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A blog about life in general, in as many languages as I can manage. Ενα ιστολόγιο περι ζωής, πολυγλωσσο - σε όσες γλωσσες εχω μεράκι να γράψω.
Review: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Saturday, Oct 28 2017, 12:15 Books, ebooks, goodreads, review, Social Networking, Social Networks, Work Permalink
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
I've gone back and forth with this book. While listening to it some parts were just 2-stars and others were 4-stars. Perhaps the 4-star part was confirmation bias on my part. That said, some things in this book are just causes to roll your eyes, and other parts make a ton of sense. Over the past 15 years, when I've been quite productive, I've actually used some of the approaches discussed in this book (I just didn't know I was doing deep work). I think it's a wortwhile read, but at the same time it falls into a Malcolm Gladwell book: coming back to the same point over and over again with many different examples. What book 400 pages could have easily been an 20 page academic article.
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Sev TNG: The X-Gen choice
Thursday, Oct 26 2017, 12:09 comics, Humor, SciFi, Sev, StarTrek, TNG Permalink(original archive here)

Assassin's Creed Origins: Launch trailer
Wednesday, Oct 25 2017, 11:40 Assassins Creed, Entertainment, trailer, video games, VideoGames, XBOX PermalinkEven though I am 3 games behind in this series (and a whole generation of consoles behind), I am looking forward to eventually playing this game :-). I wonder if we see aliens come down and land/crashland on earth in ancient Egyptian times, or if we're dealing with the the fallout of discovering the ancient artifacts at this period in history :)

You can't please everyone
Monday, Oct 23 2017, 09:24 comics, Entertainment, Humor, video games, VideoGames Permalink
Death of Halo
Saturday, Oct 21 2017, 09:19 Entertainment, Halo, Microsoft, video games, VideoGames, XBOX PermalinkI came across this video on Reddit the other day. I thought it would actually be a much more in-depth analysis of the game series, but it just seems like a whole lot of kvetching about Halo 5. Since I don't yet have an xbox one I can't really say much about Halo 5, but Halo 4 wasn't really all that bad - if I remember correctly.

Review: The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves, the Words Behind World-Building
Friday, Oct 20 2017, 09:19 audiobooks, Books, conlang, Defiance, goodreads, linguistics, review, Sci-Fi, Social Media, Social Networks Permalink
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
While I don't see myself conlanging any time soon, this was quite a fun read (and a pretty good book if you are interested in linguistics but don't know where to start!) There were quite a few examples from Game of Thrones (which I guess is the most well known example of conlanging on modern television) and quite a few from Defiance. There were other examples from another CW show that I am not familiar with (Star-Crossed) which I guess I'll be on the lookout for to see if it's any good :-)
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Sev TNG: Captain Obvious?
Thursday, Oct 19 2017, 01:00 comics, Humor, SciFi, Sev, StarTrek, TNG Permalink
Launch trailer - Wolfenstein New Colossus
Wednesday, Oct 18 2017, 11:03 Entertainment, politics, trailer, video games, VideoGames, wolfenstein, XBOX, youtube PermalinkThe launch trailer for the next Wolfenstein game, a game that picks up where the previous game left off - with a Nazi occupied american continent, is now available. So many games to play once I am done with my dissertation ;-). Make American Nazi-Free Again!

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