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  1. Second book down, the new Jason Pargin (f. k. a. David Wong), “If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe.” It was fun! I lol’d a few times, didn’t want to put it down, etc.

    Jason put a tiny house of leaves gimmick in it (it’s full of metafiction shit tbh) but I only noticed it was happening for the last word so if you read it, let me know what it says (I’m going to go cheat and google it right now).

    The cover of John Dies at the End #4"If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe", file under Jason Pargin / David Wong. The cover is a an illustration of a black hardback of the book with the title in silver on the spine and cover, made of arby's sauce dripping, and one of the drips forms a skull below, all over a solid, flat light green.
    Figure 1. The cover of John Dies at the End #4"If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe", file under Jason Pargin / David Wong. The cover is a an illustration of a black hardback of the book with the title in silver on the spine and cover, made of arby's sauce dripping, and one of the drips forms a skull below, all over a solid, flat light green..

    ok, what the letters spells out is p easy to find on tvtropes[.]org which I’m told is a terrible website that’ll rot your brain and your ability to perceive art as anything but strings of gimmicks (they probably have a name for people like me who believe this), so I guess if you look for it the right way, like I did, the answer is in the google preview (remember when things were like that?) and you don’t have to click through.

    but I’m also not gonna say what it is either, just read the book.

    third book, “The Stories of your Life and others”, Ted Chiang.

    Cheating because I read the first half last year. I got another copy after leaving my first copy on a plane ( https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109372422129728908).

    gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)I was also half way through the Ted Chiang book of stories that included the story the movie Arrival is based on but i think i left it on the plane at SFO yesterday after two dudes behind me got in a fight as we were deplaning and it distracted me from checking the seat pocket, RIPMastodon

    I hope whoever found my first copy enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed my second copy.

    “let’s take one idea seriously and see what happens”

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223380.Stories_of_Your_Life_and_Others

    Stories of Your Life and OthersWhat if men built a tower from Earth to Heaven-and brok…Goodreads
    the current paperback cover of "Stories of your Life and others" by Ted Chiang. The title and author's name encircle the hands of a clock at about 11:10:30, over field of stars on the top half and cloudy sky on the bottom half. Inset in the top left is a cloud circle that proclaims that this book "Includes 'Story of Your Life," the Basis for the Major Motion Picture ARRIVAL.
    Figure 2. the current paperback cover of "Stories of your Life and others" by Ted Chiang. The title and author's name encircle the hands of a clock at about 11:10:30, over field of stars on the top half and cloudy sky on the bottom half. Inset in the top left is a cloud circle that proclaims that this book "Includes 'Story of Your Life," the Basis for the Major Motion Picture ARRIVAL..
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon January 14, 2023 - 9:44 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/01/14/109689742882840282/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/01/14/109689742882840282/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  2. First book of the year down, (I think via @leigh somewhere?): “Axiomatic,” a collection of Greg Egan’s short stories that appeared in various science fiction magazines (mostly Interzone and Asimov’s) between 1989 and 1992.

    Great late 80s hard SF shorts

    I don’t do star reviews, but, folks, they’re good stories

    https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156783.Axiomatic

    AxiomaticAxiomatic is a collection of Greg Egan's short stories …Goodreads

    aside: a characters is mentioned to have received their advanced degree in 2023, which I’m sure felt reasonably far out at the time.

    the current paperback trade cover of Greg Egan's Axiomatic, a repeating tile mosaic in blues and greens, which he designed himself
    Figure 1. the current paperback trade cover of Greg Egan's Axiomatic, a repeating tile mosaic in blues and greens, which he designed himself.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon January 09, 2023 - 9:04 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/01/09/109661276920611083/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/01/09/109661276920611083/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  3. It’s bowie’s birthday ◻️

    a credenza containing a record player, spectrum analyzer, and receiver, next to a shelf of records, Bowie's "The Next Day" playing, album propped uppropped up against the wall on the next to a prayer plant
    Figure 1. a credenza containing a record player, spectrum analyzer, and receiver, next to a shelf of records, Bowie's "The Next Day" playing, album propped uppropped up against the wall on the next to a prayer plant.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon January 09, 2023 - 12:22 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/01/09/109656390107224422/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/01/09/109656390107224422/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  4. Lets all agree to call the FTC ruling invalidating non-competes a “Right to Work” rule

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon January 06, 2023 - 3:19 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/01/06/109642931192579973/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/01/06/109642931192579973/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  5. 26th near valencia

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon January 05, 2023 - 1:29 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/01/05/109634007109913039/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/01/05/109634007109913039/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  6. Does the fact that I got out a 6’ ladder and traversed the wall between our units to clear out the neighbor’s clogged patio drains ahead of tomorrow (they are out of town) absolve me of putting our christmas tree out on the sidewalk tonight (which to be clear I haven’t done yet) where it will surely float away in the storm tomorrow and disrupt commerce on Valencia St or nah?

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon January 04, 2023 - 1:07 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/01/04/109628257922749696/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/01/04/109628257922749696/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  7. Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF46NnUn5nw posting on the 'don theme song (“beep” is what QTs are gonna be called in the new beta)

    - YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.youtube.com
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon January 03, 2023 - 8:24 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/01/03/109627142795395105/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/01/03/109627142795395105/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  8. I have over six hundreds mutes in tweetbot, muting quote tweets here will be easy for me, now to go mute the word “quote” itself and get started on that

    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon January 03, 2023 - 4:03 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2023/01/03/109626116027168413/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2023/01/03/109626116027168413/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  9. Polishing my knob(s)

    E C U, fender stratocaster tone knob in the foreground, kinda clean, toned and volume in the background, 30 years of grime
    Figure 1. E C U, fender stratocaster tone knob in the foreground, kinda clean, toned and volume in the background, 30 years of grime.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon December 31, 2022 - 12:35 AM and archived here at /mastodon/2022/12/31/109605480339969823/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2022/12/31/109605480339969823/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.

  10. Hrmm i think this building is trying to tell me something? what is that? oh, how rude

    St. Patrick's Catholic Church, a Roman Catholic church in San Francisco, California, founded in 1851. It is located at 756 Mission Street, between 3rd and 4th streets, across the street from Yerba Buena Gardens, in front of a much taller glass tower
    Figure 1. St. Patrick's Catholic Church, a Roman Catholic church in San Francisco, California, founded in 1851. It is located at 756 Mission Street, between 3rd and 4th streets, across the street from Yerba Buena Gardens, in front of a much taller glass tower.
    the glassthe glass tower, church cropped out, something in a window in the top left corner
    Figure 2. the glassthe glass tower, church cropped out, something in a window in the top left corner.
    in a window in the top left corner: L
    Figure 3. in a window in the top left corner: L.
    Posted on Mastodon over three years agoon December 30, 2022 - 10:07 PM and archived here at /mastodon/2022/12/30/109604900181953285/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/mastodon/2022/12/30/109604900181953285/ in the Mastodon collection in both HTML and markdown.
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