Angry Robots and Steely Knives
Last Day of The Angry Robot eBook Sale
Lucky me, I heard about the Angry Robot eBook Sale in time to take advantage. You can too -- there's still a day left.
But since this is my blog, I'm going to ignore your needs entirely to tell you what I bought...
1) Embedded by Dan Abnett, which I really enjoyed. His Gaunt's Ghosts books weren't really satisfying to me, but Embedded really takes off after the first third and keeps sprinting all the way to the finish line. Good stuff.
2) Guy Haley's Reality 36. Only 20% into this one, but having a ball so far. I love books that really take me somewhere else, somewhere fantastic. Already, I've spent time as a super AI, a Cyborg and a hacker. I've lived in a California so liberal, it's become fascist and a London that's disappearing year by year into a tropical swamp. Highly recommended so far.
3) Aliette de Bodard's Servant of the Underworld will probably be next. I've heard a lot of great buzz about it, and I love the idea of getting into the mind of an Aztec.
Nothing Cuts Deeper Than Knives
In a post here a while back, I warned people not to try veganism unless they were prepared to do it right. And by "right" I meant, more or less, cooking fresh, varied ingredients from scratch. Every day. For the rest of your life. For me it was worth it, and I've always enjoyed cooking anyway.
On the other hand, I'm an incompetent, whose one skill is to make life difficult for myself in a variety of creative ways.
The fact is, cooking will always be a terrible chore unless you are properly equipped for it, and the most basic piece of equipment a chef can have is a sharp, sharp knife. You can buy these anywhere, but they never hold their edge for long, so, what a shame it was to find myself trapped in a body -- for DECADES -- that is incapable of sharpening a blade.
The terror ended last Friday when I bought myself an Anysharp knife sharpener, guaranteed foolproof, and so far, Peadar-proof too. Oh, the joys of a deadly blade! Now, all I need to do is to learn some real chopping skills and dinner will always be ready in half the time!
Lucky me, I heard about the Angry Robot eBook Sale in time to take advantage. You can too -- there's still a day left.
But since this is my blog, I'm going to ignore your needs entirely to tell you what I bought...
1) Embedded by Dan Abnett, which I really enjoyed. His Gaunt's Ghosts books weren't really satisfying to me, but Embedded really takes off after the first third and keeps sprinting all the way to the finish line. Good stuff.
2) Guy Haley's Reality 36. Only 20% into this one, but having a ball so far. I love books that really take me somewhere else, somewhere fantastic. Already, I've spent time as a super AI, a Cyborg and a hacker. I've lived in a California so liberal, it's become fascist and a London that's disappearing year by year into a tropical swamp. Highly recommended so far.
3) Aliette de Bodard's Servant of the Underworld will probably be next. I've heard a lot of great buzz about it, and I love the idea of getting into the mind of an Aztec.
Nothing Cuts Deeper Than Knives
In a post here a while back, I warned people not to try veganism unless they were prepared to do it right. And by "right" I meant, more or less, cooking fresh, varied ingredients from scratch. Every day. For the rest of your life. For me it was worth it, and I've always enjoyed cooking anyway.
On the other hand, I'm an incompetent, whose one skill is to make life difficult for myself in a variety of creative ways.
The fact is, cooking will always be a terrible chore unless you are properly equipped for it, and the most basic piece of equipment a chef can have is a sharp, sharp knife. You can buy these anywhere, but they never hold their edge for long, so, what a shame it was to find myself trapped in a body -- for DECADES -- that is incapable of sharpening a blade.
The terror ended last Friday when I bought myself an Anysharp knife sharpener, guaranteed foolproof, and so far, Peadar-proof too. Oh, the joys of a deadly blade! Now, all I need to do is to learn some real chopping skills and dinner will always be ready in half the time!
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