Cool, breezy, and partly sunny, unless I miss my guess. I can guess too, just like the pros.
Drove around town in the part sun, part overcast and enjoyed not sweating constantly. It was still pretty humid, and when the sun peeked through it was hot, but the overcast and breeze kept it nice for most of the day.
I did my pickup, and then went to my secondary location. I needed to get some stuff for my wife to take to Girl Scouts for craft projects. I also took some stuff from the house to store, and spent some time cleaning and moving stuff. I need to spend a week there, but won’t have the time. I have to just chip away at what I can.
Today I have to get stuff put away and organized here. Between youngest taking over the library/toy room for her classroom, and all the temporary bins and piles of holiday decor, the place looks like a thrift store exploded here. It must be driving my wife crazy. The best thing I can do is get the house in order today. That and get some more stuff out of the house.
Getting some more decor set up is far down the list. My neighbors are all looking forward to Halloween, both the ones with kids that will be trick-or-treating, and the ones that will be home handing out candy. It feels a bit like the last chance to be ‘normal’ before it all gets crazy, and the first chance to be ‘normal’ in a while, at the same time. Yeah that’s crazy too, but then this year has been crazy.
It’s not suddenly going to stop being crazy either. Remember that UFOs are on the agenda too, which would trump all the other stuff, while at the same time, making it worse. More realistically, a NATO ally is busy supplying weapons into a hot war with a nation allied to Russia, and promises to send troops and get even more involved if anyone interferes. So at the same time we’re weakened at home with the run up to CWII, internationally we might be in the run up to WWIII… after all, SOMETHING has to get rid of all that debt that Europe ran up. And something has to goose the world’s second largest economy, and those other countries didn’t go to all that trouble to set up alternatives to banking and the petrodollar just as an academic exercise… nor was it an accident that got their islamic shock troops/fifth column embedded into Europe. It’s no coincidence that one of those parties is in bed with the Presidential candidate’s son, or that all this is happening while we are being attacked internally, especially since those attacks are well funded by known enemies of the US and freedom.
In other words, it’s like there’s an ‘all you can eat buffet’ of ways spicy time can come. One or more is almost BOUND to come. So keep stacking.
nick
Yah. Lot of that going around.
“Out driving today I saw my first John Cornyn signs. Maybe he’s feeling the heat… and feels like he needs some visibility.”
Cornyn is up by 8 at Real Clear Politics. I think that he is more interested in raising money during this time.
I haven’t seen MJ Hegar attempt to tie Cornyn to her abusive father story as she did here in Round Rock two years ago, when the campaign’s internal polling the last two weeks showed her losing to our walking stiff incumbent Congresscritter. The tactic almost worked against John Carter since “Girls Stick Together” sells well in the Williamson County suburbs, but the meme fell flat in Bell County, home of the sprawling Temple VA complex.
MJ Hegar’s yard signs give off the vibe that she’s the Republican. At least, that’s how I look at them when we are out for walks around the neighborhood.
@Nick – I haven’t forgotten about the Linux Mint 19.3 and Windows 10 NTFS problem. I booted my main desktop into the Windows 10 partition, and the OS wanted a whole bunch of updates since I hadn’t been out there since I was kicked out of my home office in April. I should know more about what’s going on today.
I’m abandoning the MacBook Pro “Santa Rosa” I’ve run for the last year under Pop! OS. I can’t complain that I haven’t got my money’s worth out of the laptop since I’ve used it for some purpose for nearly 13 years and even Apple gave up on those machines early.
The problem with the MacBook isn’t that I no longer find it useful but that the third party batteries keep going kaput barely out of their year warranty from the vendor. I can’t justify $100 a year for a machine that barely runs one Linux distro with caveats.
‘What? No “Hitchhiker’s Guide”!?!’
I have tried. I keep on bouncing off.
Try running the BBC miniseries first and then backing into the books. That’s how it happened for most of us in the early 80s.
