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"Proyecto Hail Mary", de Andy Weir.
from Ábrete mundo.
He leído la novela “Proyecto Hail Mary” y me ha resultado una lectura muy interesante y satisfactoria.
Le he encontrado similitudes con la saga de “El problema de los tres cuerpos”, de Cixin Liu, y con novelas de Jules Verne, que lo alejan un poco de la repetición de tópicos de la ciencia ficción estadounidense.
Lo que me recordó a Jules Verne fue que, al igual que en novelas como “20.000 leguas de viaje submarino”, “Cinco semanas en globo” o “Amo del mundo”, hay una máquina con un gran protagonismo que es un personaje en sí mismo, en este caso la nave interestelar “Hail Mary”, de cuyas características e incidencias depende gran parte de la narración. La manera de mostrar cuestiones técnicas y científicas también me ha resonado con Verne.
“Proyecto Hail Mary” también toca muchas cuestiones tratadas en “El problema de los tres cuerpos”. De entrada la novela trata de una amenaza total para la humanidad derivada de una especie alienígena que obliga a afrontar proyectos gigantescos que implican a toda la humanidad para intentar sobrevivir. La diferencia es que en “Los tres cuerpos” la amenaza alienígena era una especie inteligente, los trisolarianos, mientras que en “Proyecto Hail Mary” es una especie alienígena microbiana los astrófagos.
La conexión con la saga de “Los tres cuerpos” es aún más marcada porque un personaje, Eva Stratt, a la que los poderes gubernamentales de la Tierra dan plenos poderes para sacar adelante el proyecto Hail Mary, es una figura idéntica a los “vallados” de la saga de Cixin Liu.
La relación del protagonista, Ryland Grace, con el alienígena Rocky, parece una impugnación de la teoría del bosque oscuro de la saga de los “Tres cuerpos”. Mientras que en la teoría del bosque oscuro se entiende que las relaciones entre las diferentes especies inteligentes con capacidad de operar interestelarmente tienden fuertemente a ser conflictivas (y conflictivas a nivel de exterminio), Andy Weir parece plantear que las diferentes especies sintientes estelares, enfrentadas a problemas comunes, tendrían una tendencia a la colaboración, una colaboración que en la novela se presenta como una traslación de las dinámicas de colaboración internacional típicas de la ciencia (una idea que me suena a Carl Sagan). Desde luego, la novela destila amor por la ciencia, por el proceso de investigación y por lo ingenieril. No estoy seguro de si ese amor llega a ser demasiado apologético, diría que no, que no llega a ser cientifismo meapilas.
No sé si de manera consciente, el autor parece dar una réplica a la teoría del bosque oscuro de la trilogía de los Tres Cuerpos. En vez de presentar como inevitable el conflicto entre especies con capacidad para el viaje interestelar, plantea que diferentes especies inteligentes colaborarían enfrentadas a problemas comunes.
Buena parte del desarrollo de la novela consiste en la aparición de problemas técnicos uno detrás de otro, a veces extremadamente complejos, y las maneras en que el protagonista y otros personajes van desarrollando soluciones a los mismos. Se podría decir que es una novela de ingeniería-ficción, la solución de problemas ingenieriles es una parte muy importante del relato.
La novela toca los problemas de la nutrición humana en entornos alienígenas. En mucha ciencia-ficción, sobre todo la más comercial, los personajes comen plantas y animales alienígenas sin ningún problema, lo cual seguramente sería muy poco probable en la realidad, pues seguramente la bioquímica de los animales y plantas alienígenas sería incompatible o inútil a efectos nutricionales. Esta es una cuestión que también aparecía en “El fin de la muerte”, la tercera novela de la trilogía de los Tres Cuerpos, y había cierta coincidencia en la propuesta de soluciones, aunque en una narración el terrícola dispone de más recursos que en la otra, no digo más.
