Quick thought:
I just added a "Today in History" widget. I figure maybe something will sink in. I'm scrolling through, lecturing to myself, "You're never going to learn any of this if you don't actually read it." So I read the last event for February 10 ... "1996 – Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in a game of chess, the first ever game won by a chess-playing computer against a World Chess Champion under chess tournament conditions." And suddenly I have the urge pick up the Turing mysteries by Donna Andrews again and get another dose of KingFischer.... the chess-playing AIP (Artificial Intelligence Personality).
Isn't it interesting how real-life and fiction are interwoven? ::Pause for thoughtful consideration::
I'm a bit behind on my Donna Andrews mysteries :( I always loved it when I was in school and reading something say, about King Henry VIII and then I'd go to class and that would be the lecture of the day!
ReplyDeleteI especially love that that sort o thing happens even though I tend to read popular fiction. Those books that, in their eyes, are "fluff" or "not worth the time."
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