hitman

O.O.P. but possibly the highest or pherhaps the lowest example of this would be the U.S.S. America (74). Launched in 1782 scrapped due to rot it 1786. This is blamed as I recall on the use of green timber and other problems due to the nature of war time construction.

Would it be cheating to say the cutest thing I saw today and every day since August second is my daughter Selena. http://pyracy.com/in...y&album=478

I just finished The autobiography of Mark Twain (1959 edition) as an audio book. It was great in so many ways but unless you are a Twain fan I'd skip it. Twain wanted it to be a bear of a read and even with various helpful edits by three editors it is still a ramble. Next on the list is Pirate Hunter of the Caribbean by David Cordingly. This one may take a minute as it's an e-book not an audio book. By the way thanks for the suggestions Jas Hook. Out of curiosity how do those series compare with Dewey Lambden's Alan Lewrie series?

As for me I was looking into free sail boat plans and ran across a link that brought me here in an ask.com article.

Thanks to a long day at work yesterday and plenty of house work today I finished up The Mauritius Command yesterday and Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. I found Confessions a intresting read although I think his historical infrences iffy and his tone preachy. The Mauritius Command was of course excellent.

Right, so when last I posted I had started War and Peace, I have gotten about 300 pages into it and although I'm keeping it on the back burner I've decided to read other books as romance novels aren't my thing. (Though I now understand why so many academics go on NPR and talk up romance novels as their quilty pleasure.) Since moving on I've read, The Sound and the Fury, My first Faulkner novel and a really good book. That being said I skipped the last 50 pages and just looked up the ending online as the book was due back at the library and I really wanted to kill a couple of the characters. Honestly I prefer Twain and his ever present since of humor. The Jungle and Lost Empire by Clive Cussler, Yeah these books are my personal form of crack. 21, The Hundred Days, The Thirteen Gun Salute, and Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian. Agian these books are some of my favorites. I'm about to start The Maritius Command which is now the only book in the Aubrey/Maturin series I haven't read.

Just a thought here, (devils advocate if you will) Franklins autobiography was laid out by him to be an instructional text more so than a normal biography. I won't say he shaded the truth on this point but it does seem to be the only point in his life where he was a T-totaller.

Life

Right so I posted in beyond pyracy about a text based chose your own adventure game called Choice of Broadsides for Android since it wasn't pyratical. This game however is, now as a disclaimer its a clone and not as good as the original but pretty fun any how. It's being developed by two dudes and isn't finished yet but it is up on the Android market and its free. Also it is a relatively small file so it shouldn't eat up to much of your phones memory.

Adam Smith

Late to the party but, 1 For me 1916 equals WW1. 2 For some reason I always thought that song was about IRA violence in the eighties. 3 Muttley for the win. First he has a real plane with actual guns, second he comes close to succeeding despite being shackled to a group of morons who can't stop pwning themselves long enough to actually get pwned by the pigeon. Oh and BTW I'm taking this pigeon over Valiant.

emerald

Alright I finally finished Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and am now six pages into my next book (It will be the fourteenth of the year) don't expect me to finish soon though as the book is War and Peace and 6 pages is not a lot as compared to the 1701 pages this book contains.

Ok I've read three Mark Twain joints since my last post. How to Tell a Story and Other Essays, 1601, and Following the Equator. Following the Equator was fun but its a travel book so be advised the Twain style comes and goes as dictated by the form. 1601 is a very funny litle romp, and How to Tell a Story was well not really anything new as he covered the same ground in Life on the Mississippi.

I just got done with Mark Twain's A Double Barrel Detective Story. I listened to it as a Librivox audio book. Decent reader and a fun little novel.

becalmed

Right for those of you with an Android phone and nostalgic longing for years gone by this is a great free game. It's got 5 out of 5 stars in the Android market and although a little short is definitely a throw back to choose your own books and games of the past.

Just finished "Life On the Mississippi" and also read "The War Prayer" by Twain. I intend to read "Following the Equator" next but as a quick aside does any one else think he borrowed from old Ben Franklin's stories. a good little bit for War Prayer?

Just finished Twain's Roughing It. I've decided to read through the Twain material I've never got around to and so I've started Life on the Mississippi. Rouging It was hillarious Twain at his best.

I wound up ditching the dramatic reading and just read The Picture of Dorian Gray. I usually like Librivox recordings but that one was bad. I'm still reading Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow or at least I still intend to. Right now I'm just over half way through Mark Twain's Roughing It.

Just today finished Dante's The Divine Comedy. I now understand how people can devote a lifetime to studying it. I've been reading Idle thoughts of an Idle Fellow throught the time I was reading Dante as something light to read before bed etc. and I've started the Librivox dramatic reading of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Since I replaced my Black Berry with this Android phone I've been knocking out books fairly rapidly.

Can't say as I have a ship, but the 15' Tri-hull is named Chug-A-Boom after the car in The Perils of Penelope Pitstop.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?