Llaman la atención las alusiones religiosas en la novela. La nave se llama “Hail Mary”, o sea, “Ave María”, y el protagonista se apellida “Grace”. En un momento dado se mencionan los posibles nombres de otras hipotéticas naves interestelares terrícolas y también son nombres religiosos, de tradición musulmana y budista ¿Le rondó al autor la idea de explorar la vivencia religiosa en un contexto de vulnerabilidad extrema como el descrito en la novela? ¿Se apunta a cierta idea cientifista de que la ciencia y la tecnología sustituyen a la religión, y de ahí que se apropien, como por herencia, de algunas de sus palabras? En cualquier caso, el abordaje de lo religioso queda sin desarrollar.
Me pareció que un sub-tema de la novela era la soledad y la desconexión entre las personas. En la parte espacial de la novela el protagonista está solo y el único individuo con el que se relaciona es el alienígena Rocky. Lógicamente, el establecer una relación de amistad con un alienígena es un proceso arduo, aunque en la novela la complicación reside en lo lingüístico, más allá de eso el proceso es fluido. En la parte de la historia situada en la Tierra, Ryland Grace se nos presenta como un divorciado sin hijos, no da muchos detalles de su divorcio, solo que salió mal. Su principal vinculación humana son sus alumnos de secundaria, que aparecen repetidamente a lo largo de la novela como su referencia de que es la humanidad por cuya salvación trabaja. Durante la preparación del viaje interestelar establece una relación especial con la “vallado”, la líder absoluta del proyecto, Eva Stratt, que hace pensar a otras personas en algún tipo de vínculo amoroso o sexual, pero no hay ningún encuentro sexual no sentimental. En la misión, por causas azarosas que no vienen al caso Grace queda solo y con el único ser que establece un vínculo es con el alienígena Rocky, la relación más fuerte que tiene Grace en la novela, una relación, por otra parte, fuertemente basada en el vínculo entre colegas científicos o ingenieros. Parece que Grace tiene una gran dificultad para las relaciones personales, la duda es si es una característica específica del personaje, que en cualquier caso es especialmente solitario, o el autor la hace extensiva a los demás personajes, porque la relación que se describe, previa al despegue, entre el astronauta estadounidense de la tripulación principal y una astronauta sustituta, es un poco extravagante, como si fueran una pareja de habitantes del planeta Vulcano.
Me hubiera gustado una descripción más amplia de los sistemas planetarios de los sistemas de Tau Ceti y de Épsilon Eridani, pero entiendo que desde el punto de vista narrativo hubiera resultado una digresión seguramente latosa. Me hace gracia que Tau Ceti es el sol de los planetas, o planeta doble, Urras y Anarres, de la novela “Los desposeidos” Úrsula K. Le Guin, una novela tan potente aunque tan distinta de “Proyecto Hail Mary”. Como no se describe de forma exhaustiva el sistema de Tau Ceti y se centran en el planeta Adrian, un equivalente a Venus, por lo que cabe imaginar (inútilmente pero de fantaseando con un divertido crossover) que en una órbita más lejana a Tau Ceti, podrían estar orbitando Urras y Anarres.
from RethinkJeff
On Call Draft
A group draft experience/experiment for waiting around at a place, or to engage in an async experience. Pick a number of decks you want to draft, and a number of packs; we'll use four and three:
3 3 3 3 X X X X
When someone shows up, or some time goes by, draft P1P1Deck1.
2 3 3 3 X X X X 1 0 0 0
Then, when someone new shows up, P1P1D2, et cetera, do the same, until you have something that looks like:
2 2 2 2 X X X X 1 1 1 1
Where here 2 is two packs, X is the deck, and 1 is a pack with a card missing from it.
Go ahead and pass all the packs, so now you have an open pack on top of the two sealed packs that it would be passed to
So D1 passes to D2, D2 to D3, D3 to D4, D4 to D1.
Repeat until you've drafted 4 decks!
Play those bad piles of cards.
#CardGames #MagicTheGathering #TCG #TCGs
The Freon Jones
from What've I Done?
A chilling tale of chemical addiction, inspired by a battle against the implacable forces of nature. A condensed version appeared as a column in the local paper in the early 1990s, and I was gratified to see a copy pinned to a bulletin board in the FL Governor's Energy Office. Most recently performed in May 2026 during Colten Hood's gig at Blue Tavern in Tallahassee.
