Difficult Listening Hour 2022.07.08

Unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants, let’s-see-what-happens mixing. You never know what might fall into one of these!

Hey, this thing is still here! This is just an hour of goofing around, mostly just testing to make sure all my electronic wires were configured correctly and that I still remembered how to get a stream up and running properly.

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🎥 Sing 2

Sing 2 (2021): ⭐️: Actually only made it halfway through before tapping out. While the first was cute and fun, this one just dragged. Pretty animation, and some occasional clever moments, but at an hour in and realizing it wasn’t quite halfway done, it was time to stop.

📚 The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke

33/2022 – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1980 Hugo Best Novel

The story of the construction of humanity’s first space elevator, tied to the history of the (semi-fictional) island that serves as its base. An easy read, concerned primarily with exploring how such an engineering feat might happen, and without any real antagonist or great interpersonal dramas.

Michael holding The Fountains of Paradise