All Those Explosions Were Someone Else’s Fault and They Promised Me The Gun Wasn’t Loaded
Man. Great titles. Great covers. Just some fantatic pieces of business here.
The first two (of a presumably planned 4) books in James Alan Gardner’s “The Dark vs. Spark” series, these books …
read moreInspired by this post by Simon Willison, I’ve been playing a little bit with Apple Photos database and Simon’s dogsheep-photos utility.
Somehow this project spiralled into redoing the way photos are stored on this blog, which is probably a whole different post, and ended up being where I …
read moreMagician’s Apprentice by Trudi Canavan
started pretty strong for me, but ended up really dragging in the middle.
I’ve only got a few chapters left, but I’m struggling a little finishing with the
resolution coming soon.
Apparently this is actually the middle book in a series, but …
read moreSomehow I ended up accidentally buying Axiom’s End (Lindsay Ellis) twice. My friend recommended it, and I first picked it up on the nook and then in hardcover.
This book is a lot of fun. It’s a first contact story, where Earth gets caught between two warring factions …
read moreOver the Christmas break, we took a road trip down the coast to Crescent City, CA and the Redwood National Forest.
I think it’s been a little interesting traveling during COVID, because we’ve seen all the different ways that hotels and restaurants are accounting for it. Most dining …
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read moreI am totally prepared to believe the guy is a huge altruist doing amazing carbon capture stuff.
— Nick Harkaway (@Harkaway) October 30, 2020
But that is how supervillains get you and the next thing you know it's just dinosaur mecha and flying mutant piranha ALL DAMN DAY.
This graph has a real “it happened slowly, then all at once” feel to it. Having traveled a bit in Europe, some of my favorite cities reek of diesel, so getting rid of it can’t happen fast enough.
Also, this is why Volkswagon is shifting funds from new diesel …
read moreThis came about because we were joking about how ridiculous green screen suits were. It’s fantastic.
read moreI got back driving solo from Washington to my parent’s house in Iowa. The total drive was almost 4,000 miles, and I really enjoyed it. I’ve wanted to take a road trip with the car since I bought it, both because I like road trips and I …
view galleryOver Labor Day we took a lovely trip to Leavenworth, WA. It made for a very nice trip to get away, and we managed to do a little hiking around Icicle Gorge.
view galleryJust devoured the Nine Realms series by Sarah Kozloff.
Once I started these I couldn’t put them down. I’m pretty sure I read all four over the span of about two weeks. I read …
read moreJust finished reading Burn the Dark and started I Come With Knives by S.A. Hunt.
I’m not going to lie, I bought these two books entirely based on the titles. “I Come With Knives” is just a fantastically evocative title. They’re straight horror books, which isn’t …
read moreOne cool thing about buying both the Tesla Energy Gateway and Model 3 is that the Tesla app shows the status of both the solar and the car. Since the app has public APIs, they’ve been reverse-engineered. Using that, I wrote a quick script which checks how the solar …
read moreAfter working for 5 years, Jim Butcher mentioned that Peace Talks was shaping up to be the longest, bloodiest Dresden Files book yet. The he surprised everybody by announcing it was actually two books - Peace Talks and Battle Grounds.
So this is the first half of single planned book, and …
read moreJust finished A Blight of Blackwings by Kevin Hearne. It’s the second in a series, and I like them both.
The general premise is that there has been a war on the continent, and a bard is telling the story of the war through narration as the various characters …
read moreI needed a laugh today. Terrible for Twitter’s security personnel, but pretty funny.
read moreHaving just spent a decent chunk of change on a relatively small house battery, the potential for repurposed/upcycled car batteries that drop the price of storage is huge. There’s also a huge potential for grid-scale, megawatt-level batteries that can help get rid of gas peaker plants and coal …
read moreSolar update: It works! It’s on! It’s generating power!
After weeks of inspections, installations, and more inspections, the final moment was the PSE woman flipping a switch and saying, “Ok, it’s on now. Let me make sure your meter is set up right.”
The Tesla app is …
read moreI finished all of the remaining Incryptid novels, and they are great at telling a good story while keeping an eye on the larger storylines for the series. Especially once the stories …
read moreCame across Swift Vapor recently, and it seems like a really interesting framework. Server side swift is still such an under represented market, but the ability to do type-safe JSON calls is a fascinating one.
After playing with a few experiments, though, the documentation seems a little lacking. Getting the …
read moreWe installed a solar array on the house last week.
I ordered a 4 kW solar array and 13 kWh PowerWall from Tesla. They made the ordering and install process really simple, but in classic Tesla fashion it was a lot of hurry up and wait, then immediate motion. All …
read moreOur rose garden right now is throwing up a level and quantity of roses I’d call “Could be used to teach a stock photography class”.
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