1687 words; 7m40s read
They’re almost here.
Those muggy nights, when your shirt sticks to you like a plastic trash bag, and slipping between the sheets is like sliding between two slices of unrefrigerated bologna. When even a cool shower and handfuls of talcum powder won't ease the sticky that's got on the back of your knees and into your elbow-pits.
Florida summer. When the mildew sprouts a two-dimensional rainforest across bookshelves, walls, and toilet-seats. Advance party for the plant kingdom waving all green and expectant just outside the window-screens where june bugs bounce like love against a hardened heart. When all that's outside wants inside. When powder-winged nightmares buzz in horrid yearning for the bulb of your floor-lamp, and geckoes prowl the walls, barking like tiny dogs.
You try to hold out long as you can, windows open, as the nights get warmer. Stickier. Closer. The bugs get to singing so loud you can't hear half the dialogue on Andor. Then late one night when a barred owl sits you bolt-upright in bed with a scream and a monkey laugh, the echo of a bad dream, you won't be able to stand it no more.
When the sweat soaks your brow like naked guilt and drenches your bedsheets like an embarrassment of passion, that's when you'll get the freon jones real bad.
That's when you'll know you goin' do it again. You goin' turn on. “Just for a little while,” you'll say. “Just long enough to dry things out a bit. Then I'll turn it back off.”
Who you foolin'?
You goin' tell me you ain't addicted? That you ain't no BTU junkie? First thing you goin' do after you flick that little switch on your wall is go stand by a vent and let the cool, dry air whisper over you like a satin sheet. You'll lift the damp hair off your neck, close your eyes, and roll your head left and right, real slow and sensuous-like, for maybe fifteen, twenty minutes, while the moisture steams off your body like mist off a sinkhole.
You tell yourself you'll turn it back off in the morning before you go to work. And maybe you do, but that's just ‘cause you know you'll spend all day inside some concrete cave where AC units the size of lunch trucks soak up the heat and moisture and wring it outside. You know you'll be buzzing all day long in an atmosphere like a virtual Colorado. Ain't no withdrawal symptoms allowed in those cool opium dens, where people wear jackets and keep sweaters draped over the backs of their chairs. Where the hypodermo-thermostats are locked up like the cabinets in a hospital pharmacy, to prevent costly overdoses self-administered by coolant freaks. You'll be in that cool dry all day long.
But come the afternoon, when the sun is so bright and hot it shines right through you, leaving no shadow on the asphalt fudge under your feet, you'll come home and your closed-up house with no AC will feel like the inside of a pizza oven. Garbage-can special.
“I'll just turn on until the sun goes down and things cool off a bit,” you say, peeling off your underwear like a soaked bandage.
Uh-huh. I heard that.
Sun don't set until near 9:00 anyway during the summer. And by then you figure it won't cost that much just to run it through the night. Just to get you through the night. Just this one night.
Next thing you know, you’re cool inside on a Saturday afternoon, with the blinds shut tight, sprawled on the sofa with slack jaw and sleepy eyes, binge-watching Stranger Things on Netflix and eating Doritos right out of the bag.
You tell me what that sounds like.
I know you can't face up to your addiction. You don't want to hear about it. You say you don't really need it. Just makes you feel good. Helps you relax. And besides, you mumble from the sofa, pulling a coverlet over your feet, it ain't hurting nobody.
But I can see in your eyes you know better. You know what kind of people deal your drug of choice. You know who the players are. Utility-company executives. Coal merchants. Shady characters of all sorts.
But you pretend not to see these things. You turn down the thermostat a notch, and the mercury switch sparks like a Bic lighter over Martha and Snoop’s bong. You get a head-rush just watching the houselights dim when that compressor kicks in. The freon blood moves through copper veins and boils in coils, vampire-sucking the heat from your air, and where does it go? Where does it go? Outside is all, where a swamp forms from the drip, drip of wrung-out water.
