I am thoroughly enjoying The End Times. Thank you @badhandbooks.bsky.social for publishing this wonderful experiment.

I could not figure out how a food supplier had a zero day exploit for a minute. This is a real “tell me you might work in tech now, but used to work in a restaurant” moment.

I know I don’t have many follower, but just trying to give this as much viability as I can. I also used the “The End of the World as We Know It edited by Brian Keene and Christopher Golden” in a Teams poll asking when someone thought a task could be completed. 1 day, 2 weeks, etc.

I’m hopeful that this could help usher in an age where energy doesn’t have to come from blasting the top from mountains. But if it can’t make billionaires more billions, it will probably be shelved Also, I’ve read @briankeene.bsky.social’s The Rising, so I know sciency things can go awry.

We got Weird Al out here singing Killing In The Name, the time for moderation is over

Boring Co. explores Nashville-to-Knoxville transit tunnel Hey, let’s give the oligarchs more money, then never produce anything useful or pay their contractors.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Less than 100 pages from the end of @joe-hill.bsky.social’s King Sorrow. I can’t decide whether to finish it or hold off for a few days, so I don’t have to leave these amazing characters. It feels so much like when I leave the Losers or Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake and Oy, every time.

A deep commitment to anti-wokeness

This should be his Greg Stillson moment, but it won’t be. Any reasonable person would find the repugnant. But the people who still support this regime aren’t reasonable.

For those who don't know:

As a WVU fan, do you know how much Pitt sucks? They lost to THIS WVU team. Let’s Go Mountaineers!

Just started @joe-hill.bsky.social’s King Sorrow. I’ve been looking forward to this for a while. Thanks for signing my copy! It’ll go well with my bookplates copy of Horns.

Hint: He doesn’t stand with you. He stands with whoever is going to give him the most money or ego strokings.

I haven’t watched the show, but the sentiment reminds me of something Wolf would say. @stephenking.bsky.social , what do you think? #Talisman

Read 3 Days, 9 Months, 27 Years last night. Overall very enjoyable. I was expecting All You Zombies vibes but this was a fun departure. At first, I heard it in @scalzi.com’s voice, but somehow it morphed into @wilwheaton.net’s voice as I got further in.

Mount Le Conte off in the distance.

I really hate when I think something is going to be an article, and end up being a video.

Me too

2 @briankeene.bsky.social autographed books, nearly 20 years apart. The first I was working at a Waldenbooks in Morgantown, WV. The second I had to order because I live in Knoxville, TN. The places our lives take us aren’t nearly as fun, but sometimes as scary, as the places Brian’s books do.

As a glasses wearer of >40 years, this will be fantastic if it expands access. But will these kiosks be available in rural areas where doctors aren’t? I applaud anything that can make access easier, but I fear it will only be in places that already have 3 optometrists in the mall.

After finishing a real banger of a book, it’s always hard to start something new. First, deciding what to grab off the TBR pile, then getting into the groove again. I guess just cracking one open, and getting going is the first step.

Finished The Devils by @joeabercrombie.com last night. What a wild ride that book was. I truly hope Cameron finds a way to include the absurdity that makes it one of the most enjoyable fantasy novels I’ve ever read.

This is what I think of when people talk about AI taking our jobs. It’s a tool. It can help us work faster. It can also just break everything.

I’ve had 2 little riffs of music bouncing around my head for the last few days. 1. Everclear’s Santa Monica 2. John Williams’s Lex Luthor theme from Donner’s Superman

Such truth.

I’m always amazed that some of the best depictions of Christians as they should be come from authors who aren’t particularly religious. Michael Carpenter from The Dresden Files is a fantastic example. I just read Pastor James’s chapter in @scalzi.com ‘s When the Moon Hits Your Eye and he’s another.

I turn 47 tomorrow. It’s not a milestone. It’s not even the answer to the ultimate question of life the universe and everything. Somehow though, it’s the hardest so far. I guess this is “late 40s”, now.

I’m about to finish a book. Should I read The Night Birds by @cgolden.bsky.social or The Devils by @joeabercrombie.com next?

I would love to hear James Marsters narrate a @stephenking.bsky.social book. I assume the contracts are already signed, but Talisman 3 could be a good one.

Recently I’ve been nostalgic for Morgantown WV bands from the 90s and early 2000s. Stuff I would hear at 123 Pleasant Steet, or the Brewpub, or Gibbie’s. Karma to Burn and Treasure Cat have been big on the list from Apple Music. Going to have to find some Nak’d Jakob & Cheap Trucker Speed next.

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Just watched Fountain of Youth on AppleTV+. Initial thoughts: Moderately fun, but not Guy Ritchie’s best. John Ksinski and Natalie Portman’s chemistry was variable. (As siblings, maybe that’s ok?) Stanley Tucci was highly underutilized.

Only 2 miles, but in this heat I’ll take it. #GlobalRunningDay

As someone in tech, this is pretty terrifying. Hopefully humans can find ways to keep themselves relevant.

I remember a day when buying a physical copy of a book from Amazon would also get you the Kindle version. They would even let you scan the barcode from books you had already purchased and get the Kindle version for free. Pretty sure I got my first ebook of Horns by @joe-hill.bsky.social that way.

Whether you are religious or not, maybe especially if you are, this should happen. There are too many voices shouting at little boys and young men about what masculinity is. They should be hearing the calming tones of someone saying, “you’re good enough, & you should treat others like they are too”

Hoping to get out there for #GlobalRunningDay. My local store is hosting a run and it would be awesome if I’m able to slowly join the pack. www.runnersmarket.com has been super helpful and always kind to a new Knoxville resident.

Good morning from the Smoky Mountains.

Massive agree. He should be in any Hall of Fame he wants to be in, but especially, the Nice Guy HOF.

As someone with hundred of books in my Audible library, this makes me really sad. I want to hear @wilwheaton.net narrating @scalzi.com or the multitude of @stephenking.bsky.social narrators. Not some generated voice of an emotionless machine.

So far, I’ve enjoyed all of these. Along with all of the books Wil narrates.

So hot and humid this afternoon that I was only able to make 2.3 miles between kid ball games. I’m feeling really out of shapes right now.

I’ll add Fable Hollow in Knoxville, TN and Monkey Wrench Books in Morgantown, WV.

Heaven had better have a friggin huge library. I don’t have time to read all the books I want that came out THIS year, much less my backlog over the last 40+ years. And it better not be all Max Lucado.

Changed my contacts the other day. A few hours later, I thought my eyesight was going bad, because I needed reading glasses to even see my phone. Eventually realized, an old, non-multifocal pair had gotten in the new box. Fixed that, and I can see again!

The repetition of “You don’t have the math” in #OldMansWar is something I had forgotten and enjoyed rediscovering.

13.1 wet miles later, I finished my first official half marathon in 2:50:20. Not the time I was hoping for, but this course was hillier than expected and the rain didn’t help. I feel great about doing it. #Knoxville_Marathon