Right there with you. I'll probably watch Picard season 2 but at least I love Lower Decks.
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Right there with you. I'll probably watch Picard season 2 but at least I love Lower Decks.
Solicitations for IDW Comics for March 2022, to the previously announced new Discovery comic (full cover and details here: https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN220476 ), there is also a Mirror War Geordi special:
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN220478
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN220478
STAR TREK MIRROR WAR CAPTAIN LA FORGE
(W) J Holtham (A/CA) Carlos Rodriguez
The spotlight turns to Geordi La Forge in this one-shot set in the Mirror Universe of The Next Generation! Expand upon the world of The Mirror War!
Geordi La Forge is on a scouting mission for Picard when he suddenly finds himself ambushed and teleported into an agony booth. Who is this masked figure torturing La Forge, and what connection do they have to his past?
In Shops: Mar 02, 2022
(W) J Holtham (A/CA) Carlos Rodriguez
The spotlight turns to Geordi La Forge in this one-shot set in the Mirror Universe of The Next Generation! Expand upon the world of The Mirror War!
Geordi La Forge is on a scouting mission for Picard when he suddenly finds himself ambushed and teleported into an agony booth. Who is this masked figure torturing La Forge, and what connection do they have to his past?
In Shops: Mar 02, 2022
Well, I'm not screwed. (I did screw myself out of a $15 excess data fee on the family cellular account, but that was my own damn fault for not being patient about getting the office WiFi turned back on, and getting the insanely long random pwd for it, until I'd already screwed myself out of the $15.) And actually, it's all three DTI titles, along with Mr. Cox's Miasma and the "fake" Strange New Worlds anthology.
Once I got Google Play Books up and running on my Chromebook, it turned out to be a trivial exercise to (1) gain access to my ST e-books, and (2) download them. Which is to say, that Mr. Bennett, I've started re-reading your Shield of the Gods.
I also managed to get the wallpaper changed to my usual brick wall, with a foil-wrapped copy of the MLA Handbook (a "Chrome Book") in the middle. (My cheap-ass tablet has a brick wall with Data's face in the middle, captioned "Android." Although as slow and balky as the damn thing is, maybe it's not Data's face, but B4's face. My new System76 "Meerkat" Linux box, BTW, has a brick wall with a picture of an actual meerkat looking in the mirror, and Tux the Linux Penguin looking back at him.)
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There's a fake one doing the rounds??
The ebook only 2016 version of the contest was controversial, with Dean Wesley Smith, the editor of the prior editions, calling it “a scam to suck new writers into one of Simon & Schuster’s vanity publishers” and advising people not to participate.
Ah fair enough. I was imagining some guy posting a bunch of borrowed fic on Amazon and calling it SNW 21 or whatever
Prezactly.
What he said.
<Gabby Johnson>Rarebitz!</Gabby Johnson>
As I recall, the short stories weren't bad, but I do pity anybody who accepted the dubious "prize" and torpedoed their own chances of ever being picked up by a legitimate publisher.
Speaking of which, I can understand a legitimate publishing house like S&S having a subsidiary for legitimate forms of subsidy work, but having one for vanity work? I just can't wrap my addled little grey cells around the concept.
Oops, thanks.
Star Trek really needs more dogs. All these cats, but then the only dogs we've gotten that played any kind of significant role are Porthos and Neeka, the dog from Ex Post Facto. When it comes to Neeka, I'm still not sure how a perfectly normal looking dog ended up with an alien woman in the Delta Quadrant.
Yikes, that sucks. But to be fair, this is not something tied directly to the e-books, when it comes to physical books stuff can happen the causes you to lose them all to, like your house burning down or something along those lines.
I actually like this, the automatic updates took me from the standard edition of Assassin's Apprentice to the Illustrated Edition. Kind of freaked me out when I flipped through it, and suddenly the layout was different and there were full color paintings here and there.
