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Jamie Todd Rubin

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Jamie Todd Rubin writes fiction and nonfiction for a variety of publications including Analog, Clarkesworld, The Daily Beast, 99U, Daily Science Fiction, Lightspeed, InterGalactic Medicine Show, and several anthologies. He was featured in Lifehacker’s How I Work series. He has been blogging since 2005. By day, he manages software projects and occasionally writes code. He lives in Falls Church, Virginia with his wife and three children. Find him on Twitter at @jamietr. ...more

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Movienite.txt

In an effort to watch movies I’ve never seen, and to avoid making decisions, I wrote myself a little script the other day called movienite I grabbed a list of 600+ movies under the TCM Channel on HBO Max. I randomized1 the list and created 2 text files: movienite.txt and watched.txt.

I wrote a little command-line script (hat tip that to that decades-old, but reliable sed command) that shows me the

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	If By Reason of Strength 3.59 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In the Cloud 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When I Kissed the Learned Astronomer 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond The Sun by Bryan Thomas Schmidt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Resnick, Robert Silverberg 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Descended from Darkness (Book of Apex, #1) by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gill Ainsworth (Editor), Lavie Tidhar (Contributor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show: Sample Issue (2015) by Edmund R. Schubert (Editor), Marina J. Lostetter (Goodreads Author), James Beamon (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Funny Horror by Alex Shvartsman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Esther M. Friesner, Mike Resnick 4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	InterGalactic Medicine Show: Big Book of SF Novelettes by Orson Scott Card (Narrator), Wayne Wightman, Aliette de Bodard (Goodreads Author) 3.86 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	InterGalactic Medicine Show, Issue 37 (InterGalactic Medicine Show, #37) by Edmund R. Schubert (Editor), Marina J. Lostetter (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Jeffrey A. Ballard (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	InterGalactic Medicine Show, Issue 5 (InterGalactic Medicine Show, #5) by Edmund R. Schubert (Editor), Peter S. Beagle (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Eugie Foster (Contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Rogue Heroes: The History of the SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged the Nazis and Changed the Nature of War

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Jamie wants to read Rhythm of War (The Stormlight Archive, #4) by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author) Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee in Best Fantasy	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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40k Book Club: If By Reason of Strength - Technothriller, Science Fiction	1	11	Oct 06, 2011 12:04PM
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Jamie’s Quotes

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”
― Seneca, Natural Questions