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A photo of the Star Trek: Away Missions core set plus the Chancellor Gowron, House of Duras, and Commander Sela expansions, the seven books of the Murderbot series, the plain box of a pair of Kanto 9" tall speaker stands, and a bottle of "Lucky Sod" toffee caramel plus vanilla whiskey liqueur.

Birthday goodies! 🎉

I've already read through the Murderbot books via ebook, from that Humble Bundle last year, but I far prefer physical books and will definitely be rereading them at some point so decided to get the actual books. The speaker stands are for putting my fancy Yamaha studio speakers on because it really does make quite a difference having them positioned properly (with the tweeters at ear level). It's meant that I need to totally rejigger my desk and I've realised that the cables I have going to the right speaker are getting very taut with my desk in its full standing position so I've had to order some longer cables so I don't accidentally destroy anything if I make my desk higher than normal for whatever reason. 😬

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Posted on 20 April 2026, 11:41

A photo of the (fake) Christmas tree at my parents' place. It's pretty big, probably close to 2 metres tall, and covered in lights and decorations. Christmassy without veering completely into "explosion in a Christmas shop".

A photo of my Christmas haul: eleven paperback books (mostly scifi), a Fender "Telepath" wireless system for being able to play guitar through my amp without needing a physical cable, and the Ahriman miniature from Warhammer: The Horus Heresy. The art on the front is a Space Marine in ornate red and gold armour with a kind of Egyptian feel going on.

A photo of two kookaburras sitting on the fence of the neighbour's back deck.

Happy Chrimbo, fediverse! The theme of this Christmas was "books". Plus unexpectedly a miniature from my daughter!

We also got to watch the local kookaburras hanging out on the neighbour's back deck.

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Posted on 25 December 2025, 18:44

A photo of my birthday presents. At the top is the box of an Arturia "MiniLab 3" MIDI keyboard, it's a small 25 key keyboard with a number of dials and sliders and buttons above the keys themselves. Under the keyboard box are four books, Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie, the Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, and The Killing Moon also by N.K. Jemisin.

And the actual birthday goodies! I'm really looking forward to playing around with the keyboard, the company that makes it has a big synth plugin that integrates specifically with all the dials and sliders on the keyboard itself so you can control all the various parameters of the synth without needing to take your hands off the keyboard itself.

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Posted on 20 April 2025, 10:18

A photo of a very worn copy of Star Wars: Heir to the Empire. The cover art shows Luke, Leia, and Han's heads and upper body, Chewbacca standing is off to the right and there are three Stormtroopers running with a large fire or explosion in the background. Grand Admiral Thrawn, the blue-skinned, red-glowing-eyed tactical genius, is standing at the left in his white grand admiral's uniform, and above all of them is a man in brown Jedi robes with a big white beard, holding his arms up to the sky with blue/white lines of light or power coming out of his fingertips.

Right, having finished Timothy Zahn's Star Wars novel "Choices of One" which featured Mara Jade, I think it's time to go back to her beginnings for my semi-regular re-read of this EXTREMELY well-loved copy of Heir to the Empire!

My parents bought this for me for Christmas of 1993 so I would have been not quite ten years old. It was the very first proper novel I ever read and I'd absolutely credit it with my love of reading to this day, I read it through and then immediately started it again, and ended up reading it five times over the six weeks of the Christmas holidays that year, haha.

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Posted on 4 September 2024, 23:15

A photo of two large hardcover books, "The Art and Soul of Dune" and "The Art and Soul of Dune Part Two", and a plastic box with a "PiicoDev Starter Kit" sticker on the front showing several small blue circuit boards connected together with wires (it contains a bunch of sensors and wires and bits to do MicroPython electronics projects with).

Birthday goodies!

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Posted on 20 April 2024, 10:17

A photo taken from my perspective looking down towards my lap, I'm sitting in a single seat lounge chair with my legs reclined. On my lap is the novel Dune Messiah and wedged next to me between my left thigh and the arm of the chair is a small scruffy blonde dog.

And now it's time for some reading!

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Posted on 2 March 2024, 21:11

A photo of a small bass guitar amp with a bass guitar leaning against it, and a novel sitting in front. The amp is an Orange Crush Bass 25 and has a black mesh on the front with the rest of it being the customary bright orange colour. The guitar is a Yamaha BB434 and the body fades from black around the edges into a dark rich orange/red wood in the middle. The book is a sci-fi novel "Empire of Silence" by Christopher Ruocchio.

A photo of three guitars hanging on a wall.

Birthday loot! 😁 The book was a surprise gift from @yayKM, the reviews are glowing so I'll definitely be starting that next when I finish my current book.

And I've gotten the bass all nicely wall-mounted already. Very excited to start learning it, I've heard very good things about Bassbuzz from LOTS of people so I'm going to start with that.

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Posted on 20 April 2023, 10:12

A photo of five novels, the latest edition of Games Workshop's "Warhammer Underworlds" game called "Harrowdeep", a cylindrical container with a bottle of whisky in it, and a box of "aged" Earl Grey tea.

Christmas haul! I'm REALLY keen to try the whisky, it's from India and is a blend of Scottish and Indian barleys.

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Posted on 25 December 2021, 17:42

A photo of the covers of all six of the books in Frank Herbert's "Dune" series.

Huzzah, I now own my very own copies of the Dune series! And hilariously, I can't tell if the "Now a major motion picture" text has been on the first book since David Lynch's version in 1984, or if it's been newly re-added for the movie that just came out. 😛

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Posted on 1 October 2021, 13:57

A photo of Dan Abnett's Warhammer 40,000 novel "Penitent" that was just released this month.

YESSSS. I've been waiting for this since the first book came out in 2012.

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Posted on 9 March 2021, 11:45