Bookvember Redux

(October 31, 2014)

A month ago, I was watching too many movies, so I decided to read too many books instead: At least one per day. So short books, then. So there you go.  Normally, I’d be reading sf, sf, sf, sf, literature, sf, sf, sf, sf.  But I don’t really have a lot of unread shorter sf … Continue reading Bookvember Redux

Bookvember 31st: Spring and All by William Carlos Williams

(October 31, 2014)

Rockvember

(October 30, 2014)

I was looking at the list of concerts for November, and there seemed to be a show I wanted to see, like, every other day. So I thought, well, why not see a show every day for a month? Oslo isn’t London or New York, but it’s somehow one of the best cities in the … Continue reading Rockvember

Bookvember 30th: Med støv på hjernen by Eva Ramm

(October 30, 2014)

“Og så var vi plutselig midt oppe i en slik intim situasjon som det heter. Det var i grunnen ganske hyggelig. Jeg mener, det er jo et slikt tiltak, men når man først er kommet igang, er det helt all right.”

Bookvember 29th: Love Goes To Buildings On Fire by Will Hermes

(October 29, 2014)

It’s a very music journalist-ey book, with a dash of Wikipedia-induced Tourettes. “John Cale produced this album by Patti Smith in a studio, where only exactly two weeks short of twenty years before, Miles Davis had once ordered a ham sandwich two blocks away for $1.50, at 3 PM. The world would never be the … Continue reading Bookvember 29th: Love Goes To Buildings On Fire by Will Hermes

Bookvember 29th: I Like You by Amy Sedaris

(October 29, 2014)

Bookvember 29th: Bildhuggarens dotter by Tove Jansson

(October 28, 2014)

Bookvember 28th: Carlyle’s House by Virginia Woolf

(October 28, 2014)

Christo’s In Town

(October 28, 2014)

Bookvember 28th: Neat Sheets by James Tiptree, Jr.

(October 27, 2014)

This should perhaps have gone into the ‘Pamphletvember’ series of postings.

Bookvember 28th: Paa gjengrodde Stier by Knut Hamsun

(October 27, 2014)

Qnap HS-210

(October 27, 2014)

As you all remember (you do, Blanche!  You do!), I was fussing around with some RAID stuff over USB3.  I had found a solution that worked (a Silverstone cabinet), but then somebody told me about the Qnap HS-210 RAID thingie.  It takes two disks and is fanless.  It seemed perfect, so I bought one to … Continue reading Qnap HS-210

Bookvember 27th: Stoikeren by Fernando Pessoa

(October 27, 2014)

Bookvember 27th: Little Tales of Misogyny by Patricia Highsmith

(October 27, 2014)

Bookvember 26th: Embryoyo by Dean Young

(October 26, 2014)

The “Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize” line should have been a tip-off.

Bookvember 26th: Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie

(October 26, 2014)

Some years back I decided to read all of Christie’s novels chronologically. I’ve mostly been reading them when hung over or when I’ve had a cold, so it’s taken a while. But today I reached the final book. The novels from the last decade of Christie’s life were, er, not very good, but this was … Continue reading Bookvember 26th: Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie

Small Change

(October 25, 2014)

After innumerable requests (when counting, it’s “zero, one, innumerable”, right?), here’s my new DVD storage setup. I got an allegedly 7W AMD computer from CompuLab, recklessly disregarding any current boycott of wares from the occupied country of Palestine. I got the bareback, I mean, barebones (funny how WordPress only thinks the latter word is misspelled) … Continue reading Small Change

Bookvember Paused

(October 25, 2014)

And then Inga Copeland played afterwards, but I didn’t get any footage because I was kinda bopping around.

Bookvember 25th: The Time Traveller by H. G. Wells

(October 25, 2014)

Not as stuffy as I thought it would be. Kinda fun. But not actually good.

The Pains of Storage

(October 24, 2014)

Oy vey. USB has always been “well, it kinda works”.  So I shouldn’t have been surprised at these pains. And I wasn’t. I decided to store my DVDs on disk for rapid access.  I bought USB3 devices.  This is my story. My first device was a single 6TB Western Digital Green disk in an Icy … Continue reading The Pains of Storage

Bookvember 24th: The Coming Insurrection by The Invisible Committee

(October 24, 2014)

“The accounting departments of corporations confess that they have no idea where value comes from.” “In France, literature is the prescribed space for the amusement of the castrated.” “We talk in the West of ‘real people’, but only in order to mock these simpletons.”

Bookvember 23rd: Swanlights by Antony and the Johnsons

(October 23, 2014)

Bookvember 23rd: Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown

(October 23, 2014)

Another very funny book. I’m on a roll here.

Bookvember Paused

(October 23, 2014)

Toft & Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano & My my my

Bookvember 21st: Stiløvingar by Raymond Queneau

(October 21, 2014)

Very funny. Translated by Ragnar Hovland who is just the perfect person for this sort of thing.

Bookvember 21st: Fire Watch by Connie Willis

(October 21, 2014)

Bookvember 20th: Kammermusikk by James Joyce

(October 20, 2014)

Bookvember 19th: I kjølvannet by Per Petterson

(October 19, 2014)

Mystery Object

(October 18, 2014)

I’ve been sorting out the Closet of Various Things tonight, getting rid of duplicate cables and moving stuff I’m not using to colder storage. But I found this thing. Like, WTF?

