The rocky road of designing a logo
The symbol for Powerhouse, one of the teen superheroes from Unsecret Identity took a while to get settled. Initially, her emblems design was based on how easily itd be to recreate/redraw. Over time, it become more dynamic to fit her personality. The path to her super mark was frustrating at times, but I love the result.
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1 The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson
2 Cover the Bones by Chris Hammer
3 The Mind of a Murderer by Michael Wood
QSFer Melissa Scott has a new MM fantasy book out: Point of Sighs.
Magic, murder and danger in Astreiant.
Rumors are swirling among the boatmen that the Riverdeme, the ancient spirit of the river, once bound by the magic of the citys bridges, is back and hunting handsome young men.
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Even if you dont want any of my books, you can still use the codes to get a gift for someone who reads.
"Cultivating Race" (2012)
Watson W. Jennison
The Wheel of Time Season 3 gets a teaser trailer. Watch it here
Leitura de dezembro, pra descansar a cabea.
Da 9 del calendario de Adviento para Book lovers: unas tarjetas para mandar buenos deseos a algunas personas por estas fiestas.
The Cathedral and the Bazaar: A Pillar of Open Source Philosophy
The Cathedral and the Bazaar, written by Eric S. Raymond in 1999, remains a cornerstone of the open-source movement. Despite its age, the book's principles continue to resonate in an era increasingly reliant on collaborative software development.
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Pensiero disperato,
amore vivo
che sento placido nel rivo abbandonato.
Sei tu che torni sempre quando sono stralciato,
credevo fossi come l'acqua
che non scorre mai dove il fiume gi passato,
il tuo abbraccio invece albero e sentiero
che riporta sempre a casa
nel mio angolo sincero.
Si ringrazia per la musica "loneliness long 202383 Grand Project pixabay" e per il video "2828935-Catalin Rosu pexels".
Thank you so much to Beyond The Pixels for their superb video review of our book - Go Straight: The Ultimate Guide to Side-Scrolling Beat-Em-Ups
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British birds by Thorburn, Archibald -1860-1935-
A SIMPLE YET PROFOUND UKRAINIAN novel tells the story of an unlikely group of men and the community they make while reviving an abandoned factory. Spare, lovely prose and deep characterization touch some powerful truths. A MINUS
POSTGAME: Phoenix Suns, Booker And Beal Fall Short AGAIN, Magic Take Win Over Suns
Im wanting to do a weekly report on my . I have four in mind I want to read again and write about.
Which one should I do
"Henrietta" (2008)
Charlotte Lennox, Ruth Perry, and Susan Carlile
Just finished reading this. Its okay, just felt like I was reading a YA version of The Last Kingdom.
4. Tech innovation seems to always increase inequality. My guess is because innovation is costly (in societal terms), and it needs advocacy. But advocacy usually comes from privileged classes, which naturally focus on their own wants and needs.
5. Good points on the intransitivity nature of intelligence: being good at one thing doesn't necessarily mean being good at the others. Ergo there's no such thing as "superinteliigence". (6/6)
2. Good point on humans are now tweaking their own coupling mechanism, e.g., social media. We're taking evolution into our own hands now, people (not that it hasn't already begun). (4/6)
3. Important distinction between intelligence as an entity vs a property: agreed w/ author that people tend to conceptualize intelligence as entities, probably because "intention" is thought to be a key ingredient of intelligence (my guess). But intelligence can exist without its own intention. It can be bestowed, given, evolved, or designed. (5/6)
Before firing up my 180bpm playlist and channeling my inner Kipchoge for the last 5 miles, I listened to Neil Lawrence new "Atomic Human", which aims at finding the "core" of humanity in the age of . A few notes so far: (2/6)
1. Loose coupling of human vs. machines: author posits huge portion of human intelligence is devoted to communication because of the very limited bandwidth. But what if the low comm bandwidth is a feature Loose coupling allows for individualism, competition and collaboration, diversity, and a host of complex behaviors, which might be favored by evolution (3/6)
Biblio File column!
Even Broken-Winged Divas Can Fly by Jennifer Kuhns
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PREGAME: A Must Win For The Phoenix Suns Tonight They Face Off Against The Orlando Magic
PREGAME: A Must Win For The Phoenix Suns Tonight They Face Off Against The Orlando Magic
Illustrations of new species of exotic butterflies : selected chiefly from the collections of W. Wilson Saunders and William C. Hewitson -1806-1878-
From the pages of the YA sci-fi novel Unsecret Identity: Eric Icarus - Book One, this logo represents the corporate benefactor of the flying main character, Eric Icarus. Overseen by tech tycoon Baron Maddox, Pantheon Solutions develops superhero gear and cutting-edge inventions to advance their home of New St. Cloud City.
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Good advice.
What do I do if I don't like a at the
Today's purchase is Assassin's Apprentice, volume 2 of the darkhorse.com of robinhobb.bsky.social's Farseer trilogy. I'm about to read both volumes. This is one of my favourite series.
Don't miss today's blog! Before and after photos of our house renovation in Tuscany, Italy!
I highly recommend Gilead by Marilynn Robinson
Organization, Community, Continuity
False modesty has prevented us from seeing how effective we've been, ego has prevented us from seeing how systematically we fumble revolutionary situations. It's time to get real:In the last 20 years, anarchists have played vital support roles or even created the force necessary to push anger or resistance past a tipping point and into uncontrollable rebellion time and again, in Egypt, Hong Kong, Catalunya, Greece, France, Sweden, the US, Mexico, Chile, Brazil...Time and again, we have also gotten left behind, failed to prepare for a predictable danger, or not known how to take the next steps.Our successes show there is clearly something valid about our methods and critiques. Many of our failures come down to questions of Organization, Continuity, Community..
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PARENTHSE ENCHANTE
Coucou mes Bookinautes adors ! La fin de l'anne est proche, celle des parenthses enchantes aussi... Laissez-moi donc vous raconter en images ma belle aventure au salon du livre de Boulogne Billancourt o je modrais par ailleurs ma dernire rencontre 2024 ! Un immense merci pour cette belle journe !
Yellow Blue Tibia by Adam Roberts
"Russia, 1946, the Nazis recently defeated. Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside somewhere. Convinced that the defeat of America is only a few years away, and equally convinced that the Soviet Union needs a massive external threat to hold it together, to give it purpose and direction, he tells the writers: I want you to concoct a story about aliens poised to invade earth "
In light of recent events, I think a lot of people might be interested in the Mengele Zoo by the Norwegian author Gert Nygrdshaug
A kid from the Amazon lives trough imperialist capitalism destroying his land and killing the people he loves, grows up to become a sorta terrorist, but with a big twist: He only ever killes the CEOs of the largest, worst companies, with most blood on their hands
Translated to Spanish, but unfortunately not English. Maybe this is the time
I just finished reading The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier. I like when you can learn from a book -- between the lines is a history of Murano glassmaking, especially lampwork beads
I really enjoyed looking up the types of beads the main character encounters and creates, from rosetta to ulivetta to cornaline d'aleppo.
It makes me want to do a little more reading about their history and learn about the legacy of Murano glass and the artisans working in the tradition today.
"The Dover Mound" (2014)
William S. Webb and Charles E. Snow
T.C. Lethbridge - Gogmagog: The Buried Gods (Hardcover) 1 Jan. 1975 (No dust jacket) - Iron Man Records