BobChorba

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[–] BobChorba@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky which I enjoyed. I now started Children of Ruin, also by him.

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It's cool, he made me root more for the spiders than the humans :) but it all turns out nice fortunately. I am not that far into the second book, but I think it's interesting so far

[–] BobChorba@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

I just read "Brightly Shining" by Ingvild H. Rishøi. I suppose its more suited to read in wintertime, but it's such a good book.

Alcoholism is a theme, just fyi.

I discovered it via Dua Lipa's Book Club, which imo is worth checking out.

Service 95 Book Club

[–] BobChorba@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

Just finished Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. I liked it in general and raced through it quite fast.

There was only one cringey moment I can remember:

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“Hold on, Ms. Stratt,” said Justice Spencer. “This is still a court of law, and you will remain for the duration of these proceedings!”

“No, I won’t,” said Stratt.

The bailiff walked forward. “Ma’am. I’ll have to restrain you if you don’t comply.”

“You and what army?” Stratt asked.

Five armed men in military fatigues entered the courtroom and took up station around her. “Because I have the U.S. Army,” she said. “And that’s a damn fine army.”

Idk it just seems a bit shoved in there.

Otherwise I liked it a lot :)

[–] BobChorba@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah I was rooting for Canada in the olympics final as well

[–] BobChorba@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 weeks ago

but Finland played very fair imo, so props to them! In the games against Norway and Sweden it was much rougher.

[–] BobChorba@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

heartbreaking for me :( but life goes on

 
 
[–] BobChorba@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

wow 5 on 3 for the first 1:55 of the 2/3 for SUI. And thankfully survived two powerplays from finland!

[–] BobChorba@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

phew lucky for switzerland

[–] BobChorba@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago

rooting for SUI to finally get gold! :-)))

 

IIHF Ticker

Finland:

  • 71' K. Helenius
 
 

IIHF Game Center

Overtime Goal NOR:

  • 64' N. Steen

Canada:

  • 59' R. Thomas
  • 59:52' R. Thomas

Norway:

  • 7' M. Pettersen
  • 33' S. Sollberg
 

Canada:

  • 9' R. Thomas
  • 15' D. Holloway

Finland:

  • 4' P. Puistola
  • 21' A. Barkov
  • 32' K. Helenius
  • 33' Aa. Räty
 

IIHF Ticker

Switzerland:

  • 18' C. Bertschy
  • 25' D. Malgin
  • 33' K. Jäger
  • 37' D. Riat
  • 45' N. Hischier
  • 58' T. Rochet
 

Final result: 3:1

Sui:

  • 14': R. Josi
  • 33': D. Malgin
  • 37': C. Thürkauf

Swe:

  • 7': L. Karlsson
 

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Guidelines used to populate this list:

  • No packages, stock Emacs only.

  • No steep learning curves. Learn each feature in under two minutes or bust.

  • No gimmicks. No doctor, tetris, snake, dunnet, zone or butterfly.

  • Just the deltas. No commonly mentioned packages like flymake, doc-view, outline-minor-mode or eww/w3m. Nothing that Emacs brings up automatically or a nonspecific Google search gets you.

  • Assume a modern Emacs, 26.3+.

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