Alternatively, the first “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” is Adams actually trying to tell a story rather than expounding on radio sketch material, even if the book is a forgotten “Doctor Who” script.
“Dirk Gently’s” has some genius material about managing software developers which has stuck with me for over three decades, especially the bit about examining the topology of their navels.
Writing my TWC appeal this weekend, I had to resist the urge to include that line regarding the Senior developer I was assigned to assist on the project demo failure which led to my firing. The guy definitely understood every nook and cranny of his belly button, but I have to phrase it properly for the legal proceeding.
Yes, I will have to do it. I don’t care about the money, really, but Texas law won’t let me simply waive my right to collect a check in return for not classifying the dismissal in the same category as if I sexually harassed a co-worker. I dropped two f-bombs in an internal meeting in a period of extreme frustration. I did *NOT* jeopardize the project or the customer’s interests at any point.
@Greg Norton, if you mostly use that notebook plugged in to power, can you run it with no battery? Some hardware supports that.
You probably already have that answer.
@Greg Norton, if you mostly use that notebook plugged in to power, can you run it with no battery? Some hardware supports that.
You probably already have that answer.
Of course, but I have desktops. Also, I’m down to one OS which runs with caveats that does not present a security issue on the machine, and support for that will end soon.
Santa Rosa was a problem piece of hardware for Apple due to the problems with Nvidia’s chip assembly methodology among other issues. Cupertino walked away from the laptop as soon as they could.
The “War of the Worlds” and “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” are a couple of my favorites. I even have gilded edge leather bound copies.
I loved “When Worlds Collide” and” After Worlds Collide” by Balmer and Wylie. I clearly remember well worn copies in our high school library. They were compact books, maybe originals? The WWC movie was OK.
The Skylark Series is another fav. And who can forget Doc Savage. Pulp at it’s best. I read them all as a chil’.
Whatever happens nationally, the Dems keep shooting themselves in the foot in Florida.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/elections/2020/10/25/floridas-senate-is-safely-gop-this-year-are-democrats-blowing-it-again/
Alex Sink. In addition to being a failed candidate for Governor against a beatable Republican, in her previous career, Sink engineered the arguably illegal takeover of Florida’s largest bank by the entity now known as Bank of America.
“And who can forget Doc Savage”
— ah synchronicity! I mentioned Doc Savage to my wife last night, before I read the list. I couldn’t get into them because of the marveling at turning on a light switch, and ‘harnessing the power of the atom’. I just couldn’t find a way to get my head right, not even thinking of them as alternative history, or a frontier planet… from my memory, every time they enter a room and flip a light switch there is a paragraph about it…. I even get rid of my 3 books during the last purge.
–Ach, I forgot about Tom Swift! Read all of those as a kid.
n
And Rick Brandt Science Adventures or Sax Roemer’s Fu Manchu. Paid by the word pulps.
@Greg Norton
Agree with the assessment of Dirk Gently, and the approach to Hitchhiker’s Guide.
Adam’s Doctor Who script for the multi-part Pirate Planet is a tour-de-force with great acting. As part of the Key To Time story arc, it stands out against some other very good writing.
@Nick
I collected all of Melissa Scott pre-millenium, but found I was not enamored of the fantasy. Trouble and Her Friends was almost as good as BB.
Females were writing science fiction and fantasy almost from the beginning of the pulps. Andre Norton. Alice Mary Norton. Judith Merrill. Leigh Bracket. C.L.Moore. I seem to recall a few pulp contributors using initials, but no specifics.
Keith Laumer was writing cyberpunk before it had a name.
Honorable Mention to Walter Jon Williams.
Left James Hogan off the list. The Proteus Operation is outstanding time travel, and his Giants
Oh yeah, the Giants series is fantastic. A trip down memory lane. I remember seeing Goliath Awaits on TV and saw it was based on a book by James White, “The Watch Below”. I had to read it and it was one of those books that are so much better than TV/Movie versions. The aliens weren’t even mentioned! There are so many good books that deserve re-reading.
