Taritino posting.

I feel happy for everyone taking joy in this moment. I don’t feel much of anything for it though. It’s wildly neutral.

NK Jemisen’s The Fifth Season has some of the most beautiful prose I read in the genre. Stunning and intimate.

I just finished Gardens of the Moon. In order to keep track of everyone, I made my own wiki. It felt like watching Eriksson play a war game.

I’m taking a break as the style isn’t interesting to me. I hear his writing becomes more intimate and visceral in the rest of the series. Looking forward to this in book 2. Sort of wish I started with book 2 since none or few of the characters carry over.

There are six, which, by modern standards isn’t much. The first three came out in a four year time span and was an attempt to answer the question, “What was Gandalf’s youth like?” This was before Tolkien answered these questions publicly.

Twenty some odd years later, she wrote Tehanu. It was, from what I remember, an attempt to answer her critiques who said she had written a series where magic was not accessible to women. Then ten years after that she finished with two more books. The first of the two was a bunch of short stories that fill in some corners of the stories prior.

“skim milk powder”

I know. What I wrote was Pete’s follow up.

That’s it? If you had a billion dollars, you’d do two chicks at the same time?

lol, no

That etymology tracks more closely with the réal. Real goes back to the Latin res meaning property or affairs.

I looked into to using a laptop as a router a while back and decided against it. From what I read, the chip is designed for bursts of processing and isn’t designed to be under constant load like a router would be. That means the fan will always be running an you risk overheating, fan failure, and high power draw.

That’s my non professional recollection so take it with a grain of salt.

They’re a bunch of Luddites.

Here’s a bit of how it got started.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/27/profitable-business-scientific-publishing-bad-for-science

🌍👩🏾‍🚀🔫👩🏾‍🚀

I’ll also accept sarcasm.

“Unless you’ve successfully trained your car to follow you like a loyal golden retriever, you’re probably going to have to drive.”

Those gemini responses are legitimately hilarious.

Yeah! I saw another commenter say that. That’s awesome. Had no clue. Thanks!

There are web based torrent downloaders like WebTorrent. But you’ll probably need to sign up for audiobookbay or hope that some public service like The Pirate Bay has what you’re looking for.

On the Windows one, consider hibernating it. Its a longer wake up time, but it doesn’t wake up randomly.