As we enter the last quarter of 2023, we are 100 days short of the tenth anniversary of daily posts to this humble blog!
I am going to try to keep posting all the way to the ten year mark. Don’t pop the corks yet, but I think we can make it.
I have no idea what happens after that.
More Of The Same
This quarter saw more of the same. Daily posts on technology and science and cryptocurrency. Robots, dinosaurs, and the cryosphere. Etc.
This quarter featured a number of posts about ChatGPT and friends. AI chat bot technology has replaced Bitcoin as the flavor of the month / enemy of all humankind.
In short, these chat bots are primo blog fodder!
Names for Bands
As always, I honor Sensei Dave Barry by offering ideas for names of bands. My own suggestions are taken from real, I’m not making them up, technical articles.
This quarter’s entries include:
McDonald Ice Rumples (or just Ice Rumples)
Reduction of Buttressing
Grounding Line
Tensegrity Wheels (…a great name for a band…or a motorcycle club…or a dance craze.)
Cryptic incubators
Abyssal hydrothermal springs
Brood success
Subglacial Sediment
Interglacial Exposure
Deglaciation
Summer Insolation
Camouflaging Cuttlefish
Weekly Book Reviews
As always, I review books I have recently read. This quarter featured 12 fiction and 3 non-fiction works.
Non-Fiction
Fossil Legends of the First Americans by Adrienne Mayor
The Peking Express by James M. Zimmerman
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing by Scott J. Shapiro
Fiction
Ex-Wife by Ursula Parrot
The Stolen Coast by Dwyer Murphy
Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis
The Book of Eve by Carmen Boullosa
The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Ink, Blood, Sister, Scribe by Emma Tõrzs
Viviana Valentine Goes Up The River by Emily J. Edwards
The Road To Roswell by Connie Willis
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway
Starter Villain by John Scalzi
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