Review: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
First a quick note for when this appears outside of Goodreads (on my blog, for example): This review will have SPOILERS and outside of Goodreads I don’t think the spoiler tag is going to work to shield you from the spoilers. You have been warned!
In my last review I (rhetorically) asked Ms Rowling to surprise me - to make Harry lose sometimes and perhaps have the kids not always succeed at saving the day. Ms Rowling gave me that and so much more. As I noted before, she delights in Red Herrings (these books being something like Teen Wizard Noir), so my attention was on high alert this time around. Looking back at my status updates I was right or almost right about the following (will be in a spoiler tag):
Book Report 2015 Q3
A mixture of a growing Ebook library, tracking my goals in Goodreads, and Calibre’s ability to generate a catalog have made me decide to start tracking things quarterly in the book dimension as well. Here’s my second report.
Total Ebooks: 419 (includes catalogs; increase of 2 books)
Total Unread: 304 (decrease of 9)
Goodreads 2015 Challenge: 65 of 30 books complete. Last time I went way over. We’ll see what this year brings.
Last.fm Listening Trends 2015 Q3
After getting to MGMT alphabetically, I tired of going through the list alphabetically. While I have rediscovered some music, I wanted to go back to my auto-playlists which would give me my favorites. I could always get back to going through things alphabetically in the future. One way to accomplish what I wanted was to see which songs don’t have a score - another would be to create a low score playlist I could run every once in a while to see if anything that had scored lowly was now something I wanted to hear.
The Annual Pumpkin Patch Visit
Recently we went to the pumpkin patch to get a couple pumpkins for the house and for Scarlett to have some fun at the farm. Here’s a gallery of my favorite photos from that visit and aftermath:
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Tutorial: Using RawTherapee To Post Process An Image
In this video I share some new techniques I learned to better process images with RawTherapee!
My Raw Workflow in Linux (Digikam and RawTherapee)
Back in May I posted a video of my RAW Workflow in Adobe Lightroom. Now that I’m fully on the Linux photography bandwagon, here’s a video of my current workflow with Digikam and RawTherapee:
Scarlett on the Stoop
In an ever so slightly different universe this would have been Scarlett’s childhood:
The Final Coney Island Visit for the Summer
Coney Island is quite photogenic at night, but even I surprised myself (who had gone a few years ago specifically to take photos there are night) with just how photogenic when I got on the carousel with Scarlett (and her cousins). Here are some photos from that night:
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My absolute favorite photo of the night:
Exploding Kittens
My wife and I love The Oatmeal. While I don’t find each strip funny, I certainly love strips like this one or this one. So I was extremely excited to back the Exploding Kittens kickstarter. Back when I first got it I took it to New York, excited to play it with my wife and her sister.
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While I think the rules create a pretty interesting game, they got caught up on the cards themselves. So I don’t think I’m going to have anyone to play it with, but I do recommend it for its interesting rule set.