Dusty Chalk

Reading Labyrinth of Reflections (Sergei Lukyanenkov) on my phone, Good Intentions (M.R. Forbes) on my iPad, and just checked out The Brightest Fell (Seanan McGuire) from the library (hardback). Labyrinth of Reflections in particular, is recommended to those of you who enjoyed Ready Player One as there's a lot of Doom and first person shooter type games and Microsoft and Windows references -- like it was written 20 years ago (which it was), so there's lots of talk of modems and human engineering and the internet, but not some of the more recent developments. It still feels ahead of its time. I haven't finished it yet, so if the ending sucks...soz.

Another one which isn't commonly known, but I heard this story because cold war tensions with the Soviet Union was a thing with my dad: Stanislav Petrov http://www.iflscience.com/technology/man-saved-world-1983-nuclear-catastrophe-just-died/

Just finished Blacklist Season 4...wait, what?

Voivod -- hearty heart heart

(drools)

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)

https://www.facebook.com/Long-Beach-Jazz-Fest-122576667790127/

I like KFC! But I will only eat there if I have no other choice. Doctors orders. And it's been long enough that I don't miss it, and I never really enjoyed it as much. Dogfish Head make 'em much better.

I'm not interested in deep fried wings, so I'm good with Grawk's version.

fuck cancer

Harissa yogurt is the best! I used to use that as a salad dressing all the time.

I love that album. The production!

Voivod Binge to celebrate their recent "Visionary" award at the Progressive Music Awards, specifically the 2nd through 7th albums: Rrröööaaarrr Killing Technology Dimension Hatröss Nothingface Angel Rat The Outer Limits Yeah, there's no way I'm listening to all of that tonight...but I'll keep it loaded in Tidal for as long as I can...

Looks like a pizza of sorts. Is that cheese on top?

Totally inappropriate parrot is totally inappropriate.

I discovered this nice varietous sampler of old psychedelic and the like music called, The Last Daze of the Underground There's a lot of really great songs on here, interspersed with some weird shit. On top of that, at least one of the acts, Kava Kava, is still active, and I'm loving their newer stuff as well as the older songs:

Happy birthday! (party favour noise)