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Areas of interest: linguistics, music, chemistry, biology, and mathematics (among others).
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[edit] Lysdexia’s Grand Soliloquy
“ | There is no rule or law, here or anywhere, against pointing out the mistakes of others, and the only people who would find it rude are those who prefer making such mistakes. What I wrote was the sheer, open truth. There is no justification for disallowing someone to point out the mistakes of others. How I behave is needed to deal with the many mistakes, lies, fabrications, myths, delusions, red tape, obstacles, timewasters, obfuscators, and shysters that stay and run in any large group of people, here and everywhere else in the world. I hold that forbidding personal attacks, if they are true and needed to discourage someone wilfully wrong, hurts and hinders any information source, especially if they're given along with the bare correcting. Many people don't get what they deserve. Reverting a page after someone posts a comment that needed to be said cannot be justified by the admins, yet they do it. I do not offend unless I've been offended, more. You think I might be a troll when I'm sensitive to what people say and do, when others aren't. You think I've made a mistake when it is mankind which made the mistake, and I know better. I am self-important; I can't and mustn't let people be dumb and ignorant and wrong. I can't and mustn't let people do, say, and write however they want or like. There are more important rules than those a few people had thought of. Wikipedia must not encourage carelessness, and indifference about how some caused real problems is. | ” |
[edit] Useful, interesting, or otherwise noteworthy books
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[edit] Art
- Art of Calligraphy David Harris
- The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Betty Edwards
[edit] Fiction
- Housekeeping (Am), Marilynne Robinson
- Seren Wen ar Gefndir Gwyn, Robin Llywelyn
- Sometimes a Great Notion (Am), Ken Kesey
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Am) Milan Kundera
[edit] History
- Dark Continent Mark Mazower
- A People's History of the United States (Am) Howard Zinn
- Re-Thinking History Keith Jenkins
[edit] Linguistics
- Cambridge Grammar of the English Language Rodney Huddleston and Geoff Pullum
- Hammer's German Grammar and Usage Martin Durrell
- Introduction to Old English Peter Baker
- Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar Gareth King
- A Student's Introduction to English Grammar Rodney Huddleston and Geoff Pullum
[edit] Mathematics
- Calculus: Concepts and Contexts James Stewart
- The Trisectors Underwood Dudley
- Visual Complex Analysis Tristan Needham
[edit] Miscellaneous
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Am), Douglas Hofstadter
- The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Am) Manly P Hall
- Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Am) Joan Didion
[edit] Music
- Fundamentals of Piano Practice Chuan C. Chang
- Mastering Piano Technique Seymour Fink
- On Piano Playing Gyorgy Sandor
- Tonal Harmony Stefan Kostka and Dorothy Payne
[edit] Science
- Physics for Scientists and Engineers Raymond Serway and John Jewett