I’ve read that book. Pretty good, pretty horrifying.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/05/bones_rocks_and_stars.php

I’ll be evaluating its potential as potential gift material to certain friends. But we can also tackle something else if it is easier for people interested in taking part to get their hands on it.

I’ve also set my sights on “Infidel”, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, as reminded by a comment on this Afrikaans blog post:

http://piesangverkoper.co.za/?p=246

It’ll probably be the next book I add to my collection.

Although I did get hold of the 2nd edition of The Dinosauria (eds Weishampel, Dodson & Osmolska).

I think I’m in love!

Dude. You’re not going to design how this club will work? You’re going to randomly try a bunch of stuff and select the stuff that works well? That will never produce good results!

Yea, what a terrible idea! But would you expect any better from people that believe in that “evolutionism” thing? This just goes to show how dangerous an idea that is!

Sigh. Just when I thought I was sort-of-competent with the tags…

Fixed it for ya. The very day everyone is completely competent, I’ll announce “let’s comment via mengelmoes, so use ReStructuredText rather than HTML from now on!”

(Don’t worry, it’s actually pretty easy. The biggest problem will be that line-breaks-that-do-nothing will confuse some people – blank line needed. I’ll have help / tips available and all. And eventually auto blockquote-creation too, even though it is so easy!)

So I still have very little idea of how this will work, it is something of a trial run. Any ideas or inputs are welcome, but we’ll probably end up experimenting together.

Dude. You’re not going to design how this club will work? You’re going to randomly try a bunch of stuff and select the stuff that works well? That will never produce good results!

The David Bosch I just mentioned is “other news”, an additional one I intend to read, hoping to follow Cobus’ “book club”. If we decide we also want to do that one in a “thinktoomuch book club” context, I can take care of it later.

Yea, I’m probably still tackling too many things at once, but “Bones, Rocks and Stars” will have higher priority. Even if only by virtue of my own passion/interest for it! Would we be able to start in April? 11 chapters, about 15 pages each. I wonder if there’s much point in writing 11 posts. Probably not. Maybe two chapters per post.

So I still have very little idea of how this will work, it is something of a trial run. Any ideas or inputs are welcome, but we’ll probably end up experimenting together.

In other news, I’ve placed my order for David Bosch, going to try to catch up with Cobus et al, and join in on the synchro-blogging. Who knows if I’ll have enough time. I’ll have to make it. Also for Da Bones Book (and a book about computer geek stuff I’m trying to read with a book club at work). If you want to see Cobus’ first post on the book, March 12 on his blog.

This blog’s next post has 250 words already, I should get it done before going away for a long-weekend.

who’s quote is that again?

I think it’s Douglas Adams’…