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November 12, 2021
Tweet of the Day, Watch This With The Sound Off First edition.
It’s very educational with the sound on, but it’s amazing how much information is provided even without the voice-over.
I am blown away by this COVID vaccine video, one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time pic.twitter.com/yREIETqtWh
— Sam (@SamIAm2021MD) November 12, 2021
Via @BrianFaughnan.
November 11, 2021
NaNoWriMo, Day 11: 1,510 / 30,380.
By GOD I was going to make wordcount today. And I did.
Patreon!Up close, Adam’s shacks were solid-looking but extremely basic log-and-mud caulk cabins, although he had sprayed sealant on the outsides to keep out the rain. There were other signs of modernity around; clear memory plastic being used for windows, some metal fittings on the rough-hewn table and benches, nothing that couldn’t be backpacked in. It looked a lot like the Royal Ranger campgrounds back home on Jefferson, only scaled up for adults (and without the archery and firing ranges). That was the good part.
The bad part was that as I got closer I the reek of unwashed and unhealthy animals grew larger and larger. That wasn’t good news, although at least I wasn’t smelling dead bodies. “Process,” I muttered, “there’s something alive here. What can you scan?”
“Very little,” the Process replied. “The planetary traffic net is nonexistent in your area right now, and the hauler does not have sophisticated sensors. Your personal camera is likewise not providing me with very much information to work with. On the other hand, I can maintain audio contact, even if my regular visuals are limited. I assume you are still armed?”
“What? Oh, yeah, I took the pistol with me.” One-Eighteen isn’t one of those worlds that’s filled with things ready to rend the flesh from your living bones. It doesn’t even have really big critters. But it does have animals that can attack humans, so we do have some guns in storage. I had been carrying one mostly because it’d make a amazingly loud bang when fired. Hopefully, that’d be all I need.
Tweet of the Day, It’s Also Armistice Day edition.
Sad and happy, all at the same time. Via @BrianFaughnan.
OTD in 1918: Interminable shelling gives way to the sounds of birds as guns go silent, signaling the end of World War I
— Observation Post (@MilitaryTimesOP) November 12, 2020
Always incredible from the @I_W_M pic.twitter.com/VKrOie0335
My thanks to everyone who served, to keep my country free.
November 10, 2021
Reduced posting for the rest of the week.
I need to get my sleep schedule under control, because it’s starting to affect everything else. So bed for me in the very near future. In the meantime, here’s a Skyrim video that made me lose it at multiple places.
#commissionearned
NaNoWriMo, Day 10: 510 / 28,870.
I need to reset. Or sleep more. Or both.
Patreon!The remains of the planetary traffic system had issues with haulers skimming just above the tree-tops at several hundred miles per hour. Can’t imagine why! Their mothers must have been scared by space-cheetahs, or something. But that was all right; most of the path from here to the Delilik Autonomous Agronomic Facility was currently blessedly free of traffic laws. Those stretches that weren’t were stable enough that I could reduce speed in time to avoid grounding. It’d take finesse, but when I’m behind the control stick I have that and to spare. Getting a look-see at Adam’s main patrol route would just be a matter of flying straight, and making sure the cameras were properly recording this time.
Although a proper look-see would have involved me walking the path. That wasn’t going to happen, though. It’d take too long and I didn’t know a damned thing about hiking through the woods.
November 9, 2021
The Hackers Honest Trailer.
Warning! Do not watch this Honest Trailer if you are susceptible to Nostalgia Cringe. Yes, my children: HACKERS is what we once thought the computer world would be like. Forgive us: we had no idea how it would all go down.
#commissionearned
NaNoWriMo 2021, Day 9: 1,520 / 28,360
Another day where I had to power through.
Patreon!“Absolutely not,” Greg told me, bright and early next morning.
I had gone to him before Maki because I knew she’d say no, and could I even blame her? Once you get the space-happy in the cryofreezer, the idea is to keep him there. If he’s in there, he can’t get out. But I figured if we had enough people with rifles around, it’d be safe enough. And since Greg was in charge of what weapons we had on the planet’s surface, I’d have to get him to agree with my scheme.
Only he wasn’t agreeing. “I’m not going to ask Maki to thaw Adam out, Pam. I mean, you can hear how stupid that idea is when I say it aloud, right?”
“It’s the only way to check the eyes, Greg. We don’t have any footage of them when he went after me, or when he woke up; and the pre-freeze checklist doesn’t include looking at eye colors. One look, and we’ll know.”
Greg shrugged. “And then what?”
“What do you mean?”
“Let’s say you’re right. His eyes have changed colors. So what?”
Tweet of the Day, …KOTOR? edition.
That would be @zamoose‘s hope. And mine. A KOTOR movie would just make logical sense. So would a sequel video game too, of course.
#commissionearned
This Zhao/Feige Star Wars announcement was (one) of the things I was teasing a while back… most of the details are still under wraps, but Zhao & Feige’s film (written by LOKI’s Michael Waldron) will be set before any other film in the Star Wars universe… https://t.co/erMXUaidQn
— Diego Andaluz (@thediegoandaluz) November 9, 2021
