A Comment Tree By the Side of the Road 9/7

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Please add a leaf or two.

Your host is back home and adapting to the way things need to be done for the time being. Will get the laptop set up today. I hope.

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  7. I’m guessing that “adapting to the way things need to be done for the time being” means “don’t go in the basement, it’s where we stuffed the shoggoth recycling trash.”

    Welcome home, Mike.

  8. What surprise he’ll get when the time machine will dump a mountain of pizza boxes in his bedroom in about three months.

  18. Yay! Welcome back

    BtW, if the Device 770 has got a lot of pre-installed annoying /unused software, I strongly recommend using Decrap . It’s crazy useful in getting rid of bloat/crapware

  19. snowcrash: I strongly recommend using Decrap. It’s crazy useful in getting rid of bloat/crapware.

    Oh damn, it doesn’t look as if they have a Windows 10 version yet. I’ll have to keep an eye out for that.

  21. Best wishes, Mike.

    I’m currently traveling through the Pacific Northwest on our band’s kinda annual mini tour. It’s nice to be reading updates from file 770. It’s very nice to be catching up with my reading on the long drives.

  26. Camestros: Well rendered unto Mike.

    Apropo of poetry submissions, my uncle sent a letter, in verse, to a poetry magazine, questioning their policy of not accepting unsolicited submissions, and they accepted it and published it as a submission.

  29. Really pleased to hear you’re back home Mike! Hope the lappy wrangling doesn’t take too much energy or brainpower. Both are best used elsewhere.

    I am having a very good day because 1) I got inspired to write a sonnet for a friend and am feeling ever closer to breaking the barrier of draining writing job taking all energy away from for writing for myself, 2) Everfair and Hidden Figures delivered themselves to my kindle yesterday, 3) Taylor Swift is on the radio. Imbuing this post with extra good vibes which I hope psychically transfer to anybody who might be running a bit short today!

  30. JJ on September 7, 2016 at 3:03 am said:

    Oh damn, it doesn’t look as if they have a Windows 10 version yet. I’ll have to keep an eye out for that.

    It is generally assumed that if you have win10 you want to run bloat spyware infused crap.

  32. Welcome home, Mike! I expect you still have some recovery to do, but I hope it’s a relief to be home.

    @Kip W – that’s a cool story about your uncle.

  35. Welcome home, Mike! (Um, don’t look in the closet of the spare bedroom. Especially if you hear eldritch glorping noises.)

    @Camestros, terrific welcome-home card!

  36. Welcome back, codger–uh, I mean Kotter–I mean Mike!

    On a different note, I binge-watched all of season 1 of Stranger Things Saturday night, and rather than the many positive (and a few negative) things I could say about the plot, I’ve decided to nitpick about a prop failure. In episode 3, a Millennium Falcon was featured briefly in two scenes. In the first scene, the color didn’t look right for an original late-70s to early-80s Falcon, and in the second scene—which looked straight towards the engines—cinched it—the Falcon used for the prop is a version first sold in 2008 that has light-up engines (the original had decals.) An OoPA from (25 years) in the future!

    (Okay, this mistake wasn’t noticeable unless you were looking for it—but I’m sensitized to the issue after an episode of That 70s Show that featured Eric Foreman handling a Millennium Falcon that was very obviously an action figure carrying case from 1997 that is very dissimilar to the original Falcon toy from the 1970s.)

    FWIW, after seeing the Falcon in episode 3, I thought to look back at the Yoda figure show in episode 2, and it was of the proper vintage. The necksnake was missing, but everybody looses the necksnake.

    (Nyfb, fvapr vg vf rfgnoyvfurq gung gur Fgne Jnef zbivrf rkvfg va gur Fgenatre Guvatf ‘irefr, V jbaqre vs R.G. qbrfa’g? Orpnhfr bgurejvfr lbh’q guvax punenpgref jbhyq or fnlvat “url, jung jr ner qbvat evtug abj vf whfg yvxr n fprar sebz emR.G.!” zber guna bapr.)

  37. If I were going to nitpick Stranger Things, the two things I’d point out: First, the show is set in 1983. At one point, a character mentions The Smiths, but they didn’t even release their first album (in Britain) until 1984.

    Also, specific details of bullying in 1983, especially in terms of name-calling, would probably have been very different. But that one I’ll give them, because most of the more commonly-used terms back then would be Very Not Cool to be bandying about these days.

  40. Welcome back Mike, have a seat pull up a shuggoth^H^H^Hstool and put your feet up. There’s plenty of crottled greeps and jynian tonix.

  41. Glad you’re home Mike. Look forward to you being around more (but not too much more too quickly — take as much time as you need to).

  47. > “It’s a lesbian retelling of Macbeth, set at a haunted boarding school”

    Sold!

    Just in time to add it to my first big book purchase since July. Other 2016 SFF titles I’m picking up include The Obelisk Gate, Borderline, The Guns of Empire, An Accident of Stars, Four Roads Cross, This Savage Song, The City of Woven Streets, Who Killed Sherlock Holmes, The Devourer of Gods, Magisterium: The Bronze Key, and Dreams of Distant Shores.

    (Older SFF titles include The Changeover, vN, Alanya to Alanya, and Rook Song.)

  50. Chad Saxelid on September 7, 2016 at 8:04 am said:
    > “It’s a lesbian retelling of Macbeth, set at a haunted boarding school”

    Sold!

    I’ll second (fifth?) that!

    Third fifth. I thought Orson Scott Card had ruined retellings of the Bard and now my faith may be restored.

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