You'd rather not know. You'd rather not think about what matter was converted to energy to power that 2-ton unit that squats in the backyard like a brooding robot, shifting your electric meter from 33-1/3 to 78 rpm at regular intervals. The windows are shut. The plants and june bugs can't get inside, where you're zoning out in an artificial mountain evening.
It's gotten so bad you even use it while you're driving. Turning on before the engine even warms up, man. Mad Max AC. Fan on high. Then your tolerance builds up and you have to tint the windows—sunglasses you can't even take off at night.
If you think I'm criticizing, think again. I know how it is to have the freon jones. I'm there. Man, I'm thinking 'bout turning on right now. About getting out of that heat that makes me feel like I've got webbed fingers. About sitting on upholstery that don’t feel and smell like some cat with a bizarre UTI peed on it. About sheets as dry and smooth as a cotton-lined envelope.
I know it feels so good to turn on. I been turning on since I was about five, man. I was exposed to freon in my own home, by my own parents. I know. It's hard. I know. We used to be clean, man, and then one day they put window units in the dining room and in their bedroom. Uh huh. That's right. The dining room and bedroom. Bodily pleasures.
We went to central air before I was ten years old, man.
By then I was so hooked I thought it was my right to be refrigerated. I'd sneak into the hallway late at night and tap-tap downward on the temperature control; tap-tap; tap-tap; until the mercury flashed and I could hear that dry exhalation begin to stir the drapes. And then one more tap for good measure.
A power outage in July would set my teeth on edge, my skin crawling. I'd begin to see sweaty pink elephants. I'd like to die before the juice kicked back in and that cool rush sprang from the vents like gaseous ambrosia.
One summer I spent time in an old beach house with a wraparound screen porch and one inner bedroom that had AC. A holy of holies. At night those of us exiled to the muggy porch with the mosquitos whining in our ears would nurse revenge fantasies about those inside, while the AC unit droned through our fitful dreams, making the night seem a few degrees hotter. A few gallons muggier.
Oh, man, it's so much worse when somebody's holding and you ain't. You know what I mean. Just makes that freon jones grip you tighter and tighter. You get to where you'd sell your body for a night in an air-conditioned bed.
Ain't no other high like AC. Ain't no other drug gets supplied to your home by IV hoses strung from one pole to the next. Ain't no other drug's got a statue and museum dedicated to its inventor. I seen it, man. Apalachicola.
I wish I could kick it. I tried goin' cold turkey, but that only works in the wintertime. I tried ignoring it, but I can't. Even the outdoor queues at Disney World got AC vents blowing cool air on the sweaty crowds to keep 'em docile. That's the ultimate, man. Blowing AC right out into the world, while somewhere else a giant compressor unit is evening things up by radiating heat like a barbecue grill. Downers and uppers at the same time, man. AC don't get rid of the heat. It just moves it someplace else, with a portage fee in kilowatt-hours.
If it weren't for AC no one would make pizza in the summertime. If it weren't for AC no babies would be born in the spring—that's a math problem, y'all. If it weren't for AC nobody would use hot water in the shower before October. If it weren't for AC half the heat-seeking reptiles that slither into Florida would be gone by April, and there wouldn't be no endless ticky-tacky stucco tracts where buggy cypress bayheads and stifling piney woods used to stand.
Every time I turn on I know I'm participating in the assault on the environment. Maybe not throwing the punches, man, but helpin' to hold it down, you know? Pinning its arms back. Maybe kicking it in the ribs once before I walk away.
Just 'cause it makes me feel good.
Yes, I got the freon jones, man. I'm a BTU baby. I need that refrigerant bad. Keeps them palmetto bugs from buzzing round in my head. Soothes my body like a dry salve.
I'm hooked. Stoned cold. Tonight I'm goin' go home and set the thermostat on fifty-nine, man. Get out the electric blanket. When the bill comes I'll just skimp on groceries. Be late with the child support. Pawn some jewelry. Sell some plasma.
Anything to make my feet quit sweating. Anything to keep from sticking to the kitchen counter. Anything to get that squirrelly feeling out of my butt-skin.
