diff --git a/content/projects/francium.md b/content/projects/francium.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b61c41 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/projects/francium.md @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ ++++ +title = "Pretty Lyrical Francium" +date = 2021-01-27 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["projects", "personal", "last.fm", "music", "scrobble"] ++++ + +Personal Last.Fm. + +Service that runs on the user machine to collect information about music +played, using the Libre.Fm/Last.Fm API. + +I'm more interested in all the graphs than anything else. diff --git a/content/projects/francium.pt.md b/content/projects/francium.pt.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c1288c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/projects/francium.pt.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ ++++ +title = "Pretty Lyrical Francium" +date = 2021-01-27 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["projeto", "pessoal", "last.fm", "música", "scrobbles"] ++++ + +Last.fm Pessoal (Personal Last.Fm) + +Serviço que roda na máquina do usuário para coletar informações sobre as +músicas tocadas, usando a API do Libre.Fm/Last.Fm. + +Eu estou mais interessado nos gráficos do que qualquer outra coisa. + + + diff --git a/content/reviews/books/central-station.md b/content/reviews/books/central-station.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0b52efd --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reviews/books/central-station.md @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ ++++ +title = "Central Station - Lavie Tidhar" +date = 2021-01-20 + +[taxonomies] +tags = ["books", "reviews", "fantasy", "scifi", "books:2021", "1 star", +"lavie tidhar"] ++++ + +[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25986774-central-station): +When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris’s +ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap into the datastream +of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a +robotnik—a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts. His +father is terminally-ill with a multigenerational mind-plague. And a hunted +data-vampire has followed Boris to where she is forbidden to return. + + + +{{ stars(stars=1) }} + +There is something incredibly satisfying in reading a book in which the +characters are not some sort of American-centered or -inspired story -- heck, +even [All You Need Is Kill](@/reviews/books/all-you-need-is-kill.md) feels a +lot like an American story than a Japanese one. But here? No. Names are +"alien", 'cause you're not used to see them, like mixing Chinese and Russian +names. And Hebrew names. And the location doesn't look like the general things +we usually read. + +But while the ambience feels nice, the plot doesn't. I mean, sure, there are +some incredible elements that could be explored in future novels, but here they +are thrown and forgotten and never really explored properly. You have children +with weird abilities that are never explained; you have a diseased women whose +sickness grants some powers, but something mythical happens with her (and the +children) and then she suddenly disappears. Was she cured? Does she lives a +normal life now? Does the mythical thing killed her? + +And you have some mythical gods walking around, something that people take as +annoyance, but they appear only after the middle of the book, out of the blue. +I mean, sure, by the description, they are annoying -- 'cause they are gods, +after all, and can do whatever, whenever they want -- and people doesn't seem +to really like them, but how the heck we spent this whole time without knowing +anything about them? And then, this god appears, do some crazy things, and +disappear and never mentioned again. + +This kind of "starting a thread and never putting a connection in them" happens +over and over again, just ruining the feeling from the book. + +And the ending... It feels like the author simply decided "Ok, I had enough; I +need an ending" and just put something there to mark it as ended and gone. + +There is a lot of points that could be explored in the future from here, but +here... not much is.