blueduck

One dimension:

Willingness to share Liberties with other people

Far Right = Ayn Rand

Far Left = some guy who just wants to live in a van down by the river and smoke weed all day

No helper audio to indicate the difference.

a different narrator, for example, would REALLY help

Yeah I listen to audiobooks and the interweaving plotlines with similarly named characters is confusing

Just finished The Will of the Many on Monday and started Strength. There’s a lot going on in this second book and I’m only 10% in

I migrated from GoodReads to Hardcover.app and I really like it

Scorching hot take: I thought the first book was a terrible fanfic of the fellowship of the ring and was embarrassingly bad.

Then some friends told me that was the BEST book in the series until Sanderson took over 😬

The Fifth Season has been on my list for a while. I should pick this up!

Just finished:

• How to Be Both by Ali Smith. Interesting concept (two stories, read them in any order, each story recontextualizes the other) that I think I’ll need to read again in the other order.
• Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico. Great satire, really enjoyed it

Haven’t picked my next one yet, but probably from this list:

• Spread Me by Sarah Gailey. Looks like a fun take on The Thing
• Sunward by William Alexander. Don’t know much about it, other than it was well reviewed
• The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine. Was well reviewed

Don’t read Secret History until after Bands of Mourning. There’s always another secret

DVD Studio Pro was legit.

I did the full Final Cut —> Compressor + Motion for menu animations —> DVD Studio Pro then burned a stack of discs and applied labels

Completely unnecessary, but fun

Sorry, swipe down to exit is the gesture that doesn’t work in the media viewer. Double tap does zoom properly

These are all P0 😉

1. Touch zone on the back arrow of the media viewer is too small and I have to get out my electron microscope every time I want to go back to list view
2. Media viewer doesn’t support touch functions like double tap to zoom
3. i want to mark as read on scroll in the c/all view (or really any community list view
4. When writing comments, there are some inconsistencies in capitalization of the first word (see the I in #3 that wasn’t capitalized)
5. Just noticed a bug when creating list items. Create an item, hit the carriage return to create a new item. Tap delete. The list number is removed but the cursor is in a sub item of the previous list item. Tap delete again. The first list element is deleted and your text is moved out of the list

These are rather nitpicky items. I use Blorp every day and like it more than Voyager, Arctic and Mlem

Just finished my reread of Mistborn Era 2 yesterday! As I was wrapping book 3, I was confused how Sanderson was going to pull in all the things I remembered from my last read… then I remembered there’s a fourth book 🤦🏻‍♀️

currently reading Venetian Vespers by John Banville. I love the unreliable narrator. He’s total scum. The absolute pits.

Correct. British English typically calls it a full stop

That’s just a crib

How much did a company spend to product the widget?

How much is the widget worth?

The difference of those two is productivity

The show ran into issues with distribution rights. SyFy didn’t want to keep funding it because the views were from next day streaming rather than live broadcast. SyFy made less (or nothing?) from the streams.

Amazon bought the rights and funded the final season, but didn’t continue the because the viewership wasn’t huge and they were funding Rings of Power instead.

at least that’s my vague recollection from 8 years agot

In and out. A lot.

Haha no. If he can’t recite the most esoteric, inane facts in an unending chain of blather