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Podcasts I’m Listening to in 2017
I’ve both added and dropped some podcasts since last time around. Where I’m listing the same podcast as last year I may use the same description as in the past with slight (or no) variation. Video Games Giant Beastcast – The East Coast Giant Bomb crew. This podcast is more about video game culture and…
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Review: Lovecraft’s Monsters
Start off 2017 with some of your worst nightmares
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Picture Time
It’s a recurring theme that we forgot that our kids are people, just tiny people who perhaps haven’t finished developing all of their mental and emotional abilities yet. You expect them to eat the same thing every day and like the same TV shows and songs. But we aren’t like that, why should they be?…
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Review: Kill Screen Magazine: Games are No Fun
Video Games Are No Fun by Kill Screen Magazine My rating: 4 of 5 stars As I usually do with an anthology-style product, I’m just moving over my status updates. “Big Buck- I’ve seriously misjudged this game all these years” “King of the Ogres – Although I never got into WOW, I’ve faced similar issues…
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7 Month Old Portraits Lighting Setup
I meant to write about the lighting setup in the blog post in which I uploaded the photos from the 7 Month photo shoot, but with twin 7 month olds, there’s never enough time for anything – even with my mother-in-law in town helping us out. Oh well, at least I don’t have to pay…
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The Dancer on Stage
One of the photgraphers on Adorama’s channel has a show called You Keep Shooting. That advice worked rather well when I took Scarlett into the studio with me for a photo shoot that would be used for my Black and White Conversion Challenge. (While the videos are already live on Youtube, the blog post that…
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Podcasts I’m Listening to in 2016
I’ve both added and dropped some podcasts since last time around. Ever since I started using Doggcatcher on my cellphone I’ve been able to listen to more podcasts because, even without the pitch distortion my sandisk had, it plays the content a lot faster. Where I’m listing the same podcast as last year I may…
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Review: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling My rating: 4 of 5 stars Harry’s always been wary of his celebrity status, but this book is the first time he’d really rather not be Harry Potter anymore. We learn more than ever about the wizarding world and finally see the Ministry of…
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Review: Alternity
Alternity by Mari Mancusi My rating: 3 of 5 stars There are a few things in this book that are a bit on the nose – for example, there’s a distinct Moon theme going on with a bunch of things and the main characters are Skye and Dawn. However, the deeper you get into the…
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Upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 10
After waiting for a bit, turned out that the only real issue with Windows 10 is that you shouldn’t do Express Install unless you want Microsoft spying on everything. Also, now that I’m doing photography on Linux (another post about that at some point), the only thing I had to lose was the ability to…
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Changing to SDDM on SuperMario (Fedora 22)
Whenever I boot up post upgrade to Fedora 22, it takes much longer to load KDM than it used to. So I thought maybe it has something to do with Wayland and the fact that KDM is EOL’d. So I thought I’d convert to SDDM. I had no idea how to change DMs in the…
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Review: Old Man’s War Boxed Set 1
Old Man’s War Boxed Set 1 by John Scalzi My rating: 5 of 5 stars I have rapidly become a Scalzi fanboy. I’m proof of the sentiment behind Scalzi’s new $3 million deal – when someone reads one Scalzi book, they read them all. I don’t believe it discounts what I’m going to say, but…
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Review: Big Pulp: Ted Bundy’s Beetle
Big Pulp: Ted Bundy’s Beetle by Various My rating: 3 of 5 stars I bought this anthology last year at Baltimore Comic-Con because Dynamite had awakened within me the idea of enjoying modern pulp fiction. Whether the collection succeeds as pulp depends on how strictly one hews to the definition of pulp. However, I did…
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Fedora 22 Upgrade Part 2: tanukimario
Turns out that the issue was the Fedora SDDM theme. Once I changed that to the default KDE theme everything worked. I wonder what I need to do to get the Fedora theme so that works as well. At least I know for future computers what needs to be done.
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Podcasts I’m Listening to in 2015
I’ve both added and dropped some podcasts since last time around. Ever since I started using Doggcatcher on my cellphone I’ve been able to listen to more podcasts because, even without the pitch distortion my sandisk had, it plays the content a lot faster. Where I’m listing the same podcast as last year I may…