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Thanks to Charlie Stross @cstross for posting Idle Words: The Lunacy of Artemis, or why the Artemis moon program is incoherent, badly designed bollocks that will probably kill astronauts: https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm

Pretty depressing. It certainly seems that NASA's plan to go to the moon is completely messed up, and never going to work.

Link to Charlie's post and good discussion of the article: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/112473373430375576

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It's "Stross", not "Strasser" :)

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Dracula Daily?
While browsing my local library's online items, I stumbled on this. I had never heard of Dracula daily - did anyone participate? What did you think? I expect it will take place this year..

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Let's read Dracula together! We'll start on May 3rd and each day, read only what happens to the characters on that day. Sound good? Let’s go. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is an epistolary novel—it’s made up of letters, diaries, telegrams, newspaper clippings—and every part of it has a date. The whole story happens between May 3rd and November 6th. Dracula Daily, however, is a lightly remixed adaptation. I've rearranged Dracula to be strictly chronological, divided into days, so we can get all the characters experiences as the story happens. It was originally started in 2021 as an email newsletter. You sign up at draculadaily.com and get an email each day that something happens to the characters in the same timeline that it happens to them. Some days theres a lot of activity, some days just a few sentences, and many days nothing at all. You only get an email when there’s action taking place in Dracula. But this book is a handy way to get the same experience on paper. You can read along with Jonathan and Mina and Jack and the crew in ‘real time; using the innovative technology of a ribbon bookmark. Start on May 3rd. Stop when you get to the end of that day. Place your bookmark there, and pick up the book again on May 4th. Voila! The stretched-out reading cadence of Dracula Daily—some days with only a few paragraphs, some days a whole <...> You'll feel the distances and durations the characters traverse. Fair warning: you'll need to set aside a lot of time for October 3rd.

Screenshot of library checkout for Dracula Daily, a hardback book that brings together the missives of an interesting sounding email newsletter. The wildly popular email newsletter that has been described as an \"internet sensation\" (The New York Times) and \"the coolest book club on the internet\" (Fast Company) is breathing new life into Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel. Now, the internet phenomenon can be experienced in this deluxe hardcover book that includes hilarious commentary and artwork from Dracula Daily readers. Thanks to Dracula Daily, the email newsletter that delivers the classic vampire novel in bite- sized chunks, \"an old story about the undead is aettina a new life\" (NPR). (Screenshot ends)
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    Participated, liked it quite a bit, getting a perspective of the actual time periods in the book by matching them to real days was quite interesting, worst summer-autumn ever for all involved

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    I should mention that if you are interested in Epic/Battletech/Ogre scale miniatures, SJ Games is doing a project for a new set of tanks that I’m of course getting two of.

    https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/steve-jackson-games/ogre-minis-4/

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    Isn't that color a liability on the battlefield? That's like the opposite of camouflage 😜

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