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Sep 01, 2009 20:44

So, it's been almost a week since I began running Ubuntu off Kurt, and I have to say it's going pretty well. It's occasionally a little slow, but that's not really an issue :p and USB 3.0 is coming out relatively soon, so speedier operation may be in the future :) I can't put Dja (my computer) to sleep while I'm running off Kurt, because waking ( Read more... )

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baku_chan September 2 2009, 16:50:18 UTC
Sorry for being random but you mentioned Thoth and I have to plug a book.

From one of the editorial reviews on the amazon page:
"One comes across a wide variety of narrative voices in the course of reading fiction. But this is the first time I have opened a novel and found myself being addressed -- in fact berated as an ignoramus -- by a god. The narrator in Duncan Sprott's The Ptolemies is no less than Thoth, the Ibis God of the Egyptians, who in the realm of story is supreme, being God of Wisdom, Lord of Scribes, Keeper of Memory. A more authoritative reciter would be hard to find. Who better to guide us through the savage and exotic story of the founding and early fortunes of the House of Ptolemy, which lasted from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. until shortly before the birth of Christ?"

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shiro_no_wired September 2 2009, 17:06:57 UTC
...I may just have to buy that now.

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