it’s lonely down here

venom was a rat

Thor 6 cover

let the devil out

drive by liquor store

the gluten

trick or treat

Owning The Libs

drive through baby

big glasses in the fall

cause mischief

Snow Crash

One of Time’s 100 best English-language novels • A mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous, you’ll recognize it immediately. Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison—a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo’s CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he’s a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that’s striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse.

What an absolutely bonkers story. There’s some great concepts here, but a whole lot of stinkers as well. The Mary Sue is strong with this story as well, with a character literally named “Hero Protagonist” and some deep thought on the operating systems of our brains. Add in a completely silly mafia pizza situation and some incredibly naive concepts of government, it’s a fun read right up to the last chapter which sorta just ends without any kind of real closure. I feel this story could have gone a few more chapters to wrap everything up, but instead we got a “and then everyone was done, The End” type of ending.

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Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There’s no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly, with sparkling wit, in tasty chapters consumable anytime and anywhere in your busy day. While you wait for your morning coffee to brew, for the bus, the train, or a plane to arrive, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry will reveal just what you need to be fluent and ready for the next cosmic headlines: from the Big Bang to black holes, from quarks to quantum mechanics, and from the search for planets to the search for life in the universe.

This was certainly a quick read, only took me about half a day to get though it, but boy howdy does it have some hum dingers for the philosophical crowd. There’s entire chapters of stuff I already knew and stuff that I’ve already had some deep thoughts about, but it’s great to go back to those and sort through them all again and see if I still understand what I understood in the past.

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congratulations to drugs

red planet

dog in my neighourhood

when your wifi is down for 10 minutes

water dish

rusted seat

all caps

Neuschwantstein Castle

sour cream cat

doctor strange in two years

Arrowverse Elseworlds Poster

Danielle DeNicola as Black Canary

chewing a bone

Fall season in Seoraksan National Park Korea

St Petersburg

Trump forgot his promise

bridges

desert eruption

mountain view

comfy looking cabins

sushi pizza

lift cab sports car

galaxy dragon

cracked

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grumpy vs adult vs happy vs child

the escape

evils

mismatched forest

sunset warrior

Complicated Drinking Sign

giraffe chase

jean shoes

sand boarding