That’s some skilled debating strategy right there. Talk over your opponent, call him a bully, and repeatedly shift the focus of the conversation. I don’t know how the hell Bill Nye puts up with that sort of shit, but as obviously frustrated as he was, I would have been yelling by then.
My computer monitor is rapidly breaking down.
It’s a huge iF281D something or other, and it overheats, badly. In warm weather, when I’m playing a graphics intensive game, or when I’ve just had it on for too long, the screen goes black briefly. Since my sound is running through the built-in speakers, that shuts off, too. Then, anywhere from half a second to thirty seconds later, it pops back on. Then, a few seconds later, off again. Back in the fall, it was a minor problem that only happened once or twice a week, and I could stop it with Ctrl+Alt+Del. (Dunno why, changing to the menu screen it brought up immediately stopped the process. I didn’t have to do anything else, I’d just get back to what I was doing.) Now, it’s a daily occurrence. I recently had to spend nearly four hours watching a movie, because I had to turn the monitor off to cool down every ten to fifteen minutes. (It was a hot day, to be fair.) Plus, the monitor turning off and on unexpectedly is really, really jarring to the eyes. They are not adapted to that. This is obviously extremely frustrating, but it is not without unexpected advantages.
First Time/Reread: Reread
Acquired: Owned
Other Nominees
Nope, none yet. Still have a few years to go for that.
So I got the backer reward for one of the projects I backed on Kickstarter last year!
This original graphic novel, written and illustrated by Max Miller Dowdle, is fantastic. It’s definitely a cerebral story that you need to pay close attention to. The majority of the story happens within a single hotel room, so don’t expect any huge action scenes. The characters are absolutely stand-out, the pacing is phenomenal, and for a comic that moves around so (relatively) little and has so few characters, the tension was palpable.
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Alright, I figured I’d get the hulking elephant of the Readthrough out of the way first. “But Mountain,” you say “The Hugo nominees were only announced a week and a half ago! How could you have read all of the Wheel of Time?” Thanks for asking, imaginary reader! Well, to answer your question, I actually started rereading the series a few days before the nominees were announced, because I was predicting it would be on the ballot, and even I can only handle one behemoth fantasy novel per day. (It was one of two predictions for the shortlist I got right, the other being Ancillary Justice.)
First Time/Reread: Reread
Acquired: Owned
Other Nominees:
Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice
Charles Stross: Neptune’s Brood
Larry Correia: Warbound, Book III of the Grimnoir Chronicles
Mira Grant: Parasite
Mountain Was Here 