Iron Widow
Iron Widow, Highlights
Books
Babel
All my highlights and thoughts from Babel
The Kobo Elipsa 2e, Six Months Later
An update on the Elipsa 2e, six months later and how it has influenced my reading.
Poor Ceres Always Gets the Short End of the Stick
Courtesy, NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA, Public Domain, via Wikipedia I just finished Tamsyn Muir’s Nona, last month. And of course, I’m now stuck along with the rest of the world waiting for Alecto to come along.1 In the meanwhile I’m having fun with the rest of the world, dissecting the old books to pieces with various pieces of headcanon and wild theories, one of the popular ones being trying to find analogies between the houses of the books and our solar system ...
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity, Carlo Cipolla
Short Booklet. Very Taleb–esque writing. Very entertaining. Tells us there are lots of stupid people, with a really precise definition of stupid; those folks that would cut their nose to spite their face, or like the book would say, stupid folks are they who would cause losses to other folks, even when they stand to gain nothing or possibly, ever incur losses! It reads like an erudite rant. But unlike Taleb, ends with no advice or suggestion. ...
A Signed Copy of Neil Gaiman’s, “What You Need to Be Warm”
I went and fulfilled an old dream of mine. A signed copy of Neil Gaiman’s, What You Need to Be Warm. Click to see bigger A New Year’s Gift! From me, to me 😂 ...