Anne McCaffrey's worldbuilding is incredible, and the background hints about the world that slowly build over the course of the series are wonderfully well done.
@petrichor I've been using Librarything.com to keep trackign of my reading for years, but what I was really hoping was that I could find a better solution for my "to read" than a random spreadsheet. Of course the list will always be growing more quickly than my "read and reviewed" list. My local library used to have a "book queue" built into their catolog which I kept it at, then I exported it just before they shut that down, I tried to import to Bookwyrm and got a bunch of mush and never took more than a few minutes to try to massage teh data to fit....
Trying to move my #Goodreads data to #Bookwyrm, apparently it will take no more than a month to export from Goodreads…. This is exceptional engineering.
@weston May usually means "it won't take nearly this long, but probably longer than you think, and we dont' want tyou to contact us to bother us about it"
@ernest well now if you were to change it, you'd need to come up with something else that starts with m or links get confusing. I see no problem with it at all, I was just interested in the reasoning. I think it's fun, and we need more of that on the internet, and particularly the 'verse, these days. Eugune changing TOOTS to POSTS to sound more professional was a sad sad change. I was glad to learn some folks like @valere chose to exercise their rights under the AGPL and continue to call it TOOTS on their instance.
Yay for #Australia winning the #WTCFinal, but also a bit disappointed as what was all set up to be a cracking last day's #cricket imploded in the first session.
My daughter asked me why angels are always depicted as men with wings, which left me thinking for a bit, because, yeah, that isn’t in the bible. Cherubs have wings, but they aren’t angels, and Gabriel is always described as just a man in a white robe. So I looked it up.
ABSOLUTELY NO SURPRISE, Christianity took it from the roman pagans.