Matt K wants to read There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib
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Matt K finished reading Paper Girls Deluxe Edition by Brian K. Vaughan (Issues, #1-10)
Paper Girls Deluxe Edition by Brian K. Vaughan (Issues, #1-10)
In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all …
Matt K wants to read Paper Girls by Brian K. Vaughan (Paper Girls #1-6)
Finally, the entire Eisner Award-winning epic in one complete volume, with a new cover from …
Birthday present book!
Matt K finished reading Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Seconds is a graphic novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Published on July 15, 2014, by Ballantine Books, the novel tells …
Matt K started reading Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley
Seconds is a graphic novel by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Published on July 15, 2014, by …
House spirits and food and second chances.
Matt K quoted The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and …
The Old Guard which had foisted Moses' candidacy upon the GOP as adequately punished, in influence would remain strong in the party, out awaty leaders who couldn't afford to let their local candidates caugure in the undertow of the sinking of a poor candidate and who were determined that one as poor as Moses should never again head the ticket, would never let the Old Guard hand-pick another candidate. His candidacy was its Waterloo.
Robert Moses was so bad a gubernatorial candidate that he helped change the party so a candidate like him couldn’t be nominated again.
Matt K started reading Morphotropic by Greg Egan
In a world where the cells that make up our bodies are not committed to …
Aaaagh! Starts with a bang! Of goo! What if all the cells in your body could choose to leave you?
Matt K finished reading How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, …
A ton of food for thought here.
Matt K commented on How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, …
I’m loving the beauty of “plan for energy abundance “.
I also love the thoughtful discussion of how systems can be robust and reliable through redundancy. And how we need more slack in systems to plan for resilience as well.
In my world of distributed systems we do a lot to plan for capacity and available slack in systems. Making sure you have slack in a system is incredibly important because shocks to it aren’t linear.
Matt K finished reading The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley
Barrent had been tried, convicted, and memory-washed on Earth-an Earth strangely altered and stratified by …
Underwhelming.
Matt K quoted The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley
Barrent had been tried, convicted, and memory-washed on Earth-an Earth strangely altered and stratified by …
Content warning Plot reveal
From these conversations, Barrent learned that the grim-faced guards were human beings, just like the prisoners on Omega. Most of the guards didn't seem to like the work they were doing. Like Omegans, they longed for a return to Barth.
— The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley (Page 93)
Matt K commented on The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley
Barrent had been tried, convicted, and memory-washed on Earth-an Earth strangely altered and stratified by …
This is definitely an old school “one thing happens after another “ adventure. Barely any character, flat world, events piled on each other. The lean style of a good short story but… a lot
Matt K started reading How Infrastructure Works by Deb Chachra
A new way of seeing the essential systems hidden inside our walls, under our streets, …
So excited to start this.
Matt K started reading The Status Civilization by Robert Sheckley
Barrent had been tried, convicted, and memory-washed on Earth-an Earth strangely altered and stratified by …
Time to pick this one up!