Ah, but which version, Tom Swift, or Tom Swift Jr.? 🙂 If I still had the second hand books I collected as a kid I’d be rich on just the Oz books alone.
Poppy Ott & Jerry Todd were another series I loved, too. Who could forget _Jerry Todd and the Flying Flapdoodle_?
Tom Swift Jr. And “Danny Dunne and the xxxxx ” series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_Dunn
Trouble and Her Friends, might have to re-read that now….
Of all the feminist/lesbian/non-trinary authors and stories of that period, I liked Pat Cadigan the least, mainly because her cyberspace needed you to scoop out your eyes with spoons….
The Keith Laumer books were like popcorn, loved them, but they just went by.
not groundbreaking but good fun.
n
Females were writing science fiction and fantasy almost from the beginning of the pulps. Andre Norton. Alice Mary Norton. Judith Merrill. Leigh Bracket. C.L.Moore. I seem to recall a few pulp contributors using initials, but no specifics.
Dorothy Fontana, often credited as “D.C.” either wrote or served as consultant for most of the canon “Star Trek” material concerning Spock and his family, starting with the Original Series’ “Journey to Babel”.
“I collected all of Melissa Scott pre-millenium”
–it took me forever to find a copy of the middle book in the lost princess/warp space navigator series. I used to haunt used book stores looking for it.
n
@steveF- wife just asked me to set up a kindle for the 11 yo… any way to share some of our library with her, let her have access to wifi so she can rent library books, and yet still lock her out of most of our shared library?
I thought about just D/Ling the books we want her to have then blocking the mac address in our router, but my wife wants her to be able to get library books without us getting involved every time.
n
@Greg Norton
Agree with the assessment of Dirk Gently, and the approach to Hitchhiker’s Guide.
Adam’s Doctor Who script for the multi-part Pirate Planet is a tour-de-force with great acting. As part of the Key To Time story arc, it stands out against some other very good writing.
The story from the “lost” “Doctor Who” episode “Shada” became the first “Dirk Gently’s” book, but the episode’s completed footage lives on as the Tom Baker segments of the 20th anniversary “The Five Doctors”, used when the actor refused to appear.
(Something Baker obviously came to regret later.)
BBC and BBC America both commissioned separate miniseries attempting to adapt the “Dirk Gently’s” books, running just a few years apart. Sadly, both entered the fray at the same time as “Sherlock”, but didn’t have the same level of acting or writing so they didn’t last long.
“Sherlock: Scandal in Belgravia” is possibly the best 90 minutes of TV I’ve seen in the last two decades … and remarkably prescient if you consider Prince Andrew’s current problems. That’s a tough standard to top in the “quirky detective” genre.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTf7DDb6KL0
“I lost count.” The whole episode is filled with moments like that.
I thought about just D/Ling the books we want her to have then blocking the mac address in our router, but my wife wants her to be able to get library books without us getting involved every time.
Sharing purchased books is a big violation of the Amazon terms of service, and something they actively look for when syncing the readers. I’m not sure if that includes syncing to a public library service.
If you have book files not purchased through Amazon, they don’t seem to care if the files are around during sync, even torrents. If they did, I would have been in trouble a long time ago.
“Sharing purchased books is a big violation of the Amazon terms of service”
–we’ve got family share turned on and don’t have any problems, I just don’t want my curious little monkey into everything..
n
Oh my, look out New Orleans
@Greg Norton
IIRC, Shada was half-completed when filming was halted by a BBC strike, and they didn’t use all of the film that they had.
Of all the multi-Doctor episodes, The Two Doctors was the best.
We are blessed to live in a time when Jeremy Brett’s Sherlock has been equaled by Cumberbatch’s.
“That was right on my bins.”
ROTFL
@Nick
I posted at 11:56 and have a window open showing it made it past the editing window, but it is nowhere to be seen otherwise. Should I repost?
