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Start your own mini farm!

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Ayye if you love baking, like me, and are trying to cut back on sugar then this is the book for you!

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Cider Made Simple by Jeff Allworth

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an incomplete list of unsettling short stories I read in textbooks

the scarlet ibis

marigolds

the diamond necklace

the monkey’s paw

the open boat

the lady and the tiger

the minister’s black veil

an occurrence at owl creek bridge

a rose for emily

(I found that one by googling “short story corpse in the house,” first result)

the cask of amontillado

the yellow wallpaper

the most dangerous game

a good man is hard to find

some are well-known, some obscure, some I enjoy as an adult, all made me uncomfortable between the ages of 11-15

add your own weird shit, I wanna be literary and disturbed

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What’s this,,

My bones are feeling…

SHAKEY BABEY, , ,

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Wet book rescue

Valuable information if some of your prized books were affected by recent flooding. The video even shows you what to do if you can’t dry the book out right away. 

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You know how some people like to say that physical media is dead and streaming is the future?  Well, Apple is doing a pretty good job right now of proving that theory well and truly wrong.

Reports have started to emerge of Apple completely deleting films from iTunes accounts even when they’ve been bought, not merely rented.  And when people complain about this, they’re receiving an astonishing message from Apple telling them that iTunes is just a “store front,” and so Apple isn’t to blame if a film studio decides it no longer wants to make its titles available on iTunes.

Even worse, it seems that if bought film titles are removed from your account you may not even be entitled to get a refund for them.  When an iTunes user in Canada complained to Apple that their initial offer of a free $5.99 rental hardly seemed suitable recompense for him having three bought films summarily removed from his account, Apple replied that “our ability to offer refunds diminishes over time.  Hence your purchases doesn’t meet the conditions for a refund.”

The Canadian user was offered a further two free rentals as compensation.  But, of course, as well as being far less in monetary terms than the films user had bought, having short-term rental rights to a film is very different indeed from owning a film.

While I’m hearing from others who fortunately did get a refund for their deleted films, the bottom line in all this is that Apple appears to be openly saying that if you buy a film on iTunes, you don’t really own it at all.  It may only stick around in your iTunes account for as long as the studio who really owns it decides it wants it to stick around in your iTunes account.

The Canadian user suffering this issue was pointed to this page of Apple legalese in the response where he was told that he wasn’t entitled to compensation for his lost purchases.

I’m also starting to receive reports today of the recent return of another major issue with iTunes movies: the downgrading of 4K HDR films to HD.  This started happening in 2017, just after the Apple TV 4K launched, as reported here.  At that point Apple suggested that there was some sort of labeling issue (where films said they were HD on their header page, but played as 4K) that they managed to (largely) fix.  And it seems that the return of this issue may still be responsible for some of the “lost” 4K movies Apple TV 4K users are seeing now.

This doesn’t seem to explain all of the 4K to HD switches, though.  It seems that some are down to Apple’s original policy of offering free HD to 4K upgrades of films no longer applying to titles bought in HD outside of iTunes.  Say, via the iTunes-compatible Movies Anywhere platform.  Though I am recently hearing from people saying that films bought on other iTunes-compatible platforms in 4K are also now only appearing in HD on iTunes.

In fact, I have even been contacted just today by an iTunes user who tells me that dozens of films he owns in iTunes — many of which were actually bought in iTunes — have stepped back on his Apple TV 4K to HD, having previously being available in 4K.  This includes titles that are still available in 4K on VUDU.

It’s worth noting that the specific incident of films being completely deleted I refer to in this article happened in Canada; it’s possible that iTunes users in the U.S. and elsewhere haven’t experienced the same issue (yet…) due to differences in film rights between different territories.

But actually these sorts of regional rights differences merely underline the fundamental point Apple seems to be doing its best to confirm right now: That the only way you can be sure you own anything is if you’re physically holding it in your hand.

I’ve asked Apple for comment on these iTunes issues, and will provide an update if they come back with anything worth sharing.  In the meantime, though, if you’ve experienced either films you bought disappearing entirely from iTunes, or films that once appeared in 4K now only appearing in HD, please let me know (with details, if possible, of whether you bought the title from within iTunes or via another compatible platform) via the Twitter account shown at the bottom of this article.

You don’t own anything that has DRM – not movies, not ebooks, nothing.

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Cake Pops by Angie Dudley

It’s all about cake pops! Does anyone else get in a serious baking mood around the Autumn season, or is that just me?

>>PDF here!<<

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About Face by Alan Cooper, Robert Reimannn David Cronin and Chris Noessel

Really great book  for learning UI design! Kinda relevant coz Chrome just changed their design up a bit. Not that I’m knocking it!

>> PDF Here! <<

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Gonna add a couple of uploads today! Sorry I’ve been MIA! I was making sure the feds don’t find me ahahaha!

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A Tip for Book Lovers

If you go to libraries and if you shop at Thriftbooks (both of which I recommend) then you may already know this fact. But if you don’t, let me enlighten you;

These places are breeding grounds for BED BUGS.

No this is not me telling you to stop. No this is not me calling that places dirty or gross. This is just the consequence of book sharing. Because these books trade hands and houses in a wonderful and perfect system of intellectual freedom. And I think that’s beautiful. But when a book trades houses that many times it’s prone to pick up something. That something is usually bed bugs.

Due to their natural structuring, books are ideal homes. And once a book returns to the library or the warehouse, these bedbugs wiggle out and find more places to burrow and breed.

And here’s another fun fact. Unlike ants, bed bugs are not social insects. They don’t like each other. So if you think you can just put down a single trap and catch them all, you’re wrong. They don’t work like that. If you poison one, it won’t go home and do a secret handshake with a hundred other of its friends. It’ll just die. If you kill one, you’ve only killed one.

Why am I telling you this? To scare you? To ward you away? Of course not. I’m just here to make sure you’re aware AND to introduce you to something that could save you a shit ton of grief.

The moment you bring the book home or take it out of its packaging, PUT THAT FUCKER INTO THE FREEZER.

NO. THAT’S NOT A JOKE. MOVE THE LEAN CUISINE OUT OF THE WAY AND POP THAT SUCKER INTO THE FREEZER!!!

Extreme cold and extreme heat kills bed bugs. And since we’re not Trump and holding book burnings is generally looked down upon, we do the next best thing. Freeze it. No, it won’t damage the book. A few days in there will only leave it cold and bug free. But if you’re worried, pop it into a large Ziplock before you do.

Read safe and stay bug free, my bookish friends! 📚📚📖

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Paper Girls written by Brian K. Vaugan

I couldn’t find a summary that wasn’t spoiler-y so I’ll give you a brief summary of it from reading just this one.

This ones is about 4 teenage gals who deliver papers (kinda obvious I guess?) anyways they run into a bit of trouble and end up discovering something out of this world.

This is actually one of my faves so def check it out!

>>CBZ Here!<<

Just click to download it, then you can open it in your chosen program, I use Sumatra PDF to read my comics on my laptop def check it out if you don’t have anything for CBZ files, it works for a lot of files actually.

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anonymously send me

to hell

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Radiant by Karina Sumner-Smith

Xhea has no magic. Born without the power that everyone else takes for granted, Xhea is an outcast—no way to earn a living, buy food, or change the life that fate has dealt her. Yet she has a unique talent: the ability to see ghosts and the tethers that bind them to the living world, which she uses to scratch out a bare existence in the ruins beneath the City’s floating Towers

This sounds really darn good, I might read it after I finish Chaos Walking lol

Whenever that is :-:

>>PDF Here!<<