Long as I can't hear them katydids I'll be fine.
That Confounded Bridge
from What've I Done?
In 1980 the old silver erector-set Sunshine Skyway bridge at the mouth of Tampa Bay was rammed by an errant ship, shaking chunks out of the southbound span and sending people — men, women, children, maybe a pet or two — plummeting to their deaths a short distance from Hernando de Soto's somewhat differently grisly landfall of 450 years previous.
The Skyway was actually two identical, two-lane bridges right next to each other, and the northbound span was unscathed. I was in grad school at USF at the time, and in a bit of morbid tourism a few of us took a break from pondering Sophists and Social Constructivism and drove down in the VW bus for a transit and a look-see.
As we crossed the good span, the bus rocked in the wind whistling through the open metal-lattice roadbed far above the green water. Alongside us was the place of horror, a great vacant space bracketed by twisted girders on the sister span less than a hundred feet away.
This I saw and knew only from the corner of my eye as I battled the wheel and felt the breadth of the missing span in the pit of my stomach, a Peterbilt on my ass the whole white-knuckled way.
The bridge was like people I'd known, their lives for a time parallel to mine, maybe even indistinguishable from mine if viewed from enough distance—then something happens: a misguided freighter, a failure of will, a character flaw—whatever—and suddenly there's this great yawning space where that other life was. Maybe some twisted remnants, but you can only glance over quickly because all your attention's on your own road with that Truck behind you.
This is an excerpt from my prize-winning essay Maintenance, first published in the 1990s. The Skyway incident happened on May 9, 1980.
Bruce and the Mini-subs
from What've I Done?
(A post from a few years back, ported over to this blog.)
Hearing stories from Dog Island post-Hurricane Hermine put me in mind of another aftermath, over ten years ago, when a storm surge from Hurricane Dennis inundated much of the island and left debris piles for months.
One standard-issue consequence of storm erosion is the emergence of septic tanks — vaguely submarine-like fiberglass vessels with what we'll call an ominous air about them. The one in the photo below reminded me of classic Civil War monitors, or even Japanese WWII mini-subs:
I captioned it “Hobie pontoon and mini-sub” and posted it to Flickr along with a set of post-storm photos. Here's another evocative poop-tank shot:
My late, greatly lamented illustrator friend Bruce Hall — always ready with Photoshop and a kindred twisted wit — saw it and used another of my shots from Lake Seminole to create this chilling historical re-enactment:
As I described it there:
Government secrecy has — until the release of this photo — concealed the scope of the “Battle of Thronateeska Landing”, which demonstrated the alarming extent of freshwater intrusion by hostile forces during WWII. Photo credit: Bruce Hall.
You may have seen the military memoir:
Of course, thoughts of small, unusual submersibles naturally led Bruce to the next discovery, which confirms the rumors that Only A Northern Song was about bathroom tissue:
And who can forget this classic adaptation of a less well-known Asimov sequel?
Nothing like the heady sophistication of toilet humor to get the creative juices flowing, I say.
I miss ya, Barce. Definitely a duller place here without you.
"Anna Karenina", de Lev Tolstoi.
from Ábrete mundo.
Acabé hace unos días la novela “Anna Karenina”, en traducción de Víctor Gallego Ballestero para Alba Editorial. Me gusta leer algún monumento literario de vez en cuando y el siglo XIX nos ha dejado novelones impresionantes.
En el relato se entremezcla la historia de Anna Karenina y la de otros personajes, principalmente la de Konstantín (Kostya) Dmítrievich Levin.
En esta novela, como en “Guerra y paz”, impresiona la profundidad psicológica de los personajes, además con perspectivas muy alejadas de la autoayuda, el coaching u otras formas de psicología pop contemporánea.
El personaje de Levin es tan protagonista de la novela como Anna Karenina y en buena medida es el principal vehículo de las reflexiones del autor sobre la vida, la sociedad y la religión. Acompañando al personaje de Levin, que es terrateniente, hay unas estupendas descripciones del rural ruso decimonónico que hacen fantasear con ir a hacer cicloturismo por alguno de esos parajes (que seguramente ya habrán cambiado mucho desde esas épocas).