“Sharing purchased books is a big violation of the Amazon terms of service”
–we’ve got family share turned on and don’t have any problems, I just don’t want my curious little monkey into everything..
Sure. I’d hate to see your Amazon account suspended. That could make life really hard.
I make a point of not using Big River and subsidiaries like Zappos unless I simply can’t get the item elsewhere or the price is too good to pass up.
Why not? We had _The Kinsey Reports _ and lots of other salacious stuff (Stekel, anyone?) and it sure beat disinformation passed around in school bathrooms. Context is everything, though. YMMV.
@Greg Norton
IIRC, Shada was half-completed when filming was halted by a BBC strike, and they didn’t use all of the film that they had.
Of all the multi-Doctor episodes, The Two Doctors was the best.
“The Two Doctors” was supposed to have been the first episode filmed in the US, in New Orleans, hence the obsession with food/cooking.
A popular fan theory is that “The Two Doctors” will be referenced in the New Years’ special to resolve all the plot holes created in the last season, including the black female Doctor not previously seen but who doesn’t recognize the current incarnation as well as the rewritten Time Lords back story. I call that wishful thinking, but it could happen.
I don’t see how the series can go on if a really good explanation isn’t provided.
Nick, I don’t think there’s a solution which is legal, effective, and not a hassle for the adults.
Probably the best combination is to allow her full access to the wifi and the shared family Amazon account but conduct unannounced inspections of the Kindle.
Another option which may work is to not set up her Kindle on the family account. When she wants something from the public library (not the family Kindle library) download to a PC, import to Calibre, and then copy onto the Kindle. You can give her a “starter” Calibre library curated from your full collection. If your library’s ebook vendor can skip going through Amazon or if they provide epub as direct download, she should be able to do everything herself.
@drwilliams, you can always try to repost, if it went thru the first time, you’ll get a ‘duplicate post’ message.
I don’t see any comments waiting in moderation… generally you get there for more than 4 links in one comment.
one thing that can happen, the edit tool seems to put your comment in the thread based on the time you started editing, not finished, so it can be upthread from where you expect if there have been several comments posted in between. This is especially true if you forgot to hit ‘post comment’ for a while. I haven’t taken the time to confirm this is the actual behavior, but I’ve seen enough times when that’s what it looked like to me, that I believe it. Rick can chime in if needed.
n
“Why not?”
–um, mixed in with all the young adult fiction, and general SF there are some things that look on the surface like that would be very interesting, but are REALLY inappropriate for an 11yo, even a precocious one. Mostly including sexual violence, or extreme violence. John Ringo’s Ghost is just the easiest to remember…. (see Oh No John Ringo NO! meme if interested)
n
or https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00CJJSJHG# Under Jurisdiction Book Series
“When Andrej Koscuisko, a talented young doctor, reports to orientation as a Ship’s Inquisitor he will discover in himself something far worse than a talent for inflicting grotesque torments on the Bench’s enemies. He will confront a passion for the exercise of the Writ to Inquire whose intensity threatens to consume him utterly.”
“Advance Praise for An Exchange of Hostages:
A grisly and absorbing work — a truly disturbing exercise in psychological inquiry.”
Well worth reading, but very disturbing.
@drwilliams On Saturday…
So when there’s a story on the news about Antifa throwing Molotov cocktails at a police station, do you tell her to avert her eyes? Denial is not a river in Egypt…
three links, but I’ll make it two parts:
I specifically included the uncut version of The Puppet Masters in my list above. After SiaSL, it was the second of the uncut versions released by Virginia Heinlein in the mid-1990’s.
Some of the background is here:
https://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/works/novels/strangervsstranger.html
Heinlein was forced to cut Stranger from 220 to 160,000 words. Rule speculates that “Maybe a perfect middle ground exists somewhere around 190,000 words.” I might agree with that to a certain extent. Reading the restored version thirty years later, I did notice that some parts dragged due to cultural references of the 1940’s/50’s, but it’s questionable whether it would have been noticeable on original publication.
