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2014
I finished reading part 1 of the roving mad adventures of the Knight of the Rueful Countenance (Don Quixote, he of the windmills). Being somewhat tired of that, I'm postponing part 2 for another time. In the meantime I will read other things, my busy (heh) schedule permitting.
I have linked to an extremely fun (and free) racer called Nitronic Rush. Why don't you go play it?
The wheel is turning and you can't slow down. / You can't let go and you can't hold on. / You can't go back and you can't stand still. / If the thunder don't get you then the lightnin' will.
What's up, you ask? Enjoying life, I answer.
There's a heat wave sweeping over Norway, which means taking a walk in the day is out of the question, so I've been taking late evening walks when it's cool enough to do so. I don't feel like writing much in this heat, but I'll give an update of the books I've read recently, in category form.
Science fiction:
- The Biomega series
- The Flood/Ark series by Stephen Baxter
- Childhood's End, The City and the Stars, and A Fall of Moondust, all excellent Clarke books
- Look to Windward, a Culture novel
- Zima Blue and Other Stories, my first try at Alastair Reynolds
Other fiction:
- Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Non-fiction:
- Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
- The Happy Atheist, P. Z. Myers' first book!
- Varieties of Religious Experience by William James, a book that went over my head
"Hidden so deep in veils of deceit, imprisoned in twisting spells. / Are we the plaything of fiends, or merely the dreams that we're telling ourselves, telling ourselves?"
My web site is now much more mobile-friendly. I've taken advantage of CSS Media Queries to apply custom styling for "desktops" (width above 800 pixels), "tablets" (width between 500 and 800 pixels) and "mobile" (width below 500 pixels). To see the effects of this, if you're on a desktop, change the width of the browser window until the changes kick in. Immediately you'll notice the navigation bar changing and various margins and padding becoming smaller to compensate for smaller screen real estate, but there are a lot of subtle changes here and there. I'm still working on making this better. Most conspicuously, tables still look horrible on smaller screens and the Books page needs more work.
There is also a scroll-to-top button in the bottom right corner of the screen (if you scroll below a certain level).
I have a lot of updates. More another day.
There are 4 posts for 2014.