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Previously on Laura's channel. Still wondering what my exact age is?
23. Will Laura learn to use
Twitter properly?
Let me check...
well, I'm not banned today. Did she say doobly-doo?
Is she a nerdfighter? Yes. I've decided on a few recurring subjects I'd like to do
on this vlog.
For example, board, card, role playing, and video game spotlights,
technology rants, government laments,
(because I'm all out of rants for that one, all I can do now is pull out
my hair and gnash my teeth), and explore my
bookshelves. Now this book shelf doesn't represent
all of my physical books, this is just what I can fit
behind me in the shot. I have way too many
books to even fit on the large bookshelf I have downstairs.
I personally prefer physical books to digital ones.
I don't even own an ereader. Well, I did.
it broke. I got a replacement, which
was stolen. Anyway, I have some
e-books. Lemme count real quick.
Computer, work.
29.
I can only access them by computer, which just hurts my eyes.
One book that should be up here but isn't is the one I'm reading.
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.
Wait, I guess he decided that his name was
more important than the title of the book.
Usually it is in marketing, but on the book
itself? It's about Kvothe, who goes by the name
Kote as a disguise. Personally I don't think that's the best disguise
because one rings of the other
and also he doesn't disguise his physical appearance he looks exactly the
same.
He's telling the story of his life. But it didn't get to the telling of that story for
a while, so I would say
the layout of the first few chapters has room for improvement.
The other thing is the chapters are too short
and there is not a whole lot of tension
which means that I end up putting the book down
for like, a couple days at a time every once in a while.
Which is really strange for me because usually I either say
"well this book isn't worth my time" and I won't pick it back up again,
or I'm just glued to that page, and every time
I have to do something and it can't wait anymore I go "Waaah! Real-life, let me
have a minute!" but this writing is so
beautiful, and I am interested to know what happens,
just not so much that I'm cursing real life.
I think the basic problem here is how long he's been chewing on the book.
Any time you spend more than ten years on one book it's going to be a little bland.
Patrick Rothfuss, if you're watching this, first
I'm honored because I know you don't spend that much time on the internet.
Second I love The Adventures of the Princess and Mister Whuffles
and I have no doubts that you have amazing,
page-turning, can't put it down books inside you, just
please don't spend a decade on the next one. And now I want to do a segment called
Amazing Things I've Learned Recently. We figured out how to mind control mice.
Most laugh tracks were recorded in the fifties, which means that those people
you're hearing laughing are mostly dead.
Most daddy long-legs aren't actually spiders, there's Philocidae, which
are spiders there's Opiliones, which are
arachnids that are not spiders, and finally there
are crane flies, some of which are called mosquito Hawks because of the
similarity between them, not because they actually eat mosquitoes,
but there are also things called mosquito hawks which are dragonflies and they
actually do eat
mosquitoes. Acne can be caused in women both because
of too much estrogen and too little, so
got hormone problems? Got acne. So viewers,
what do you think of my subjects? Is there something you'd like to leave out,
or something you'd like to add in?
Do you have any questions for the ends of my videos?
Don't forget I have a Kickstarter project going on. Out of the two thousand four
hundred fifty dollar goal
it's a thousand dollars pledged, and there's still 21 days left. However, the deal
were you get extra e-books for pledging early ends tonight.
Anyone pledging two to nine dollars gets an
ebook added, and anyone who pledges ten dollars or
up gets 5 e-books added. Don't miss out.
Links in the doobly-doo. Which subjects will Laura vlog about next?
I wonder what pants she wears while she's vlogging? What are Laura's favorite
YouTube channels?
Find out on Tuesday.