But I digress.
My real point is that The Puppet Masters was brutalized by a magazine editor, not carefully edited by Heinlein. The restored version is much better.
second part:
RAH is widely recognized as the successful inventor in description of the water bed and “Waldos”. One web site makes a comprehensive list of 119 “inventions”
https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/13601/have-any-of-heinleins-then-fictional-inventions-been-developed-into-actual-on
Some of these are a long stretch.
But absent from the list is one device that is glaringly obvious in the first few pages of the uncut version of TPM.
If you haven’t seem it, link to an article on the Colorado Springs home built by the Heinleins in 1950:
http://www.nitrosyncretic.com/rah/pm652-art-hi.html
I specifically included the uncut version of The Puppet Masters in my list above. After SiaSL, it was the second of the uncut versions released by Virginia Heinlein in the mid-1990’s.
Some of the background is here:
https://www.heinleinsociety.org/rah/works/novels/strangervsstranger.html
Heinlein was forced to cut Stranger from 220 to 160,000 words. Rule speculates that “Maybe a perfect middle ground exists somewhere around 190,000 words.” I might agree with that to a certain extent. Reading the restored version thirty years later, I did notice that some parts dragged due to cultural references of the 1940’s/50’s, but it’s questionable whether it would have been noticeable on original publication.
But I digress.
My real point is that The Puppet Masters was brutalized by a magazine editor, not carefully edited by Heinlein.
“The Puppet Masters” is ok. So is SIASL. I vastly prefer “Citizen of the Galaxy” and “The Star Beast”. And of course TMIAHM, “The Moon is a Hard Mistress”. COTG is a dated but still a great read (about 8 or 10 times so far). I will brook no criticism of TSB.
~jim, there’s a difference between knowing about sewers and drinking from them…
n
ca 1990 I would have ranked TMisHM as his best novel, followed by Stranger. TPM was not third, but certainly is now.
I will never forget the thrill of starting The Cat Who Walked Through Walls and discovering that they were looking for Mike.
As a YA novel, The Star Beast is in a different category, but number one on that list. CotG is a close second.
Heinlein holds the distinction of being of being the absolute master of science fiction in whatever form he chose to practice. Short story, novella, novel, and young adult novel, his best is the best. (By His Bootstraps, Coventry, TMiaHM, and TSB).
No Hugo’s were originally awarded for 1951 and 1954. A 1951 Retro-Hugo was awarded to Farmer in the Sky in 2001. The puzzle is why TSB was not nominated for a RH in 2004, but man, that was a tough year. (Fahrenheit 451, Childhood’s End, Mission of Gravity, The Caves of Steel, More Than Human).
So now I’m wondering how it is that Hal Clement did not make my ground breaking list…
Heinlein also famously sold every single word he wrote, and some of it was pretty bad. I got a box full of the bad from somewhere, so I missed the good, and got a huge helping of the bad.
One thing it took me a while to realize, and then put me off his books was the moment when the main character shrugs and basically says “when in Rome…” and then participates in some of what for the character (and mainstream readers) is deviant sex. There was a LOT of exploration of alternative living arrangements and sexual arrangements in SF from the very beginning, so I see the throughline and why it’s there, but at the time it put me off. 90’s SF did the same with the five genders and ‘queer’* explosion in mainstream SF…
n
*used in the self empowering, reclaim the slur manner as the authors.
I love the article on his house though. Thermostats! Whole house audio! Central air and daylighting!
I don’t get the craze for built ins. And there are self contradictory things in the design of the house- he raised the electrical plugs, because every now and then you bend over to plug something in, but put all his clothing and other storage under the beds, so you have to stoop every morning to get your cloths… and don’t forget how much time you waste setting and clearing the table… you could just put it in the kitchen like most of america. FFS, he lived with his wife, two place settings. Serve buffet style from the kitchen and everyone carries their own plate.
Other than the single use built ins, a surprising number of those innovations were widely adopted.
