2021 was a long, eventful year. Was it good or was it bad? I am not sure. Both, I think. The defining thing about 2021 for me was the sheer amount of travel I did. I was in Ukraine, home, then Savannah, Knoxville, Utah, home, and then Lithuania, Croatia, Tunisia and then home. These weren’t […]
Croatia is just about perfect for everyone. It is rare that can be said about a destination. I came for the history, of Roman, Venetian, and countless other influences. I also came for the weather, which on the coast stays mild for much of the year (inland is a different story). To go with that
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“GLORIOUS PURPOSE!” Loki is one of the best, or perhaps more accurately, one of the most emotional TV series I have ever watched. It was amazing, for me. Yet I don’t think that will be true for the average viewer. Let’s start with the difficulties. Loki relies on having a solid grounding in the Marvel
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After what seems like a lull, with few decent book waiting in my reading queue, I was thrilled to see Naomi Novik’s A Deadly Education, she being one of my favorite authors. Black Sun meanwhile came from the NPR top books list, and happened to be in stock in English in the bookstore here in
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One of my coworkers had setup a nice webcam, and looking at it, I thought, wow, that makes a big difference. In the world of working fully remotely, it seems like something worth having myself. I have been relying on built in webcams for ages, and it works, but it could be much better! I
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I was not particularly impressed with this book. Now, since this book is known as a feminist book, your first thought is probably, ‘that’s because you are not female’ and sure. It’s a world in which the women are stripped of all rights except producing children, and how evil that is. The problem is that
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Mini PCs are amazing! But most people will probably have difficulty getting too excited about them, because they are pretty much just small black boxes. TLDR: Mini PCs are probably the desktop of choice for most people these days. Mini PCs (sometimes referred to as Nuc Boxes) are what happens when you take components designed
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This book is science fiction, a space opera, and the follow up to the successful, Hugo-award-winning predecessor A Memory Called Empire. I found the sequel to be an easier read, as most of the world-building was accomplished in the previous book. The plot was predictable, but the world it runs through is full of brain
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The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price attempts the impossible, a synthesis of all there is to know about the Viking Age presented in a way that anyone could read. I found it to be a great success, and a parallel to SPQR by Mary Beard for the
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Mechanical keyboards tend to be massive affairs. This keyboard is much smaller, about the size of a standard laptop keyboard but with much better key travel. And well, it has RGB lighting. And it is wireless. I bought it for travel but I ended up loving how much of my desk it freed up, so
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