Monday, April 03, 2006

Vote

Whaddya think of the reading list? Stupid, Pretty Stupid, or Ridiculous?

20 comments:

scott hendric said...

i'd have to say "pretty stupid"

Gabriel Florit said...

hmm. how about just the text?

scott hendric said...

just the text might be better. but the thing is: posting books that one is currently reading seems to me to be a little like name-dropping. for example, if you were reading, say, a romance novel or a biography of mr. t you may not be so excited to post those books. as it stands, with a good mix of hemingway, doyle, lewis and what i can only assume to be good spanish literature you look pretty "buff", so to speak. it's a matter of pretense, i guess.
though, you're my friend and i don't want to accuse you of anything...

scott hendric said...

...and it's harder to get to your links.

Sara said...

I'm going to go with "original", though it wasn't on the list.
I haven't seen anyone do it yet.

Gabriel Florit said...

Ah. Scott you're actually quite right. Didn't think of that. I've been enjoying books quite a bit as of late, and wanted to somehow share my excitement.

But you're right. Pretense-be-gone!

scott hendric said...

gabe, i'm not the ultimate authority. i was actually going to post again and apologize for being too critical. it's your blog, after all.

Gabriel Florit said...

Scott I put the list up again. I promise to put up Mr. T's biography if I do get to reading it.

scott hendric said...

ba-dum tch.

Ismael Florit said...

I think its a disgusting imperialist amazon link hook up to try and give them sells. That's what. When you click on the book, nothing about it at a glance do you get, but a mere:

YOU'VE BEEN AMAZONGED!

And theeeen, you have to go down and read at the little subjective reviews that spoil the fun of the book for you.

*strongbad impersonation*

Instead, why not just redesign that bit so that more effectively, a LUDICROUS side slider-with a box containing AAAALLL the information- shows up! Which theeeen gives you the option to BLOW UP the book, followed by a COOL sound effect like,

" S C H B L O U W T Z ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !"

which obviously *grumble out voice* allowsyoutoclosethelittlepopup...

Gabriel Florit said...

S C H B L O U W T Z ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Kathlyn D said...

all i know is that i want a college degree. i am calling that number.

Ismael Florit said...

Gabriel, you should SERIOUSLY think of make taking some ACTION against this stupid ADS. Like a spam filter MAYBE OR SOMETHING. Althought I have to SAY IT'S pretty funny when they POP up and they actually expect people to CaLl ThOsE nUmBeRs.
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Margaret said...

hey gabe, where'd you go?

Mela said...

gabriel, que paso?

jack. said...

remember when you blogged about your life here?

i do. but 'tis fading.

sarah said...

gabe, where ARE you??? UPDATE!!!

nokomis said...

guysm i think gabe is dead, should we schedule a funeral?

r.c.f. said...

i'll make a hearse wagon to put behind my (formerly gabes) bicycle.

r.c.f. said...

gabe. for serious. what the hell.