March 2020
I just started reading 7th Sigma by Steven Gould.📚
Bird
I get ready to venture out of the house for the first time in two weeks. Need to go on the hunt for food.
I just canceled our hotel for our spring holidays :-(
Spring flowers
Review of The Blade Itself: Book One (The First Law 1)
I just finished reading The Blade Itself: Book One (The First Law 1) by Joe Abercrombie.📚 I’ve decided to read this book after watching Why You Should Read: The First Law Trilogy by Joe Abercrombie by Mike’s Book Reviews the other day. Inquisitor Glokta: The inquisitor of the king. He was once a successful person but got caught by the enemy and tortured until he is now cripled and continuously in pain.Review of The Fires Of Heaven, The Wheel of Time, Book 5
Review of The Fires Of Heaven, The Wheel of Time, Book 5 audiobook 📚. We follow three main plots-threads in this book. Elayne and Nynaeve search and travel to the gathering of the blue Aes Sedai, who collected in an old town. Min, Siuan and Leane are also on their way to Salidar and try to stay relevant now that they no longer are Aes Sedai. Rand is moving out of the Aiel Waste to Cairhien, where he fights his first big battle.
I just received my Bangle.js watch ⌚!
Review of Predator's Gold (Predator Cities Book 2)
I just finished reading Predator’s Gold (Predator Cities Book 2) by Philip Reeve.📚 After reading the first part last year I fought, I could try the second part as well. Our main characters Tom and Hester, meet a famous explorer and author, and while fleeing from some other airships, get lost on a dying city in the far north. Although the book is an easy read, the story did not manage to glue me to the book.Review of The Shadow Rising, The Wheel of Time, Book 4
Review of The Shadow Rising, The Wheel of Time, Book 4 audiobook 📚. Part four of the series and the last time for a very long time where our three ta’veeren are together in the same location. The book starts in Tear, where Rand is learning to be a ruler and how to be in love. But soon, the different groups split up. Perin travels back to the Two Rivers together with Faile and Loial, where he hopes to settle his debt with the Whitecloaks.working from home try not to worry about the world state but concentrate on work
Review of A Series of Unfortunate Events #2
I just finished reading A Series of Unfortunate Events #2: The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket.📚 After successfully hinder Count Olaf in the first book, the children now move to a new relative of them. A strange snake researcher by the name of Dr. Montgomery. They learn a lot about snakes and finally found a home where somebody cares for them. But the unfortunate events are not waiting for too long.Review of A Series of Unfortunate Events #1
I just finished reading A Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket.📚 At the beginning of the story, we are introduced to the three main protagonists, the Baudelaire siblings. Due to a fire, the parents are dead, and they now need a new home. The home is found quite fast, but unfortunately, the person responsible for them currently does not really love them and has a more significant interest in getting to the inherited fortune of the orphans.
Another 🐍
The modest conveniences provided by smart tech are what we get in exchange for not asking too many questions about why our lives are now filled with data-collecting, internet-connected machines: Why is everything getting smart now? What else is going on behind the scenes? Who is really benefiting?
⤑ How ‘Smart Tech’ Masks an Emerging Era of Corporate Control
I just started reading The Blade Itself: Book One (The First Law 1) by Joe Abercrombie.📚
Door Designs
Review of The Blacksmith's Son (Mageborn Book 1)
I just finished reading The Blacksmith’s Son (Mageborn Book 1) by Michael G. Manning.📚 As I liked the other books by the same author quite a lot I fought, I try one of his earlier works. The book starts with the main person named Mordekai rescuing a horse from a river. While doing this, he realizes that he is a wizard. To research this better, he goes on a holiday to his friend’s castle, where he also luckily directly finds three beginners’ spellbooks.Robots shouldn’t try to achieve goals like maximizing viewing time or paper clips, he realized; they should simply try to improve our lives.
⤑ Artificial Intelligence Will Do What We Ask. That’s a Problem.
The end of an era. Our old headboard for our bed. One of my earliest woodworking projects. It will be replaced by a new one soon.
Review of The Dragon Reborn, The Wheel of Time, Book 3
Review of The Dragon Reborn, The Wheel of Time, Book 3 audiobook 📚. One of my favorite books in the series. I especially like the ending with the fall of the Stone. I also like the first real occurrences of the Aiel and how our main cast works with them. I have again forgotten how Gaul got attached to Perin so early on in the series. And in these earlier parts, I still like the storyline of Perrin.
Working from home 🏡.
Review of Secrets and Spellcraft (Art of the Adept Book 2)
I just finished reading Secrets and Spellcraft (Art of the Adept Book 2) by Michael G. Manning.📚 After finishing the first book, I directly wanted to know how the story develops further. We still follow Will, who is now a student at Wurthaven. And he also realized that the teaching method at this school is not good enough for himself. And as expected in such a story, our main protagonist still starts to accomplish one unimaginable feat after another – which at times is a bit hard to believe to be realistic.“It was kind of a general consensus that multiplication is such an important basic operation that, just from an aesthetic point of view, such an important operation requires a nice complexity bound,” Fürer said. “From general experience the mathematics of basic things at the end always turns out to be elegant.”
⤑ Link Mathematicians Discover the Perfect Way to Multiply (via Kottke)