It’s very odd though, that a man who invents the future would build a house that was almost impossible to redecorate, let alone remodel.
n
They can do whatever they want, and the fans are free to do so too…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8874701/Midnight-Oil-release-album-18-years.html
But am I the only one that thinks they might be better served by trying to make powerful MUSIC and let that speak for itself?
n
I don’t think there was a boxful of bad, but a lot of The Future History is dated.
And yes, I not only tired of the anything goes sex, but the gender wars. The latter ruined Number of the Beast for me. If it had continued in the vein of the first 50 pages it would have been one of his best.
Heinlein was unapologetic about writing for his livelihood. If you read Grumbles from the Grave he discusses numerous compromises with editors, and there are a lot of confirming stories.
After Stranger he could pretty much do what he pleased.
One of the reasons that I know the time stream is not mutable is that there is no evidence of thousands of Heinlein fans turning up to help him build that stone wall. “No, sir, really. We’re fine. Why don’t you go up to the house to write and pop back down after lunch to see how we’re doing?”
later…
“Yessir. I suppose we did get carried away and the 100-foot statue of you is a bit much. But Ginnie goes up tomorrow, so why don’t we wait until then?”
(If it were me, though, I wouldn’t be working on the wall. I’d take him an Apple Quadra 700 running OS7.1 and MS Office with Word 5.1. with an HP LaserJet 4M. Best writing machine ever. Or maybe sim the software on a newer machine with SSD storage, just to have the pleasure of showing him the capacity of USB thumb drives)
MJ Hegar’s yard signs give off the vibe that she’s the Republican. At least, that’s how I look at them when we are out for walks around the neighborhood.
I’ve only seen 1 or 2 political flowers (yard signs) with dum-bro-crat on them. They are running scared from the national party and don’t want to identify themselves as they really are.
Anyone staying with the dum-bro-crat party at this point is deluding themselves that the democrats will go back to the nice left central party that they were 20 years ago. In fact, I fully suspect that the dum-bro-crat party will head further to the left over time. Kristallnacht is coming !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht
See https://www.amazon.com/Your-Engineered-House-Rex-Roberts/dp/B000GJLNDI/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=engineered+house&qid=1603656090&sr=8-3&tag=ttgnet-20
for a somewhat more thorough if also dated approach to practical living arrangements via construction. Very similar in outlook.
I noticed that too. I was wondering if they passed some restriction to go with the end of party line voting… and was going to ask you!
I don’t see party on very many signs at all. Which I thought about, and I’m fine with. Once elected they represent ALL the voters and party shouldn’t really be a factor (yes I know that it is).
The party affiliation on signs really only helps if the voter doesn’t know anything about you, and is voting lowest common denominator. (which for a lot of local positions is pretty much the reality. Unless a judge really screws up, how do you even know anything about them?)
n
It’s very odd though, that a man who invents the future would build a house that was almost impossible to redecorate, let alone remodel.
Frank Lloyd Wright was still very active and influential at that time, and his houses were designed with everything already in place including furniture.
Wright didn’t sweat the long term with his creations. Most of his surviving buildings are maintenance nightmares, including the SC Johnson Wax Building, Marin Civic Center, and various structures at Florida Southern College outside Tampa.
Fallingwater is on my list of things to see. I’m not a huge architecture fan, but it is one of history’s great procrastinations, designed, according to legend, by Wright in a couple of hours after receiving word that the clients were on the way to his studio to take a look at the preliminary plans when Wright had nothing prepared.
Frank Loyd Wright comes to mind. His home designs are more works of art than living spaces.
I once spent a summer in a FLW house in Phoenix, very interesting design, very hard to live in.
I’ve just returned to the upper Midwest from a driving trip to the Arizona/Mexican border. (Flew back.) Plenty of lawn signs for both contenders and Biden is spending a HUGE amount on TV ads in AZ. The retirement haven in Tuscon had lawn signs on less than 20% of the houses but favored Biden.
