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Jul 17, 2020 07:42AM

4170 Silvana wrote: "Iain wrote: "...

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who's this?"


Renegade time lord

https://thedoctorwhosite.co.uk/master/
Jul 17, 2020 07:24AM

4170 For those of you experimenting with new facial hair styles in these pandemic times, here are CDC guidelines for which varieties of facial hair work with masks...

https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/...

Update: Good news! The ZAPPA is mask-friendly.
Jul 17, 2020 06:55AM

4170 Wow, horror books sell really well...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/16/media/...
Jul 15, 2020 05:40PM

4170 Watched and enjoyed The Old Guard on Netflix. Ordered The Old Guard, Book Two: Force Multiplied from my local comic shop, due out in September.
Jul 14, 2020 11:23AM

4170 Sound can also be transmitted through bone conduction so you're not limited to two ears. You can listen to three or more audiobooks at once!
Jul 13, 2020 11:18AM

4170 A virtual event scheduled for Wednesday, Jul 29, 6:00 PM via Zoom

Arkady Martine - A Memory Called Empire and Vivian Shaw - The Greta Helsing Trilogy

https://www.collectedworksbookstore.c...
Superhero novels (24 new)
Jul 12, 2020 11:41AM

4170 Mosaic: A Novel
Superhero novels (24 new)
Jul 12, 2020 09:39AM

4170 You can try the Heroine Complex series by Sarah Kuhn

https://www.goodreads.com/series/1834...

An amusing ongoing series about a personal assistant to a superhero who is hiding her own superpowers, until she can't hide them any longer.
Jul 11, 2020 10:29AM

4170 "Weird Al" Yankovic - The Hamilton Polka

https://youtu.be/oNEdEDbhTQw
Jul 10, 2020 10:53AM

4170 Hamilton Act 1 but it's Muppets (audio only)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZzDP...

Looks like a Muppet fan's production
Quick Burns (2020) (563 new)
Jul 09, 2020 09:31AM

4170 Trike's nanobots haven't arrived yet so I can still post a quick burn about a murderbot.

The Murderbot Diaries short story Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory by Martha Wells which was offered to people who preordered Network Effect, will be available through Short Story Club https://www.shortstory.club/

It's a book club for short stories. You RSVP, read a short story, and join a live discussion with the author on Zoom.

Live Q&A with Martha Wells On Murderbot July 21 at 5:30PM PST / 8:30PM EST

If you press the RSVP button on the website, it will take you to an eventbrite page where you can either get a free ticket or make a donation to a charity.

UPDATE: There seems to be a limit on the number of tickets that will be available so, sign up early, if this interests you.

UPDATE 2: I signed up and the link to download the short story is for Hugh Howey's Wool instead of Ms. Wells' short story! I contacted the organizers asking for help. Trike must have misaddressed his nanobots.

UPDATE 3: The short story club folks sent out the correct download link right away. The postman has come and gone today, still no nanobots, but the murderbot is squared away.
Quick Burns (2020) (563 new)
Jul 08, 2020 02:06PM

4170 Trike wrote: "Tamahome wrote: "We could even virtually cuddle...."

Gah! No we could NOT. “Introvert” includes the touching. Even virtually."



Warrior Nun (38 new)
Jul 08, 2020 05:52AM

4170 "Diet Preacher with a twist of Buffy"
-- Brian Brushwood and Tom Merritt, Cordkillers (It's Spoilerin' Time 319, to be released this week)
Warrior Nun (38 new)
Jul 08, 2020 05:14AM

4170 The original comics feature Sister Shannon. Some of the comic characters are in the tv show, but with major differences. Ava is a new character.
Warrior Nun (38 new)
Jul 07, 2020 07:38PM

4170 Kev wrote: "I saw it's rated TV-MA for gore. How much gore is there? I don't like gore."

Fights with guns, knives, swords and slabs of spare ribs, with associated blood. Not as much gore as Game of Thrones.
Jul 07, 2020 05:37PM

4170 terpkristin wrote: "Apparently there is a limit of the number of f-bombs you can have and keep it PG-13. So he had to take away 2 of them. That is, he had to give two fucks."

lol

had to read about this

https://collider.com/hamilton-disney-...
Jul 07, 2020 04:03PM

4170 Tassie Dave wrote: "A question, I haven't seen the Disney Hamilton. I had assumed it was just a recording of the musical pieces. Is it that or Is it a full dramatic recording of an actual performance of the show?"

The actual performance, filmed on two nights, with multiple cameras.
Jul 05, 2020 07:52PM

4170 Brad wrote: "I started listening to Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child and I’m really into it. This is exactly the kind of horror I love. A labyrinthine natural history museum with huge abandoned sectio..."

I read The Relic and Reliquary after watching the movie based on The Relic. The creature was the best actor in the film.
Jul 05, 2020 10:29AM

4170 terpkristin wrote: "Some of The Baby-Sitters Club on Netflix. I grew up on these books. Despite having seen Hamilton twice on stage and being in absolute love with the soundtrack, I have yet to watch it. Maybe tonight."

I'm thinking Hamilton tonight as well.
Jul 05, 2020 09:10AM

4170 Well, since the 4th of July holiday was a stay at home kind of affair this year, it was hot dogs and movies here.

The mood called for watching some feel good summer movies so it was Will Smith kicking E.T.'s ass in Independence Day followed by the Mercury 7 in space, The Right Stuff.

Then the artillery shelling began. It's hot and dry here, so we mostly watched for fire.

Whether or not you celebrate the 4th of July, what do or watch yesterday?