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Monthly Archive December, 2017

Quick Review: Hammers in the Wind

This may be a rushed review, but there wouldn’t have been that much to say either way. Hammers in the Wind is pretty average, or perhaps a better term would be common, in terms of writing and action and has little of note in terms of depth, worldbuilding or characters. For those reasons, coupled with […]

Mere Hundreds in a March, Plus a Pointless Meeting – December 21 to 27 in Bucharest

The daily protests continued during this period, as when I looked for them I even found a couple of posts mentioning a few people who showed up, again in Victory Square, even on December 25 and 26, but otherwise I haven’t seen these daily protests promoted or even mentioned by the activists or pages I’d […]

Phone Turns 15!

My phone is now 15 years old. Or, more exactly, at least 15, since I also mentioned five years ago that what I know is that it’s been in use since the Christmas of 2002, but it’s possible that it was actually purchased slightly earlier. What I could remember about that, and also how and […]

New Finds – XI

Leaving the year’s second post in this series very late again, but at least it’s not the very last day again, so it could be worse. It’ll just include the usual five bands, so I’m not only failing that tentative goal of including 15 bands in such posts over the course of a year but […]

Protesters Keep Fighting, But It’s Time to Regroup – December 10 to 20 in Bucharest

This will be a rushed protest update, but it’s either this or nothing, already too much to cover anyway, so I’ll lump things together and go through others as quickly as I can. While daily protests have continued, just moving to the Parliament now, this particular stage of this battle is quite lost anyway, most […]