Goodreads recommendations
27 May 2021 12:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeBased on my "sailing shelf", Goodreads thinks I might want to read "Ortho's Home Improvement Encyclopedia" or "Ethical Data and Information Management".
I'm not sure what that says about the type of person who reads books such as Josephine Tey's "The Privateer", Eric Newby's "The Last Grain Race" or C.S. Forester's "Mr. Midshipman Hornblower"...!
(Ebay always recommends me things in which I have not the slightest interest, as well. Today it thinks I might want a "Canterbury Kid's Rugby Jersey" (I have no children and have never played rugby in my life), "Superdry Men's Pool Sliders" (I've never worn flipflops in my life either), or "DKNY Women Eau de Parfum 100ml" -- which costs £34, apparently. I've not only never bought any of those items from their site, I've never bought any such item or anything remotely related from anywhere, ever.)
In a sense it's flattering to know that my habits apparently so utterly confound data collection algorithms -- just as the careers advisory questionnaire at school so completely (and prophetically) failed to come up with a suitable career path...
I'm not sure what that says about the type of person who reads books such as Josephine Tey's "The Privateer", Eric Newby's "The Last Grain Race" or C.S. Forester's "Mr. Midshipman Hornblower"...!
(Ebay always recommends me things in which I have not the slightest interest, as well. Today it thinks I might want a "Canterbury Kid's Rugby Jersey" (I have no children and have never played rugby in my life), "Superdry Men's Pool Sliders" (I've never worn flipflops in my life either), or "DKNY Women Eau de Parfum 100ml" -- which costs £34, apparently. I've not only never bought any of those items from their site, I've never bought any such item or anything remotely related from anywhere, ever.)
In a sense it's flattering to know that my habits apparently so utterly confound data collection algorithms -- just as the careers advisory questionnaire at school so completely (and prophetically) failed to come up with a suitable career path...
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Date: 2021-05-29 02:03 pm (UTC)Apparently he also built a Greek galley and did "The Jason Voyage" along the traces of the Argonauts -- I may have read that one...