08:45 – The Kindle Fire proxy problem appears to be solved. There’s an add-on for Firefox for Android called uBlock, which appears to do the job and hasn’t crashed yet. It’s also a lot faster than Adblock Plus, takes far less memory and processor, and uses AdBlock Plus lists.
I finished Thomas Sherry’s Deep Winter last night. In relative terms–for PA fiction written by wannabe authors–it probably deserves three stars. In absolute terms, it rates 0 or 1 star. The guy never met an apostrophe he didn’t like. He thinks the possessive of it is it’s, the possessive of you is you’re and the plural of girl is girl’s. The dialog is stilted at best. He and his characters are fundies. He scatters bible verses and prayers throughout the text. His lead character is obnoxious and treats women not much better than muslims do. And the convenience of it all. His group just happens to live on an old farm in the midst of a normal suburban area in a major urban center. Any time he needs something, it just happens to be in one of the outbuildings or the barn. Even in the midst of a widespread catastrophe with millions dead in Washington state from an earthquake and volcanic eruption, it seems the local police and military(!) are seconds away when he needs them to deal with looters. They arrive immediately when he summons them, kill the looters for him, and thank him for being such a good citizen. Geez. This book is fantasy, and badly-written fantasy at that. I’m fortunate in that I read very fast, so I don’t waste much time reading this kind of crap all the way to the end. Reading it is like watching a train wreck in slow, very slow, motion.
More work on science kits today.
09:45 – Vermeer prepper.
