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Ooops, I read the book with all the racism
So apparently a while back a book called The Black Witch by Laurie Forest was at the center of some internet drama which was kicked off by this review back in March. I hadn't heard about any of the drama when I bought the book and had no idea that it was a book about a racist who learns that her opinions are wrong. (I thought it was going to be a ( Read more... ) -
As long as I am on a roll...
I'd agreed with a contractor that they would fix one of their drawings and then roll out all the corrections across the drawings (this is the second time we've done this - the first time they took our coments, waited a week, didn't implement any of the comments and then uploaded all the drawings. Needless to say, we bulk rejected that revision ( ( Read more... ) -
Tap, tap, is this still on?
How about a few work follies ( Read more... ) -
I Await My Flu Superpowers
I got my flu jab today. My office does about five days of vaccinations each year and the sign up is like trying to get Hamilton tickets. Ok, I exaggerate (a bit) but within 10 minutes of the email going out announcing the yearly signup, every spot on the first day was gone. (Appointments run every 10 minutes all day long.) Luckily, there were still ( Read more... ) -
Return of Work Follies
The project I'm currently working on is a design/build job and we are working as the services engineers for the contractor. Now the way all our contracts work is we do the design up to a point and then it gets taken on by the services subcontractors. The reason why it works this way is because the contractor is allowed to offer substitutions on the ( Read more... ) -
So Many Trains, All Going Nowhere
Had an uneventful trip to visit my mom recently. The trip back, on the other hand, was something else ( Read more... ) -
Best Short Story Voting
Since I'm running out of time, I'm going to discuss the fiction by category. First up, short stories.
1. No Award.
2. "Cat Pictures, Please" by Naomi Krtizer. Discussed here. I enjoy Kritzer's fiction, but this didn't work for me.
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"Asymmetric Warfare" by S. R. Algernon - Discussed here"Space Raptor Butt Invasion" by Chuck ( Read more... ) -
Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
Novella it a tough length. Most of the time Novellas feel like they are either bloated short stories which could benefit from an edit or a story which really ought to be expanded into a novel to do it justice. Binti is one of the latter ( Read more... ) -
The Builders by Daniel Polansky
This story left me with a lot of questions ( Read more... ) -
Contemplating My Own Brexit
It's been an unsettling day which I have tried to quell by doing all the childish things - staying in bed, eating junk food, and am now drinking beer. But sooner or later I am going to have to face up to the fact that the UK, due to a campaign by some lying idiots, has elected to leave the EU ( Read more... )