Happy Disney Picture…
UPS Crushes it from Amazon…
I got one of the more interesting Amazon shipments yesterday. The contents were tool steel countersink bits so (fortunately) they came through ok but…
Weekend of photography of board games and RPGs
I’m continuing to put together images to use on the site(s) here. This weekend it was role playing games and war games. I’ve added a few shelves of science fiction and fantasy books that were taken last weekend to the headers here earlier in the weekend. Continue reading Weekend of photography of board games and RPGs
We saw Suicide Squad today and it was a bad as the critics claimed
We went to the 4:30 showing and the place was not particularly packed.
The movie itself seemed a bit confused about its plot and direction. The pacing was horribly uneven. The characters weren’t engaging and the direction of the plot was telegraphed far in advance and very clumsily.
There may be spoilers below the break.
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Got to get back to reading Charlie Stross’ The Nightmare Stacks…
Things have become a bit busy lately, but just saw a review of the book at ars-technica (that I’m currently about a third of the way through) and clearly I need to finish it. Charlie’s stuff is generally a lot of fun and this one has a very nice set-up.
Frequent password changes reduce security…
Something I’ve felt to be true for some time now. Bruce Schneier backs this up here in his article and linked sources.
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Fiction shelves photography is complete…
and all covers have been scanned by storage box so I can find things in the part of my library that doesn’t have shelf space.
Working on photography for the blog…
This week I’ve been working on getting utility images for use around the blog pulled together.
I’m expecting to run the top bar with a random selection of fiction book shelves, games book shelves, general photography and any other interesting bits I can find that work well as long narrow strips.
Monday, July 18, 2016
Busy weekend doing fun stuff. Didn’t get as much work done on the site or photo backlog as I had been hoping. Saw friends, went places and generally had a good weekend… Continue reading Monday, July 18, 2016
Reading Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher
I loved the Dresden Files books by Butcher so I have now finally gotten around to starting his new series, ‘The Cinder Spires’ and I’m about a third of the way through The Aeronaut’s Windlass. Continue reading Reading Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher