Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson Book 3 of the Stormlight Archive Time between Words Radiance and Oathbringer: 1351 days. This period gave me enough time to read or re-read all of Brandon Sanderson’s published “Cosmere” based novels. I am a late comer to Sanderson’s books by way of his collaboration with the Jordan Estate to finish the Wheel of Time series. I had always been aware of the Mistborn series, but it’s YA slant has always been a bit of a roadblock for me. more »
Star Was: The Last Jedi Finally saw this! I was very excited and had high expectations for it. Before the viewing, I tried very hard to avoid all promo and potentially spoiler-ish material. It worked. I came in the movie without a single idea on what to expect. Well, what I am going to be say is going to very much all spoilers! So proceed with caution. As you may recall, we learned about Supreme Leader Snoke last movie. more »
From a Certain Point of View By Various Authors From a Certain Point of View is a collection of short stories written in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Star Wars. When I first heard of the book, I was amazed to find out that there are 40 short stories and they are all about Star Wars: A New Hope (Episode IV). The stories are told from the perspectives of the background characters in the movies. more »
Been thinking about web advertising and “fake news”. This is a question about what contents are delivered to you. In our Internet age, advertisers have access to a staggering amount of personal information to target their advertising due to networks like Facebook, Google, Twitter, and others. While this is a drastic improvement for the advertising world, little has changed from a consumer’s perspective. We are still pretending that we are being marketed to blindly like traditional ads on TV or in magazines. more »
What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton “What Happened” - is it a question or an answer to a question? This is something that’s certainly affecting many millions of people in the country. This book tries to layout Mrs. Clinton’s perspective of the answer. Is it a good book? Mostly. If you are familiar with the tenure of Mrs. Clinton, a third of the book is a bit of a rehash of her political services. more »
The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss On friends’ recommendations, I went ahead and listened to these 2 books. It takes a storytelling/memoir approach to tell the personal experience of Kvothe. Kvothe is still a fairly young man at the present time when this story is being told. Most of the stories in the first 2 books are things that have occurred years ago while Kvothe is growing up and during his early adventures. more »
Beyond Face ID vs Touch ID, here is all that’s different between the two. Is it worth the difference? iPhone X iPhone 8 Plus DISPLAY DISPLAY Super Retina HD display Retina HD display 5.8-inch (diagonal) all-screen OLED Multi‑Touch display 5.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen LCD Multi‑Touch display with IPS technology HDR Display - 2436-by-1125-pixel resolution at 458 ppi 1920-by-1080-pixel resolution at 401 ppi 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio (typical) 1300:1 contrast ratio (typical) CAMERA CAMERA Wide-angle: ƒ/1. more »