Rob’s Comments (group member since Jul 06, 2012)

Rob’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

I've been to the San Francisco meeting. I'd like to visit them all eventually

Dorene wrote: "Here's where our group can be found on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/11037...

I'm not sure about Goodreads events, but I will try to be better about at least copying the date..."

If you just make a post with the next date/time/location in this thread, I'll be sure to include it in my messages.

Since you're the thread creator, you can always edit the original post to have a link to your facebook group and/or update the thread title each month with the date of the next meetup

I had thought I was including all the regular groups, but I didn't realize that Tacoma was still meeting or that Seattle had a group at all..

If you guys want me to include your upcoming events in the new monthly blast, let me know.

If you're not creating group events (https://www.goodreads.com/event/list_...) or regularly updating a thread in the group's local meetup section (like this one) that will make it a lot harder for me though. I'd prefer to be able to link to an event or a post in the group rather than something external.

Anyone should have permissions to create an event. I know Goodreads isn't the best interface for coordinating meetups. Our group has a Google hangout we mostly use to communicate, but I try to cross-post here as well so that people who don't already come know what's going on.

John wrote: "Hi Rob,

Thanks for the link in your reply. That did the trick and I am now signed on to the challenge.

I do have the Goodreads app installed and it was taking me into that, as you suggested.

Alt..."

Well I'm glad the app works well for someone! I wish it worked better for my needs. Glad you the challenge thing sorted out.

And you're welcome. I really love the group, so it's worth the extra effort.

Stephen wrote: "Thanks for the Local Meetup shout out! People do not know how much fun it is to meetup once a month and geek out over stuff you love."

Yeah. I really love the one I go to.

John wrote: "Can you still join the challenge even though the year has started?

The reason I ask is that when I click on any of the links on my smartphone I am taken to a blank page..."

You can still join. I think it lets you join right up until December 31st.

Do you have the goodreads app installed on your phone? If so are the links taking you into the app?

The goodreads phone apps in my experience are terrible. I only use it for doing book updates. Everything else I just do in Chrome (I have an Android device).

Try visiting the links in a browser maybe? If you have and it's still not working, I'm not sure what to tell you.

You could try visiting: https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/... and clicking on each challenge from there maybe?

Yeah. That was from the resend I did from home. Thanks everyone.

Alright. It's probably safe to assume it didn't go out then.

I'll try again from home later today.

Dara wrote: "Perhaps now I can get a nomination endorsement from her..."

Are those actual endorsements? I went looking on twitter, but apparently I no longer follow you I guess. I wasn't sure if you made up joke quotes or actually got responses from those authors on Twitter..

I almost made a comment this morning saying "MRK is going to have to update her comment"

Did anyone get a new group broadcast message from me yet?

I got sent to a strange 'page not found', and so I'm not sure if the message was actually sent or what. I don't really want to send it again and spam people. I know when I did it last month it took awhile for me to get mine, but others got it sooner.

I guess if I don't hear back that people got it and/or haven't gotten one myself by the time I get home from work I'll try to send it again from home.

My work internet can be wonky/time out sometimes, so I probably should have just waited to send it after work instead..



For anyone interested, this is what the page I got said:

"Page-Is-Gone, son of Aragorn, grandson of Arathorn

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

In a bit of a switch-up, Veronica has selected a Laser book for February: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal.

Tom will be picking a Sword book for March in return, while we conduct our March Madness tournament for the April pick.

According to the Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mag..., it looks like their parent company(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...) is one of the producers and NBC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBCUniv...) is the distributor.

The Magicians is on Netflix in the US I believe. But for all I know SyFy is the one licensing it to them.

The streaming rights were a big part of the issue with the The Expanse, but I'm not sure about Dark Mat

John (Nevets) wrote: "To me the most unfortunate part for Dark Matter, was it really didn’t get great until that last season. It was good, and interesting before that, but both the writing and the acting really stepped ..."

Agreed. I'm kind of shocked they haven't cancelled the Magicians yet. However it's probably a lot cheaper to make than those shows.

The Expanse Season 3 goes worldwide on Amazon Prime February 8th!

Additionally Seasons 1 and 2 will now be on Prime everywhere (previously it was just North America).

https://deadline.com/2019/01/amazon-p...

The Expanse Season 3 goes worldwide on Amazon Prime February 8th!

Additionally Seasons 1 and 2 will now be on Prime everywhere (previously it was just North America).

https://deadline.com/2019/01/amazon-p...

After they cancelled two of their best shows (first Dark Matter) then the Expanse well before their time, I'm done investing in their new stuff...

This is the last SyFy show I'm watching once Killjoys is done..

Welcome Tiberius and Matt

I meant to post this sooner, but I'm heading to PAX South this weekend. Anyone else going?