De la manera en que reflexionan Levin y los demás personajes podemos pensar un poco en las diferencias entre este siglo XXI y el XIX. En ese siglo tenían un acceso a la información más limitada, pero probablemente, en un ambiente con menos “ruido comunicacional”, se reflexionaban las cosas más a fondo.
El personaje de Anna Karenina también tiene una evolución muy profunda a lo largo de la narración. Nos la presentan al principio de la novela como una mujer inteligente, serena y de buen corazón. La pasión por el conde Vronski la va transformando de manera profunda, de manera que casi lo único que subsiste de su ser original es su amor por su hijo Seriozha, personaje que también tiene cierto seguimiento a lo largo de la novela pero quedando abierta la cuestión de como será su carácter adulto, influido por su trayectoria vital. En un momento de gran desánimo, toda la gente con la que se le cruza por la calle le parece a Anna Karenina malvada y desagradable. Ejem ¿Alguna vez has tenido esa misma sensación?
El personaje del conde Vronski va cambiando de la personalidad de un joven adinerado, superficial e irresponsable a una persona con más fondo, aunque sin alcanzar ninguna redención.
Leyendo la historia del divorcio de Anna Karenina no pude dejar de pensar lo diferente que sería la situación hoy en día, la manera casi rutinaria en que se resolvería la situación, estableciéndose un régimen de visitas para Seriozha y una pensión de alimentos o quizás una custodia compartida. La situación se resolvería más limpiamente y con menos agonía, aunque las relaciones y emociones entre los divorciados podrían ser bastante parecidas en un divorcio contemporáneo.
Otra cosa que me llamó la atención de la novela es como las clases influyentes de la sociedad rusa de la época se las arreglaban para repartirse los puestos de poder y dinero, algo que me temo que es una constante de todas las sociedades capitalistas (y quizás de muchas no capitalistas) de todos los tiempos.
En la novela hacen una fugaz aparición un movimiento religioso de origen anglosajón que tiene rasgos bastante característicos de los evangelical (estilo estadounidense) de hoy en día, sobre los que Tolstói ofrece una mirada bastante negativa y, a mi parecer, acertada.
La novela, a pesar de no dejar de tener notas machistas, como es natural en una novela decimonónica, ofrece unos personajes femeninos muy potentes y complejos.
Me llamó la atención como muchos personajes tienen personalidades que reconoces en personas contemporáneas, que se podría pensar que son propias de esta época, pero que, a la luz de la novela, podemos ver que son tipos humanos mucho más constantes en la historia. Es el caso de Stiva, un personaje muy encantador y alegre, que cae simpático a todo el mundo, pero con un hedonismo egoísta y bastante amoral, que le lleva a poner los cuernos a su mujer y a buscar colarse en puestos bien retribuidos sin ningún problema moral, con una ligereza que podríamos pensar que es muy propia de este primer tercio del XXI.
Así que recomiendo la lectura de “Anna Karenina”, por ser una novela de personajes bien caracterizados, que te sumerge completamente en su espacio y tiempo, con un relato muy potente. Es una novela de considerable tamaño por lo que puede ser adecuado leerlo en varias tacadas, como si fuera una saga.
from Cleanzen Houston Cleaning Services
How to Choose a House Cleaning Company
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Check the Company’s Reputation
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Ask About Cleaner Screening and Training
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Review the Services Offered
Not all cleaning companies provide the same services. Some only offer basic cleaning, while others provide deep cleaning, move-in or move-out cleaning, recurring services, and specialty cleaning options. Choosing a company that offers a variety of services allows you to select the cleaning that best fits your home and lifestyle. Flexible service options are especially helpful if your cleaning needs change over time.
Look for Transparent Pricing
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Check Insurance and Service Guarantees
Professional cleaning companies often carry insurance to protect both their clients and employees in case of accidents or property damage. It is always a good idea to confirm that the company is insured before booking a service. Many reputable companies also offer satisfaction guarantees, meaning they will return and address any concerns if you are not fully satisfied with the cleaning results.