I have been reading e-books for over a decade, and bought several hundred, along with at least a couple hundred digital comics and this has never happened to me. The only time I've ever heard of anything like this was when 1984 was pulled off of people's devices, but it was returned pretty quickly once word got out and people threw a fit. There have been several digital comics I bought, where the publisher lost the license and pulled all of them off of the digital stores, I still had mine.
For all of the apps I use, Google Books, Kindle, and Nook, you have to download the books onto your device, and I believe once they are downloaded they will stay there. Google even gives you the option to download them onto an SD card after you buy them.
Think of all the Trek aliens who look exactly like humans, or nearly so except for a nose ridge or something. Why should parallel evolution be limited to humanoids?
And it looks like they moussed the dog's fur or something to make it stand up, so there was at least some effort to "alien" it up a bit.
I'd say coming out ahead with updates is more the exception than the norm. I generally prefer the original cover art and the fancier chapter headings from the hardcover, which are often lost with later revisions. The page layout will match the simpler one from the paperback, while the cover art will be defaced with pull quotes, replaced with a movie poster, or in the case of many Trek books, removed entirely.
The current version of Invasion!: First Strike from S&S's site is a good example of this. The "cover art" is the title page. But it's not even the original title page; it's been rebuilt from what I suspect is Paths of Disharmony based on the faux Pocket location. So the fonts are all wrong, the "Based on" text is wrong, the "concept" credit is missing, and it's by no means what I originally bought.
Good thing I have earlier versions trolling around my hard drive... somewhere.
I like both and I've never understood this . . . territoriality? Dogs play mind games with each other. Cats are impulse hunters; what is taken for intelligence is usually instinct and a complete lack of impulse control. Both love their people. To me if I had to pick I guess I'd point at cats as more predictable, tiresome, and thus boring than dogs . . . but why choose? I enjoy enjoying the company of both.
Cats and dogs are both intelligent in their own ways. (Cats are often good at deducing how to open doors, something they teach themselves through observation and problem-solving, rather than merely being trained to do through conditioning.) Dogs are just more social, which is closer to human behavior and thus conforms more to our biased expectations of intelligence.
Whoa, how bizarre and half-assed.I'd say coming out ahead with updates is more the exception than the norm. I generally prefer the original cover art and the fancier chapter headings from the hardcover, which are often lost with later revisions. The page layout will match the simpler one from the paperback, while the cover art will be defaced with pull quotes, replaced with a movie poster, or in the case of many Trek books, removed entirely.
The current version of Invasion!: First Strike from S&S's site is a good example of this. The "cover art" is the title page. But it's not even the original title page; it's been rebuilt from what I suspect is Paths of Disharmony based on the faux Pocket location. So the fonts are all wrong, the "Based on" text is wrong, the "concept" credit is missing, and it's by no means what I originally bought.
Good thing I have earlier versions trolling around my hard drive... somewhere.
And, of course, all generalizations about cats and dogs are just that, generalizations, and once you get down to individual pets, you get a wide variety of personalities and IQs.
We've had a four cats and a dog. Of the cats, Alex and Sophie were scary smart, Churchill was so lazy it was hard to tell, and Henry was an adorable little dimwit, who was honestly the stupidest pet we've ever had. We were convinced that what went through his head was a never-ending refrain of "la la la la la," and we used to debate whether he actually knew his name or not. Very sweet, though.
We've had a four cats and a dog. Of the cats, Alex and Sophie were scary smart, Churchill was so lazy it was hard to tell, and Henry was an adorable little dimwit, who was honestly the stupidest pet we've ever had. We were convinced that what went through his head was a never-ending refrain of "la la la la la," and we used to debate whether he actually knew his name or not. Very sweet, though.
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Donny and Marie (cats) are brother and sister. They looked identical as kittens, but he got a lot bigger and a lot hairier. She's the brains. And she's also absolutely merciless, punching him and swearing at him (I'm constantly having to tell her to watch her language!). Usually, he just sits there and takes it, but occasionally she manages to piss him off.
i think it might have been some Malcolm Reed spray-on gel
There’s also now a webpage that acts as a kindle, straight on Amazon.
Incidentally I am on my third kindle now, and have yet to lose an ebook.
