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Review: The Cage of Zeus
The Cage of Zeus by Sayuri Ueda My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book is 1 of 2 books I was reading at the same time heavily using Science Fiction as a metaphor for modern issues. (The other is The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer) The Cage of Zeus is written […]
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Review: High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley My rating: 4 of 5 stars In some ways, the information here is not too different from some of the lessons I’ve been taught in managerial training or reading books by people like Steven Covey or Tony Robbins. But the main […]
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Review: Trafalgar and Boone in the Drowned Necropolis
Trafalgar and Boone in the Drowned Necropolis by Geonn Cannon My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book continues on from the last one, but the author does a good job of catching readers up. If you like a Victorian era archaeological adventure story, you can do much worse than this. It works well and […]
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Review: Nona The Ninth
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir My rating: 4 of 5 stars Well, that was certainly something. Tamsyn Muir seems to have created, with this series, a true experiment in making a genre book more about the journey than the destination. This is the second book in which almost nothing happens for most of the […]
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Review: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley My rating: 4 of 5 stars My utter enjoyment of this book is inexplicable to me. The subtitle says that it’s a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, but McKinley doesn’t change too much from the original tale. Mostly she makes […]
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Programming Update: October 2022
As October came around, it was time to get ready for Hacktoberfest. I’ve been participating for the past few years and I love the fact that DigitalOcean supports this project which gets more people to contribute to free and open source software. In the past, I’ve often contributed to my Extra Life Donation Tracker. Since […]
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Review: Calamity
Calamity by Brandon Sanderson My rating: 3 of 5 stars This is a perfect conclusion to the trilogy. Sanderson does a good job extending out everyone’s character growth and the natural progression of the story. I don’t remember if, while reading the earlier books in the trilogy, I made the leap of Calamity as a […]
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My First USMS Swim Meet (Oct 2022)
On 15 October this year I competed at my first swim meet since high school, some 20ish years ago. Although I’d had various folks encourage me to join US Masters Swimming for almost as long, I’d always found a reason to put it off. Sometime in August or September I decided I wanted to do […]
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Review: Nightmare Magazine Issue 120
Nightmare Magazine, issue 120 by John Joseph Adams My rating: 4 of 5 stars Once again I bought an issue of Nightmare Magazine to share the stories with my wife. The descriptions on the site seemed interesting and, indeed, they were. The description that got me to buy it was for the short story Concerning […]
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Review: Let’s Talk About Hard Things
Let’s Talk About Hard Things by Anna Sale My rating: 4 of 5 stars A well-written and well-narrated book that’s just on this side of a self-help book. There is some advice, but it’s really mostly a series of vignettes that illustrate some points the author wants to make as well as showing that there […]
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Review: Nightmare Magazine: People of Color Destroy Horror! Special Issue
Nightmare Magazine 49: October 2016. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Horror! Special Issue by Silvia Moreno-Garcia My rating: 4 of 5 stars I got this to read together with my wife who lives horror I ended up really enjoying most of the stories. Wish you were here – the history of a revolution and civil war […]
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Web Browsers: Brave on Linux and Brave in the News
As I did last time, I wanted my web browser post to contain both news stories about browsers that have caught my attention and my thoughts on the newest web browser I’m trying out. Let’s start with the news. As you probably have heard if you’re paying any attention to browsers, one of the selling […]
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Programming Update: Sept 2022
This month I wanted to practice Go outside of Advent of Code puzzles. So I decided I would port over my Dreamhost DNS updating script from Python to Go. This would have the advantage of being a compiled program. Every time I update Python on my system, the virtual environment points to the wrong Python […]
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Review: The Man Who Could Be King: A Novel
The Man Who Could Be King: A Novel by John Ripin Miller My rating: 4 of 5 stars I got this book for free as part of the Kindle First Reads program I like to geek out on many things and one of those is history. Thanks to books like 1776 I already knew that […]
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Review: Hogfather
Hogfather by Terry Pratchett My rating: 1 of 5 stars This is my second time reading this book. Rating went from 2 stars to 1 star. I didn’t like this book all that much when I first read it and I liked it even less this time around. I don’t like The Auditors as Death’s […]