#dartnell

[postcard-from-the-past]

Peruvian aviator Jorge Antonio Chávez Dartnell on a H. Farman biplane

French vintage postcard

[lovesmokerguys]

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[mariocki]

Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus (1.5, BBC, 1964)

"I want to speak of your father. You know, he was a very wise and brilliant man and I know how you felt when you learned of his death."

"And his life's work destroyed."

"Oh, no, no, no, no, I wouldn't say that. His work will go on, only not quite in the same way. But I don't believe that man was made to be controlled by machines. Machines can make laws, but they cannot preserve justice; only human beings can do that."

[jt1674]

[musicalsiphonophore]

I finished Acceptance by Jeff Vandermeer a couple days ago, maybe a week?

I liked it. But I didn’t like it nearly as much as Annihilation. I liked it more than Authority.

The draw of Annihilation to me is the biologist and her gloriously unreliable narration, and the setting of Area X itself. Large swathes of Acceptance and all of Authority completely lack these draws. So I just don’t find them engaging in the same way.

I recognise their merits, but where Annihilation just completely absorbs me, the sequels feel like harder work and bore me at times.

That being said, there was a part in Acceptance narrated by the biologist, which I absolutely adoredddddd.

I also liked Saul quite a lot, as a character I found him interesting, so I really enjoyed his chapters too.

Control’s I was never going to like, his narration sends me to sleep. The Director’s chapters were inconsistent, sometimes as dull as Control’s but sometimes as engaging as Saul.

[kidneys-and-custard]

This sounds like an innuendo!

[insidecroydon]

Dartnell Road amenity area public meeting, Nov 20

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[etirabys]

I regret reading Lewis Dartnell's apocalypse prep book "The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch" in 2018 because (1) I retained nothing, (2) if civilization ever collapses I'll be harassed by crucial details dancing out of mental reach for the rest of my brief life

[ian-chestert0n]

Doctor Who - The Sensorites part six

With Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright, William Russell as Ian Chesterton, Carole Ann Ford as Susan Foreman, William Hartnell as The Doctor, Ilona Rogers as Carol and Stephen Dartnell as John

[watchingcbeams]

Compiled a bunch of reading lists/recommendations in my notes

Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel

A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

And Strange at Ecbatan the Trees by Michael Bishop

In Between the Sheets by Ian McEwan

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman

Camp Concentration by Thomas Disch

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

Engines of Logic: Mathematicians and the Origin of the Computer by Martin Davis

Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin

Polemics by Alain Badiou

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck

Speedboat by Renata Adler

The Dynamics of Creation by Gregory Bateson

The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics by Leonard Susskind

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Hard to Be a God by the Strugatsky Brothers

The Invincible by Stanisław Lem

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O’brien

Appointment in Samarra by John O’Hara

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell

Far Away and Long Ago by W.H. Hudson

The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

The Stone Leopard by Colin Forbes

The Dream Master by Roger Zelazny

The Exile Waiting by Vonda McIntyre

Valis by Philip K. Dick

Nova by Samuel Delany

The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

The Fifth Head of Cerberus by Gene Wolfe

Martian Time Slip by Philip K. Dick

Ubik by Philip K. Dick

Lancelot by Walker Percy

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Laughter in the Dark by Vladimir Nabokov

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design by Frank Wilczek

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Bicycling Science (MIT Press) by David Gordon Wilson

Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini

Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients by Jeremy R. Smith

How to Be Alone: Essays by Jonathan Frazen 

On Beauty by Umberto Eco

On Ugliness by Umberto Eco

Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

South Wind by Norman Douglas

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives by Leonard Mlodinow

The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet by Rainer Zitelmann

The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm by Lewis Dartnell

The Soul of A New Machine by Tracy Kidder

The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You, and How to Get Good at It by Kelly McGonigal

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

This Will Make You Smarter by John Brockman (Editor)

Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society by Jim Manzi

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward Tufte

Wonderland by Joyce Carol Oates

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Childhood; Boyhood; Youth by Leo Tolstoy

Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

Run Rabbit by John Updike

House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John Le Carré

Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brien

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

The Coalwood Way by Homer Hickam

Hail and Farewell by George Moore

The American by Henry James

Victory by Joseph Conrad

Collected Poems by Robert Lowell

Collected Poems by W.H. Auden

Guerrillas by V.S. Naipaul

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Sanctuary by William Faulkner

The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood

The Collected Poems by Wallace Stevens

The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

The Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn

Victory by Joseph Conrad

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood

The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings

The Open Boat by Stephen Crane

The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Alexander Jessup

The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

The Revolt of the Angels by Anatole France

The Overstory by Richard Powers

Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

Possession by A.S. Byatt

The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse

De Facto Inclusions of Italo Calvino: The Baron in the Trees; The Nonexistent Knight; The Cloven Viscount by Italo Calvino

The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane

Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham

The Oxford Book of English Verse

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco

Battle Royale by Koushun Takami

The Oath by John Lescroart

Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete Poetical Works

Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust

Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

[retromusicart]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Island UK/Atlantic-Cotillion US, 1970) - Illustration by Nic Dartnell

Image courtesy of Discogs.

[caymannewsservice]

Study will fill data gap on endangered local sharks

Tagging reef sharks for the new study (photo credit: James Dartnell) (CNS): The Department of Environment (DoE) has secured UK funding for pop-off satellite archival tags to study the movements of Caribbean reef sharks (Carcharhinus perezi) in the ocean around the Cayman Islands. Due to their ecological and socio-economic significance to Cayman, all sharks are protected species and are now…

[vision360tours]

Home for Sale - 8 Dartnell Avenue, Toronto, ON M5R 3A4 Virtual Tour: https://tours.vision360tours.ca/8-dartnell-avenue-toronto/

[katrinafaire]

Writeblr Intro 😸

So, I put a lot of this into my pinned post, but I'll reiterate it here tagged appropriately to hopefully get some traction to make more writer friends!