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Check the Company’s Reputation
One of the first things to consider when choosing a house cleaning company is its reputation. Look for companies that have positive customer reviews and testimonials. Online platforms and local listings can give you insight into the experiences of other homeowners. A company with consistently strong feedback is often a good sign of dependable service and customer satisfaction.
Ask About Cleaner Screening and Training
Another important factor is whether the company properly screens and trains its cleaners. Since cleaning professionals will be entering your home, you want to feel confident that they are trustworthy and skilled. Reputable cleaning companies typically conduct background checks, provide training, and maintain clear standards for their staff. This helps ensure that the cleaning team delivers consistent and professional results.
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Not all cleaning companies provide the same services. Some only offer basic cleaning, while others provide deep cleaning, move-in or move-out cleaning, recurring services, and specialty cleaning options. Choosing a company that offers a variety of services allows you to select the cleaning that best fits your home and lifestyle. Flexible service options are especially helpful if your cleaning needs change over time.
Look for Transparent Pricing
Pricing transparency is another key factor when selecting a cleaning company. A reliable provider should clearly explain their pricing structure and what is included in their service. Be cautious of companies that provide vague estimates or unusually low prices, as these may lead to hidden fees later. A trustworthy company will give you clear pricing and help you understand exactly what you are paying for.
Check Insurance and Service Guarantees
Professional cleaning companies often carry insurance to protect both their clients and employees in case of accidents or property damage. It is always a good idea to confirm that the company is insured before booking a service. Many reputable companies also offer satisfaction guarantees, meaning they will return and address any concerns if you are not fully satisfied with the cleaning results.
Evaluate Communication and Customer Support
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A Card Only Matters If It's Going to Kill You
from RethinkJeff
Magic is a complicated game. You can make it less complicated by not thinking about what cards do.
Panharmonicon? A neat card, does cool stuff, but it doesn't kill you.
Mentor of the Meek? Adds most of an Opt to all of your opponent's creatures, but it doesn't kill you.
Exquisite Blood? Part of an A+B combo with Sanguine Bond, but until then, it doesn't kill you.
A card that generates excessive value is a card that will kill you.
This is things that are generally going to statically two for one on a resource for you. Smothering Tithe, and Consecrated Sphinx are good examples of this. Rhystic Study is not. I have opinions on this, but that's for later.
Craterhoof Behemoth generates excessive value because you're making a dumb amount of power. Even then, it might not be enough to kill you.
It's okay to ignore cards that aren't going to kill you.
The common understanding in Commander is that 1 for 1 removal is bad, because it puts you down a card compared to your opponents. If you're killing cards that don't matter, that's true! However, we're only going to worry about cards that kill us.
It means we can leave up the one to three mana in the midgame for instant speed interaction, because we only care about cards that are going to kill us.
Sometimes, a card will get played that we know isn't going to kill us now, but will kill us later. That card is going to kill you. It's okay to think about it.
#MagicTheGathering #EDH #Commander
Positive Antagonistic Propaganda
from RethinkJeff
This is a post about propaganda. It is not about about the example I use.
Propaganda is, for lack of a better phrase, fucking insidious. You have to be extremely aware of it! Positive Antagonistic Propaganda especially so, and it's one of the reasons why you should hire someone that does messaging professionally to make sure you don't do your opponents' work for them.
Positive Antagonistic Propaganda is about getting your opponents to do your work for you. You create a messaging program that they can agree with unexamined, and then they do the work for you! Propaganda is not always about convincing you to do something. Sometimes it is about making it harder for you to do something.
The example I'm going to use to talk about this is, “No one is illegal on stolen land.” Again, this is not about this statement. I think most of the people saying this have good intentions. You should not tell strangers to stop saying this, because you're wasting the time and energy of people you agree with. This is about how good intentions can support your opponents' movement.
The problems with this statement, in no particular order: * The predication of one truth on another. * The combination of controversial topics to shift attention away from both. * The choir preaching problem.
