The good news is that WaT has a satisfying conclusion to most of the arcs presented in the first five books. New arcs are started, and they’ll be addressed in the back five. 

I think the five books are a satisfying whole, especially if you read the novellas

Similar to how the US started enforcing fines for late arrivals of airplanes. So the airlines just extended the “duration” of their flights to include the expected delays and now they’re “99.9% on time”. You can see this in action when the pilot says “well we’re waiting for something before we leave. It’ll be another 15 minutes but we’ll still get you there on time.”

Highly recommend the audiobook version of Project: Hail Mary. You really get a lot more out of the experience. Plus Ray Porter is awesome

Oathbringer can feel like a slog after Words of Radiance.

Unfortunately WoR is by far the best book he’s written so everything else is just a slight disappointment.

Rhythm of War is very good at setting up Wind and Truth… but fails to be entirely satisfying on its own. 

The good news is you won’t have to wait years between books, so I can feel like one smooth ride

Big fan of the series by the way. But the pacing of the overall series has its issues 

I read Robinson Crusoe a few years ago. Man… the 18th century racism and white superiority was tough to stomach.

Just stated the Bobiverse this week. I’ve finished books 1 & 2. Interestig stuff. Sort of like The Expanse but handwaves the tech in a way that doesn’t disturb the storytelling. 

I’m torn on finishing the series or getting into my TBR list:

1. Elita by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum
2. The Everlasting by Alic Harrow
3. The Antidote by Karen Russell
4. Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid
5. Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
6. Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
7. Culpability by Bruce Holsinger
8. The Devils by Joe Abercrombie
9. Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
10. The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo

Oh, I also want to look into using a tailscale exit node to use a proton vpn wire guard route so I don’t have to switch between two separate VPNs

So much has been going on

I moved recently and had to change ISPs. I went from 2 Gbps symmetrical fiber to 90/3 Mbps satellite behind CGNAT.

Fastest place to get the WAN cable into the house was through the attic and into my guest room / office. But that caused some serious heat and noise issues. 

Ran some structural Cat6, installed new electrical outlet, put in some keystone jacks, wired a new patch panel, then moved the rack to the basement.

Bought and installed a UPS which has already saved me twice in a month.

Up speeds were too slow and the high latency to the satellite constellation was causing issues, so I spun up a small VPS. But that means I have to sync content back to my local.

I’ve been wrestling with rsync for over a month… fiddling with flags to get the best results. I think I finally settled on a config yesterday and the service and timer are working well 

CGNAT is messing with remote access, so I set up cloudflare tunnels. But the tunneling is not well suited for streaming. I was only getting ~100 Kbps on remote connections. Ran some iperf3 testing over tailscale and was slightly better.

My preferred audiobook app Prologue released a major update to v4.0 which broke Plex libraries on launch, so I had to quickly pivot to AudioBookShelf.

To achieve remote streaming and access for Prologue, I had to explain Tailscale set up and create new user accounts. Only halfway through my user base. Not looking forward to explaining it to my parents

Finally, I’m trying to set up Claude to run on my server rather than my locked down enterprise laptop. That’ll allow more tooling access like git rather than before when I was spending a lot of time downloading and uploading files manually. I need to figure out how to keep my session open. I’ll probably run tmux inside a docker container then run claude inside the tmux window. Hopefully that works

Just finished:

• How to Be Both by Ali Smith. Interesting concept (two stories, read them in any order, each story recontextualizes the other) that I think I’ll need to read again in the other order.
• Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico. Great satire, really enjoyed it

Haven’t picked my next one yet, but probably from this list:

• Spread Me by Sarah Gailey. Looks like a fun take on The Thing
• Sunward by William Alexander. Don’t know much about it, other than it was well reviewed
• The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine. Was well reviewed

Correct. British English typically calls it a full stop

cross tabs are important

| | Too far | Not far enough | About right | DK/NA | |

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| | Tot | 54 | 7 | 37 | 2 | | Rep | 11 | 10 | 77 | 1 | | Dem | 96 | 1 | 2 | 1 | | Ind | 59 | 7 | 33 | 1 | | Men | 47 | 9 | 42 | 2 | | Wom | 61 | 5 | 33 | 2 |

A linear story is split in two parts. 

The black and white sections explain Leonard’s backstory and show that he’s willing to lie to himself to be happy just like his wife was willing to lie to him because she was unhappy.

The color section is revealing the consequences of Teddy using Leonard, but also Leonard’s willingness to lie to himself.

The special edition DVD had it recut in a linear fashion. It works both ways… linear is a standard detective story without much depth. Recut, it’s a compelling story about Truth and consequences