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[Saybrooke]

Favorite Books:

1. The Hunger Games
2. Catching Fire
3. Mockingjay
4. Twilight
5. New Moon
6. Eclipse
7. Breaking Dawn
8. Holes
9. Of Mice and Men
10. The Walking Dead (Graphic Novels)

 

[oakpope]

Sophocles
Homere
Plato
Virgil
Rabelais
Du Bellay
Ronsard
Corneille
Racine
De La Fontaine
Montesquieu
Pascal
La Bruyere
Hugo
Balzac
Verlaine
Rimbaud
Vernes
Baudelaire
Poe
Zweig
Borges

 

[belamyi]

Sophocles
Homere
Plato
Virgil
Rabelais
Du Bellay
Ronsard
Corneille
Racine
La Fontaine
Montesquieu
Pascal
La Bruyère
Hugo
Balzac
Verlaine
Rimbaud
Verne are you serious?
Baudelaire
Poe pffft
Zweig
Borges

..........

 

[Saybrooke]

My favorite Jubbers! Or least favorite =P lolz

1. Belamo
2. TopherGF
3. Patgrimshaw
4. Mr. Brooding
5. Benderboy
6. Miamihorror
7. Sultan
8. AshyPheonix
9. OakPope
10. HunterM
11. G-Lexington

 

[Sigma-taylor-E]

Favorite (mathematical) theorems:

1. Pythagoras' theorem.
2. There exist irrational numbers.
3. Euler's theorem: exp(i*pi)=-1.
4. The fundamental theorem of algebra: every polynomial equation has a complex root.
5. Lagrange's theorem: the order of any subgroup is a divisor of the order of the group.
6. The fundamental theorem of ultraproducts (too complicated to explain, but a great theorem).
7. Fermat's last theorem (as proved by Andrew Wiles et al.)
8. Cantor's theorem: the irrational numbers are uncountable.
9. The prime number theorem.
10. The classification of finite simple groups.
11. Lagrange's theorem: every integer is the sum of no more than four squares.
12. Cayley-Hamilton theorem: every square matrix satisfies its characteristic equation.
13. The Brouwer fixed point theorem: any continuous mapping of a unit disk onto itself will leave at least one point unchanged.
14. Gödel's incompleteness theorem: in any system powerful enough to include arithmetic, there are true theorems which cannot be proved within the system.
15. Turing's theorem: the halting problem is undecidable.

I know that once I post this I'll think of plenty of others...

-T.

Sir, would you do me the honor of marrying me?

Favorite Physicist and Mathematician.

Carl F. Gauss
Leonhard Euler
Bernhard Riemann
Kurt Gödel
Albert Einstein
James C. Maxwell
Andrei A. Markov
Alan M. Turing
Girolamo Cardano
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Henri Poincaré
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
David Hilbert
Gottfried W. Leibniz
Max Planck

 

[belamyi]

This is the good one:

Sophocles beyond... "Theban plays"
Homere
Plato ... and above... [well...]
Virgil ... good and evil. Georgicon
Rabelais mh
Du Bellay
Ronsard
Corneille bon...
Racine
La Fontaine
Montesquieu
Pascal ok
La Bruyère
Hugo
Balzac
Verlaine
Rimbaud bof meh
Verne are you serious?
Baudelaire
Poe pffft
Zweig
Borges

..........

 

[oakpope]

Hugo

Verne are you serious?

Poe pffft

Zweig

Borges

What have you against Hugo ?

Yes Jules Vernes for having created a whole new genre, and being able to imagine worlds without leaving his house in Nantes.

Poe is the least in my list I think, but I like very much some of his pieces.

Why are you surprised by Zweig ? He is a master of passion and how to describe one with economy and lack of Grand Word. He is precise and speaks to the heart directly. One of the greatest short novelist of the 20th in my mind.

Why the hate for Borges ? I love his imagination and bibliophilia.

Oh, I forgot Shakespeare, Dante and Lovecraft So many remain...

PS : thank you Saybrook, not convinced I merit this honour (or shame ? ).

 

[belamyi]

What have you against Hugo ?

His Complete Works. And to make it even worse, his Olympian reputation.

Why the hate for Borges ? I love his imagination and bibliophilia.

Oh, I forgot Shakespeare ok , Dante well... and Lovecraft what?

Borges could write like he could see.
He's pompous without wit, erudite without charm... he could be a zombie Poe... and yes, that could also be me, but I haven't littered mankind's archives with my crap: at least not yet

 

[Latimer]

The Marriage of Figaro
Cosi fan tutte
The Magic Flute
The Barber of Seville
The Elixer of Love
Gianni Schicchi

I like to laugh.

