For those of you in Computing Science, or related areas. Why do the authors of textbooks always feel the need to be in a conversation with you? They write their damn textbooks like I write my blogs, you know, with little comments to the reader and shit. I was reading a textbook, and the author suddenly started writing about his wife and the house that they built together and how many times they fuck per week and stuff. I mean, who the hell wants to know? Not me that's for damn sure. Two bedroom house, three bedroom house, I don't give a shit, I mean, come on! Or they'll make little snide remarks about their subject to the reader. I can't think of an example. If they're say talking about bandwidth, or high speed networks say. Cat 4 wire. They'll be like "oh, who needs THAT much bandwidth??", like they're going wink wink, it's fucking situational irony or something, the author and reader share a secret, but the actual participants who created the cat 4 wire doesn't know. It pisses me off. You don't see other textbooks doing this. When was the last time you found a lame joke in a math textbook? Or history? They tell you what you need to know, and if they feel up to it, they try to make it interesting. But they aren't so desparate that they make bad jokes about it. You never see history books talking about Henry VIII's six wives, then the author interjecting, "I'm more virile than even him, because I am a Mormon polygamist with nine wives" or something. This is why I hate to read Computing Science textbooks. Damn.
i take it that youre stressed.
anonymous weenie
I am actually. But I didn't think it was related to this. I haven't even read a computing science textbook for at least three weeks.
Calvin
that's okay. i haven't touched mine til 5 days before the midterm.
and i don't read; i merely skim so i'm sorry, i can't identify with your
distaste for the cs textbook in that context. :P
anonymous weenie