Miscellaneous Thoughts on Reading

Lately I've been extremely interested in a series of books by John Norman entitled the Gor series. It's a series detailing the various accounts of a people who inhabit a Counter Earth: a planet extremely similar to Earth in almost every way except that it orbits the sun in the position exactly opposite our Earth (i.e. a mirror to Earth's orbit).

This series has been extremely interesting, but as I was reading the fourth of the series, Nomads of Gor, and a friend of mine lent me his electronic copy. I opened it in Microsoft Word, and as I got to page nine or ten, a message popped up from Word: This document contains too many spelling and grammatical errors for Microsoft Word to continue processing. Click "OK" to continue. That actually made me laugh, and granted some of the words were fictional characters, creatures, and implements, it still had a plethora of legitimate spelling and grammatical mistakes. I thought it was just hilarious that Microsoft Word not only confirmed that in its own small way, but Word actually gave up trying to help me fix those mistakes!

In other news, though, I was listening to Bill Maher the other day on YouTube and on his show (via HBO) he runs a segment entitled New Rules where he mentions ironic "new" rules we should set up in the country based on idiotic or illogical precidents that have been showcased recently by the media-at-large. Well, New Rule: We don't need any new electronic devices to simply hold a novel or multitude of novels.

If I don't have time to buy the book and bring it with me or it isn't available electronically to read on a computer. Who cares?! Don't sell us another useless piece of technojunk that will be outdated the minute it reaches us! If you want to sell electronic copies of books/newspapers, then do so through current technological means. We have enough gadgets, gizmos, and thingamajigs to give us cancer (okay, really just a headache). We don't need another one! Especially if it resembles anything like this:

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Don't Text and Drive

Texas linebacker Sergio Kindle received a concussion after running his car off the road and into an Austin, TX apartment building Monday. Wow, when are people going to learn that you should text if you are driving. This article reminded me of an accident I avoided just last week because a gentleman was more concerned with reading his bank statement or something than with keeping his vehicle in his own lane. I know I've been guilty of it too, so I'll say this: I'll give up reading and driving if everyone else will. I know it will be difficult, and I may have to start my own SDA group (Stupid Drivers Anonymous). But I'm willing to take an extra five or ten seconds from now on to pull over if I want to read something or check an appointment or billing statement.

Please, for the sake of the children, if you are going to read, don't drive.*

*This public service announcement brought to you by a reformed member of the non-existent Stupid Drivers Anonymous and by the equally fictitious Brothers Against Dumb Drivers coalition. Paid for by no one because this blog is free and there are hardly any readers as it is. I mean, seriously, who's leg does a guy have to hump anyway to get more readers? Seth MacFarlane, please don't sue me for borrowing your line. Thank you.

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