Austra
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I would do anything for Pavlova. Anything!
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Post by Austra on Oct 18, 2017 10:20:58 GMT
Tony and Susan by Austin Wright.
Dune by Frank Herbert.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Oct 21, 2017 5:12:18 GMT
Recently finished issue 17 of The Home Computer Course, published 1983. It can be found online with some googling.
Interestingly, there's an article on joysticks, including a sort of prototypical motion-sensing one (keep in mind, this is more than 20 years before the Nintendo Wii). There's also a cool article on add-ons for the popular Sinclair ZX81 home computer that could turn a primitive £50 computer into a serious computing system. There's also a review of the extremely unpopular Radio Shack MC-10 home computer.
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rmcrae
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Post by rmcrae on Oct 22, 2017 4:11:13 GMT
I just finished Tears of the Desert: A Memoir of Survival in Darfur by Halima Bashir. She was a former doctor who was raped and tortured for speaking to UN investigators about a brutal government supported attack on schoolgirls and their female teachers. Her village was soon destroyed and she lost contact with her remaining family members before fleeing to the UK. Strong woman.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Oct 22, 2017 7:02:17 GMT
Recently finished issue 18 of The Home Computer Course, a 1980s computer magazine from Britain. It can be found online with some googling.
I particularly enjoyed the article comparing different programming languages, as well as the review of the Apple IIe.
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Post by darknessfish on Oct 24, 2017 20:08:03 GMT
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Oct 25, 2017 6:51:01 GMT
Recently finished issue 19 of The Home Computer Course, published in the 1980s. It can be found online with some googling.
It has a review of the Acorn Electron, a good computer though it proved short-lived. Happily, it is easy to emulate.
There's also an article on ink jet printers, which back then was a technology just starting to become popular.
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Post by hugsfromlv426 on Oct 25, 2017 22:05:37 GMT
Deep Freeze by John Sandford.
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mmexis
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Post by mmexis on Oct 26, 2017 2:36:48 GMT
Finished "My brilliant friend" by Ferrante. Moved on to the second book of the quartet. All other reading remains the same. Will throw in some professional reading for good measure.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Oct 28, 2017 3:40:25 GMT
Recently finished issue 20 of the 1980s magazine The Home Computer Course.
My favourite parts were the review of the well-regarded but unpopular Memotech MTX 512 computer, as well as an article on add-ons for the popular Sinclair ZX Spectrum computer.
There's also an article on how to connect home appliances (like a heating system or smoke alarm) to a home computer....
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Post by politicidal on Oct 28, 2017 3:55:13 GMT
The Lost Order by Steve Berry and 1920: The Year that Made the Decade Roar, a nonfiction book by Eric Burns.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Oct 29, 2017 6:14:47 GMT
Juggling The Storm Before the Storm, podcaster Mike Duncan's awesome book about the beginning of the Fall of the Roman Republic, and Iron Man: My Journey Through Heaven and Hell with Black Sabbath by Tony Iommi. I've spent the last six weeks not being able to pick up a book and not getting through 20 pages before picking up another. Now I have two I can't put down.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2017 19:47:50 GMT
leo tolstoy books
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