I read a bunch of zombie themed novels. Some have lots of zombies, others not so many. Some are real books, some are what I was hoping were the upper echelons of more or less self published work.

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Some random thoughts after reading vfork considered dangerous. First and immediate response, yes, vfork is dangerous.

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It’s a little weird to write a review of an individual issue of a magazine, but it provides a chance to collect my thoughts. Also, I found The Onion’s A.V. Club reviews of individual TV shows kind of interesting. That said, this is less a review, but short summaries of some pieces I thought stood out. I don’t know what I’m paying for The New Yorker these days, but this issue was surely worth it.

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The movie In Time comes from Andrew Niccol, who also wrote and directed Gattaca, one of my favorites. I didn’t know this until I looked it up afterwards, if I had known I probably would have made more of an effort to see it sooner. I like most of his movies. All of them, in fact.

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I was growing tired of my old iPhone games so I bought some new ones. I play only on an iPhone, not an iPad. I was mostly looking for quick fix games, not anything to rival a console game.

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Obviously, I don’t use Ubuntu much, so I’m a little late to the party, but better late than never. Upgrade from 11.10 went smoothly enough. Do you want to download 700000 packages? Sure, why not.

Now, after the upgrade, I’m greeted by the following dialog. “Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 has experienced an internal error.” I click continue because, hey, why not. “Invalid problem report: Could not determine the package or source package name.” Great. Who’s the fucktard responsible for this I wonder.

Finished reading all ten books of The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson. Started reading in late 2006 (first two books), read two more in early 2011, then finished the remaining six summer 2012. My thoughts on the series are somewhat scattered, I don’t think I’ll finish a complete review, this is more like a rough draft.

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As a side note, I listened to this as an audiobook, which makes it hard to remember names and particularly dates, and I also don’t have a good way to flip back and review key passages. I don’t have a precise chronology, therefore, but it’s not a deal breaker.

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I order my Windows 8 upgrade and get an email receipt. “See this email online here: http://localhost/NeptuneEmail/Templates/Confirmation.aspx?cid=...”. Hey, that’s a neat trick. They put a copy of the email on my computer for me so I can view it online even when I’m offline!

I have lots of Kindles.

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