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12.03.2026 16:59
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Holy moley thats a lot of Carré novels!
Ok, so if I were to start with Carré, Greene, Smith, or Furst, which single novel would you say I should start with?
(I'm sure that's hard to pick, but assume I'll read several of each, so if you pass over a favorite, it doesn't mean I won't get to it.)
That's one of the ones I haven't read yet. My favorite I've read of his is Buried Giant. But they are all good.
I'm only familiar with Carré. I'll have to check out these others.
Win this for all of us, please. And make it hurt.
HAM!
“Right now and during the past 50 years, we are burning, as you know, quite a bit of coal and oil and natural gas. The rate at which we are burning this is increasing very rapidly. This burning of these fuels which were accumulated in the earth over hundreds of millions of years, and which we are burning up in a few generations, is producing tremendous quantities of carbon dioxide in the air. Based on figures given out by the United Nations, I would estimate that by the year 2010, we will have added something like 70 percent of the present atmospheric carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. This is an enormous quantity. It is like 1,700 billion tons. Now, nobody knows what this will do. Lots of people have supposed that it might actually cause a warming up of the atmospheric temperature and it may, in fact, cause a remarkable change in climate. We may actually, for example, find that the Arctic Ocean will become navigable and the coasts become a place where people can live, then the Russian Arctic coastline will be really quite free for shipping, as will our Alaskan coastline, if this possible increase in temperature really happens. . . . Here we are making perhaps the greatest geophysical experiment in history, an experiment which could not be made in the past because we didn’t have an industrial civilization and which will be impossible to make in the future because all the fossil fuels will be gone. All the coal and gas and oil will be used up. In this 100-year period, we are conducting, in effect, this vast experiment, and we ought to adequately document it.”
70 YEARS AGO.
March 8, 1956: Roger Revelle testifies to Congress about "the greatest geophysical experiment in history”: “burning, as you know, quite a bit of coal and oil and natural gas” and “producing tremendous quantities of carbon dioxide” which could “cause a remarkable change in climate.”
Brad, I thought of you as soon as I saw Italy beat the USA. Now we need them them to beat Mexico!
Viva Italia!
I'm still not planning to watch, but this made me consider it.
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I this list isn't super diverse, so while these writers aren't a sure bet for me, I want to give them a nod because they have written some of my favorites:
Percival Everett (1)
Helen Oyeyemi (1.5)
Colson Whitehead (2)
Toni Morrison (2)
Gloria Naylor (2)
I will also always read a John Scalzi book (8). I don't love everything he writes--just couldn't get into the Old Man's War series--but his books are usually quick and fun, and he's just a good guy. If you want to give him a try, my favorites are his Interdependency series.
These are the writers I feel most confident I would like a book, not knowing anything about it. (Ordered by # of their books I've read)
Susanna Clarke (2)
Nick Harkaway (3.5)
Lev Grossman (4)
Kazuo Ishiguro (4)
Ursula K. Le Guin (5)
Haruki Murakami (6)
China Miéville (7)
Guy Gavriel Kay (7)
I am currently listening to the audiobook version of Gnomon by Nick Harkaway, which is the 4th of his novels I've read. Every one has been good and I feel like if I ever needed something to read, anything by Harkaway is a safe bet. That got me thinking... who are the writers I keep going back to? 🧵
We will be taking Spring Break in Southern UT, hiking and camping in the canyons of Cedar Mesa. All I can bring myself to do is stare at maps.
Dash! Good to meet you!
Two airedales sit nicely together, awaiting a treat no doubt.
Pike and Rainier say hello on this #TerrierTuesday!
King Rice's 15th season at Monmouth and he has never been to the Big Dance, which has to be the longest streak among active coaches? (Even though he got robbed once.) @kenpom.com @norlander.bsky.social
He will get a chance to end it tomorrow night in the CAA final.
Wait! That's tomorrow!
Not as closely as I would like. I think I might be able to watch the US v Italy game in a few days.
A few early fans watch baseball players warming up in Oregon State's Goss Stadium as the sun peeking through gray clouds
Baseball season is here
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
A large dapper falcon with a partly orange bill, mottled brown plumage, and tufts of white around the neck stands on the rocky shore of a tranquil alpine lake in Argentina, behind which tower a series of majestic jagged snow and glacier draped mountains. Verdant forested hills fill the space in between.
Dashing dinosaur (Crested caracara) struts the shores of Laguna Capri, Argentina. Jurassic panoramic.
Many Americans have heard tales of folk legends Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan. Now, with the publishing of a new book this week, people will also learn of Ah Bing, a larger-than-life horticulturalist who immigrated to Oregon and has a cherry named after him.
Olympic curling: elaborate sweeping operation to tweak the path of the thrown rock, constant screaming, plus an earth-shaking controversy about tapping the rocks post-release to influence direction
Paralympic curling: just huckin it down there, don't see what the big deal is, works just fine
Lago de Los Tres. A glossy, turquoise blue alpine lake surrounded by snow-draped jagged gray mountains.
View of a broad face of a snow and ice covered mountain foregrounded by southern beech forest, on the way to Mirador del Torre.
View of a verdant valley in Patagonia, a winding river, forest, and trees surrounded by hills and mountains.
A vast strikingly blue lake behind which towers a snowy mountain range, foregrounded by the desert-like Steppe, sandy with sparse shrubs.
Patagonian landscapes. Exploring the regions around and inbetween El Calafate and El Chaltén, Argentina. Truly spectacular.
Representative Suzanne Bonamici (Oregon’s first congressional district) speaking to a crowd on a stage with a “Stand up for Science” banner
A crowd of protesters uniting and fighting for science in America
My mom and I posing with a “Science and Democracy” sign in front of the Stand up for Science stage
My family (mom, dad, sister, and me) taking a selfie with Stand up for Science protest signs
Stand up for science in Portland!!
@milorad.bsky.social
@br00klynne.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
👋 I'll be there. Glad to see you're coming!
I copied this from someone here on BS to share with a few friends. I apologize for not reposting it. This is of huge importance to me and the planet. 💔
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