I think it’s been about 2 weeks since I last logged into FB. Every email or other notification they send me just reminds me how long it’ll take to catch up.
Seriously, what’s the opposite of FOMO?
Category: Fediverse
The thickness of the pages before and after your current place in a printed book …
The thickness of the pages before and after your current place in a printed book is more intuitively grasped than an exact percentage or a progress bar on an ebook screen.
But I do like full text search!
I’ve decided I’m going to use my account at Wandering Shop as my primary Mastodon …
I’ve decided I’m going to use my account at Wandering Shop as my primary Mastodon account for now. So if you want to keep following me, please head over to @KelsonV. I hope to see you there!
I’m also posting book discussion at @KelsonReads and photography at @kelsonv
Federal building for sale.
Federal building for sale. Seems like there’s a metaphor in there somewhere…
I currently have 4 Mastodon accounts…
I currently have 4 Mastodon accounts:
1 for book discussion @KelsonReads
1 for photography @kelsonv
2 general: this one & @KelsonV
I’ve decided I should pick one of the two general accounts, and in the interest of federation, I think I’ll go with the smaller instance (Wandering Shop) over Mastodon.Social.
QUESTION: If I mark this account as migrated, is that permanent? Or can I change it back (or to another account) if I change my mind later? Will I still be able to log in here?
Oh, now I really wish I was going to #SDCC this year
Oh, now I really wish I was going to #SDCC this year:
https://sdccblog.com/2018/07/enter-the-laika-live-experience/
#laika #stopmotion
While I finished reading #LesMiserables last month, I’m still listening to a podcast about the …
While I finished reading #LesMiserables last month, I’m still listening to a podcast about the book. The podcaster is a French professor who uses the book in her class, and each week she discusses a few chapters of the book. She’s a little way into Part Three at this point, up to the introduction of the ABC society.
Its been fascinating to listen to, and I’d recommend it to anyone else who’s a fan of the book or is interested in reading it and wants more context.
@Einahpets I haven’t been back to SDCC since 2014, though I’ve been to several medium-sized …
@Einahpets I haven’t been back to SDCC since 2014, though I’ve been to several medium-sized cons. I’m starting to miss it.
Here’s hoping you get to do a significant amount of what you’re aiming for!
Morbid wondering: food allergy death stats
An article on a recent incident where a college student died from peanut allergy got me thinking: most news stories about people dying from #anaphylaxis are about kids or teens. You rarely hear about a 40-year old or even 30-year-old dying from a #foodallergy. It happens (which is why I still carry an EpiPen everywhere), just not as often.
I couldn’t find any solid numbers, but wrote up some speculation in my blog: https://hyperborea.org/journal/2018/07/age-food-allergy-death/
It occurs to me that the impending start of #SDCC is probably another factor in why I started thinking about this, as it’s coming up on 5 years since my “adventure” leaving Comic Con in an ambulance due to a peanut-laced mocha from a nearby cafe. I could’ve been one of those rare cases in my late 30s.
I also read the first Dune novel, and never felt the need to read further.
@lapis @zephasaurus_hex I also read the first Dune novel, and never felt the need to read further. The most I did was look at the prologue for book 2.
After complaining about the ways people try to cram long form writing onto birdsite (giant …
After complaining about the ways people try to cram long form writing onto birdsite (giant threads & images of text remind me of the old tech support days when users pasted screen shots of errors into Word docs b/c it was the tool they knew) I realized I don’t see that so much on Mastodon.
I wonder if it’s the culture, just who I’m following, or if the 500-char limit gives people enough room that they don’t feel they’ve already writing a long chain, why not keep going?
https://hyperborea.org/journal/2018/07/long-form-twitter-why-oh-why/
IMO Watchmen is more notable for the craft than the story…
@zephasaurus_hex IMO Watchmen is more notable for the craft than the story. The way it uses the nature of comic books as a medium, nonlinear time, the thematic connections with the pirate comics, etc.
@zephasaurus_hex …which makes it really weird that DC approved a movie to begin with, never mind handed the keys to their own superhero universe over to the director.
Half-following the build up to SDCC. I haven’t been to Comic Con since 2014, though …
Half-following the build up to #SDCC. I haven’t been to #ComicCon since 2014, though I’ve been to WonderCon & Long Beach every year. The first year I couldn’t get tickets I shrugged. It’s exhausting, and there are other cons. I didn’t even try this year or last. But now I find I’ve started to miss it.
Sounds cool, until you get trampled by someone trying to get free swag and suddenly realize, “We’re in The Bad Place!”
Sounds cool, until you get trampled by someone trying to get free swag and suddenly realize, “We’re in The Bad Place!”
Experience The Good Place in Real Life at Comic-Con with NBC’s Interactive Activation
Ok, this isn’t the kind of thing I usually read…
Ok, this isn’t the kind of thing I usually read (but when it comes to killer hippo westerns, that probably goes w/o saying), but it’s oddly compelling.
I do wonder just how many niches hippos fill in this world: cattle AND horses AND Bond-villain alligators? What else?
Interesting: UK heat wave is revealing the outline of ancient Roman and older sites…
Interesting: UK heat wave is revealing the outline of ancient Roman and older sites under crop fields as plants grow differently with the remnants of ancient walls and moats. The article doesn’t make it clear why this is unique to heat waves, though.
Historic museum and dry fountain.
Historic house turned museum and dry fountain in a California Beach town.
I guess I should say old house turned historical museum. The house itself isn’t particularly historic.
Concentric
Speaking of Marvel stuff, I recently read 2 issues of the current #Quicksilver: No Surrender …
Speaking of Marvel stuff, I recently read 2 issues of the current #Quicksilver: No Surrender and the first issue of his 1990s series.
I’m really enjoying “No Surrender.” Good art, interesting character study, interesting superhero action, interesting concept…
The 90s series, not so much. It’s too wrapped up in other Marvel stuff (Wundagore, the High Evolutionary, etc) that I’m not familiar with and it doesn’t feel *focused*.
#comics
@zephasaurus_hex @lapis I read a handful of the Hardy Boys books as a kid, mostly …
@zephasaurus_hex @lapis I read a handful of the Hardy Boys books as a kid, mostly the (what I later discovered were revised) ones from early in the series. The only one that sticks in my mind, though, was one from the 80s that had them get involved in astronaut training for the space shuttle or maybe just space camp.
That and I learned the word “jalopy” which was always applied to Chet’s car.