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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:25 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 753
- Views: 201833
Re: What are you reading?
Sometimes when my libraries have a very long wait on something, they get more copies of it. These days, I only buy books if I know I want to reread them, or if I like the author and want to support them. For the rest, Libby is my source. Eta: the audiobook for the prequel is 39 hours? 39? Now the co...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:03 pm
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 753
- Views: 201833
Re: What are you reading?
Oh, that looks interesting! And it's popular, the shortest wait at my libraries is 6 weeks. I finished Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher. It's of the "retelling of a fairy tale with a twist" genre. It's a good Kingfisher, with less focus on romance than the paladin books. She does like her heroe...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 4:21 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1055
- Views: 114844
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
That sounds like a mafia shakedown. Is that normal for a political campaign?
And what does JFC mean? In this context.
And what does JFC mean? In this context.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 9:13 pm
- Forum: The Shibboleth of Fëanor
- Topic: Middle-earth [formerly LotR] in New Media
- Replies: 525
- Views: 338562
Re: Middle-earth [formerly LotR] in New Media
A commercial for the One Ring
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:31 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Daily Dracula
- Replies: 152
- Views: 31390
Re: Daily Dracula
Probably depends on how much you liked it the first time around.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 12:39 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: Daily Dracula
- Replies: 152
- Views: 31390
Re: Daily Dracula
It's about to start up again. Has it really been a year?
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:20 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1014
- Views: 116755
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
The bombed building is just apartments.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:08 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1014
- Views: 116755
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
My hometown today. The Central Rail station that shows up in the final second is the last I saw of the city when we took the train for Moscow to fly to San Francisco
Fuck Russia.
Fuck Russia.
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 3:50 am
- Forum: The Library of Rivendell
- Topic: What are you reading?
- Replies: 753
- Views: 201833
Re: What are you reading?
Frelga, have you gotten past your brain fog yet? No! :bawl: Still can't manage reading off a page. I've been listening to the newly recorded Discworld books. And today, I finished Children of Húrin read by Sir Christopher Lee. That magnificent voice is possibly the best way to experience Tolkien. I...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 5:10 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2005
- Views: 289207
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
And it's often pointed out that in the real world, the characters of Friends wouldn't be able to afford their lifestyle even with roommates. And I think successful young people are underrepresented on social media like Twitter, because they are busy having a life in the real world. I don't mean a cr...
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1014
- Views: 116755
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
In response, Florida Rep Jared Moskowitz introduced an amendment that Marjorie Taylor Greene "should be appointed Vladimir Putin's Special Envoy to the United States Congress."
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 6:41 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
- Replies: 1014
- Views: 116755
Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
You forgot
- Sun Apr 14, 2024 4:08 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 349
- Views: 48106
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
The US reneged on its promises of helping Ukraine and now everyone and their dog are going to call our bluff, and keep escalating until we have no choice but to put American boots on the ground somewhere.
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:09 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1055
- Views: 114844
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
In this election, it's the choice between a vaccine and a virus. A vaccine has side effects and it doesn't help everyone, but getting sick is so much worse, the choice should be obvious but somehow isn't. Someone posted a screenshot that is supposedly trump posting on truth social how he used to pla...
- Sun Apr 07, 2024 2:00 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1055
- Views: 114844
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Oh dear. I spoke with my mom today and she told me 'all the signs are there' for the end of the world as we know it/WWIII. We're all doomed. :help: My son said (joking) that it must be the apocalypse. Earthquake in NYC yesterday, eclipse on Monday, and today the Oakland baseball team won a game. Bu...
- Sat Apr 06, 2024 6:21 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1055
- Views: 114844
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Ah, but what is normal? Like beauty, it is in the eyes of the beholder. Normal is what's under the tall part of the bell curve. It denotes neither greatness nor abject failure. Biden is normal for a leader of a democratic society. Trump is way under the thin tail to the right. For a fascist dictato...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:02 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Elon's Twitter
- Replies: 454
- Views: 61538
Re: Elon's Twitter
Click on their profile picture to get to their profile, then click on the envelope icon.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 12:01 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Elon's Twitter
- Replies: 454
- Views: 61538
Re: Elon's Twitter
You can send a DM (direct message). However, some users limit who can send them a DM to only people they follow or don't allow them at all.
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:33 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2005
- Views: 289207
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
Passover lasts for 8 days, so last year the Seder was on April 5, and Easter on April 9, the Sunday of the Passover week. AFAIK they only diverge during the Jewish leap years. Jewish calendar is lunar/solar while the Gregorian calendar is solar only. Unlike the Islamic calendar, which is lunar only,...
- Sun Mar 31, 2024 8:10 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2005
- Views: 289207
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
1. It probably wasn't. Note the dipping of bread, which is not eaten at Passover. However, most years Easter falls on a. Sunday during the Passover week. But, Easter always falls around the equinox, while Passover is always in the month of Nissan. This year is a leap year by Jewish calendar, meaning...