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Fishy pics
Sorry guys, I know I said I'd post here every day during my diving trip, but we ended up changing hotels, and the new one didn't have free wifi, and even the paid one only worked in the lobby, so I had to limit my online activities to quickly checking facebook and mails ( Read more... ) -
This thing is alive!
Hello, thought I might reanimate this thing. I'm in Egypt on a diving trip, and thus this will be my diving log for the coming week.
We arrived today, in a hotel that is brandnew, to the point that some rooms apparently never have been used. So they hadn't turned on the cold water in the bathrooms yet. The electricity is a bit wobbly too. Apart ( Read more... ) -
2012 book 14: The Invention of Hugo Cabret (German edition)
One of the few examples where the movie is better than the book ( Read more... ) -
Vienna
Thought I'd post something that's not a book review, for a change...
So I spent last week in Vienna, mostly at a conference of ICAO about language proficiency for pilots.
Some general thoughts:- Conferences: can't help feeling this was a bit of a waste of time, although there were some very interesting presentations. The general consensus was that the ( Read more... )
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2012 book 13: Scholars and Soldiers
Finished Scholars and Soldiers, a short-story collection by Mary Gentle.
Before I get to the stories themselves, I need to rant a bit about short story collections: all but 3 of the stories in this one are also in Cartomany, which I already had. That's 3 out of 9 new (to me) stories. I hate it when they do that. It's just the ultimate rip-off, ( Read more... ) -
Movies 2012: Chronicle
Went to the cinema for the first time this year today. There's not all that much on (that out dear Utopia-Mafia won't give a slot where it'll disappear after 2 weeks because, frankly, nobody has the time to go to the cinema during the week at 12 noon or midnight...), and I've so far been unlucky in winning free tickets :(.
Anyway. I went to see ( Read more... ) -
2012 book 12: Grunts!
Finished Grunts! by Mary Gentle ( Read more... ) -
2012 book 11: The Quantum Thief
Finally got a copy of The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi, and pretty much devoured it right through.
Sometime in the far far future, the thief and conman Jean Le Flambeur is recued from a dilemma prison (a huge construct of crystalline cells floating in space, where prisoners are forced to fight eachother over and over for dominion of the prison) ( Read more... ) -
2012 book 10: A Hawk in Silver
Finished A Hawk in Silver by Mary Gentle ( Read more... ) -
2012 book 9: Heirs of the Blade
Finished volume 7 of Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky; Heirs of the Blade.
(slghtly spoilery!)
In terms of plot, the first part of the book follows Tynisa, who fled Collegium after Achaeos' death, and is now wandering through the Commonweal, hunting some idealistic spark of an ideal society that she caught from her friend Salma.
Later, Che and ( Read more... )