what am I doing

[NenshouStar]

so here I sit, 25 years old. trying to act cool at a university library computer fiddling away whilst I await the time of a lady friend whom attends here.
wishing I brought my thumb drive with project1999 all ready to go...
what am I doing with life? lol . aside from waiting for her to finish her homework for the obvious 'bonework'

[skarlorn]

You're in a library. Get a book and read it.

[Check12345]

Deffo snag a Bukowski novel, will get you in a nice gentle romantic mood.

[NenshouStar]

I laughed out loud here with your replies. people think that I am retarded; lmao... btw what the heck is a Bukowski ? convince me lol

[TheOutdoorNerd]

Get her to play P99 with you :)

[skarlorn]

he's a crass and violent and boorish writer preferred by weakling hipster soyboys

[d3r14k]

I agree with skar -- pick up a book.

Read some Isaac Azimov. There's a short story you can finish before your bonework called "The Last Question" that'll take you an hour to read maybe. It stays philosophical and makes you think while still being simple enough for a halfwit like me to understand.

Read "Foundation" by Azimov if you've got some more time.

[TheOutdoorNerd]

Read "Foundation" by Azimov if you've got some more time.

Great series!

[skarlorn]

yeah Asimov is great, foundation is great, I also read another short novel by him called the Currents of Space

very good stuff

[SDWV]

I always took a dump at UCSD library. It was a good time killer and I saved toilet paper.

[d3r14k]

Did OP get laid? I need to know.

[clacbec]

asimov >

[mcoy]

Don't forget his Lucky Starr series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Starr_series

-Mcoy

[Pope Hat]

Did OP get laid? I need to know.

[aaezil]

you wont get laid reading that nerd shit people just suggested thats for sure

[d3r14k]

you wont get laid reading that nerd shit people just suggested thats for sure

You're right, Batman comics will definitely impress her much more.

[Shinko]

Have you checked your check your privilege? Being in a place you can study?

[loramin]

Don't forget his Lucky Starr series.

Or his R. Daneel series (which later connect to the Foundation series).

Or, well, anything he wrote. Aasimov was an incredible writer: he wrote over 500 books (suck on that George R. R. Martin), in nearly every major category of the Dewey Decimal system. Like there are ten major categories, he wrote books in nine, and if his philosophical forward in one book qualified as Philosophy he would have hit all ten

... and they're all good. I mean, I've even read the man's joke book, and while a lot of them are now a bit dated ("classic"), it's still fun. For instance:

A condemned spy was being led out at dawn to the wall against which he was to be shot at sunrise. It was raining with ferocious intensity. On either side of him was a line of soldiers, and to one of them the condemned spy said bitterly "what beasts you all are to march me out to be shot in a rain like this."

And the soldier replied with equal bitterness, "What are you complaining about? We've got to march back."

https://i.imgur.com/5jnq2oM.jpg

You just can't go wrong reading anything by Aasimov.

[Jimjam]

First hundred pages of Dune will guarantee you a 10/10 in lap.

[Ravager]

Learning is dumb.

[Sonderbeast]

First hundred pages of Dune will guarantee you a 10/10 in lap.

Dune IS the 10/10 in your lap.

[skarlorn]

Dune IS the 10/10 in your lap.

[ZiggyTheMuss]

people think that I am retarded

[TheOutdoorNerd]

Dune IS the 10/10 in your lap.

The books that Herbert's son wrote after his death are pretty decent, too. I think that makes 22 Dune books total, IIRC.