{"id":52212,"date":"2025-08-12T09:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=52212"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T16:01:04","slug":"bi-weekly-notes-july-21-august-10-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/08\/12\/bi-weekly-notes-july-21-august-10-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Bi-Weekly Notes: July 21\u2013August 10, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>Another somewhat delayed two-week wrap-up, because&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#x1f680; Worldcon is nigh! Nearly all of my outside-of-work brainspace has been been taken up with Worldcon prep and website updates, as we&#8217;ve been in the final crunch before the con kicks off.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>&#x1f4f8; Photos<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IMG_4605.jpeg\" alt=\"My hand putting a ballot into our mailbox.\" title=\"IMG_4605.jpeg\" border=\"0\" width=\"747\" height=\"276\" \/><figcaption>I voted! I hope you did too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/IDG_20250728_073339_109.jpg\" alt=\"A raccoon sitting in a tree on a college campus.\" title=\"IDG_20250728_073339_109.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"749\" height=\"562\" \/><figcaption>Saw a curious raccoon on campus early one morning.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>&#x1f4da; Reading<\/h2>\n<p>I finished Martha Wells&#8217; Murderbot series with <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/07\/28\/network-effect-by-martha-wells\/\"><cite>Network Effect<\/cite><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/08\/03\/the-murderbot-diaries-vol-3-by-martha-wells\/\"><cite>The Murderbot Diaries Vol. 3<\/cite><\/a> (collecting <cite>Fugitive Telemetry<\/cite> and <cite>System Collapse<\/cite>), followed that up with a bit of comic smut with Jonas Goonface&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/08\/04\/the-unsinkable-ship-of-fools-by-jonas-goonface\/\"><cite>The Ship of Unsinkable Fools<\/cite><\/a>, and then read my next TNG novel, Simon Hawke&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2025\/08\/09\/blaze-of-glory-by-simon-hawke\/\"><cite>Blaze of Glory<\/cite><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>&#x1f4fa; Watching<\/h2>\n<p>I started notes on the last two <cite>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<\/cite> shows, but so far haven&#8217;t finished writing them. The short version: still enjoying, great show, good-naturedly grumbling about canon and holodecks showing up <em>far<\/em> too early.<\/p>\n<h2>&#x1f517; Linking<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve saved some links, but they&#8217;ll get added to the next wrap-up, as I need to get back to prepping to head to the hotel and spending the next week at Worldcon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks in the life of\u2026. Thoughts, photos, links, and miscellany from the past two weeks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6033],"class_list":["post-52212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-weekly-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52213,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52212\/revisions\/52213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}