I bought dozens of Terry Pratchett's #Discworld books when they first came out, but have lovingly given them all away to good homes during the various house moves since. Now I'm buying them all over again, to read with my 12 year old.
Just received, The Light Fantastic. <rubs hands with gleeful anticipation>
Blocking in the colours on Captain Carrot. Partly to check the colour combos (trousers were too light and needed a chestnut wash) but also to check layering and order of painting.
“But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy of gold, the fairy dream that the gold is there, at the end of the rainbow, and will continue to be there forever - provided, naturally, that you don't go and look.”
Terry Pratchett; Going Postal #Discworld#SunaksElectionPledges#AllThatGlitters#ToryLies#NeverTrustATory
Another evening, another mammoth reading session. I actually went ahead and purchased Bookly subscription. We'll see if it was worth it. If not, I'm happy to support the dev.
Not quite 25% tonight, but pretty close. At this rate, I'll finish the book tomorrow!
Isn't it funny, I don't remember being impatient to get home to watch TV when binging series. But now that I'm reading more, the last couple of hours at work I just wanted to get home and read the next book in my Discworld binge.
Discworld fans know the irregular clock in Lord Vetinari's waiting room.
I just found out that there are building instructions out there how to build such a clock yourself - the source code is here https://github.com/akafugu/vetinari_clock
But it made me think: why don't we have a kernel patch that does this? Anyway I'm now reading up on the /dev/rtc class, NTP and PTP, wondering what would be funnier to do.
In our mid-disc break it's very likely that we're going to head into #Discworld II for our Retro Sunday night streams. But is there something in here you'd like us to move on to after?
All in all, #Discworld is probably my favourite "thing". My Mastermind specialist subject.
But the video games. Oh the video games. Incredible casting. Wonderful humour. Insane object puzzles / clever lateral thinking exercises. And Rincewind.
“‘WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?’
The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato.
‘SQUEAK’ he said.
Death waved a hand dismissively. ‘WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME’ he said. ‘I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE’” #Discworld#Netanyahu#Rafah#WarCriminal#StopGenocideInGaza
Our emergency replacement May episode is here! Join @McKenzie_Ben as he shares some of your stories of “starting in the wrong place” in a celebration of this year’s #TerryPratchettDay theme.
Finished The Colour of Magic and swiftly moving on to book 2: The Light Fantastic.
This is one the quickest I've read any book (the last time being, I believe, the same book). I'm not usually a big reader, or a quick one, but these books seem to be just right for me.