eh, things.
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jazzfishA week of work and sick-recovery, and a bit of gaming over the weekend. Today my big goal is to get caught up on all the email I owe to various people. Eh, might happen.
I currently have no intention of getting on Google+, partly because I don't need yet another place to keep track of all the same people and partly because, to quote Marco Arment, "a huge advertising company would like you to give them as much of your personal information as possible and encourages you to use their services more frequently, for more reasons, and for longer durations each time so they can show you more ads and make more money from the advertisers." (Yes, I use Facebook: sporadically, in a quarantined browser, and with very little of my personal information.)
A modern sexual-assault tale: "You knowingly walked down Dundritch Street in your suit when everyone knows you like to give away money, and then you didn't fight back. It sounds like you gave money to someone, but now you're having after-donation regret."
On the difference between Good Dogs and Dogs That Need a Newspaper Smack, which is actually a cogent explanation of privilege and has nothing to do with smacking anybody, canine or otherwise. [viasalzara_tirwen]
Holy cow, Barcelona has a Mammoth Museum. And also a shop from which you can purchase your very own mammoth skeleton.
A very cool climbing wall.
Narbonic: The Perfect Collection (print version of online comic!), and a digital Planetary [Warren Ellis] omnibus (online version of print comic!).
And Tim Powers has a new book out next March: ""Next up is a novel based around the Rossetti family, a loose sequel to The Stress of Her Regard." I should reread Stress; I've only read it once but I remember it as being middling Powers (so, lesser than Anubis Gates or Last Call, better than the Last Call sequels, and, mm, on par with Three Days to Never).
I currently have no intention of getting on Google+, partly because I don't need yet another place to keep track of all the same people and partly because, to quote Marco Arment, "a huge advertising company would like you to give them as much of your personal information as possible and encourages you to use their services more frequently, for more reasons, and for longer durations each time so they can show you more ads and make more money from the advertisers." (Yes, I use Facebook: sporadically, in a quarantined browser, and with very little of my personal information.)
A modern sexual-assault tale: "You knowingly walked down Dundritch Street in your suit when everyone knows you like to give away money, and then you didn't fight back. It sounds like you gave money to someone, but now you're having after-donation regret."
On the difference between Good Dogs and Dogs That Need a Newspaper Smack, which is actually a cogent explanation of privilege and has nothing to do with smacking anybody, canine or otherwise. [via
salzara_tirwen]Holy cow, Barcelona has a Mammoth Museum. And also a shop from which you can purchase your very own mammoth skeleton.
A very cool climbing wall.
Narbonic: The Perfect Collection (print version of online comic!), and a digital Planetary [Warren Ellis] omnibus (online version of print comic!).
And Tim Powers has a new book out next March: ""Next up is a novel based around the Rossetti family, a loose sequel to The Stress of Her Regard." I should reread Stress; I've only read it once but I remember it as being middling Powers (so, lesser than Anubis Gates or Last Call, better than the Last Call sequels, and, mm, on par with Three Days to Never).
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Date: 2011-07-12 04:45 pm (UTC)Also, you weren't a fan of Stranger Tides?
(Also also, link fixt: not sure how that happened, but it should have pointed to http://blog.newsarama.com/2011/07/08/dccomixology-releases-digital-planetary-omnibus/ .)
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Date: 2011-07-12 09:38 pm (UTC)The third tier, I will probably only reread if there ends up being another sequel, despite there actually being some good bits, just because I was comparatively disappointed.
Stranger Tides, Stress of Her Regard, and Three Days to Never I expect to eventually own all of, and to eventually reread all of. But, unlike the characters, plots, and imagery of the top tier, they just haven't made as much of an impression on me. Declare, for example, I consider to be a notable work in both fantasy and spy fiction, and enjoyable by the standards of both. While they haven't made quite so strong an impression on me yet, I am open to the possibility of them making more of an impression on rereads; I just think Stress is the most likely to do so at present.
Once I have I reread both Tides & 3 Days a few times, even if I still put them both in the second tier, I still wouldn't say I didn't like them. I mean, I even kind of half-assed liked the third tier works. It's kind of like Scorcese's lesser works: they're still good, you're still glad you've seen them -- it's just not necessary to rewatch them unless the mood strikes you (which it's less likely to do so), because there's not as much to get out of 'em as his really good ones.