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tamaranth at 10:16am on 13/08/2025 under monthlyculture, reviews: concerts, reviews: film, reviews: theatre
accomplished
“If you’re scared, channel that into Tomasin.”
“He’s a demon. He doesn’t get scared.”
“So tap into that. You’re a demon in a big spooky house—you should feel right at home.”
“I do...That’s what scares me.” [p. 176]
This isn't exactly a sequel to The Haunting of Hill House: it's more of a tribute, with a rather different ambience. ( Read more... )
uncomfortable
All I can say is that this is a very strange country, and that one has evidence of things occurring here which would certainly be against all the laws of Nature at home. [p. 412]
Reread, with perhaps a better understanding now of the Greek elements: I thought I'd read it quite recently, but it turns out that was in 2015 (review here).
I'd forgotten a great deal: just how murderous Erif and Tarrik are; the snake that protects Kleomenes; the death of Harn Der. And this time around, more interested in the Greek (and especially the Spartan) elements, I found Kleomenes' story fascinating. ( Read more... )
refreshed
andrewducker at 12:00pm on 12/08/2025 under aol, children, conspiracy, edinburgh, epicwtf, internet, law, links, recommendation, scifi, scotlandbibliofile at 01:42pm on 11/08/2025 under booksjames_davis_nicoll at 02:26pm on 11/08/2025 under bundle of holding
james_davis_nicoll at 11:18am on 11/08/2025 under clarke awardWhich 2009 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Song of Time by Ian R. MacLeod
1 (3.2%)
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
26 (83.9%)
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
9 (29.0%)
Martin Martin's on the Other Side by Mark Wernham
0 (0.0%)
The Margarets by Sheri S. Tepper
6 (19.4%)
The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley
7 (22.6%)
andrewducker at 03:53pm on 11/08/2025 under micropostjames_davis_nicoll at 10:18pm on 10/08/2025 under auroramdlbear at 10:20pm on 10/08/2025Up and down. Ame's thirty-fifth birthday, and the atomic bombings 80 years ago. OTOH m's return from the US Wednesday, and for some reason I noticed being in a good mood shortly before bedtime. Possibly from getting out of one of my support groups early. Or it could have been something somebody said in the group. Also, my balance seems to be improving a little after finding a test that I can practice against. But I should also find some exercises.
Not exactly a good week for walking either. I skipped Tuesday because (IIRC) I was running late after helping N give Cricket her meds, and had a doctor's appointment after that. Then I did something unpleasant to my right ankle Friday morning, probably on the stairs with an excessively heavy bag of garbage. (Mostly cat litter.) I went to the end of the block and back this morning but didn't want to push my luck. I have no idea what became of my little plastic bin full of knee, ankle, and wrist braces.
On the gripping hand, I have the old household server, Nova, running again. That's notable mainly (only?) because it's still running Mint version 21.3, so it still has Python 2 installed, so I can run my Dreamwidth posting client on it. (I also have it on Raven, but N is borrowing it. When she's done with it I'll be able to upgrade it.)
Nova is headless. I could ping it, but not ssh to it, which turned out to be because it was on the wrong subnet. Fixable by widening the netmask on Nova and one laptop. That was an interesting exercise, though, because I had to do it over ssh (i.e. without a display), which meant that I had to learn the text user interface for Network Manager. Feeling mildly accomplished from that.
Also, m and I had a good rehearsal of Ship of Stone yesterday. The plan is to do one song per day to use as scratch tracks for the next album. My intended recording hardware was not cooperating -- I seem to be missing one of my large-diaphragm vocal mics. May have to fix that. Meanwhile I used my trusty old Zoom H2, which is perfectly adequate for scratch tracks.
In links, last week Mastodon was added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance’s Registry, which is pretty cool. And the World’s first Facebook museum helps users face the future after its hoped-for demise.
andrewducker at 08:10pm on 10/08/2025
Pretty big fire on Arthur's Seat.
(The kids were just discussing whether the volcano had erupted, which
I think we're pretty safe from.)
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
james_davis_nicoll at 09:03am on 10/08/2025 under because my tears are delicious to you, review
