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holoz0r (76)in Horsepower Herd! • 5 hours ago
Running Costs
I am thinking a lot about money lately. Unemployment tends to do that to a person. I was going to say it does it to a man, but I'm trying to be as appealing as possible to a…
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holoz0r (76)in South Australia • 2 days ago
North of North
North of Adelaide, lies Gawler. North (and West-ish) lies Roseworthy. North East-ish of there lies Lyndoch. Both places have "decomissioned" (abandoned) train lines, which are in…
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holoz0r (76)in Movies & TV Shows • 3 days ago
The Tunnel - A found footage fictional film masquerading as a documentary
I feel as though my creative diet lately has consisted too much of science fiction lately, so I decided to delve into some (relatively) local horror. In 2011, a bunch of people…
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holoz0r (76)in Movies & TV Shows • 4 days ago
Stargate Origins: Catherine - something I didn't know existed
When scrolling through Amazon Prime's Video Service looking for some brain rot to entertain me for a few hours, I stumbled across Stargate Origins: Catherine, ... which I had…
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holoz0r (76)in #rambling • 5 days ago
Its been a month!
One month on. It is now one month since I last held the status of "full time employee". After thirteen years at the business I worked at, I was given a retrenchment package, and…
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holoz0r (76)in Hive Book Club • 6 days ago
For Us, The Living: A Comedy of Customs - Heinlein - an alleged master of SF
When I queued up "For Us, The Living", I had no idea what to expect beyond the book's basic synopsis: man goes driving in 1939. Man crashes car. Man (apparently) dies. Man wakes…
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holoz0r (76)in Hive Book Club • 7 days ago
Project Hail Mary - Is popular science fiction good science fiction?
Andy Weir wrote the book that became the film The Martian. Andy Weir wrote the book Project hail Mary that will probably become a movie one day. Maybe we'll be alive to see it…
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holoz0r (76)in Photography Lovers • 8 days ago
Would you like to make a withdrawl?
Regular followers of mine know that my photographic jive is portraiture. The moment. The person, the light, and the emotion. I don't often find value or emotion in inanimate…
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holoz0r (76)in Hive Book Club • 9 days ago
Altered Carbon: A book worse than the adaptation
So I just recently finished the book Altered Carbon, on which the netflix series of the very same name was based. I thought it would be deep, meditative, full of intrusive and…
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holoz0r (76)in Photography Lovers • 10 days ago
I'm a bit angry, I'm a bit sad, a story about printing
I am entering an exhibition at the local gallery. Entries for that close in about two weeks, but I have a big problem. Today, in the mail, I got the print I was gonna enter into…
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holoz0r (76)in Hive Gaming • 14 days ago
Clair Obscur Expedition 33 will knock a game out of my all time favourite list - it is amazing
While I don't know what my top ten all time favourite games are off the top of my head, I know that the list of those includes titles such as BioShock Infinite, Baldur's Gate 3…
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holoz0r (76)in #rambling • 18 days ago
Mortality, improv, and the fire that didn't burn
It was a Saturday. I had a long day planned. In the morning, I wanted to go and see an exhibition called "Forever", which focused on human mortality, memory, ageing, and the…
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holoz0r (76)in Hive Book Club • 20 days ago
The Redemption of Time - when fan fiction becomes official... and is ... good?
Having finished the series "Remembrance of the Earth's Past" by Liu Cixin (author of the Three Body Problem - on which the recent TV series was based) - I noticed in my library's…
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holoz0r (76)in Photography Lovers • 21 days ago
Images of Holly, seen through my lens
It is 2025, and I've used my camera twice so far this year. Once, to capture myself for historical purposes (and to create myself a new LinkedIn picture) - also to selfishly test…
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holoz0r (76)in Hive Book Club • 22 days ago
Death's End - The conclusion to the Three Body Problem's trilogy is thrilling and life changing.
If you've not been following my attempts to read more stuff, you may not be aware that I recently got through the Three Body Problem in audio book form, and well, I was…
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holoz0r (76)in Photography • 23 days ago
Light is time, time is light, photographs are moments - musings
Every year, or every few months, or every, some unspecified length of time, I get to thinking about the relationship of time, light and photography, and every time; I want to…
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holoz0r (76)in Hive Book Club • 26 days ago
Review: The Dark Forest - sequel to the Three Body Problem
Having emerged from the disquieting revelations of "The Three-Body Problem," stepping into Cixi Liu's "The Dark Forest" feels like bracing for an inevitable storm of war. This…
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holoz0r (76)in Hive Book Club • last month
Review: The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
Having finally turned the (audiobook's) last page of Cixin Liu's "The Three-Body Problem," the sheer scope and audacity of the narrative continue to resonate. This first contact…
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holoz0r (76)in #music • 2 months ago
How it feels to fulfil a life long musical bucket list concert
Before I had a beard, I had Within Temptation CDs. Before I even had Within Temptation CDs, I did not know that my lifelong (so far) love affair with female fronted metal would…
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holoz0r (76)in Hive Gaming • 2 months ago
South Park Stick of Truth is an amusing game
A few weeks ago, while I was sick, I was looking for something to distract me from my impending demise and burial. As a man, and as is typical, this did not come to pass; so…
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