Weekly diary, September 15, 2019
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petrea_mitchellThat new rain gear that was going to take three weeks to get to me? Showed up three days ago. Aramark is taking "underpromise and overdeliver" very seriously, it seems.
The most relaxed cat on the Catio Tour, in the best-named catio they've ever had: Fort Catsop (after locally well-known landmark Fort Clatsop).
I now have a supporting membership for Smofcon 37, now that it offers supporting memberships. Last year's Smofcon streamed a few program items, and when the topic came up this year someone (perhaps snarkily) suggested that it would be great if the remote listeners were helping pay for the cost of streaming, whereupon several of us said that we'd be perfectly happy to pay for some kind of online-only membership to help defray costs.
Only two people showed up for this week's KeyForge session, likely due to Rose City Comic Con happening this weekend. We played a couple of non-official games and I made a decision about what deck I'll bring to the next one.
Tried to make some actual progress toward my goal in Sunless Skies instead of just flying around exploring. Also went back to Fire Emblem: Awakening for a couple more chapters on Hard mode.
I finished browsing through the Basque book and got picked up Terminal World by Alasdair Reynolds, which I'm most of the way through. Great setting, nice crunchy sf, and a good pace of revealing clues so that you can play along with the characters and figure out things before they do; but also some very Hollywood villains and a repetitive tendency for characters to dismiss things as "people you don't need to know about" or "no one goes there" or "never mind what the side effects are" followed by those things shortly turning out to be very important indeed. The protagonist is a pretty smart guy and I wish he'd started asking a few more questions by now. All in all, a great example of why Reynolds is just an author I read to tide myself over between new Peter F. Hamilton books.
I took my first look at the upcoming anime season and aaaaaaah it looks bad.
One silver lining to Sharpiegate is it inspired a piece in Politico about the politics of early weather forecasting efforts.
Cat
The most relaxed cat on the Catio Tour, in the best-named catio they've ever had: Fort Catsop (after locally well-known landmark Fort Clatsop).Fandom
I now have a supporting membership for Smofcon 37, now that it offers supporting memberships. Last year's Smofcon streamed a few program items, and when the topic came up this year someone (perhaps snarkily) suggested that it would be great if the remote listeners were helping pay for the cost of streaming, whereupon several of us said that we'd be perfectly happy to pay for some kind of online-only membership to help defray costs.
Gaming
Only two people showed up for this week's KeyForge session, likely due to Rose City Comic Con happening this weekend. We played a couple of non-official games and I made a decision about what deck I'll bring to the next one.
Tried to make some actual progress toward my goal in Sunless Skies instead of just flying around exploring. Also went back to Fire Emblem: Awakening for a couple more chapters on Hard mode.
Books and media
I finished browsing through the Basque book and got picked up Terminal World by Alasdair Reynolds, which I'm most of the way through. Great setting, nice crunchy sf, and a good pace of revealing clues so that you can play along with the characters and figure out things before they do; but also some very Hollywood villains and a repetitive tendency for characters to dismiss things as "people you don't need to know about" or "no one goes there" or "never mind what the side effects are" followed by those things shortly turning out to be very important indeed. The protagonist is a pretty smart guy and I wish he'd started asking a few more questions by now. All in all, a great example of why Reynolds is just an author I read to tide myself over between new Peter F. Hamilton books.
I took my first look at the upcoming anime season and aaaaaaah it looks bad.
Politics
One silver lining to Sharpiegate is it inspired a piece in Politico about the politics of early weather forecasting efforts.
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