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Crisis of Authorial Confidence
Ouch. It was so disappointing that I'm still reeling with it.
I've been reading a book. It's not supposed to be wonderful according to the reviews, but it was square in the center of my personal genre, so it's pretty much required reading.
The Lost Starship, by Vaughn Heppner
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Starship-Vaughn-Heppner/dp/1500986194/ ( Read more... ) -
Surgical recovery, day 2
Well, the treasonous organ has been removed and eliminated as an example to any other organs who might have been considering stepping out of line ( Read more... ) -
Weird coincidence in GKK land.
So, last night, I noticed for the first time that Ysabel and the Fionavar Tapestry both end with the same sentence. That's obviously not a coincidence. What is a coincidence is that while we were assembling the new dome this afternoon, I was listening to my students talking. One of them was complaining that a book her mother gave her was ( Read more... ) -
Honor or Miles (A rant requested by firstfrost)
Cruises and sitting on a jury both involve a lot of waiting, so I've been plowing through the Vorkosigan books Firstfrost is making me read. She presented them initially as, "like Honor Harrington but good," which of course miffed me as a Weber fan, but I'm reading them.
After four books, I do have to say that Bujold appears to have a greater command of ( Read more... ) -
Daylight Savings Time
Does anyone actually understand where DST comes from? I don't mean that as in its saving energy in the 70's root, but where does it come from right now ( Read more... ) -
Car Shopping, the way it should always be...
I went car shopping today. It was fabulous. The last time I went car shopping, it was a pretty intensely annoying experience. It was filled with strange theater, where there were good guys (salesmen) and bad guys (managers) did battle with each other to get me a good price and/or screw me over ( Read more... ) -
Call the irony police
I've been on a bunch of cruise ships, thanks to my family's tendency to have joint vacations on them. Generally, there is a priest on-board and he gathers 20 of us or so up in some lounge or card room or cooking area and celebrates mass here and there throughout the week ( Read more... ) -
How Things Change...
I was discussing my observatory and recent results with my faculty sponsor earlier today and I was really struck with how we're watching science advance right before our eyes here ( Read more... ) -
Horrible Murder with Friends
So, I don't like movies of the genre: "A bunch of people die horribly in the woods/neighborhood/whatever because of the serial killer/monster/whatever who hunts them down one by one." I recall that I did in middle school and early high school, but by the time I got to college, I was completely done with that. Ick ( Read more... ) -
Apparently, they won
Remember those light mounts installed in all of our offices I was annoyed about? Well, the hackers finally had their meeting with the department head.
The results:- The display creators will inform EAPS’s Department Head and Administrative Officer before they put anything on the display, and they will need explicit approval as to whether the ( Read more... )