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Jun. 11th, 2019 09:47 pm1. The problem with working on the computer with all the lights off, is I can't see the keyboard and occasionally hit the wrong keys.
Speaking of typing...
The Digital Generation Re-Discovers the Magic of Typewriters
I don't know, methinks the Digital Generation is a tad spoiled.
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About two years ago, my father bought a type-writer. He wanted to write again and could not get the computer to work for him. So he thought the type-writer would work.
( Read more... )
2. CDC advises not to eat rough cookie dough or batter
Or as a friend on Twitter aptly stated: "I laugh in the face of danger and have eaten more cookie dough than cookies..."
Honestly, the internet likes to scare us. For a while it was not to eat any salmon or tuna because you could get parasites, then it was not to drink from bottled water or consume, shampoo with, etc anything that was in plastic. (Sort of impossible considering that pretty much everything nowadays is wrapped in, bottled in, or made with plastic. I thought about it -- and realized all the water I consume is in plastic. Also all the shampoo I use is in plastic. Yet, somehow I'm still alive.)
We're in the age of too much information. Stop. Halt. Enough.
Of course I live in NYC, one of the information and media capitals of the world -- I'm inundated with it. When I retire -- I'm heading out to the boondocks and investing in a self-driving car. So what if my car costs more than my living quarters. Also living in a town that has access to Amtrack or a commuter railroad.
3. I'm loving this new mystery writer that I stumbled upon..Sujata Massey, who specializes in Asian mystery novels and historicals -- which are a rarity. Apparently she is a British/American writer, of German and Indian descent.
I picked up:
"The Salarymman's Wife" -- Rei Shimura mystery -- "Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket (which, thanks to her parents, she does.) Her independence is threatened however, when a getaway to an ancient castle town is marred by murder."
India Gray - Historical Fiction Boxed Set -- a series of short stories set in India, Oxford, and Pakistan.
Both weren't that expensive. Am leery of buying anything for more than $7.99.
Yes, I'm jumping from romance to mystery at the moment, may pop over to fantasy soon.
Have decided to give Chidi Persepolis -- he's currently reading the graphic novel adaptation of "Kindred by Octavia Butler" -- I don't know. He's said he couldn't read the book due to the subject matter and I'm thinking wouldn't the graphic novel be worse? (It's one of the better time travel stories that I've read, mainly because it holds with the science of it. And is a psychological horror tale about slavery, and how slavery imprints our present. We will never escape the sins of the past, until we all atone and acknowledge and learn from them. It's interesting too -- because she finds out through it, that her existence is tied to the slavery. It and Beloved are the best two novels that I've read about slavery from a female perspective.)
Speaking of typing...
The Digital Generation Re-Discovers the Magic of Typewriters
I don't know, methinks the Digital Generation is a tad spoiled.
( Read more... )
About two years ago, my father bought a type-writer. He wanted to write again and could not get the computer to work for him. So he thought the type-writer would work.
( Read more... )
2. CDC advises not to eat rough cookie dough or batter
Or as a friend on Twitter aptly stated: "I laugh in the face of danger and have eaten more cookie dough than cookies..."
Honestly, the internet likes to scare us. For a while it was not to eat any salmon or tuna because you could get parasites, then it was not to drink from bottled water or consume, shampoo with, etc anything that was in plastic. (Sort of impossible considering that pretty much everything nowadays is wrapped in, bottled in, or made with plastic. I thought about it -- and realized all the water I consume is in plastic. Also all the shampoo I use is in plastic. Yet, somehow I'm still alive.)
We're in the age of too much information. Stop. Halt. Enough.
Of course I live in NYC, one of the information and media capitals of the world -- I'm inundated with it. When I retire -- I'm heading out to the boondocks and investing in a self-driving car. So what if my car costs more than my living quarters. Also living in a town that has access to Amtrack or a commuter railroad.
3. I'm loving this new mystery writer that I stumbled upon..Sujata Massey, who specializes in Asian mystery novels and historicals -- which are a rarity. Apparently she is a British/American writer, of German and Indian descent.
I picked up:
"The Salarymman's Wife" -- Rei Shimura mystery -- "Japanese-American Rei Shimura is a 27-year-old English teacher living in one of Tokyo's seediest neighborhoods. She doesn't make much money, but she wouldn't go back home to California even if she had a free ticket (which, thanks to her parents, she does.) Her independence is threatened however, when a getaway to an ancient castle town is marred by murder."
India Gray - Historical Fiction Boxed Set -- a series of short stories set in India, Oxford, and Pakistan.
Both weren't that expensive. Am leery of buying anything for more than $7.99.
Yes, I'm jumping from romance to mystery at the moment, may pop over to fantasy soon.
Have decided to give Chidi Persepolis -- he's currently reading the graphic novel adaptation of "Kindred by Octavia Butler" -- I don't know. He's said he couldn't read the book due to the subject matter and I'm thinking wouldn't the graphic novel be worse? (It's one of the better time travel stories that I've read, mainly because it holds with the science of it. And is a psychological horror tale about slavery, and how slavery imprints our present. We will never escape the sins of the past, until we all atone and acknowledge and learn from them. It's interesting too -- because she finds out through it, that her existence is tied to the slavery. It and Beloved are the best two novels that I've read about slavery from a female perspective.)