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Dunedin Rotary Triathlon (May 2023)
Back in December, before I was having any issues that made me think I was going to have to quit running, I signed up for the Dunedin Rotary Club Triathlon. It would be my first ever Triathlon. (It may end up being my only Triathlon) I set up a Garmin 12-week training plan and, when…
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Review: The Burning God
The Burning God by R.F. Kuang My rating: 4 of 5 stars R.F. Kuang brought this story to a conclusion in exactly the right way, given the story they were telling. This final entry didn’t begin as depressingly as part 2 (thank goodness!), but Kuang writes realistic fantastical fiction. Both this trilogy and Babel: An…
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Review: Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 105, February 2019
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 105, February 2019 by John Joseph Adams My rating: 4 of 5 stars Here are my reviews per story: SCIENCE FICTIONLife Sentence (Matthew Baker) – This story’s a real doozy. It’s about a potentially different way to handle criminal punishment. Because this is a well-written story, it’s not simple to decide which…
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Columbia Gateway Duathlon April 2023
Last year when I was looking at potential competitions to participate in, it saw that RipIt Events had a Duathlon pretty close to the house. I figured it’d be neat to try out a Run-Cycle-Run event. This would end up being my first competitive cycling event. However, it was scheduled for about ¾ of the…
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Excited about KDE Plasma 6
If you’ve been following my blog long enough, you know that the KDE 3 -> KDE 4 transition was a mess, but somewhere around Oct 2010 (2-3 years after the 4.0 release), it really started to get stable and become my daily runner. By Feb 2011, I was loving the fact that KDE Plasma 4…
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Review: Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 104, January 2019
Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 104, January 2019 by John Joseph Adams My rating: 4 of 5 stars I think the only story here that didn’t really click with me was “With Teeth Unmake the Sun”. It was beautiful and I appreciated that, but it wasn’t my fave. “Midway” hit me very hard at this age. Endor…
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Review: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars I was part of the kickstarter that funded this book I did not immediately jump into this book (Sanderson’s Secret Project #2) because it was not a Cosmere book. (The Cosmere being the equivalent of the MCU for…
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Going to Walt Disney World in 2023
It’s been a while since we last went to Disney; five years, in fact. We were originally supposed to go in 2020, but then, a week before our trip, Disney closed for COVID-19. Finally it was time to go back and boy have things changed. Back when we just had Scarlett, I wrote a blog…
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Color Trends in Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine Covers (by Magazine)
When I was looking at my SFF magazine covers on Calibre-web, I noticed there seems to be somewhat of a house style to the images chosen for the covers. I know I could write a python program to give me a definitive answer, but I’m not currently in the mood for that. So here’s what…
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Review: Fantasy Magazine, Issue #89, March 2023
Fantasy Magazine, Issue #89, March 2023 by Arley Sorg My rating: 4 of 5 stars Relatively quick read this month. Here are the reviews per story: Enchanted Mirrors Are Making a Comeback. That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing. (Mari Ness): I recognized the author’s name, but I couldn’t remember where I recognized it from. Then…
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Review: The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)
The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book started off in a very hard to read place because the author had to deal with the aftermath of the first book. It made everything Rin goes through feel earned. Nothing comes too easily. But it did mean that it was…
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Review: Uncanny Magazine Issue 26: January/February 2019
Uncanny Magazine Issue 26: January/February 2019 by Lynne M. Thomas My rating: 3 of 5 stars This issue started off unevenly for me, but I ended up liking most of the stories and non-fiction essays. A Catalog of Storms (Fran Wilde): A fantasy world in which weather becomes sentient. I failed to gel with the…
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Technology Update
As you know, I’ve been using Vivaldi as my default browser for a while now. I like how they continue to innovate in the browser space while Firefox and Chrome as just standing still. (Which, to be fair to the other two, makes sense given their general purpose audiences) The latest Vivaldi update has some…
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Programming Update: March 2023
In March I continued to work on my programming projects as well as a little more Advent of Code. Things started off with me finishing up my dreamhostapi and Dreamhost_DNS_Go projects in Golang. I got the API working under all the conditions that I need and I worked on both the output of the program…
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Review: Carpe Jugulum
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is my second time reading the book. Dropped the rating from 5/5 stars to 3/5 stars. On this second time reading through the Discworld books, I’ve come to realize that I really prefer the Witch books to the Rincewind/Wizard books. Usually (or at…