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Review: Jumper
Jumper by Steven Gould My rating: 3 of 5 stars Quick note: If you don’t like sci-fi – you can probably still enjoy this book. The main character can teleport and that’s it. The reasons, science, etc are not explored. It’s just a plot device and the rest of the story is pretty much devoid…
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Free Spotify Complicates Things
Technology continues to complicate the media landscape. The other day I learned on the Fedora Planet how to send Pulse Audio over the net – allowing one computer to listen to music (or other audio) from another. But, in the context of music, who cares? I have all my music on Google Music. I can…
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This is when Civil Disobedience is Needed
Librarian of Congress: Don’t be a bigot! Renew the rights of the blind to read!
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Marx Brothers
Watching Marx Brothers A Day At The Races with my two year old. She likes it. But asked me, “Daddy, why doesn’t that man talk?”
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Review: The Eyre Affair
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde My rating: 3 of 5 stars My brother Dan recommends a lot of stuff to me. I don’t always have the time or money to get to it right away, but when it comes to books, music, and comics I’m usually very in sync his recommendations. (At least when…
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Why isn’t it @donald_faison ?
Yesterday I saw the new Star Wars trailer. I told my wife I was disappointed that if they were going to have a black Storm Trooper, they didn’t pick Donald Faison. His Storm Trooper on the Robot Chicken Star Wars specials is my favorite part of the specials. Apparently I wasn’t the only one to…
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November Video Game Report
Civilization V (1 hr) – Dan, Dave, and I didn’t play too much because life got in the way and then the GMR servers went offline. We hope to play some more in the following month. Poker Night 2 (30 minutes) – Testing out Steam’s internal streaming from Windows to Linux.
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Review: Homeland
Homeland by Cory Doctorow My rating: 4 of 5 stars Cory Doctorow – you upset me so much. Your books continue to rock. But, recently, you’ve gotten too real with your stories. They are still awesome stories. But they upset me because they make me feel impotent. All the ideas in Little Brother, For the…
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Review: The Intern’s Handbook: A Thriller
The Intern’s Handbook: A Thriller by Shane Kuhn My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is a meta-fiction work of art. It is told from two perspectives – that of an assassin writing a guide book to future assassins at his firm, HR, Inc and that of an FBI investigation into our main character.…
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Dina, Consider Yourself Challenged
Can you erase us from the Mr. Do! Top scores? AAA is me from when I didn’t know how to change the letters.
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What would have happened if Salvador Dali had made a cartoon in the 2010s?
He’d have made Bee and Puppycat, Natasha Allegri’s latest surreal cartoon masterpiece. I think there’s something great about Allyn Rachel’s mumbling delivery that really sells it. I love this amazing world we have that allows for experimentation – I hope we don’t lose it through bungling of Net Neutrality issues. (I like eps 1 and…
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Scarlett tries to watch TV
I come in from raking the leaves and Scarlett is standing there with one remote in her hand and the other two in front of her. She’s pushing buttons and asks me, “Daddy, what button do I need to push to watch a video?” I told here there were a lot of buttons to push.…
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Year of the Linux Desktop? For Real this time!
I still really love using Linux, but I don’t follow the Linux press like I used to. I’ve settled into a comfortable zone where I only follow Fedora and KDE news since that’s what I use. But I followed it very closely for nearly 10 years. Every year there’d be multiple articles asking whether this…
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Goodreads Gender and Reading in 2014
It’s nice for once to see an innocuous use of all the data these sites collect about us. Goodreads.com creates an infographic based on what user data tells them about gender and reading in 2014.
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Review: The Forbidden Knowledge of Enoch
The Forbidden Knowledge of Enoch by R.J. Von-Bruening My rating: 3 of 5 stars Disclaimer: I got this book for free as part of Good Reads First Reads I asked for this book because I find it interesting that it’s actually mentioned in by canonical books in the New Testament, but the book itself did…