So, I managed to take a trip to good ole Barnes and Noble on this night, and acquired some reading materials, which have been inserted at the front of my now-enormous queue. William Shakespear's Macbeth, and The Taming of the Shrew. Both the Arden Editions.

I read the Arden Edition of King Lear a couple summers ago and loved the footnotes and commentary, so that was the publisher I first looked for during tonight's expedition. Pricier than other versions, but I read a scene from Arden, and then compared it's sidenotes with those in one of the $4 paperbacks. Definitely superior. Arden: The O'Reilly of Shakespear books!

Speaking of O'Reilly, I also picked up the pigeon book while I was there. lex and yacc, baby! Oh yeah!

Before checking out, I had to do the obligatory perusal of the scifi/fantasy section as well, but didn't end up making any purchases from that area. I scanned for Neal Stephenson's Cryptoniconman (sic?), as it's been strongly recommended by some of my other sources, but there were no copies on the shelf. I decided I have enough for the moment anyway, and headed for the checkout.

Now I just need to purchase an upgrade to my visual/language parsing subprocessor, and I'll be set. Not available for another two centuries, huh? Bummer. Maybe by then, I'll have actually read every book I own.

While a new subprocessor might not be feasible with current technology, a better location in which to conduct content absorption might be. (Translation: I need a better place to sit and read.) Sitting at my PC chair just ain't cool for sitting back and parsing page after page. Easy chairs and couches in other parts of the house are often bombarded with noise and distractions.

Here in my room, there's this chair, the bed (reading while horizontal is tedious), and the floor. When the latter item isn't cluttered to death, I can manage to construct a relatively comfortable cacoon out of pillows propped up against stuff. Perhaps that would be the best solution, until that New Year's resolution involving the place of residence can see reality. Yeah.

(Cause I have realized that one of the reasons I spend so much more time on tv than reading is the lack of a comfortable, sit-back-and-be-a-blob place hangup.)

Oh well. I said short, didn't I? That means it's time to terminate this, make the aforementioned little cacoon, and allow my mind to become enlightened. After I check my email. :)