July 2019
I just started reading Girl of Glass by Megan O’Russell.📚
Review of The Sirens Realm (The Tethering Book 2)
I finished reading The Siren’s Realm (The Tethering Book 2) by Megan O’Russell.📚 This issue deepens the connections between our two main protagonists, while the war between the wizard fractions is starting, Jacob and Emilia go onto a quest together to find some information they hope can help in the fight. I like the second issue a bit better compared to the first, as it took some different turns I was not expecting at the time.Review of the Tethering (The Tethering Book 1)
I found my next Harry Potter-like series: The Tethering by Megan O’Russell📚. An orphan gets to know that he is a wizard and goes off to a small private Wizzard boarding school. The first half of the story, I was not yet so convinced about it, as it looked too much like a clone. Though starting with the middle, this changed, and the author introduced some original ideas in her book.
Today’s project is dismantling our pantry.
Review of The Expert System's Brother
I finished reading The Expert System’s Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky📚a short book about an unknown future of the human race. The social life of the human species was modified to survive in the current ecosystem, and everybody now has a specific job in the group. The planning and thinking are taken care of by specialized humans who have a direct computer connection in their brain. Unfortunately, this does not work correctly every time.I just started reading The Dragon Unbound (The Tethering Book 3) by Megan O’Russell.📚
A random drawing of a candle I made today.
I just started reading The Siren’s Realm (The Tethering Book 2) by Megan O’Russell.📚
House Guardian. A grasshopper on top of our letter box.
I just started reading The Tethering by Megan O’Russell.📚
Harvesting fresh Basil.
Review of Born of Air
I just finished gorging Born of Air (The Valdir Chronicles Book 1) by RA Lewis 📚 and now I need to wait for the next issue OO. This book is a classic coming of age fantasy story, and it is written obviously for children. You see through the secrets in the plot quite quickly, but for a short book in-between more complex texts, it is quite right. I love the main protagonist Kalina and how she develops during the book.
🍽 enjoy your meal - deep-fried noodles with egg and vegetables and some meat.
I just started reading The Expert System’s Brother by Adrian Tchaikovsky.📚
I just started reading Born of Air (The Valdir Chronicles Book 1) by RA Lewis.📚
I have never seen a Cheetah from such a short distance.
At the Zoo today.
Review of On the Oceans of Eternity
I just finished reading On the Oceans of Eternity: A Novel of the Change by S. M. Stirling.📚This book was not an easy read – which I expected from the start – but it was still a good book. This book concluded the series of the Islander’s from Nantucket, they finish the war with Walker and live happily ever after ;-) I like the idea of this story quite much, but for my taste, it has to much battle and scenery description instead of storytelling.
I am waiting for my lunch.
I am visiting a chocolate manufacturer today.
I’m entirely wasted after spending most of the day in our cellar, cleaning it up.
Rather than a fully featured notes or writing tool, I now have a bunch of plain text files and a lot of them. The files themselves are simple, can be edited on any system, and are future-proof.
Interesting article, I’m also trying to get away from such closed systems, but I don’t directly have a note-taking system to start with. The option to add all your text notes into a git repository is a nice added benefit for the system shown here as well.
My biggest issue is that when I use a text-only system I’m limited to text, and I am a more a structurally oriented person aka mind maps and drawings, the best method for me would be a combination out of text files and diagrams.
I’m currently using OmniGraffle a lot as this allows me to organize my text and diagrams on a big endless canvas, and this really helps me with sorting my thoughts. Be this my notes when debugging a bug in a complicated piece of software or starting to understand the structure of code I’m working on or the research I do for my projects. OmniGraffle is closed software, but at least it offers a massive amount of export options, and it is not new on the market – and I really like it – so, for the time being, I’m willing to make some concessions on this end.
Running a small social network is like hosting a party. It requires social intelligence, empathy, and yes, technical skills.
I like this quote, and it reminds me back to the time when I was a member of a forum before the social media time. And I see that we used a lot of these ideas and it was working for us.
⤑ Run your own social (via rvn @ Micro.blog).
Spending the day at the Europapark in Rust.
Helping my wife to freeze the cherry we got.
The table after being outside for nearly a year.
Wheel of time series by Amazon Prime
I just saw this by Richard Leis. I’m happy because the Wheel of time is coming to the TV. The book belongs to one of my absolute favorite series, and I always hoped to see a Movie or TV adaptation of it. From what I found, we are still in an early stage of the project, and it will nevertheless take at least a year before it is released. However, I will be patient waiting for the release date!Review of Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It
I recently finished reading Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss.📚 The book reads quite easy, and each chapter begins with an example of a real live negotiation situation from the authors past. I like the examples better than the explanation parts following after. But both are needed, and the explanation help understand how you should handle yours.
Some food after a long day of of moving a friends flat.
I am getting ready for the day. Will help a friend with moving. Until then something to eat and some coding work.
@V_ it’s a Katydid. Always fun to see them down low. Usually in the trees ;)
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@jasonekratz Did not know the actuall name of it. And now also realised that cricket and grashopper are apparently the same insect type.
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@V_ as with anything there are many kinds of Katydids as well ;) That type usually lives in trees and makes clicking noises at night. There are also “bush crickets” which are also Katydids and are smaller and more active during the day. Always fun to see the big ones!
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