5 authors I've read at least 5 books by (going for authors I've read more than one series from):
Tamora Pierce @tamorapierce.bsky.social
Naomi Novik @naominovik.bsky.social
John Scalzi @scalzi.com
Michael Stackpole @michaelastackpole.bsky.social
Piers Anthony
If they can keep up the quality of the last two episodes, Starfleet Acadamy could become one of my favorite Trek series.
Right now it's a sourcebook for an RPG I'm going to be demoing at a local game convention, I'm excited!
Before that it was Brigands and Breadknives by @travisbaldree.bsky.social and The Shattering Peace by @scalzi.com
I just backed Girl Genius: Escape from the Island of the Rat Queen! on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gir...
When I was a kid I was riding my bike and I hit a rut in the road and fell off, scraping my elbows and knee up. I didn't see the rut and steer around it because I was READING A BOOK while riding my bike.
My favorite variant of that is "...but at what cost?"
A reminder that the Paprika app rules.
It streamlines and catalogs recipes from the internet. You can rate ones you love, create shopping lists, scale portions, and more.
I've been using it for 5+ years and love having the digital equivalent of my granny's recipe box in my pocket at all times.
Without saying Lord of the Rings, name a fantasy film.
Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.
And now to answer the age-old question of "How honest should I be in the feedback survey that's tied to my work email address?"
I love the red banner in the corner that says "Behind Pace", very useful for healthy discussion. We've been behind pace almost the entire time.
And now we're (all) moving tiles to place descriptions under product and service names on a virtual board. This is the worst party game ever.
This is a two-hour meeting and it took almost half an hour to get people into the breakout rooms, find volunteers for the various roles, and reveal what the presentation is actually about.
Ooh, the virtual meeting room has a timer too! We're getting warnings that we're falling behind. This is totally chill and not stressful at all.
An incomprehensible PowerPoint slide from a DoD presentation: with lines zoom around between cryptic acronyms and military jargon terms with "Where Are the Weapons?" in a big oval in the center
It doesn't help that the first slide looked something like this:
I'm in a virtual company meeting with audience participation: instead of the presenter reading their slides, they're having people in the breakout room read the slides out loud instead. This is going as well as you can imagine.
Deploying direct to production
I've never seen The Sixth Sense or The Crying Game. I learned about the twists before I saw the movies, and that killed my enthusiasm for seeing them.
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Having a pet curl up and fall asleep on you
2. Going to the store to buy something and it's on sale
3. Seeing a dragonfly or hummingbird
4. Swedish Fish (the candy)
5. Falling in love with a song for a few days
Tom Clancy’s The Monster At The End Of This Book
I love that sequence so much! Such a great example of showing instead of telling.
i wanna try something. quote this post if you’re a man who hates the manosphere
I just backed Atomic Robo and the Peril of Prometheus + Dr Dino's Cookbook on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/tes...
There was an attempt to restart the Wildstorm titles as their own thing, called "The Wild Storm". That's what I was thinking of.
It's funny to point out that progression relies on a Stormwatch/Aliens crossover one-shot. Kinda like reminding people that Rom, Spaceknight is how we got Forge and a huge piece of X-Men lore...
Right, but if she is going to be the first/only Engineer then she should have created them herself. There have been alternate versions of Angela-as-Engineer where she invented them.
(What I want is a big-screen adaptation of one of Warren Ellis' Authority arcs but that probably shouldn't happen, for several reasons)
I was not thrilled with the idea that she did not come up with the nanotech herself. (She's "The Engineer" after all!)
It'll be interesting to see what they do with her and whether she gets tweaked in The Authority
"Many names were almost as good as none, when a being wished not to be found. But some name was necessary, if a being wished to be found sometimes."
—Daniel Keys Moran in Emerald Eyes
