Michael

Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:52:29 -0400

Michael

mike@narrow.world

#^Rare comet to streak across night sky. Here’s how you can see it

Your unusual chance to see a comet in the sky is here. C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was discovered by astronomers in 2023 — and will appear to the naked eye over the next couple weeks.

Wed, 11 Apr 2018 21:04:39 -0400

Michael

mike@narrow.world

Oh, look: @books.

@Zot universe NEWS+

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Wed, 11 Apr 2018 21:59:06 -0400

James D Morgan

jdm@hub.farthinghalearms.com

Current book is Angel of the Revolution by George Griffith. The genre is invasion literature. Fun book and the librivox reader is very good.

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 06:47:39 -0400

Stuart Crawford

stuart@hubzilla.nomadicista.org

Currently reading Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Non Fiction.

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 08:04:45 -0400

hEARt PhoniX

tobias@hubzilla.rocks

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 09:21:20 -0400

elmussol

elmussol@elsmussols.net

Currently
A Bad Beginning -- Lemony Snicket
Moby Dick -- Herman Melville

Thu, 12 Apr 2018 10:09:35 -0400

Haakon Meland Eriksen (Parlementum)

parlehaakon@elsmussols.net

Moby Dick is on hold. I am currently reading Aasmund Olavsson Vinje's articles from Drammens Tidende from 1851. Norway fell under Danish rule for over 400 years, till we got our own constitution in 1814, just before we were forced into union with Sweden till 1905. Today, Vinje is famous in Norway for breaking with writing Norwegian in Danish, and rather write in a manner closer to the language of rural Norway - nynorsk or new Norwegian, like Ivar Aasen. However, in my local newspaper from 1851, this has not happened yet... He writes in Danish about the growth of the journals, journalism and its growing influence as a fourth power in Europe. Entertaining, biting and very interesting.

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:47:02 -0400

Jake Moomaw

red@sparklechicken.net

Black Theology and Black Power -- James H, Cone
Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants -- John Drury Clark

I can't recommend Ignition enough! It is hilarious, dark, and super informative.

Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:09:59 -0400

James D Morgan

jdm@hub.farthinghalearms.com

I finished Angel of the Revolution and am now listening to The Invasion of 1910 by William Le Queux. It was written several years prior to WW1 but is about a German invasion of England. It is not bad but a little on the technical side. The librivox reader speaks a little on the fast side but is ok.

#^LibriVox

Librivox

Tue, 17 May 2016 17:00:23 -0400

Michael

mike@narrow.world

@science fiction group+

#^Joel Kinnaman to Lead Netflix's Sci-Fi Series Altered Carbon

Netflix has announced the casting of Suicide Squad and House of Cards' Joel Kinnaman in the lead role in their upcoming sci-fi series Altered Carbon.

I am not a fan of Mr. Kinnaman's acting, but this could be interesting. The book has been sitting unread on my shelf for a while.

Photo Montage

Mon, 02 Mar 2015 20:53:28 -0500

Michael

mike@narrow.world

@Gimp Dojo+

Mon, 02 Mar 2015 21:35:11 -0500

Adam Robertson

adam@red.firefli.de

Adam Robertson agrees with Michael's status

Mon, 06 Oct 2014 22:51:44 -0400

Michael

mike@narrow.world

@TV series point+

#^'Twin Peaks' to return for limited series on Showtime in 2016

That gum you like &c.

Sat, 04 Oct 2014 12:13:19 -0400

Michael

mike@narrow.world

@Bookclub+

Anyone else looking forward to William Gibson's new one?

The Peripheral tells the story of a brave new world of drones, outsourcing and kleptocracy, and of a crime that can only be solved across time.

Upcoming4.me has a more complete synopsis.

CC: @Charles Roth MPC because, well, I think he'll know why.

Sat, 04 Oct 2014 13:01:04 -0400

elmussol

elmussol@elsmussols.net

Yes.

Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:37:32 -0400

Michael

mike@narrow.world

#^The Pleasure of Reading to Impress Yourself - The New Yorker

But there are pleasures to be had from books beyond being lightly entertained. There is the pleasure of being challenged; the pleasure of feeling oneâ€™s range and capacities expanding; the pleasure of entering into an unfamiliar world, and being led into empathy with a consciousness very different from oneâ€™s own; the pleasure of knowing what others have already thought it worth knowing, and entering a larger conversation.

@Bookclub+

Tue, 06 May 2014 21:41:01 -0400

Michael

mike@narrow.world

How are we?

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Wed, 07 May 2014 09:02:50 -0400

Oliver

oliver@hubloq.net

Fine.

Malastare Wed, 07 May 2014 13:29:28 -0400

Jake Moomaw

red@sparklechicken.net

It isn't mosquito season out here just yet, but I'm not looking forward to it. My blood type is "Yummy" as far as the skeeters are concerned. I can go out into a field with four other people and be the only one with bites. Six-legged assholes!

Utapau Wed, 07 May 2014 14:16:59 -0400

Jake Moomaw

red@sparklechicken.net

The lack of mosquitoes is the best thing about winter.

Tue, 18 Mar 2014 18:23:41 -0400

Michael

mike@narrow.world

Oliver wrote the following post Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:39:44 -0400

The RedMatrix
Go here NOW and applaud the RedMatrix:
#^The Red Matrix
Spread the word.

Image/photo

This is how the internet should have worked from the beginning.

Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:21:20 -0500

Michael

mike@narrow.world

Do you more often regret the things you say or the things you don't say?

@Questions

Fri, 03 Jan 2014 22:29:41 -0500

Thomas Willingham

beardyunixer@beardyunixer.com

Depends...how carefully was that question worded?

More often, the things I say, but most qualitatively, it's always the things you don't.

Sat, 04 Jan 2014 02:53:22 -0500

Mike Macgirvin

mike@macgirvin.com

I'm probably going to regret answering this, so I won't.

;-)