There are two opening lines in Isaac Asimov’s Foundation. The first is the extract from the Encyclopedia Galactica (the fictional book that chronicles the universe. Asimov uses it to fill in the gaps for the reader) and then the actual first “in universe” line. It feels a little like cheating that Asimov gets two cracks…
The opening line: Neuromancer
I had a conversation with a friend today. He was talking about writing and how its done, I went off on my usual rant about how I think the opening line of a novel is the scariest moment any writer is faced with. It is in my opinion the act of looking at all of…
Deliveries, Gifts and thanks.
These last few days I’ve been having some meandering thoughts about how nice people are. These thoughts don’t quite make up an entire post. So I thought I would write a post… I don’t think I make big enough woots about all the cool things people send to me. Since talking about my Amazon wishlist…
Steam Deck has ruined my Switch.
The future is looking good. I don’t want to become of of those tiresome ‘content creators’ (ewe) who is going to be banging on about the Steam Deck for the rest of the year and does nothing except build hype for Valve. But I can’t not talk about this topic. Just a little bit. With…
Book Club: Just one damned Thing After by Jodi Taylor Another.
This is my current adventure into a category I call “Its trash I read to relax”. It has replaced the unfortunate Emerillia series for me. I was first attracted to this title because I once saw it on sale on Kindle for about 1p or something crazy. I remember picking it up and thinking “I’ll…
Back on DWM.
Those of you who hang out in my Discord server may have noticed recent chatter about DWM. I have recently made the switch back to DWM after a long old time on BSPWM. Before I talk about this topic I need to address the elephant. Many people have said that the ‘Suckless’ project are have…
The most interesting Computer crash I have ever had.
A computer can crash. It happens a lot and takes many forms. Sometimes the application freezes, sometimes the desktop environment freezes. Sometimes its X that freezes and some times its just bloody well locked up. When this happens the motivated and technically savvy users will try and get a handle of what has crashed, why…
My favorite writers.
I was thinking about writers the other day. There are a lot of books I really enjoy but there are not that many writers who I really enjoy consistently. For instance, I love the book ‘Neuromancer’ but don’t consider William Gibson to be one of my favourite writers. He is an interesting person for sure but is…
Minecraft Dungeons Via XCloud (Gamepass)
I played through Minecraft Dungeons when it first game out but I played it on the ?Ninendo switch. Now I’m playing it again but this time multiplayer with a friend on my PC, from Linux. But I’m using Microsoft Xcloud (part of Gamepass) to do it. I know its a stretch to call that ‘on…
Book Club: The Iliad by Homer.
I don’t have the classical education required to actually write a review of the Iliad. I’ll be honest, while I enjoyed it a great deal I’m pretty sure that I missed a lot of smart culturally loaded stuff that would have made it way better. I don’t have very much in the way of interest…