Cats, good books, AI, and religious walking in the city of Sofia
Took a bit of a detour from Thraxas and Stephanie Plum today with Solar Kill by Charles Ingrid. This is a hard sci-fi space opera with spaceships, aliens, and difficult-to-explain powers in the (rough) spirit of the Foundation.
The main protagonist is an ultra-soldier, skilled in lucky survivals but is overly reliant on his battle suit, which might be a bit unwise. The suit is opinionated.
5/5, and I’m already deep into the second part. What a page-turner.
From my only walk this week but it was a fine walk.
It’s a simple challenge – walk 2 hours per day on average. Do 10K steps. It combines cardio fitness with meditation. Having dedicated off-screen time is at least as helpful as the benefits of walking. It burns stress hormones instead of building more from whatever the screen is presenting at that time.
I believe walking is also a reason why I blog frequently again. I see things that I want to share. There are flowers everywhere. You don’t see much of that if you’re behind the windshield of a car. You see other cars.
My kids would watch the same TV episode over and over, knowing every scene by heart, and still enjoy it. I used to be like that with books until my late teenage years. I’ve read The Three Musketeers, Foundation, and Starship Troopers many times, perhaps 10+ times each, and the list of books I’ve read 3-4 times is also lengthy. However, the desire to reread books has since disappeared. No matter how good a book is, there’s always another book that might be as good and is also new to me.
I read “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” about 3 times as an adult. It might be the best answer I can give.
We have the saying in Bulgaria “Chavka drunk your brain” meaning you did something stupid. Chavka sounds better for a post title than jackdaw, otherwise same bird. 🐦
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