 

[belamyi]

The Marriage of Figaro
Cosi fan tutte
The Magic Flute
The Barber of Seville
The Elixer of Love
Gianni Schicchi

I like to laugh.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kDOT6xNzO...x-s_V-9o/s1600/La+Teoria+De+La+Involución.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P8UQ1KYy0...uH-rsdvFl_c/s1600/involucion+de+la+musica.jpg

 

[oakpope]

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
(no, Pluto, you've been punished, naughty boy)

 

[belamyi]

Now poppy, you can bash my B/C library of choice

Keats (I am not particularly proud of this one, but I liked him so much for so long...
भवभूति
La Rochefoucauld
Boileau Boileau
Calderón Lope Cervantes Cervantes
Cervantes
Molière Molière Molière Corneille Molière Molière Corneille
La Fontaine La Fontaine
Defoe
Tasso
周易诗经 孟子 孟子 孔子
Достоевский
ابونواس
楚辞
宋词 德道 兵法
吴敬梓
Dante
Kant Goethe
Ariosto
Пушкин Пушкин
Пушкин Лермонтов Достоевский
Heine Heine
La Fontaine
Molière Molière Molière Molière Corneille Corneille Corneille Corneille
Ευριπίδης
Πλάτων
Livius Livius
Ovidius Ovidius
Heine Hölderlin (cf. top


And my choice of classics:

CATVLLVS
ΟΜΗΡΟΣ
VERGILIVS
ΨΑΠΦΩ
ΣΟΦΟΚΛΗΣ
CAESAR
TIBVLLVS
ΔΗΜΟΣΘΕΝΗΣ
ΠΛΑΤΩΝ
ΠΙΝΔΑΡΟΣ
TERENTIVS
SALLVSTIVS
ΞΕΝΟΦΩΝ
ΘΕΟΚΡΙΤΟΣ

ΑIΣΧΥΛΟΣ
ΘΟΥΚΥΔΙΔΗΣ
ΗΣΙΟΔΟΣ
ΗΡΟΔΟΤΟΣ
LIVIVS
TACITVS
ΑΡΙΣΤΟΦΑΝΗΣ
HORATIVS
LVCRETIVS
IVVENALIS
ΕΥΡΙΠΙΔΗΣ

Now you know more in detail why I am such a big loser that I don't even waste my time so much anymore on this site or porning about on the web


Man, if I took myself seriously, I could get so mad as to vomit on myself... I can so get why some idiots out there can get so wrought up by my posts...

 

[evanrick]

1. Guild Wars

2. Guild Wars II

3. Warcraft III

4. The Sims Online

5. Diablo II

6. Civilization III

7. Sim City 4

8. Casino Empire

9. Secondlife

10. Alpha Cenaturi

 

[belamyi]

^ FINALLY a cool post.!! too bad the avatar and sig pic

 

[zoltanspawn]

Proably pretty close to this order:

1) Hayao Miyazaki
2) Andrei Tarkovsky
3) John Waters
4) Pedro Almadovar
5) Todd Haynes
6) Lars Von Trier
7) Brian DePalma
8) Dario Argento
9) Todd Solondz
10) Terence Malick
11) Chantal Akerman

 

[oakpope]

Ah ! Alpha Centauri best game ever. The tinkering possibilities with the factions and the units are seemingly limitless. If the IA had been a tiny bit more refined, I would have lost a million hours with it


(rushing to re install it asap on my laptop)

 

[Saybrooke]

Favorite Super Heroes:

1.

Thats it =P

 

[freefall]

Makin' something weird here

1. Common thistle (Cirsium vulgare)
2. Japanese dandelion (Taraxacum japonicum)
3. White sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)
4. Rangoon creeper (Quisqualis indica)
5. Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis)
6. Sandalwood plant (Michelia)
7. Calico flower (Aristolochia elegans)
8. Titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum)
9. Western underground orchid (Rhizanthella gardneri)
10. Wisteria (Wisteria sinensis)
11. Paper moon (Scabiosa stellata)
12. Solomon's seal (Polygonatum biflorum)
13. Common teasel (Dipsacus fullonum)
14. Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena)
15. Old man's beard (Clematis vitalba)

 

[refujiunderground]

here's my five favorite artists of all time

1. dylan
2. dylan
3. dylan
4. dylan
5. dylan

cause he spits hot fiyah.

 

[JOHN B]

Favorite books.....

1) The Mirror--by Marlys Millhiser. Time travel story. A 20 year old woman from 1974 trades places with her (now 98 year old) grandmother when she was the same age, due to the mystical qualities of a standing mirror that has been in the family since her grandmother was young...... Got it from a used bookstore in 1983 and have read it every few years since. My all time favorite book.

2)Invisible Monsters--by Chuck Palahniuk. Read it BEFORE it becomes a movie (it's in the works now) and is ruined by Hollywood. Bizarre, quick read.

3)Uncle John's Bathroom Readers-----any of them. Over 23 of them by now. Odd Facts on any subject.

4)Kindred--by Octavia Butler. Time travel story about a black woman tossed back and forth between modern times and the plantations of the 1700's..... Skip the "forward/introduction" it is a spoiler for the whole book. The Prologue starts out "I lost my arm on my last trip home. My left arm. And...about a year of my life and much of the comforts of home...." and hooks you from there....