My habits are such that I read about an hour each night. I started that as a high school senior and continued through the USN, into business, and into university and grad school. I'm not a slave to habit and there are usually a couple of nights a week or even a couple of weeks in the year when I don't read.

Having said all of that, I haven't kept-up with the bees. CMAC's your man with that one.

B

Bot definitely has a longer attention span than I.