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This was an excellent movie, similar to #Arrival in quality; the horror is more in the questions about human nature than in the mutant monsters.
If you've ever read The Colour Out of Space by HP #Lovecraft this feels like an extended version of that story (And that's a really good thing)
Also, I'm not sure if the author is aware of the similarity, but that scene with the mutant bear was reminded me of Severian's encounter with an Alzabo in The Book of the New Sun.

Watched Jurassic World today, it was a fun romp filled of classic jurassic tropes. I'm much more interested by the possible themes for the rest of the trilogy.

Apparently the second movie is going to be about the gene splicing technology disseminating world wide, which means it will probably start expanding beyond dinosaurs and start using the tech for more interesting applications.

So here's what I'm hoping for the third movie:
Full on dino #ribofunk

https://web.archive.org/web/20080517140810/https://urth.org/whorlmap/chras-writers/marc-aramini1.htm is a really interesting read after finishing the Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle, it explores the ties between the various books and defines a few constructs and themes the author makes clever us of.

#finishedreading Return To The Whorl by Gene Wolfe

This was the last part of The Book of the Short Sun, and the final book set in his New Sun universe.

Once again, Wolfe makes the very identity and nature of the narrator part of the story, the whole new sun universe is fascinating and explores transhumanism in a fascinating way.

Any #artists good in #css or #svg have ideas on how to draw an alpine ski on a website?

Qualifications are over, the finale has begun! Canada has a lot of athletes that made it

Mikael Kingsbury is one crazy motherf*

Cant seem to upload a video of her run, so you'll have to trust me when I say the athletes are doing pretty good!

Live from #Tremblant The #fis #moguls world cup!

Here's a run from a Canadian athlete in the female qualifications, Valerie Gilbert with a score of 77.49 which makes her the last runner up for the finale this afternoon.

#nowreading Return to the Whorl (The Book of the Short Sun) by Gene Wolfe

Cant ski for ten days, doctor's orders. What in Glob's name am I going to do with myself

#finishedreading In Green's Jungles by Gene Wolfe

bsd.network seems to be down, I get a 500 error @phessler @phessler

One of the kids was adamantly opposed to settling near any red dwarf stars.

Introduced my students to #seedship over the lunch break and they didnt do half-bad. They settled on a pretty poor but very livable planet, where ended up reverting to a medieval tech level but managed to build a utopian republic with pretty good trade relations with the friendly natives.

Just had my best end yet to #seedship (and my shortest). Fell on a planet woth a toxic atmosphere on my second scan, but every single other charateristic was great for human life. I lost no colonists, kept the same tech level as earth and ended up with a sustainable egalitarian society.

I'm guessing the airtight cave system helped a lot.

Alright, just signed up for the Advanced Teaching module of the #amsc

Getting ready for that level 3 #ski instructor exam!