Reading A Mixtape - Selections From The 33 1/3 Series
The first book in this series I read was the entry on Jawbreaker’s 24 Hour Revenge Therapy. However, there was a sale recently, and I ended up with four new entries in the series. Since these are pretty slight books rather than four short reviews, I figured I would combine them here into one post. I didn’t just save you one click; I saved you . . .
Technology Driven Anxiety
Skepticism of technology has crept into the culture quietly in the last few years. We went from being amazed by how fast the future was coming, to wondering what horrors are coming from the valley. We’ve gone from being awed that an entire computer could fit in our pocket to wishing the President would just sign off of Twitter. We’ . . .
100 Hour Reviews: Octopath Traveller
Hitting 120 hours on an RPG is a rarity for me. I will always grind out the main quest. I’ll also scratch out most of the sidequests, and quit once I’m grinding out dozens of levels with characters I don’t even like. While I didn’t finish out the ultimate final boss, nor another optional boss, I did wring out 95% of this . . .
Gateways To Counter Culture: The Sandman
Though I had another book in mind to lead off this little series of essays, I never got around to re-rereading it. I was spurred to re-read the Sandman by a sale on all the digital editions, saving me from pulling the worn trades off the shelf.
Sandman’s original run was from 1989-1996. I picked up near the end . . .
Learning Diary: Bitwise Operations
Okay, I am confident that either I should have learned this in college, that I did and forgot it in the ensuing decade. My binary was already on the rusty side, and I felt like I was having some trouble keeping up with the lessons. Code Academy had some great step by step stuff, but I felt like I was missing the . . .
Apple, Streaming, and Oprah Too.
You knew that it was going to be a weird event when Apple let all of its hardware announcements slip via press releases, ensuring that only its services had the stage for today’s event. Though I have mostly left my tech writing life behind, my years at Macgasm make watching every one of these a reflexive habit.
. . .Book Review: Orpheus Emerged By Jack Kerouac
No one deserves to have their earliest work published without a chance to edit out the excesses of youth and inexperience. On the other hand Orpheus Emerged should give everyone hope that even the most famous writers have shakey work.
Fans of Kerouac that have delved deeper than just a cursory reading of On the . . .