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Been watching the Olympics all day, and moving about, and updating gadgets, and trying to make the pencil stylus with the Apple I-Pad work - it doesn't. I can't figure out how to get these digital pencil things to work.
I can draw - I just can't get a digital pencil to work.

Olympic events that I've been watching?

* Women's BMX Biking - where Japan won, with US in the Silver. It was fun, but repetitive after a while, and I don't understand the scoring. But fun to watch.

* Women's Trampoline Jumping - Great Britain won. It showed the medal ceremony, most don't.

* Equesterian Jumping - Great Britain won, with US in Silver

* Men's Skate-Boarding - I can't remember who won - and I don't understand the difficulty of the tricks?

* Pole Jumping and some of the decathalon events (I'm going back to it).

* Women's vault - which also got repetitive after a bit, but Simone Biles is amazing.

* Some surfing - but I lost interest and jumped to something else. Same with the cycling race.

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Books?

In Audible Books - I finished Butcher's Battleground, which has a tag-on story, a Christmas Story, to tie reader's over until the next book in the series. There are to date 17. I think he needs to branch out a bit and explore the world, like other urban fantasy writers do.

My difficulty with Butcher is he swings too heavily into Christian mythos and I don't think it works well in noir, without becoming cliche ridden.
I'd prefer he explored fairy more.

Now, I'm listening to Illona Andrews' Clean Sweep - book one of the Innkeeper Chronicles, as a Graphic Audio Dramatization. I like Graphic Audio - it's a radio show adaptation of the book, complete with sound effects. Kind of fun, and Andrew's books work very well for it - because they have great dialogue. The trick for graphic audio is emphasis on dialogue over action. Not sure Butcher's would work as well.

The Innkeeper series is rather innovative - I've not seen this done before. I give Andrews for doing different takes on old established tropes.

Here's the description from Illona Andrew's site: ( Read more... )

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On Twitter, a professional television writer, Michele Val Jean, expressed:

"I really have to step back, take a deep breath and resist the urge to correct every misconception or falsehood on this loudmouth app."

Me: You and me both. Except it's not just this app, or just online.

People can be really annoying. And the information age has not helped.

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Mother: The female swimmers, gymnasts, and runners appear to have no bust. None at all. They are all rather flat-chested.
Me: They have a bust..maybe their suits just minimize it?
Mother: not much of one..and no it's not their suits. And the runners seem to have none at all.
Me (thinks about it): well, it kind of makes sense, if you think about it? I mean..
Mother: It would get in the way.
Me: Pretty much. It's kind of hard to run a fast race or swim one with big boobs getting in the way. (I know I've run with a small bust and with a big one, and swam with a big bust and without on...and yes there is a difference.) Also adds weight for a gymnast.

I noticed the female bikers don't either.

Fencers? Hard to tell. Archers? Same.

Trampoline and divers? Nope.

Actually the male gymnasts had bigger chests. Athletes kind of require lean muscled bodies with little to no body fat. Swimmers have a bit more, but not much. Less body weight, faster you go. Many of the runners are very thin.

If you want to see the differences between male and female anatomy? Watch the Olympics. It's obvious in some places. Like gymnastics. The men are almost all upper body strength, while the women seem to be long legs or strength is in their legs. Although in skateboarding and BMX bike - I honestly couldn't tell the gender. And I can't say I could tell with the skateboarding either, or the equesterian.

By the way, Krauser shot put is kind of amazing. He's this huge guy who sends the put very far. (I tried the shot put in high school or junior high track and field, and it's hard. I couldn't send it far. Krauser won - three in a row gold medalist. Can see why.