In Calabria - Peter S. Beagle

OpenLibrary Summary: "Claudio Bianchi has lived alone for many years on a hillside in Southern Italy's scenic Calabria. Set in his ways and suspicious of outsiders, Claudio has always resisted change, preferring farming and writing poetry. But one chilly morning, as though from a dream, an impossible visitor appears at the farm. When Claudio comes to her aid, an act of kindness throws his world into chaos. Suddenly he must stave off inquisitive onlookers, invasive media, and even more sinister influences" -- provided by publisher.

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Loki (2021)

Wikipdia Summary: The series takes place after the events of the film Avengers: Endgame (2019), in which an alternate version of Loki created a new timeline.

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The Manager's Answer Book - Barbara Mitchell, Cornelia Gamlem

OpenLibrary Summary: Powerful Tools to Maximize Your Impact and Influence, Build Trust and Teams, and Respond to Challenges

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Wandavision

Wikipedia Summary: WandaVision is an American television miniseries created by Jac Schaeffer for the streaming service Disney+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch and Vision.

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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021)

Wikipedia Summary: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier[a] is an American television miniseries created by Malcolm Spellman for the streaming service Disney+, based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Sam Wilson / Falcon and Bucky Barnes / Winter Soldier. It is the second television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) produced by Marvel Studios, sharing continuity with the films of the franchise and taking place after the events of the film Avengers: Endgame (2019). Spellman served as head writer with Kari Skogland directing.

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Three Weeks With Silverblue

A few weeks ago (four weeks ago, to be exact, based on this post date), my Fedora Workstation crashed hard, in some freak accident that, I believe, killed my /boot partition. At first I reinstalled Workstation, but then decided to give a change to Silverblue.

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Command Pattern Experiments in Rust

I've been doing some experiments in using the command pattern in Rust and found at least two ways to write it.

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Using `alternatives`

alternatives allows one to select a different executable for a normal command line program, but how does it work?

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Commented Link: Statement of FSF board on election of Richard Stallman

After the weird return of rms to the Free Software Foundation board, now both the FSF and rms provided statements about the event.

But I still think things are amiss.

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The Dragons of Dorcastle - Jack Campbell

GoodReads Summary: For centuries, the two Great Guilds have controlled the world of Dematr. The Mechanics and the Mages have been bitter rivals, agreeing only on the need to keep the world they rule from changing. But now a Storm approaches, one that could sweep away everything that humans have built. Only one person has any chance of uniting enough of the world behind her to stop the Storm, but the Great Guilds and many others will stop at nothing to defeat her.

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