[Infected by Brad Wilson]{.556184619-22032005}
You're stuck inside Fahrenheit 451, which book do you want to be?
[“The idea is you memorize a book and repeat it over and over again until your grandchildren run from the room whenever you open your mouth and start quoting, 'Mr. Popper's Penguins,' or whatever...” Oh, okay. Ummm...Although “Green Eggs and Ham“ was the first thing that sprang to mind, I'll say “Origin of Species.“ If that's taken, I'll go with the insanely important Adaptation in Natural and Artifical Systems by John Holland, which established the mathematics of adaptation and thus demolishes the “evolution is an untested theory“ nonsense.]{.556184619-22032005}[]{.556184619-22032005}[]{.556184619-22032005}Have you ever had a crush on a fictional character?
[Robert Heinlein's female characters were always brilliant, ruthlessly competent tom-boys who ended up melting for the brilliant, ruthlessly competent nerd-hero. So 1950s. But what can you do?]{.556184619-22032005}[]{.556184619-22032005}The last book you bought was:
[The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time]{.556184619-22032005}The last book you read was?
[Trawler by Redmond O'Hanlon. Just finished it yesterday. Although still funny, the melancholy vein that began to appear in No Mercy makes another appearance. The most original O'Hanlon book remains Into the Heart of Borneo with In Trouble Again perhaps being slightly funnier.]{.556184619-22032005}What are you currently reading?
[Diving The Seamount, by Tom Rapko]{.556184619-22032005}[]{.556184619-22032005}Five books you'd take to a deserted island?
You know, I just moved to an island six months ago. After decimating my library, I still brought eight boxes of books. Sheesh.
[The Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian (21 volumes, but essentially one work). The best modern fiction worth rereading.]{.556184619-22032005}
[The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. The best writing in English.]{.556184619-22032005}
[Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics. If I had the rest of my life to be at leisure, I'd be tackling P != NP. I have what I consider a promising attack, but it depends on the idea that there's a limit to the speed at which information can propagate. I think with stronger math, I could say something definite about that.]{.556184619-22032005}
[Complexity Entropy and the Physics of Information. These are conference proceedings, but I think the idea of a deep relationship between physics and information is going to produce a whole slew of Nobels.]{.556184619-22032005}
US Army Survival Manual FM 2176. I've watched Survivor enough to know that getting enough food to survive on is much harder than it seems.
Who will you pass this stick (3 persons) on to, and why?
They get to self-select. :)