Category: Asides
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This is a new one…
Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of spam comments on all my blogs masquerading as real comments. I can tell they’re spam because the comments are generic or unrelated to the post, or they make absolutely no sense whatsoever, or they ask me about my blog’s design or something random like that. And they have…
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Some quotes about books from books…
“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.” — A Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin “Sleep is good,” he said. “And books are better.” — A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies …. The man who never reads lives only…
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New stuff on the blog…
I occasionally get books from publishers and authors to review. I have added a virtual library of the most interesting of these books and my reviews of them to the sidebar. Check it out.
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Famous Last Words
A question on Quora asked: What are the most famous final passages from books or stories? Here are my votes for the top five. Feel free to add your favorite last lines in the comments. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” — The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald “and yes I…
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Hitchcock films…
For Christmas, I got a great set of Alfred Hitchcock films, what I would consider to be his five best: Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds, Rear Window, and North by Northwest. But of course, everyone knows these films. (If you don’t, you’ve got some watching to do!) After you’ve seen them, what next? This is what I would consider to…
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A present-day dystopia…
We just finished watching the first two seasons of Luther on Netflix Instant Streaming. It is a crime series starring Idris Elba, and it can be very disturbing. One thing I like about it is that even though it is set in present-day London, it has a pronounced dystopian flavor. I was trying to come up…
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Re-post: Remembering How to Play
The IAM Learning Community has reposted my essay, Remembering How to Play. I hope you’ll head over there and check it out.
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Quora: Is the Time Magazine Breastfeeding Cover Over the Line in Terms of Good Taste?
My hastily dashed off response to Time magazine’s breastfeeding cover on Quora this morning was reprinted on the Huffington Post: Quora: Is the Time Magazine Breastfeeding Cover Over the Line in Terms of Good Taste? Here’s the original question and all the answers on Quora.
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iHRIS: Where Are We Now?
Here is a piece I co-wrote about the iHRIS Open Source HRIS software project I’ve been working on. It provides some history and context of the project, and it looks ahead to next developments. Read: iHRIS: Where Are We Now? | www.ihris.org.
Shannon Turlington 