Locus, Paula Guran, and an Elk Walk into a Bar . . .
and this amazing-cool over-the-top unexpected review is the result:
Zooming to the Rescue
Not just Zoom, either. Over the past few weeks, I bet I’ve done just about every platform, program, site, service, from Bluejeans to WebEX, Crowdcast to Streamyard. But, the same way Skype USED to be the default-term for your Jetson-y video call, so, now, “Zoom” seems to be. The fact that it’s a real and
Crowdcasted
I’m thinking this’ll show up on YouTube or somewhere before too long. Will slip a link in here (actually, RIGHT here) when/if there’s a link to slip. Until then, some screenshots from during:
Dark Star
Not the CSNY song, not the Dan O’Bannon movie, but the bookstore, the . . . the GROUP READING, with: And, Dark Star’s logo explains why, when you click that link above, there’s a cat pic at the top of it . . .
The Hobbit
Really? I think this is the second The Hobbit round-robin read along even I’ve been part of. But the first was nearly twenty years ago, now, and I kind of doubt anyone was recording (it was a marathon, too, so it went and went and went). Anyway, I’m not on facebook, so don’t know anything
Dame’s Dagger
I think about this shot a lot, and how a book can hope to be like that too: nerve + skill + luck. Though, with Lillard, not sure ‘luck’ comes into it at all. Dude’s just deadly. Probably the best clutch shot I can think of, and that includes Jordan and Bird, Curry and Young,
Best Reads from Lately
Before this gets out of hand again, which it’s apt to do since I seem to be cleaning out tabs during these stay-at-home times (quite possibly I’m clicking more things INTO tabs, too…): https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neandertal-made-oldest-known-string https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/get-lost-in-mega-tunnels-dug-by-south-american-megafauna http://www.montanakaimin.com/opinion/dating-as-a-native-it-s-more-complicated-than-sovereignty/article_8081c614-4cf4-11ea-8e6c-87bf991b1606.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share https://theconversation.com/early-humans-in-africa-may-have-interbred-with-a-mysterious-extinct-species-new-research-131699 http://jaws1975.blogspot.com/2011/07/on-knife-edge.html Zoom Is a Nightmare. So Why Is Everyone Still Using It? https://geekycamel.com/savage-yearbook-quotes-that-prove-seniors-have-no-limits/ ‘Broken promises’: Tribes decry leak
Favorite stuff from birdland lately
no rhyme, less reason — wouldn’t be social media if there were, right?
Mysterious Galaxy!
Great time was had by . . . well, by us, anyway, but presumably, hopefully, by others as well (tweetlink below).
More elky reviews
Armed With a Book: And, there’s always Goodreads reviews rolling in, but Bethany’s is extra special cool (as, I’m sure, is she):
Unrevised
Old article-thing here. It originally ran on The Cult back in . . . sometime between 2005 and 2008? But The Cult went away sometime the last year or two, so I had to dig this up from a cache, copy and paste it here to sort of save it: —SGJ The biggest lie I
STNG & Cheers
Caught this at this tweet, but am putting the image here in case something happens to that tweet—I don’t want to lose this one. Great happiness is contained within: