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nantucketebooks, 15 minutes ago to random

Harlan Ellison gives one of the greatest non-answers of all time in this episode of his commentary series. At the time, Chistopher Priest had published The Last Deadloss Visions, about Ellison's failure to deliver a third volume of his Dangerous Visions series. Ellison had been claiming for decades that it was almost ready for print.

Even Ellison's evasions and dodges were remarkable to behold.

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=YVfkefu0cUY&list=PLX8OkSrQOhQBzxRltmxQbigV6lcjazHiy&index=56

nantucketebooks, 14 hours ago to random

I'm proud to say I've been reading a lot this year. https://ndhfilms.com/mybooks

nantucketebooks, 3 days ago to random

Happy 10th anniversary to @serenityforge https://serenityforge.com/ I directed their first Kickstarter campaign back when they were working out of a basement in the foothills of Boulder. I am happy for their success, though not surprised. They were good people and they were ready to work hard to make good games.

ShaulaEvans, 3 days ago to random

If you are an informed, intelligent, compassionate, in-any-way-science-literate person, how are you coping with living through these times? What's helping?

No snark, please. I'm interested in sincere, practical answers.

nixCraft, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI situation. Wow. Sama took down sky’s voice because of legal notice. This guy is really pushing boundaries 🤣 Source: NPR tech correspondent- This statement was provided exclusively to NPR by Johansson's publicist, Marcel Pariseau. https://x.com/bobbyallyn/status/1792679435701014908?s=46

nantucketebooks, 5 days ago to random

I haven't written too much about my presentation script. I write my slideshow presentations in my Shanty markup language, and I've written a free-software script that converts them into slides.

I've written a short lecture, and this morning I was able to convert it into a presentation in ten minutes. It's all plain-text, and it's on my server, so I don't have to mess with thumb drives and format compatibility.

It's very bare-bones, but for most presentations I find it's convenient.

nantucketebooks, 5 days ago to random

Montezuma, Colorado is one of the most unusual towns I've visited. At 10,200 feet (3,100 m) and population of 78, it is both one of highest and smallest towns in America. More than 1,000 people lived there in the late 19th century, but several fires and the collapse of silver mining took their toll.

Today, it's a small hodge-podge of historic buildings and modern ski getaways. There are no bars, coffee shops, or stores of any kind, and the six-dozen residents want to keep it that way.

nantucketebooks, 5 days ago to random

Some recent audiobooks:

The Three Musketeers had memorable characters, the most interesting of which was the villain Milady. Mark Smith is a good narrator, but this audiobook used a very old translation that obscured some of the more risque parts of the story. https://archive.org/details/three_musketeers_v_2_mfs_1805_librivox

Seven Keys to Baldpate is a reading of a play, based on the best-selling novel from 1913. A silly send-up of the mystery genre. Good voice acting, the epilogue is a huge letdown.

https://librivox.org/seven-keys-to-baldpate-by-george-m-cohan/

ai6yr, 8 days ago to random

National Park Service officials seek help from the public on archeological theft incident at Canyonlands National Park -- Law enforcement park rangers at Canyonlands National Park are seeking information from the public to help identify suspects involved in an archeological theft incident at Cave Spring Cowboy Camp in the Needles district of the park. If you were in the area of Cave Spring Cowboy Camp at approximately 5:30 p.m. on March 23, 2024, or if you have information that could help identify the suspects, please contact investigators. https://www.nps.gov/cany/learn/news/news05152024.htm #crime #Canyonlands #NationalParkService #NPS #archeology

lowqualityfacts, 1 month ago to random

Poor Brian.