Does Mrs. Delacroix in The Lottery select a large stone to spare Tessie Hutchinson from suffering, or because she is cruel?
Year: 2015
3 of 5 stars to All My Friends are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman goodreads.com/review/show/12…
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MS-DOS Mobile for Windows phone
Amongst the swathe of unfunny April’s Fools jokes from corporations yesterday was a pretty detailed and humorous one (well at least for computer geeks like me) from Microsoft.
MS-DOS Mobile, a new app designed to bring the C:\ prompt to Windows phones.
The blurb on Lumia Conversations about the release of this app brought a smile to my face.
Daniel Glass who led design on the project, said:
“Turning our back on graphics was hugely liberating. We’ve dropped the resolution, and in doing so re-discovered our roots.”
“The inspiration for the graphical design is Courier New meets film noir.”
A lot of work has gone into this app, you can browse the directory structure, launch apps, play a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors against Cortana and there’s even a camera app offering fantastic low resolution modes.
Via Thurrot
3 of 5 stars to The Kill Room by Jeffery Deaver goodreads.com/review/show/12…
RIP #Pterry Your books brought so much joy into my life ever since I first picked up Mort in the library in about 1990. Thank you.
5 of 5 stars to The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss goodreads.com/review/show/12…
3 of 5 stars to Mitosis by Brandon Sanderson goodreads.com/review/show/12…
4 of 5 stars to Firefight by Brandon Sanderson goodreads.com/review/show/12…
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Homeland: Episode 6 – Take the shot
Binge watching season 4 of Homeland. Episode 6. Surely the sensible action was to take the shot! Even Saul would have agreed.
The CIA has a rare opportunity to kill Haissam Haqqani, their enemy number one, and Saul is now his prisoner. As the ex-director of the CIA he won’t have details of the latest operations but he is still a valuable intelligence asset that Haqqani can get useful information from.
5 of 5 stars to I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes goodreads.com/review/show/11…