Cats, good books, AI, and religious walking in the city of Sofia
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I recently purchased a new set of wired audiophile Fiio FT1 headphones. I haven’t used them enough yet to form a solid opinion on their sound quality, but one thing I can already appreciate is the packaging. The box is surprisingly well-designed — it fits both my SteelSeries Arctis Nova 7x and my wife’s JBL Quantum Live 770 perfectly.
I got the Fiio to reduce the stuff I carry in my backpack everyday and to improve my audio experience during work hours. I did, in a sense, reduce the stuff I carry but in a slightly different way. Both the SteelSeries and the JBLs come without a box and look a bit flimzy. With this box, I will no longer worry about them.
I’ll post about the audio experience with the Fiio later. So far, they sound good, very similar to Arctis Nova but with an exaggerated bass. I’m not sure if I want to EQ that down or will get used to it. I’ll post a review in a few months.
Of course, there has to be a book about zombie vampires.
I’ve been reading books about zombies, necromancers, and undead creatures the whole year. I picked the Blood of Eden series by Julie Kagawa because I was at a book signing and this series looked pretty. I had no idea it’s about zombie vampires but here we are. My undead books year continues.
The world ended because a virus turned most people into immortal zombie vampires. Durable but not very smart. Allison will try to survive in this hostile environment and preserve a friend here or there. She’ll get herself into a conspiracy of some kind that we will probably uncover in book 3.
The zombie dynamic is about as realistic as the zombie fungus in “The Girl with All the Gifts”. Zombies roam outside of the walled cities, hunting for people. People almost never go out to be eaten. I believe the zombies in a world like that could not last for a hundred years with no humans to renew their ranks and would just die out from hunger. The same applies to the non-zombie vampires, the math doesn’t add up. The vampire lords are very carnivorous and kill so many people that the human race should’ve ended long before the zombies.
Overall, the book is not plausible – if a zombie apocalypse happens, it won’t happen this way. Maybe some other way. Despite that, I liked it and read it quickly. Looking forward to reading the next part. I’d say it was a solid 4*/5.
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