Year 50 Day 13

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Me wearing a grey Daring Fireball t-shirt in front of a green curtain suspended from the ceiling of my home office.

Day 13: Giving presentations from home means a convenient green screen is really handy. Turns out that hanging a couple green photo backdrops from a ceiling-mounted flexible curtain track makes for a really simple way to have a green screen that can be pulled out when needed and pushed away when not being used.

📚 Interference by Sue Burke

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25/2023 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

As fascinating as the first. Centuries after the events of the first book, another expedition from Earth arrives at Pax. Their ethnocentric assumptions cause enough difficulties, but when another sentience makes itself known, it all gets worse. More really neat explorations of how cultures change and adapt, how those changes influence communication and understanding, the biology of plant life, and alien intelligences. I’m excited to see that a third book should arrive next year.

Me holding Interference

Year 50 Day 10

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Me standing on an outside balcony wearing a grey cap, black short-sleeve button-up shirt with thick grey stripes, a black utility kilt, black socks, and black Converse.

Day 10: One definite benefit to working in academia is a more permissive dress code than many corporate jobs allow. And as the temperature approaches 80° F, I’m quite happy to take advantage of that.