Tassie Dave’s Comments (group member since Mar 27, 2011)

Tassie Dave’s comments from the The Sword and Laser group.

Rick wrote: "Not even Gutenberg.org. "

You are surely joking :-?

There are tens of thousands of legally downloadable Public Domain titles on Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Librivox (for audiobooks) etc

If I'm looking for an ebook that is old. Pre-1900, I will search the free Public Domain sites.

If I can't find a decent copy there, the most I will pay on Amazon or iBooks is $1.99. I agree they should charge a small price for re-formatting and fixing any mistakes in the eBook transfer process. Any more than that for a work they aren't paying royalties on is highway robbery for Public Domain.

or at least until the Heat Death of the Universe. ;-)

Even Hades isn't exempt from the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics :-P

Trike wrote: "Richard wrote: "Mark wrote: ""
Ewww. Three day old entropy. Gross."

This is why Jesus invented microwaves."

It still won't decrease the entropy. If anything it will increase it.

Even Jesus can't break the Second Law of Thermodynamics ;-)

At least it was ironically Ayn Randian, and not a celebration of that strange heartless woman.

Trike wrote: "The crow of time and auntie particles are very confusing. I like pizza without entropies."

Leave it sitting for long enough and you're going to have entropy with your pizza whether you want it or not ;-)

John (Nevets) wrote: "There is a weird bug in this one thread for me. Starting a week or so a go I'm getting at least one extra "new" post that I've already seen, when I check in."

Yeah, I'm seeing the same, on several threads over the last few days.

Very late to the party.

It was okay-ish :-? It should have been better.

All the Leia scenes were too forcibly kluged together. I felt killing her in the last film in one of the battle scenes would have been a better way to have Leia go out.

Chewie should have told Maz what they could do with their medal :-?

I hated that scene. How does that even happen and be explainable in the world. 40 years after he should have got the medal, they decide to give it to him now. After all he's done.

Did Princess Leia at the end of Episode 4, when given the medals to hand out, say "The wookie gets a medal over my dead body" and they just waited 4 decades for that to happen

May and June are both Sword picks. To make up for the 3 to 1 Laser dominance so far in 2020

I like Kip Thorne, but he is outside the consensus on that one. Which doesn't mean he is wrong.

For the rest of the world Picard was on Amazon Prime. Which was confusing as ST:Discovery was on Netflix.

Interstella5555 wrote: "Wow!!! What a finale!! If you havent seen it yet get ready to get put through the emotional wringer!"

I was a bit conflicted about the end

(view spoiler)[They had everyone mourning his death for 15 minutes. Then he's back, essentially the same Jean-Luc. It did sort of take the poignancy of his death away.

I also found the built in Apoptosis weird. Why give him a synthetic body, yet retain normal length of life. JL even hints he wants a little more than that. Surely give him the option to shorten it, when he's ready to go.

Don't get me started on the magic 'fix everything' machine. "Use your imagination" (hide spoiler)]

I'd love to see how a sci-fi author explains the entropy conundrum in time travel to the past.

We know time travel to the future is possible. All you need is a mega crap load of speed (time dilation), but entropy makes the 'arrow of time' a one way street.

Wiki Stats page now updated to include next month's book.

https://swordandlaser.fandom.com/wiki...

It is a bit long. TW is a good compromise.

But that's up to Rob ;-)

We all have more time to read for the next few weeks, unfortunately.

A great time to have an alt-pick.

Jan wrote: "So if that quote is accurate it seems she would self-identify as a woman of color?"

If that's how she self-identifies, then that's good enough for me.

Trike wrote: "If she is a POC, then I am, too. (I’m not.)"

I agree with you, but my Google search tells me it's more complicated than that.

I'm confused, and would rather not have had the category because it's so complicated, but others, rightly or wrongly, wanted it.

Trike wrote: "New category! “Collabs between male and female authors (1 each)."

It was more the other categories I was still trying to figure out.

I had been giving each book 1 point even when co-authored.
i.e Good Omens is a British authored book written by men.
I added 1 in the UK category, and 1 in the male category.

Time War is both a Canadian and US written book, and a male and female authored book.

My first thought was to go to half points, but that is sloppy. So I will give 1 to each country's tally and 1 to both male and female. I doubt we will have many books that this will apply to in future.

Is Amal considered a POC? This is why I initially rejected doing a race category. Some people consider Lebanese as Caucasian, while others consider middle eastern as a separate non-caucasian racial group.

My default position would be to add her as a POC, unless told differently :-?

I was hoping for "City of Brass" to win.

The winner messes up the stats on the Wiki. I may have to go to half points for some categories :-?

https://swordandlaser.fandom.com/wiki...

#firstworldproblems ;-)

The app needs a serious update.

Richard has only been adding the pictures for the last few days.

If he reads this, I'd suggest dropping the pictures to make it better for the mobile app users.