Hi! I'm Catrian (she/her) or Cat if you prefer. I've been writing long form since I was a child, so I've logged a modest estimate of a bit over thirty years in consistent storytelling, extensive worldbuilding, and avid character creation. I have so many notebooks full of writing in story form, isolated scenes, misplaced dialogue I thought was neat, etc. While most of it is not up to the bar I've reached these days - lots of it is from when I was a mere kit, after all - I treasure the creativity and growth. Some of it has even been reused in modern works.

A Bit More About Me ➤

As clearly implied above, I'm well into my thirties and consider myself a seasoned writer, though as with all of us there are things I struggle with. I'm a work in progress and that no longer bothers me.

I'm a budding digital artist, which I originally changed to because I sometimes have hand tremors when trying to draw precisely, be it tiny details or a single straight line. (I have large sheets of practicing drawing straight lines.) My tool of choice is currently Krita though I've used other programs for things like photo editing.

I like to play video games and have an eclectic group of them. Right at this moment, I'm playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and am replaying Pokemon Alpha Sapphire. There's also never-ending playthroughs of the Sims (2-4) and Stardew Valley. On the back burner are finishing Tears of the Kingdom and Final Fantasy XV, as well as a replay of Pokemon Sword. There are too many assorted others to mention, but those are the highlights.

I love to read and am putting together a list of science fantasy novels - I'm always up for a good rec - and am reading a fantastic nonfiction book by Lewis Dartnell called The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm. I'll be putting together a promo post later, but suffice to say it's fascinating.

About My Writing & WIPs ➤

I originally got started on fanfiction (I will not be releasing pseuds or details since I don't want to cross the streams) and the dozen or so years I spent there I collectively wrote over one million words across a variety of works, (A few cracked 100K - one spilled over 200K - and they throw the averages off.)

Needless to say, having a long story to tell, even in a series, no longer intimidates me.

Stylistically I favor 3rd person and lately it's been Limited over Omniscient though I do have experience with both. I've also done some 2nd and 1st person while dabbling in interactive fiction so I have a fairly well-rounded experience. My dialogue is very conversational, albeit with individual voices, and I favor lyrical and descriptive phrasing. I take great pride in my skill at evoking emotional responses of all kinds.

Taken from my Pinned Post:

I primarily write science fantasy / soft scifi with low fantasy aspects. This runs the gamut from post-apocalyptic rebuilding, adventures in space, and time travel just to hit the highlights. I’m also rolling around the concept of a couple things that will either be LitRPG or Gamelit depending on how certain details pan out, regarding a somewhat fantasy-esque MMO setting and something else akin to a monster breeder game.

My Work:

I currently have the first book in a collection of related series in progress, which is Luica The Forgotten: Book 1, The Cure, and I talk about it extensively here, and the main trio of characters here. This book and several upcoming are why I'm reading Mr. Dartnell's work (again, but this time For Researcb!), as referenced above. The Cure is set on a post-apocalyptic earth, thousands of years into the future, millennia after the earth suffered significant events altering the environment to where it was deemed unable to sustain human life.

The next book that isn't a part of that series is Rewind. While not currently in the drafting stage, it has some plotting and worldbuilding done. Interestingly, Rewind started out as a premise for a video game with multiple endings but ultimately I decided it would make a better book because it needs description beyond my current graphical ability. In a small writing server I described it as if I was having a librarian help me find it (it's a great exercise, do recommend):

"The one with the amnesiac time traveler who has to follow clues left for them despite not knowing if they're legit because that's all they've got and if they are legit then they have to act or people will die - but then, if they're wrong they'll kill an innocent person instead of saving the world"

My last project that I'm actively worldbuilding on was also originally laid out as the basis for an original roleplaying game I was going to run out of a forum, called Legend's Legacy. In-process I did briefly consider it would make a good MMO (and it might!) but then a friend introduced me to the comment of LitRPG and I was sold. I have to work out the rules / setting / system first, but that's as fun as it is work. (Mildly frustrating though: I'd rather be writing.)

SO, that's a bit about me and what I do. Intrigued? Curious? Interested? Consider popping into my ask and striking up a conversation or hitting me up in my DMs. I'm super friendly to all ages, though I'd like a ballpark of your age since Tumblrites are as young as 13. That's not a problem, but I prefer to know if someone is that much younger than me, especially if we're going to talk about mature topics.

Quick Note: I do not write "mature" content, not as far as sex or graphic violence / gore. I'm squeamish at the sight of blood. I don't handle horror well though I feel elements of it can add a lot to a story.

And I think that's that! if you read it all, give me a like so I know someone's listening, feel free to follow, and absolutely come chat with me! Tell me about YOUR work! I'd love to have more people to interact with and follow.

[jt1674]

[fullaccessmagazine]

Brett Kissel talks about his new album ‘The Compass Project — West Album,’ and Cooper Alan

Brett Kissel. Photo Courtesy of Ben Dartnell. Canadian country artist Brett Kissel chatted about his new album “The Compass Project — West Album.” Song selection process of the new CD On the song selection approach of the new album, Kissel said, “The song selection was a lot more difficult than I thought it was going to be. I realized that in my catalog I had a lot of western songs, and those…