Category: Fun and Games
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The F1 Grand Prix at the Fuji Motor Speedway
Mt. Fuji from Fuji Speedway F1 car! Netz Race Lots of flags Opening ceremony taiko F1 Car at the race Lots of people wearing flags too For L.’s birthday a few months ago I got L. and I tickets to the F1 Grand Prix in Japan. I don’t know much about F1 Racing, but I […]
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Book and Backlog
I went to America last month, and as usual, I read a storm on the plane. I’ve been meaning to post this for ages, but I’ve been ridiculously busy so I haven’t gotten around to it. I’m finally going to just take some time this morning and post stuff. Space Opera I read the first […]
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How the free ebook “Old Man’s War” sold a bunch of other John Scalzi books
A while back, I wrote about reading Ebooks on the OLPC. I am really interested in getting myself a Kindle, but until there is a Japanese release I don’t see the point of buying one: the wireless portion won’t work in Japan, and that is a very attractive feature that I would rather not neuter. […]
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The Crabbing Boat
I heard about this book sometime last week I think. I’m not sure where, but probably from one of the blogs that I follow. It is a very interesting and curious phenomena: a book written in 1929 becomes suddenly very popular. I’m curious, and thinking about getting a copy. Anyway, first up: an excellent introduction […]
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Ebook reviews: Peter Watts’ Maelstrom and Behemoth
In the past I read and wrote up Peter Watts’ Starfish. The review comes off a bit negative I think, which isn’t quite right because immediately after Starfish, I found the other two novels online and started reading them (sequentially, not in parallel.) Maelstrom has a different focus than Starfish, and went into more detail […]
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Tor.com has gone live, all ebooks from their giveaway made available for a week
This is just a really short post to point out the blog entry on the now-live Tor.com that has a collection of links to all the free ebooks they released and all the desktop wallpapers. I think they are only leaving those links live for a week, so you should check it out soon. It […]
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Things I never expected to actually say:
Maybe he broke my wookie? I broke my wookie! So actually I broke my wookie. He was in my bag, which is apparently a wookie-hostile environment, and when I pulled him out today he was broken. I never expected to say I broke my wookie! but it was the first that that popped into my […]
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Ebook review: Vernor Vinge’s Rainbows End
So in my continuing line of ebook reviews, I present Vernon Vinge’s Rainbows End. Actually, this won’t be much of a review. It is freely available (at the link above, but I also have an Amazon.com link for the pretty cover) on his website and I highly recommend that you read it. This is a […]
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Ebook review: Peter Watts’ Starfish
Peter Watts: Starfish This book is a 1999 first novel. It is set primarily deep in the sea, near the volcanic vents where there is strange sealife that glows in the dark and have made other adaptations to the crushing pressure. At first, I had a really hard time getting into this novel. I didn’t […]
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Ebook Reviews
Warning: I’ve got more Amazon links on the book covers. I like having little pictures to go with the words though, and this seems like a reasonable way to do it. If you buy stuff from the links maybe I get some money, but since I think that will go to my US address, it […]