Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de for now everything I post here is automatically "re-tooted" there.
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An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. …
The surprising story of how wrestling superstar Glenn "Kane" Jacobs beat all the odds to …
I miss having a CD player built into my car.
Institutes of the Christian Religion" is the world-changing book of Christian theology by John Calvin, …
He also held the office of pastor, which in the ensuing years came to number nineteen members.
— Selections from Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (Great Books of the Western World (60 Volume Set), #20) (Page 5)
So his church only had 19 members?
@mouse@bookwyrm.social I figure you can never have too much salt, but that may be why I have heart problems.
Institutes of the Christian Religion" is the world-changing book of Christian theology by John Calvin, the French pastor, reformer, and …
Institutes of the Christian Religion" is the world-changing book of Christian theology by John Calvin, …
I don't understand the idea of predestination, I figured who better to learn from than Calvin himself. @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world @robin1@diaspora.psyco.fr
I don't understand the idea of predestination, I figured who better to learn from than Calvin himself. @realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world @robin1@diaspora.psyco.fr
@mouse@bookwyrm.social maybe its because I grew up in Wisconsin, the dairy state, but the idea of not using salted butter on a daily basis is blowing my mind.
On Anarchism was a collection of short essay that wasn't really what I was expecting. I was hoping for examples, or at least ideas, of how anarchism would actually work in the real world. How we'd get from an idea to a product without a profit motive. What I got instead was basically a label for my wife. She doesn't think governments should exist but while they do she supports a large welfare state to take care of the people. Chomsky appears to be the same. It was well written and well cited, and otherwise awesome if I had gone in with different expectations it might be getting a 5 instead of a three.
If someone has a recommendation for a different book on anarchism that actually answers my questions I would appreciate it.
On Anarchism was a collection of short essay that wasn't really what I was expecting. I was hoping for examples, or at least ideas, of how anarchism would actually work in the real world. How we'd get from an idea to a product without a profit motive. What I got instead was basically a label for my wife. She doesn't think governments should exist but while they do she supports a large welfare state to take care of the people. Chomsky appears to be the same. It was well written and well cited, and otherwise awesome if I had gone in with different expectations it might be getting a 5 instead of a three.
If someone has a recommendation for a different book on anarchism that actually answers my questions I would appreciate it.
@mouse@bookwyrm.social what's wrong with self rising flour and salted butter?
@mouse@bookwyrm.social what's wrong with self rising flour and salted butter?
The second novel in a two-part Typhon Pact adventure set in the universe of Star …
Next one up in the DS9 Relaunch
The first novel in a two-part Typhon Pact adventure set in the universe of Star …
I really felt this was a book of two halves. The first half just didn't keep my interest. Lots of set-up of characters, new ones we haven't met and some new ones just being introduced now. The middle we get a meeting of the Typhon Pact presidents and those of the Khitomer accords, including the newly added Cardassians and Ferengi. Only then does it start to get adventurous and good like a Star Trek Novel should.
The Enterprise, still captained by Jean-Luc now married to Beverly Crusher, who is only mentioned & not seen, goes to the Gamma Quadrent with a Romulan Warbird to explore space together as a sign of peace. U.S.S. Robinson, now captained by Ben Sisko, is doing routine star mapping in the Quadrent including a diplomatic rendezvous with the Vahni Vahltupal, who I personally had been wondering about whatever happened to them just days before …
I really felt this was a book of two halves. The first half just didn't keep my interest. Lots of set-up of characters, new ones we haven't met and some new ones just being introduced now. The middle we get a meeting of the Typhon Pact presidents and those of the Khitomer accords, including the newly added Cardassians and Ferengi. Only then does it start to get adventurous and good like a Star Trek Novel should.
The Enterprise, still captained by Jean-Luc now married to Beverly Crusher, who is only mentioned & not seen, goes to the Gamma Quadrent with a Romulan Warbird to explore space together as a sign of peace. U.S.S. Robinson, now captained by Ben Sisko, is doing routine star mapping in the Quadrent including a diplomatic rendezvous with the Vahni Vahltupal, who I personally had been wondering about whatever happened to them just days before I happened to read that part. All while back on DS9 Ro and her crew investigate some strange feelings, hunches, readings, etc. which may be all made up, or may be a terrorist plot to destroy the station by the Andorians, or maybe someone else making it look like the Andorians.
David George is one of the best Star Trek authors eloquently putting together scene by scene unrelated characters just like an episode with several plots. If I know George, I suspect the setup he did will eventually be revealed as non-superfioulous I'm not sure how it could have been made exciting.
In the North American Confederacy . . . People are free—really free. Free to do …
Content warning Better joke, smaller spoiler.
"After all," Lucy suggested, "these things never use to happen 'till there was an American Zone." "Right," I replied. "I seem to recall there's a name for that particular logical fallacy." "Yeah," said Will, "Headus upassus."
— The American Zone by L. Neil Smith (North American Confederacy, #9) (Page 98 - 99)
In the North American Confederacy . . . People are free—really free. Free to do …
Content warning Bad joke, small spoiler
Olongo Featherstone-Haugh, President of the North American Confederacy and a low-land gorilla...was wearing a synthesizer on each arm...creating the illusion that his voice was coming from somewhere between them. His lips didn't move, so, being a politician, he may have been telling the truth.
— The American Zone by L. Neil Smith (North American Confederacy, #9) (Page 89 - 91)
There is no way I could tell if it had that old book smell. Its allergy season.
