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Not of this world
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis
― C.S. Lewis
What I am reading right now.
With what should have been the greatest heist of their career gone spectacularly sour, Locke and his trusted partner, Jean, have barely escaped with their lives. Or at least Jean has. But Locke is slowly succumbing to a deadly poison that no alchemist or physiker can cure. Yet just as the end is near, a mysterious Bondsmage offers Locke an opportunity that will either save him or finish him off once and for all.
Magi political elections are imminent, and the factions are in need of a pawn. If Locke agrees to play the role, sorcery will be used to purge the venom from his body - though the process will be so excruciating he may well wish for death. Locke is opposed, but two factors cause his will to crumble: Jean's imploring - and the Bondsmage's mention of a woman from Locke's past: Sabetha. She is the love of his life, his equal in skill and wit, and now, his greatest rival.
Locke was smitten with Sabetha from his first glimpse of her as a young fellow orphan and thief-in-training. But after a tumultuous courtship, Sabetha broke away. Now they will reunite in yet another clash of wills. For faced with his one and only match in both love and trickery, Locke must choose whether to fight Sabetha - or to woo her. It is a decision on which both their lives may depend.
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Be yourself
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Soylent Closes $1.5M In Seed Funding From Lerer, Andreessen Horowitz | TechCrunch
Soylent Closes $1.5M In Seed Funding From Lerer, Andreessen Horowitz | TechCrunch An interesting article about a product that I'd love to try.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
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What I am reading now.
For generations, the solar system – Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt – was humanity’s great frontier. Until now. The alien artefact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has emerged to build a massive structure outside the orbit of Uranus: a gate that leads into a starless dark.
Jim Holden and the crew of the Rocinante are part of a vast flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artefact. But behind the scenes, a complex plot is unfolding, with the destruction of Holden at its core. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
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Manhood
“It is not what he has, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.” –Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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The pool at the Red Rock Resort, Spa, and Casino
The pool, which was not crowded and a great place to hang out with the girls.
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Books
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” ― Charles William Eliot
Thursday, July 25, 2013
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Things
“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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Reading Now
Honor Harrington has faced ship-to-ship combat, assassins, political vendettas, and duals. She's been shot at, shot down, and just plain shot, had starships blown out from under her, and made personal enemies who will do anything to ruin her, and she's survived it all. But this time the People's Republic of Haven has finally found an admiral who can win battles, and Honor's orders take her straight into an ambush. Outnumbered and outgunned, she has jut two options: see the people under her command slaughtered in hopeless battle...or surrender them--and herself--to the Peeps.At least the Peoples Navy promises to treat its prisoners honorably. But the Navy is overruled by the politicians, and Honor finds herself aboard a Peep battlecruiser, bound for a prison planet aptly named "Hell."..and her scheduled execution.
Put into solitary confinement, separated from her officers and her tree cat Nimitz... and subjected to systematic humiliation by her goalers, her future has become both bleak and short. Yet the one lesson Honor Harrington has never learned is how to give up.
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Thought
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov
― Isaac Asimov
Saturday, June 01, 2013
What I am reading.
Startling, unusual, and yet irresistably readable, Among Others is at once the compelling story of a young woman struggling to escape a troubled childhood, a brilliant diary of first encounters with the great novels of modern fantasy and SF, and a spellbinding tale of escape from ancient enchantment.
Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna Phelps found refuge in two worlds. As a child growing up in Wales, she played among the spirits who made their homes in industrial ruins. But her mind found freedom and promise in the science fiction novels that were her closest companions. Then her mother tried to bend the spirits to dark ends, and Mori was forced to confront her in a magical battle that left her crippled--and her twin sister dead.
Fleeing to her father whom she barely knew, Mori was sent to boarding school in England–a place all but devoid of true magic. There, outcast and alone, she tempted fate by doing magic herself, in an attempt to find a circle of like-minded friends. But her magic also drew the attention of her mother, bringing about a reckoning that could no longer be put off…
Combining elements of autobiography with flights of imagination in the manner of novels like Jonathan Lethem’s The Fortress of Solitude, this is potentially a breakout book for an author whose genius has already been hailed by peers like Kelly Link, Sarah Weinman, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Overworked
“Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.”
― Josef Pieper, Leisure The Basis Of Culture
― Josef Pieper, Leisure The Basis Of Culture
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Reading
“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury
― Ray Bradbury
Friday, May 17, 2013
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Roc N Fondue
Went to dinner here last night with Debbie. Had fondue, which I hadn't had since I was a little kid in Germany. We had a really nice time and dinner was great. What was better was that we got to spend time alone away from the kids as a couple. The girls went to Open Gym at Redlands Gymnastics and we picked them up after dinner.
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Friday, April 26, 2013
What I am reading now.
The sequel to Empire State – the superhero-noir fantasy thriller set in the other New York.
The Empire State is dying. The Fissure connecting the pocket universe to New York has vanished, plunging the city into a deep freeze and the populace are demanding a return to Prohibition and rationing as energy supplies dwindle.
Meanwhile, in 1954 New York, the political dynamic has changed and Nimrod finds his department subsumed by a new group, Atoms For Peace, led by the mysterious Evelyn McHale.
As Rad uncovers a new threat to his city, Atoms For Peace prepare their army for a transdimensional invasion. Their goal: total conquest – or destruction – of the Empire State.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Mesa Grande SDA Academy kindergarten field trip to Barnes and Noble
Mesa Grande SDA Academy kindergarten field trip to Barnes and Noble
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The kids at story time
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
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Calimesa SDA Church Adventurers
Calimesa SDA Church Adventurers
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Amber with Grace at the Adventurer fair
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Fatherhood
A father is a man who expects his child to be as good a person as he meant to be. Hopefully my father isn't disappointed. I try real hard.
Adventurers fair Calimesa SDA Church Adventurers
Adventurers fair Calimesa SDA Church Adventurers
Originally uploaded by carignan.
Today was the Adventurer fair in La Sierra.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
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What I am reading now.
Welcome to the year 2072……And a world unlike anything you’ve ever imagined. A world where magic and machines exist side-by-side. Where cybernetics can replace organs or entire limbs with ease, and arcane spells can make the impossible happen. Where the Matrix has become an artificial world of its own, filled with all kinds of pleasure, treasure, and trouble. Where dwarves, elves, orks and trolls walk alongside humans every day. Some work for megacorporations whose invisible tentacles wrap around every aspect of modern life. Others choose a much less legal career, doing whatever dirty work the corp executives need done—for a price.Featuring fifteen new stories about the men and women who make their living in the shadows of the Sixth World, Spells & Chrome takes you into the dark and dirty streets of the future. Whether risking their lives to execute a mission for an employer who might be planning to double-cross them anyway, or just doing whatever they need to do to survive another day, shadowrunners use everything they’ve got—cyberware, spells, or a very big gun—to get the job done.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
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Reading
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx
― Groucho Marx
What I am reading now.
Tony Prosdocimi lives in the bustling Metropolis of San Ventura — a city gripped in fear, a city under siege by the hooded supervillain, The Cowl.
When Tony develops super-powers and acts to take down The Cowl, however, he finds that the local superhero team Seven Wonders aren’t as grateful as he assumed they’d be…
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