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nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

Colorado has a climate similar to... Afghanistan. I don't doubt it. Kabul and Denver have similar elevations above 5,000 feet. Afghanistan has mountains that would put our fourteeners to shame! https://sopuli.xyz/post/11711175

nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

A short essay from Matthew Zoller Seitz at @ebertvoices It is irritating how so many movies have to end with a little tease for a potential sequel. Though, there can be unintentional comedy when a movie assumes it will get a sequel, as with Shyamalan's The Last Airbender, or the movie Devil which he produced. https://www.rogerebert.com/mzs/its-ok-for-movies-to-just-end

nixCraft, 1 month ago to random

HTML is 31 years old.

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nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

My article on the Dark Horse Saloon got read live on Boulder's college radio station. Thank you, DJ Greg! You can listen to an archived copy here: https://ndhfilms.com/hangmanshollow (~3.5 MB)

troublewithwords, 1 month ago to random

It’s a myth that the smell of burnt toast means you're having a stroke?

Damn, I love the smell of burnt toast.

clarkesworld, 1 month ago to random

I've been monitoring the ups and downs of rebuilding subscriptions post-Amazon for the magazines that have been impacted. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that survival depends on us being more shameless. So...

If you like what we do, maybe it's time to subscribe: https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

My latest article for Yellow Scene Magazine. Thoughts on Boulder's famous Dark Horse Saloon. https://yellowscene.com/2024/04/10/from-my-corner-of-hangmans-hollow-memories-of-the-dark-horse-and-other-haunts/ "The Dark Horse is the bar you find on dead planets at the far edge of star systems. Its cousins are Mos Eisley on Tatooine, and Hangman’s Hollow, last stop of the Galaxy Express."

nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

Coffee wakes me up; so does the message 'mailbox is deleted' when logging into Mutt (everything appears to be okay).

luckytran, 1 month ago to random

This was avoidable.

nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

Nantucket E-Books respects the four freedoms of free software. You can find the source code for all client-side JavaScript used on the site on this web page: https://nantucketebooks.com/softwarelicenses

nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

Hey, wait a sec... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ehbC9SduDlc

nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

Always nice to get some positive comments on a story, and from strangers, no less.

weirdwriter, 1 month ago to Pubtips

I bookmarked this #Publishing article that basically asks, what are we paying trad pub for? While I do have an agent, an amazing one, actually! I'll be with this agent until he retires, no author should ever, ever, ever! Make a mood board of your submission! Your agent is your mood board! This would be a fantastic time for a non-discriminatory publishing cooperative to form right now. I know about Book view Cafe but they don't want blind writers like me or other blind writers. I hate self publishing. Seriously, I can't express how much I detest the self publishing process. Just because I have an agent, though, publishing is rough right now! This would be an excellent time for an indie publisher to rise up and not end up on Writer Beware. https://www.lilithsaintcrow.com/2024/04/we-gotta-talk-about-publishing/ #SelfPublishing #Cooperative

nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

Picked up my copy yesterday. J. Michael Straczynski published this book to help return Harlan Ellison to the public's awareness. If you'd like to see what Ellison was all about, this book is easy available in bookstores and online.

nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

Assembling dusty Wayfair furniture + relaxing by singing some Rush songs afterward = hoarse voice.

nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

Something nice about Colorado is that companies are required to put compensation ranges in job postings. This takes some of the tension out of the already-difficult job hunt.

lowqualityfacts, 1 month ago to random

History is so interesting.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

https://youtu.be/7CfKwCWw61g?si=mt96_Pkkk0p8lkpp "Handle us? You'll 'handle us!' Your pwedecessors had much more wespect!"

nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

There seems to be a popular sentiment that "anything after the word 'but' can be ignored." Mentioned in Game of Thrones, even. This can be an unhelpful way of thinking.

What comes before the 'but' is often an attempt to understand or respect a certain viewpoint or circumstance.

nantucketebooks, 1 month ago to random

Harlan Ellison on the word 'sci-fi'. https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=YqFazuQr6P8

"'Sci-fi' is one of those horrific crotchets...it's like referring to the feminist movement as 'fem-lib'. This is all intended to diminish ... When you are able to diminish something, you don't actively have to go after it. When people start thinking Independence Day is science fiction, and they've never read a novel by AE van Vogt, or they've never read a novel by Kate Wilhelm, then what we have is a bastardized form."

_L1vY_, 1 month ago to random

"...I recommend this job to anyone who is looking for a dynamic, fast-paced work environment."

OK listen. Doll.

NO ONE is looking for a dynamic, fast-paced work environment in 2024. We are exhausted. Get in your DeLorean and take that attitude back to 1984.

lowqualityfacts, 2 months ago to random

Wow, that's so interesting.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

coreyspowell, 2 months ago to space

This is the surface of a comet! Dust is swirling around the surface of Comet 67/P -- captured in 2016 by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft, processing by Jacint Roger Perez.

Still one of the most remarkable scenes in space exploration.

#space #science #astronomy #ESA

INT. #ROSETTA MISSION #COMET #67P/CHURYUMOV-GERASIMENKO 01 jun 2016 Distance to Target: 13.5 km Camera: OSINAC Near_Ir+Orange+blue filt.