Contractors for the Wall left very early each morning from my budget motel. The town of Nado has an ICE facility that looked like a well appointed prison with razor wire on top of the fence. Went thru a “border patrol checkpoint” on the four lane road just north of Sierra Vista arrayed with a variety of sensor boxes and a masked, uniformed feller and his K9 motioning to carry on.
The Phoenix and Denver airports enforce masking, but lots of visible noses. Empty middle seat on SouthWest until 12/1. Did receive snack packet with ice water. Made me think of bread and water. Alcohol is verboten, but no one sniffed my fortified bottle of cold brew coffee, purchased after security and filled with previously purchased whiskey in those itty bitty bottles.
My first time checking a gub through. TSA “rearranged” the rest of the bag but that may have been due to the collection of foil wrapped hotel coffee in the outer pockets. That’s my speculation, anyhow.
Alcohol is verboten, but no one sniffed my fortified bottle of cold brew coffee, purchased after security and filled with previously purchased whiskey in those itty bitty bottles.
The last time we flew, the alcohol wasn’t the problem as much as the “therapy animals”. I was congested and swollen for the rest of the day after the flight.
Hopefully the airlines have banned the animals without paperwork. It is up to them.
The Skylark Series is another fav. And who can forget Doc Savage. Pulp at it’s best. I read them all as a chil’.
The best pulp that I read almost 50 years ago were the Tarzan, Perry Rhodan, and John Carter Mars series. I lost most of them in The Great Flood of 1989. I bought a box of Perry Rhodans on Ebay several years ago that I intend to read again some day.
https://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Stardust-Rhodan-Karl-Herbert-1969-01-01/dp/B01A0BQ2VY/?tag=ttgnet-20
Whoa, $864.56 for an almost new condition ! I may need to sell my collection !
I LOVED the Tom Swift Jr. Series when I was a mad scientist in training in the early 60s. Later I discovered Tom Swift Sr. Books. I bought almost the whole series on eBay a few years back. You just can’t beat Tom Swift and his electric motorcycle for anti-PC ness.
@Greg Norton
Wright often pushed the limits of building materials a bit too far.
His studio in Oak Park Heights outside of Chicago is well worth visiting. The renovation articles in Fine Homebuilding magazine are also wirth a look beforehand.
@Lynn
Perry Rhodan #93 with an L Ron Hubbard story and the later doubles are the priciest volumes in the series.
When I visited the Sturgis house in La, the tour guide pointed out the music room. Frank had asked Sturgis how many albums he owned, and designed built-in shelves for exactly that many. Like I say, he designed sculpture not homes to be lived in.
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I think….
(….therefore I am…)
There were a surprising number of dogs on leashes wandering around the terminal and something was mewing in a tiny mesh sided box with the lady across the aisle.
I was probably channeling my inner Scotsman when I began smuggling a couple of bitty bottles a few years back as I can take or leave having a drink. The ‘lines then made it difficult to pay.
Although strapped in place, muzzled with face diaper and tossed some ice water and a couple mouthfuls of chips is a far cry from my first commercial flight as a 6 year old. That was 1st class on a (noisy!) piston plane with four seats facing each other 2×2 for our family. Some sort of hot dinner from a menu, as I recall. The stewardess took me to the cockpit where I sat on the pilot’s lap for a very brief while. Still have the AA “pilot’s” ring somewhere around here. At least I can usually get my preferred window seat.
I made some pan fried flank steaks and rice pilaf (Uncle Bens) for supper. Everyone loved it including the dog and cat. Inexpensive and great food.
Pulled pork in the instapot, on king’s hawaiian rolls. Canned corn, instant rice. Rice was not tasty.
Simple and easy. Takes a lot of energy (post appoc) to run a crock pot, but I suppose you’d do a solar oven for the same effect.
n
Chicken and dumplings because of the cold weather. A favorite comfort food for chilly days.
Wife’s out of town. Deli pre-packaged sliced chicken sandwich, radishes for dinner.
