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Be warned. Anybody posting links to threads.net will be blocked, no matter what quality your other posts are; otherwise I'm just a scrambled egg maestro. Following those with similar views is counter-productive but I can't resist it. No interest in follower numbers.

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stina_marie , to horrorbooks
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My is brief/won't spoil, to spread good, great, & spectacular far & wide.

A book review in verse. It's written by Clay McLeod Chapman & out now (Shortwave Pub)

In the aftermath
Of a disaster's path
A town finds hope-
A way to cope:
A phone for the Dead
And things left unsaid.
But there's always a cost,
When you speak to the Lost:
Be prepared for the brine,
If you STAY ON THE LINE.

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@stina_marie @bookstodon @horror @horrorbooks
I see the market for doggerel is still very fluid.

kimlockhartga , to bookstodon
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I need to reorganize my fiction bookshelves. What system has worked best for you? I'm leaning towards going by author, though that leaves the question of how to treat anthologies. Maybe anthologies could be first, or shelved by the editor's name. Alphabetical by title (preceded by numbers) might work just as well as by author.

I had been doing them by height size, except for the graphic novels, which tend not to match any standard size.

These particular bookshelves are all fiction (except for graphic nonfiction) so organizing by subject seems unwieldy.

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@whitneymcn @smashedratonpress @kimlockhartga @bookstodon
It look familiar.

bibliolater , to bookstodon
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Currently ….

“Galileo: Decisive Innovator (Cambridge Science Biographies)

by Michael Sharratt”

What non-fiction book are you currently reading?

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hoare_spitall ,
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@bibliolater @bookstodon Rationality by Steven Pinker. I've enjoyed his various linguistic works, but this is hard going for me, as I'm not a statistician. I'll plug on though.

austern , to bookstodon
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10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
Jane Austen
Iain Banks
Iain M. Banks
Anton Chekhov
C. J. Cherryh
Samuel R. Delany
Ursula Le Guin
Vladimir Nabokov
Thomas Pynchon
Gene Wolfe


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hoare_spitall ,
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@pocoforte @austern @bookstodon What are M Books?

appassionato , to bookstodon
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Able Archer 83: The Secret History of the NATO Exercise That Almost Triggered Nuclear War

In November 1983, Soviet nuclear forces went on high alert. After months nervously watching increasingly assertive NATO military posturing, Soviet intelligence agencies in Western Europe received flash telegrams reporting alarming activity on U.S. bases. In response, the Soviets began planning for a countdown to a nuclear first strike by NATO on Eastern Europe.

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I will put this one on my 'Must Read' list.

jaap , to academicchatter
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Re-post: I would like to ask for your help.

As part of my dissertation project, I'm aiming to collect a large research sample to help construct a validated measure on Teacher Attitudes towards Multilingualism.

If you are a teacher (primary, secondary, tertiary education), and you teach multilingual students, could I please ask for 10 minutes of your time?

The survey is available here:

https://uofg.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6tZfFXjn5SD2PtA

Please boost—thank you so much!

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@jaap @edutooters @academicchatter
I'm not a teacher so I won't mess up your survey with invalid data, but I've boosted your request.
Why? As a Brit who's lived abroad for 35 years I've seen so often how an inability to understand other languages can lead to an inabilty to fully understand the cultures behind them, diminishing both social and business postive outcomes.
Sorry about the long-windedness.

aires , to blackmastodon

Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use , , or any version of with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.

Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.

Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.

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https://elective.collegeboard.org/clarence-skip-ellis-computer-science-pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Ellis_(computer_scientist)
https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-6/clarence-ellis

hoare_spitall ,
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@aires @blackmastodon
I used - I think, long ago - to install a GEM environment onto my old Dos System as it was so good with graphics. It was a GUI of sorts and a bit clunky, but it served me well. At the time I preferred 4dos to MSdos, but that disappeared when MS convinced the world - wrongly - it wouldn't run Windows.
I still have a collection of old .gem graphic files somewhere, though what I'll ever do with them is beyond me.

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@airadam @MattFerrel @aires @blackmastodon
Amstrad with CPM on ROM ? The OS was gone everytime it was switched off, and if you hadn't saved your work to Amstrad disks that was gone too. I think I might also still have some of those.
Madness really - time for a clear out.

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@airadam @MattFerrel @aires @blackmastodon
My daughter always looks at me disbelievingly when I tell her my first ever PC (in the usual sense) had 4 MB RAM, a 103 MB HD, and the word Turbo in it's name. Where it was a 'luxury' was it also had a 'Backup' tape drive, (Yes, I stll have a tape, drive too maybe) which saved my life more than once, me having re-formatted the HD in error by trying to do too many command line jobs at once on more than 1 PC.

skaeth , to bookstodon
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What are your thoughts on DNF (Did Not Finish)-ing books? Do you feel guilty about it? Do you worry you missed out on something? Or are you confident in dropping a book and reaching for the next one?

At what point are you most likely to DNF, if ever? What sorts of things cause you to DNF?

My friend, book blogger Kriti, was musing on these questions a while back, and it sparked this new post: https://armedwithabook.com/dealing-with-dnf-the-practice-of-did-not-finish/

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@skaeth @shauna @bookstodon
Gravity's Rainbow. At least 6 times. Never finished it. Compare with Catch 22. Read it through at least 5 times, until I gave it away to bring awe into somebody else's life.

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@skaeth @shauna @bookstodon
The 6er I didn't finish, but I still have it. The 5er, which I did finish, I'll probably buy again. Infact I recommend unreservedly virtually anything by Joseph Heller, except his Autobiog. 'Picture This' is a literary, and visual (mind's eye) masterpiece.

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@skaeth @shauna @bookstodon
Having looked briefly at your profile I see it's time I refreshed my SF interest. I was very lucky to get to know a (critical) master in my younger days, who was a great inspiration.

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@skaeth @shauna @bookstodon
Just for info, and this goes back a long way, the actual work which set me on a long period of SF reading was 'The Forever War' (or wars), by Joe E Haldeman, and I took a great delight in telling my daughter who bought me The Director's Cut of my favourite film 'Blade Runner' that I'd read 'Do Android Dream Of Electric Sheep' while Ridley Scott was still directing short advertisements for brown bread.

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@skaeth @shauna @bookstodon
I've just spotted the writing.exchange element in your @address and will suggest my daughter takes a look. She has an MA in Eng. and Amer. Cultural Studies, but I'm extremely diplomatic with my tone of voice when I ask something like "What! You never heard of Ursula le Guin"

hoare_spitall ,
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@skaeth @shauna @bookstodon I have somewhere a dedicated short story/article she wrote for Interzone in the early days. (To help them on the way, magazine give-away). I'll dig it out.

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