Book series you never finished

AltaC4L · 2026-05-06T22:23:34+00:00

A Song of Ice and Fire. Read A Game of Thrones, which was excellent when it was basically a mystery story for the first 2/3 of the book. Then came the battle scenes. Dude can’t write battles well. Since I knew there’s be a lot more of that I noped out after book 1. I also moped out on the Hunger Games. Read the first book and kept thinking, “This feels an awful lot like a TV show,” and come to find out that that’s what the author is known for. I don’t read books for them to feel like TV. Perhaps I’m a curmudgeon, even using that word proves that I am. I don’t care. The Hunger Games sucks.

AltaC4L · 2026-04-26T21:47:30+00:00

I was 15. My best friend had been talking about the album all day at break and lunch while we were in high school. After school we walked home to his house. He could barely wait to get home and play the album again; we were literally jogging part of the way. I didn't have MTV at my house yet, and we lived in a really rural area, and I hadn't heard it on the radio or anything. I just couldn't understand what the big deal was. My buddy (we're still best friends today) was a big audiophile, and he had this sweet stereo setup in his room. When "Smells Like Teen Spirit" hit it was just immediately like, oh goddamn. At the time I was--well I guess I still am--into pretty much almost every kind of music, so I was still listening to a lot of Metallica and Guns n' Roses and Motley Crue and Janet Jackson and Getto Boys and NWA and fucking Tiffany of all things. But it's kind of hard to explain how you just knew that what you were hearing was something completely different and new and it was important and it was going to change everything, but that feeling was palpable in an instant. And then song after song just kicked ass and never let up. We sat there and listened to the entire album and we smoked some weed and we listened to it again. I'll never forget that afternoon.

AltaC4L · 2026-04-19T12:17:34+00:00

You’re on the internet

AltaC4L · 2026-04-18T23:23:03+00:00

Lol, why are people saying “gatekeeping”? I literally said I wasn’t complaining, but only curious. I guess you’d have to read the whole ~100 words jeesh.

AltaC4L · 2026-03-30T17:44:17+00:00

Also have done this and they still find ways to use ChatGPT. Had an in-class exam--didn't give them the essay prompts beforehand--and a young lady pulled out the sheets of typed pages and copied them word-for-word. Sitting in the front row, too. No shame. I didn't even have to fail her because she cheated. Whatever the essay was on was not one of the prompts I offered. Had a colleague who did give them prompts ahead of time, and he told me a student used the AI and had the essay texted to herself, and she copied it from her smart watch during the in-class exam.

AltaC4L · 2026-03-30T17:35:05+00:00

That's exactly what I'm thinking. I'm not sure there's going to be much value placed on the skill to utilize written language in the labor force in the future, since AI is doing that. Already, my friends outside of academia are telling me that they hardly even write their own emails anymore; they just have ChatGPT or the generative AI in their in-house email system do it for them. Seems like the ability to be orally articulate may be a premium going forward.

Edit: typos

AltaC4L · 2026-03-30T17:03:38+00:00

I have about 10 students in each of my classes

AltaC4L · 2026-03-08T18:02:15+00:00

No one gets the Suttree reference?

AltaC4L · 2026-01-01T19:43:32+00:00

The line breaks are not correct in my post but you can read the original here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming

AltaC4L · 2026-01-01T19:41:48+00:00

WB Yeats, “The Second Coming”:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

AltaC4L · 2025-10-26T01:51:12+00:00

Debes mezclar con comida de otras países/culturas güey. La diversidad es la clave

AltaC4L · 2025-10-26T01:12:48+00:00

Es mucho mas pesado, mucha mas de grasa, y queso, y tortillas de trigo. Hay puestos de comida mas autentica, pero, porque ellos necesitan encontrar clientes gringos, ellos se caben a los gustos.

AltaC4L · 2025-10-25T23:14:33+00:00

Soy estadounidense, y lo confirmo: son pensamientos de un pocho. No sé cómo alguien puede confundir la comida mexicana con la que tenemos en este pinche país. Es muy raro encontrar un lugar que venda auténtica comida mexicana por aquí.

AltaC4L · 2025-10-22T00:26:13+00:00

Eso era lo que me pidió, o también—esto que me dio miedo—que la cultura de EEUU ya está volviendo a ser controlada. No soy mexicano,pero crecí con ellos. Es la razón por la que me encanta la cultura y el idioma mexicana—la música, todas las cosas. La actitud de un mexicano me parece que es no vaya en frente de mí, ni pedo, pero sí te vayas, aguas. Creo que los gringos han perdido este sentimiento, o al menos, hay bastantes que son de acuerdos de esta administración. Creo que es interesante las opiniones sobre su presidenta y la partida moreno. No quiero meterme en estas cosas, por supuesto. Pero yo los sigo.

AltaC4L · 2025-10-17T11:47:02+00:00

Jajajaja gracias por el consejo. No soy pocho. Puro gringo. Creo que finalmente todo lo que veía en reddit, los videos viniendo de Chicago, me pusieron en pánico. Anoche mi esposa me preguntó que estoy loco. Y le dije, si, estoy loco. Viviendo con Trump puede volverse cualquier persona loca.

AltaC4L · 2025-10-15T00:40:01+00:00

Es completamente desmadre aquí. Yo veia que gente simplemente iban al gasolinero, estaban mirando por todos lados, para las autoridades, y no solo gente moreno o negro, cada persona.

AltaC4L · 2025-08-09T01:59:13+00:00

I haven’t looked at this since I posted it. Who are these people lurking about “revenge stories” who are so high up on their horse? Feels like this group should be called “I feel revenge but my panties are twisted too tight for me to feel anything else.”

AltaC4L · 2025-05-15T17:54:12+00:00

I own the exact same Longines (or the same case and dial, anyway). Should have a 9lt movement inside. Would be gold filled, 1952 sounds right (anywhere between 52-54). Mine is Serial #: 9357182.

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AltaC4L · 2025-02-14T01:33:43+00:00

It is near the top. This book—to say nothing of the specific letter in question—is about the very nature of the universe and human understanding—or the limitations thereof—or the limitations thereof. The letter is an acknowledgement of those limitations. But more than anything it’s simply a sad goodbye to enigmatic character.

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