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Review: Mad Tinker’s Daughter
Mad Tinker’s Daughter by J.S. Morin My rating: 4 of 5 stars Another book I got via a bundle (either Humble Bundle or, more likely Story Bundle), not because I’m a pre-existing fan of Mr. Morin. This book continues in a universe Mr. Morin created, but starts a new series that that does not seem…
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Review: Lumière
Lumière by Jacqueline Garlick My rating: 4 of 5 stars Book #71 for 2017 was this gem I’d overlooked on previous trawls through Calibre to select which book I’d read next. I’d have to check Calibre later to check my tags, but I’m pretty sure I got this book from one of the Storybundles –…
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Review: The Making of Prince of Persia
The Making of Prince of Persia by Jordan Mechner My rating: 4 of 5 stars I got this as part of a bundle – probably Storybundle as I’ve bought nearly all their video game bundles – and I had put it off in favor of other books because I don’t have a strong connection to…
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Review: Big Pulp Fall 2011: On The Road From Galilee
Big Pulp Fall 2011: On The Road From Galilee by Michael D. Turner My rating: 4 of 5 stars A fun anthology that had more stories I liked than didn’t. As usual for an anthology, a collection of my status updates as the review: “On the road from Gallilee” – time travel and it tackles…
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Review: The Machine God
The Machine God by MeiLin Miranda My rating: 4 of 5 stars Well, this story functions quite well to continue the story from Black Mercury. We see the fates of many of the characters from the previous novel, but this really is quite a different story with a different focus. The series is going from…
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Review: Black Mercury
Black Mercury by Charlotte E. English My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book started off seeming as though it would be some sort of Victorian, Steampunk Speed Racer. But that turned out to just be a red herring to introduce us to the characters and set up some of the conflicts. I also thought…
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Video Games of 2016
What a year for gaming. I tried to take advantage whenever I could to get a chance to game and I was able to do a nice mix of newer and older games. I also made a bit of a dent in the list of games I got as part of a Humble Bundle. Well,…
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Review: The Razor’s Edge
Steampunk in a modern world
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Review: Lovecraft’s Monsters
Start off 2017 with some of your worst nightmares
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October Video Games Report
Civilization VI (9 hrs) The latest iteration of this series I’ve been playing for the past 25 years was released and the changes have made the game more dynamic and, for the first time in the series, have really made it so that I can’t just do the same thing every game because of how…
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August Video Games Report
Civilization V (2 hrs) A few more turns in our multi-player games. Team Fortress 2 (2 hrs) I decided to play a little more and work on creating an overlay that allows the game to be full screen while also still presenting my Extra Life information. After a of couple tries, I like where it…
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Review: Star Wars: Dark Empire II
Star Wars: Dark Empire II by Tom Veitch My rating: 3 of 5 stars The story had some fun elements like a steampunk Jedi with a steampunk spaceship. But overall, it was a flat sequel that undid a lot of what mattered in the previous story without doing much the advance that main story. That’s…
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Review: Lightspeed Magazine July 2010
Lightspeed Magazine, July 2010 by John Joseph Adams My rating: 4 of 5 stars As usual for anthology-type things, an expansion on my status updates. But, before that, let me just say that I love science fiction and fantasy short stories and listen to SFF/F podcasts to hear them. So this was a very fun…
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April 2016 Video Games
In April I took a break from playing so many games to focus on comics and books. But I still go some play time in. Civilization V (1 hour): Cook Serve Delicious (30 minutes): I just wanted to test how well it would work on my Linux computer with Steam Big Picture. For some weird…
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Setting up a Team Fortress 2 Server on CentOS 7
I used to have a Team Fortress 2 server on CentOS 6 with Virtual Box. Now that I’m using KVM/QEMU/Libvirt, I wanted to set up a new one. Also, Valve somewhat changed how they worked a few years ago and I wanted a clean slate. I started with a VM with 40GB. It’s not supposed…