Bookvember 17th: The Jib Door by Marlen Haushofer

(October 17, 2014)

Reblog

(October 16, 2014)

From Liartown.

Bookvember 16th: God jul med Gertrude Stein by Jan Erik Vold

(October 16, 2014)

Bookvember 16th: Hard Words by Ursula K. Le Guin

(October 15, 2014)

Bookvember 15th: Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny

(October 15, 2014)

Bookvember 15th: I Left My Grandfather’s House by Denton Welch

(October 14, 2014)

Bookvember 14th: Bark by Lorrie Moore

(October 14, 2014)

Bookvember 14th: Learning To Love You More by Harrell Fletcher & Miranda July

(October 14, 2014)

And it’s a web site, too.

Bookvember 13th: Canapés for the Kitties by Marilyn Babson

(October 13, 2014)

Campaign for Humane Sorting

(October 13, 2014)

Does this look familiar to you? Or this? Then you know the pain and suffering caused by virtually all tools that sort things “alphabetically” when those things contain numbers, and the strategies we’ve adopted to deal with these broken tools. We’re humans.  How would a human sort “foo25.txt” versus “foo3.txt”?  We would think “hm, there’s … Continue reading Campaign for Humane Sorting

Bookvember 12th: Spiraler by Dag Solstad

(October 12, 2014)

Reflective

(October 11, 2014)

Clarity

(October 11, 2014)

A house nearby has been renovated, and they’ve put in these rather nice (and huge) things over the entrance doors. Design is a nice idea.

Films 4 Ever

(October 11, 2014)

I’ve sort of stumbled into another CDO project that has even less utility than most of the other ones. I’ve been ripping DVD and BluRay films with makemkv before viewing, because 1) mplayer under Linux doesn’t really do BluRay, and 2) mplayer fails to play an ever increasing number of DVDs.  The joys of Digital … Continue reading Films 4 Ever

Bookvember 11th: Etter skjelvet by Haruki Murakami

(October 11, 2014)

Bookvember, Paused

(October 11, 2014)

 

Bookvember 8th: Burn Lake by Carrie Fountain

(October 8, 2014)

Bookvember 8th: Dark Reflections by Samuel R. Delany

(October 8, 2014)

Bookvember 7th: On Strike Against God by Joanna Russ

(October 7, 2014)

Bookvember 6th: Uncharted Territory by Connie Willis

(October 6, 2014)

Bookvember 5th: Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

(October 5, 2014)

Zzz.

Bookvember 5th: Embassytown by China Miéville

(October 5, 2014)

Small Volume

(October 5, 2014)

The tiny kitchen stereo amplifier (I know) has been making a high-pitched scare-away-all-teenagers (I assume; I haven’t seen any here) sound for about a month, so I finally got a new tiny amplifier. Look how tiny the new amplifier is!  It’s an Argon DAC1.  So cute. Ok, the wall wart is kinda big… And it’s … Continue reading Small Volume

October 5th

(October 5, 2014)

Dear Diary, today the LSI MegaRAID SAS 9240-8i card finally completed building the RAID5 set over five 1TB Samsung SSDs.  It only took about 18 hours. So time to do some benchmarking!  I created an ext4 file system on the volume and wrote /dev/zero to it. Err…  40 MB/s?  40MB/s!??!  These are SATA3 6Gbps disks … Continue reading October 5th

Bookvember, Paused

(October 4, 2014)

Signature Elided

(October 4, 2014)

I stopped buying stuff from Amazon like a year ago (I know, I’m slow on the uptake about their eeeevil), so I’m now buying all my DVDs and BluRays via play.com, which is a shopping portal. All the orders apparently go to smaller shops that send out the stuff. Which has to be better.  I … Continue reading Signature Elided

October 4th

(October 4, 2014)

Dear Diary, today was the day I was going to install a new SSD RAID system for the Gmane news spool.  The old spool kinda ran full four months ago, but I kept deleting (and storing off-spool) the largest groups and waddled through. I had one server that seemed like a good fit for the … Continue reading October 4th

Bookvember 3rd: It Chooses You by Miranda July

(October 3, 2014)

Bookvember 3rd: The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad

(October 3, 2014)

While the concept is good, perhaps, it’s pretty tedious to read. I bailed on page 43.

Bookvember 3rd: Holocaust by Charles Reznikoff

(October 3, 2014)

Uh-oh

(October 3, 2014)

But I can’t watch any movies this month.

Bookvember 2nd: Total Eclipse by John Brunner

(October 2, 2014)

It has a certain charm, but it’s pretty bad.

Bookvember Wednesday 1st: Videre verstover by Samuel Beckett

(October 1, 2014)

Bookvember Wednesday 1st: Tom Baril

(October 1, 2014)

Bookvember Wednesday 1st: Småtrollen och den stora översvämningen by Tove Jansson

(October 1, 2014)

Bookvember Wednesday 1st: Brewsie and Willie by Gertrude Stein

(October 1, 2014)