This was a cute short story about a fundamentalist Christian at battle school in the Ender universe. He gets picked on and then is brought out of his shell by Ender. The story was cute, but not anything special.
I’d say this is one of the weaker books in the series, as there wasn’t much focus on anything. There was the conflict of mother-daughter, the conflict of admiral-Ender, and the conflict of Ender-Achilles. The book lacked a coherent center, and even the world building that it did, didn’t have a good center about which it focused. I still enjoyed it for what it is, but look forward to the meeting of the shadow and Ender series, despite the main character of both being dead.
This book had a lot of good information, but most of it I had heard before in the other books I’ve been listening to. I agree with many of the premises put forward, especially that the leadership style will have be responsive to the situation. I need to work on a basic leadership style laid out in this lecture series, but I’m not too far behind in understanding it. I’m just far behind in implementation.
I really liked the way the movie was unpredictable, but things followed from each other. It also did away with a lot of the cheesy stuff like true love’s first kiss. The musical numbers were very forced feeling, and the troll one was just awkward.
We met Brian and one of his friends at San Pedro Square Market, drinking at MarketBeer Co. The place was very cute, and there were many options for food and drink around. I didn’t get anything, bust Steph got a tasty cider and pho.
I went to the SF location for the Global Game Jam 2014, and got a group to use my product. It was a lot of fun, and the app performed perfectly. I was able to build in a few of the things I’ve been meaning to anyway. The game turned out well with a bit of a super smash feeling. I’ll be using it as a launch title most likely.
I have been biking around and working in odd places more since I have been able to set up the mobile hotspot. I stopped by Shoreline lake a few times and worked from there. It is nice to be able to get out and work in beautiful places.
It has been a while since I’ve posted pictures of the kitties, so here are some cute ones. Lana is up to 7.2 lbs and Archer is getting a little fat at 10.4 lbs. I am going to start metering their food intake.
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We played a few rounds of Galaxy Trucker. Chris’s friend left before the final round, but things were good. Chris ended up winning and I got a close second. We played with a few debuffs, but the ones I got weren’t all that bad.
It's an Exciting World 