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NY Times article about Jim Butcher (brief talk about TWELVE MONTHS) by Salt-Man Z
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In Topic: Whats making you happy right now
23 July 2025 - 02:25 PM
QuickTidal, on 23 July 2025 - 01:55 PM, said:Taking my daughter to his very first concert tonight (BLACKPINK)! So excited. I got her the best earplugs (Loop; Engage Kids) to make sure the sound doesn't hurt her ears, and told her I'd buy her merchandise (the prices are $ but it's her first experience). She's made an outfit to dress up in too.
Hope she has a wonderful time!
Also, can't recommend Loops enough - Mr NAB and I both have the adult concert ones (I have the everyday quiet ones too) and they've successfully stood up to Iron Maiden and Bruce Springsteen with no ear ringing afterwards
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In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
21 July 2025 - 07:21 AM
Most likely!
Thing is, I was put off trying any Brandon Sanderson despite multiple recommendations because I thought he came across as such an insufferable ass with the WOT TV series stuff, but then Tress of the Emerald Sea turned out to be a thoroughly great book, so I'm in the mindset of revisiting things I haven't given a chance
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In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
21 July 2025 - 06:56 AM
Macros, on 18 July 2025 - 04:38 AM, said:So the friend reading the Blade itself is about 40% in.
Has declared 'its such a boy book!'
I'm going to give The Blade Itself a go when I finish the book I'm reading currently. Mr NAB and his dad have all the Abercrombie books between them.
I tried it before absolutely years ago because my horrible ex badgered me about it - he read Gemmell's Legend because I really liked it, proceeded to make out it's the worst book committed to page (this was a thing - anything I liked had to be terrible and for less intelligent people) and tell me why The Blade Itself was infinitely more intellectual and better in every way. I got about a third of the way through and gave up, but I don't think given the setup I gave it a fair chance. I seem to remember being enraged by the idea of calling Legend generic and then recommending me that.... but there we are. I do however remember Glokta as a character VIVIDLY all these years later. -
In Topic: Reading at t'moment?
15 July 2025 - 09:00 AM
QuickTidal, on 08 July 2025 - 05:57 PM, said:Abyss, on 08 July 2025 - 04:30 PM, said:Macros, on 08 July 2025 - 03:43 PM, said:Macros, on 01 July 2025 - 02:29 PM, said:Here's a quandary for the forum.
Have made an agreement with a friend, that I would read the first 2 crown of Thorns and roses books, the trade of was that I could give her 2 books to read.
(She then insisted one was the book I am forever writting(read not))
What books to issue?
Do I go for something epic and classic like magician? straightforward like Legend? Grubby and fun like Low town? Dark and a great into like the Blade itself?
Gave her The Blade Itself
See i knew this was a sex thingInteresting choice, not JAs best work, but a decent grim n gritty intro level book. I found it took til well into bk 2 for that series to really kick off but BLADE ITSELF does have enough going to draw a reader inthat was not a sex thing comment.
There's some dark shit in that book too, so it will be a good litmus for what level of grimdark she likes.
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In Topic: Algorithms and automation
10 July 2025 - 09:03 AM
amphibian, on 27 June 2025 - 04:51 PM, said:
Relying on AI for things that change lives - emergency regulations, product safety, healthcare, legal/judicial world, and/or other things - is a very foolish and dangerous thing to do. These regulations and rules are made with blood and bones. A failure to understand that among the tech crowd is endemic.
On this note, I read an excellent book by Hannah Fry earlier in the year (Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine) which does a great job of illustrating exactly what can go wrong when you leave the sorts of things amph listed up to AI (ranging from the vaguely amusing to the catastrophic). Both a good read and a cautionary tale.
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Tsundoku
01 Nov 2024 - 21:01Hope you have a great one and you get all the good things :)
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17 May 2013 - 06:41How are you? :)
Studious Lock
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