rumblerob

I'm all for mind-blowing books, but this manic search for The Optimally Life-Changing Set of Books mostly just sounds like a great way to leach all the pleasure from reading.

I think the headline is a mild pun on the book The Joy of Sex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_of_Sex

Sets really only get mentioned once in passing; the article is more a general defense of the beauty of mathematics.

I've tried melatonin, cutting out alcohol, f.lux, not looking at a screen for an hour before bed, but the one thing that has had the most influence on my sleep (for the better) is cutting out caffeine after 4pm. (relevant study: http://www.aasmnet.org/jcsm/ViewAbstract.aspx?pid=29198)

I'll just leave this here. http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uuad4vm7n

Fun to: guess what the map was representing, then scroll down to see if I was even close.

For the first few "lessons" I thought he was making an analogy to computers, with the students as individual bits.

Great, we're trained to be automatons.

Even if cans were worth a dollar apiece, six dollars would be worth much more than a 6-pack. Cash is considerably more liquid -- you can't walk into J.C. Penney and trade a few 6-packs for a pair of slacks.

Anyone else concerned with zellunit posting a link from zellunit.com? Or does that happen a lot around here? Legitimate question.

Right. It's strange how he has to back it up with (don't), too.

"Doing this is like doing a really bad thing, which by the way you shouldn't do."

Someone should tell them that their "VI Gang Sign" is a pretty close analogue of the Shocker. (Not that that couldn't be a convincing argument to learn vi...)