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July 31, 2018. “A rare site these days”. #payphone #telephone #landline #phonebooth #gte #frontiercommunications #kimball #mcdowellcountywv #mcdowellcounty #wv #appalachia (at Kimball, West Virginia)
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LATEST BOOK HAUL.
- The White Tiger by Aravind Diga. Set in a raw and unromanticized India, The White Tiger—the first-person confession of a murderer—is as compelling for its subject matter as it is for the voice of its narrator: amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing.
- Damned by Chuck Palahniuk. Follows the story of Madison, a thirteen-year-old girl who finds herself in Hell, unsure of why she will be there for all eternity, but tries to make the best of it.
- Invisible Monsters: Remix by Chuck Palahniuk. Injected with new material and special design elements, this book fulfills Palahniuk’s original vision for his 1999 novel, turning a daring satire on beauty and the fashion industry into an even more wildly unique reading experience. NOTE: I’m done reading this and I love it! Full review to follow!
- The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente. September returns to Fairyland where she learns that its inhabitants have been losing their shadows—and their magic—to the world of Fairyland Below. Sequel to The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
- Unnatural Creatures edited by Neil Gaiman. A collection of short stories about the fantastical things that exist only in our minds—collected and introduced by beloved New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.
- The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. Leo Gursky taps his radiator each evening to let his upstairs neighbor know he’s still alive. But it wasn t always like this: in the Polish village of his youth, he fell in love and wrote a book. Sixty years later and half a world away, fourteen-year-old Alma, who was named after a character in that book, undertakes an adventure to find her namesake and save her family.
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. Follows junkie William Lee, who takes on various aliases, from the US to Mexico, eventually to Tangier and the dreamlike Interzone. The vignettes are drawn from Burroughs’ own experience in these places, and his addiction to drugs.
- Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron edited by Jonathan Strahan. Collection of “witch” stories from the biggest names in fantasy and young adult literature, including Neil Gaiman, Holly Black, Diana Peterfreund, Margo Lanagan, Peter S. Beagle, and Garth Nix.
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Deftly interweaving the lives of the blind Marie-Laure and German orphan Werner set during WWII, Doerr illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
- Landline by Rainbow Rowell. A tale about a disintegrating marriage and a phone call from the past—and not just from anyone’s past, it’s from the past self of the Georgie’s—the protagonist’s—husband. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but Georgie feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts. (Thanks for the gift, Mamu Kit!)
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Track of the Day;
Landline - Landline, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umjpNkvlZyc
Support Them - https://discontinuousinnovationinc.bandcamp.com/album/landline
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I was equally amazed when I read it for the first time but recent reports reveal that the concept for the first ever iPhonewas thought up in the Appleoffices way back in 1983 before anyone even heard of touch sensitive technology.
Hartmut Esslinger, founder of Frogdesignand also the man who helped make the Apple Ilc computer (the first portable PC from the company), came up with a design for a landline phone that carried a regular phone attached to a touchscreen with a stylus.
This design was made available to the public a while ago but it once again became a topic of discussion thanks to the curious minds digging deep in the archives of Stanfordwhich were kept secretive for a very long time. The documents related to Apple were made public after the late Steve Jobs rejoined the company in 1997.
So what is the point of discussing it now you may ask? Well not much. Just knowing that something like this was thought up way back in the past is in itself an amazing thing to talk about and the gadget’s resemblance to the iPad and its only makes it a discussion heavy topic.
Various websites are already reaching out to Stanford to gain more information from these documents but until we get more information, we can might as well continue to be amazed.
I might be an Apple-fanboy myself but it is stuff like this that makes me love them even more. You might like them and you might hate them but you cannot deny the fact they are one incredible company that has undoubtedly changed the course of modern technology. iLife.
Getting a landline so I can justify a Bang & Olufsen BeoCom 2000 from 1987 but god it’s so tempting to get the Jordache Jazzy Jeans phone instead…
What the AT&T lady said just didn’t register. Brad called to cancel the landline not get a new plan.
Brad put the receiver down to ask Chris. “Do we want ‘full coverage?!?’….”
Now that Brad said it out loud, the notion read nearly silly. A fierce 45 second single sided debate ensued.
Chris said if they were going to hold on to any unnecessary technology, it would be the wristwatch due to its advanced mobility feature.
Fashion was already famously dead. Weren’t Brad and Chris all about non-responsive demode statements in the overkill aftermath?!
“HELLLOOOO Met Gala!!” OB1 was on standby.
Total peace broke out when Brad noted wristwatches didn’t sneak $50 out of their Chime account on the 5th of every month.
Boom.
Brad and Chris’ landline would finally die, die the next business day.
Hello guys! Super late night post. I’m beyond tired from school today I feel like everything hurts and I have to go to sleep to do it all again tomorrow. But tomorrow I’m going to be able to see Shadowhunters time past so fast!
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Today book is Landline by Rainbow Rowell is in my TBR and I’m thorn by reading it soon or not since I loved Eleanor & Park but I hated Fangirl
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If you haven’t noticed by now I’m writing this with one eye open and one closed because I’m falling asleep I’ll fix any mistakes later
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Let me know if you’ve read this book and what are your thoughts on it .
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