Meatloaf tonight – wife’s special recipe. It was delicious, and enough leftovers for a couple lunches.
I will never forget the thrill of starting The Cat Who Walked Through Walls and discovering that they were looking for Mike.
I suspect that Mike is Mycroft HOLMES from TMIAHM ???
I have no memory of them looking for Mike in TCWWTW. I desperately need to reread TCWWTW, I will Fear No Evil, Friday, and a few others.
@Lynn
Perry Rhodan #93 with an L Ron Hubbard story and the later doubles are the priciest volumes in the series.
I own everything except #29. Including the pamplets and the Atlan series. And #100.
I’ve bought them all twice. The Great Flood Of 1989 was a fairly bad event for me with the loss of over 2,000 books. Maybe 3,000 books. All my ERB Tarzans. Tom Swift Jr. ERB John Carter of Mars. Heinleins. Asimovs. Simaks. Perry Rhodans.
I don’t think there was a boxful of bad, but a lot of The Future History is dated.
Heinlein’s short story “The Long Watch” in “The Past Through Tomorrow” will never be dated for me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Watch
The story is at:
https://www.baen.com/Chapters/1439133417/1439133417___4.htm
what is a pamplet?
Vivaldi has spell checker. 🙂
Heinlein was unapologetic about writing for his livelihood. If you read Grumbles from the Grave he discusses numerous compromises with editors, and there are a lot of confirming stories.
One of these days I need to purchase and read “Grumbles From The Grave”.
https://www.amazon.com/Grumbles-Grave-Robert-Heinlein/dp/0345369416/?tag=ttgnet-20
@Lynn
Yes, Mycroft Holmes.
I lost my Tom Swift, Jr. books to flooding also. Fortunately for the avoided scarring of my psyche, I only had 1-29, and only the last 7-8 were first printings.
Authors no one has mentioned: Zenna Henderson, early ’50s and creator of The People; Dean Ing and Lois McMaster Bujold.
I own everything except #29. Including the pamplets and the Atlan series. And #100.
what is a pamplet?
Vivaldi has spell checker.
Perry Rhodan episodes in English (my German is terrible) from 109 to 126 were published as pamphlets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Rhodan#English_translation
My spell checker sucks. And I am slowly going blind for close up vision. My right eye has a floater three times the size of my lens in near center. It is like looking through a very dirty window.
Authors no one has mentioned: Zenna Henderson, early ’50s and creator of The People; Dean Ing and Lois McMaster Bujold.
I love the Vorkosigan saga and have read it through several times. “Shards of Honor” is in my top twenty all time list of SF/F.
“‘Zoombombing’ lesson: Racist attack on church highlights online security concerns”
https://christianchronicle.org/zoombombing-lesson-attack-on-black-church-highlights-online-security-concerns/
“A North Carolina congregation wanted to be seeker friendly during COVID-19. But then came internet trolls hurling slurs.”
“In the middle of this week’s sermon, a rapid-fire barrage of messages popped up. When Murphy looked closer, what she saw shocked her.”
“The statements were littered with racial slurs and hate speech. One comment taunted, “GET OFF CHURCH AND GO PICK YOUR COTTON.” Another proclaimed, “WHITE LIVES MATTER.””
What is wrong with people ? Is a certain segment of our society losing all respect for the religious people of our society ?
My church is around 20% black. Many of our older churches (all independent entities just using a common name) are mostly black. I have several black friends among our congregation that I have known for decades, some for 50 years. I find this persecution very concerning for the future.
Commies do not tolerate the traditional churches. Nothing new here. Go ask Russia, Cuba, China, etc
There is also some bit of mocking what you don’t understand. There is a real hostility toward religion in some younger people. No idea where the hate comes from.
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It is possible to exclude books on a per-user basis from sharing in a Kindle family library.
“For Us, The Living” didn’t sell during his lifetime.
As for the “restored” SiaSL. the edited one is a better, tighter story, IMHO.