People use this statement in the context of immigration, and that's what it's about. The point is, “No one is illegal.” When you add a predicate, you automatically concede the point that there are conditions in which some people are illegal, and you make it easier to reject your premise. I no longer have to argue against your stance on immigration, I can argue against your stance on landback. Which isn't the conversation you're trying to have! It also makes it so that even if you win, you introduce other complications. No one is illegal on stolen land, sure, but now you have to defend against people saying that folks can be illegal in other conditions.
Each of these issues on their own is controversial. Combining them into one statement, attaches all of the problems of each to the other, without attaching any of the positive points. You now have people on the fence about things, talking about their perceived negative arguments about the other topic, instead of the actual point. This is about immigration, but now you've attached peoples' negative sentiments about landback to immigration. (This can happen in the other direction too, but I don't know anyway that's pro-landback but anti-immigration. This person could exist, but I can't even conceive of a strawman lol.) You're losing people that would have been an easy win, because now you've made them worried about something else.
The point of messaging is to convince people of something. “No one is illegal on stolen land” only engages people who already agree with you. I'll write a post about political activation eventually, but for now, what you need to understand is that, fundamentally, the phrase only reaches people you agree with, and then spends their political activation, while giving your opponents will to engage with their own, effective talking points. It's a bad deal all around.
No real conclusion here, mostly education about the weird dumb ways propaganda works. Focus on the points you are making, and give your opponent the fewest edges to grab on to, so that it's harder for them to distract you from the point you are trying to make.
#politics #propaganda
Elder Goblin Highlander
from RethinkJeff
Like playing commander, but mad about power levels/fast mana/ramp/no more battlecruiser magic? I have the solution! It's Elder Goblin Highlander (#EGH)!
What is EGH?
EGH uses the same rules as commander, except that you can only include cards with mana value four or greater in your deck. This includes your commander! You also get two basic lands in your command zone, because I don't want to wait around for you to make good deckbuilding decisions and mulligan.
Why is EGH?
Basically all of the complaints about commander come from cards that cost three or less mana. Now, you don't have to worry about them!
Split Cards, Adventures, and cards with abilities that can be activated from hand for less than four mana
If you're trying to cast a spell for less than four mana, that's a no go, because then people start jamming all the split cards they can for advantage, and booooo on your house! This is easy for split cards, but harder for things like Adventures/MDFCs. Talk to your playgroup, but the idea is that you shouldn't be casting spells before turn four. A possible split difference is if you force Fuse casting on spells that have that option.
Activated abilities, like cycling, should be fine! We've done limited playtesting mostly around things like Krosan Tusker and Yidaro, and it played fine. If you run into problems let me know!
Banlist
In our playtesting and thought experiments, there wasn't much that arose as too problematic. Consider using the regular commander banlist, but also most of the cards there that are a pain are also less than four mana, big exceptions being Prophet of Kruphix and Primeval Titan.
A big exception to this are four and five mana smokestack effects. For this reason, the following cards are banned:
Smokestack Braids, Cabal Minion Descent Into Madness Keruga, the Macrosage is banned as a companion.
You should not play cards that look like these cards. They generate non games, and the only reason to play them is to make non-games. Braids, especially, if you go first you can just play 99 swamps and then your opponents never get to cast spells.
The biggest thing is don't be a jerk! Stax is fine (though difficult, a lot of stax pieces cost less than four mana), being a jerk about it is not.
#MagicTheGathering #CustomMagicFormats #CustomMagicRules
Anguish gripped Achilles
from What've I Done?
This is my hello-world post on this platform. I like the no-distractions writing interface. I'll keep the old blog as an archive for now.
I started developing pain in my right heel a little over a month ago. Feels a little like plantar fasciitis, which I had a few years back. Some mornings the first few steps would be really painful until my foot sort of loosened up. Although the symptoms would sometimes abate, they kept coming back, so I made an appointment with a local orthopedic surgeon to have a look.
They started with a couple of xrays, which showed no breaks or tears: https://flic.kr/p/2rK3cee.
The doc pretty quickly diagnosed it as Achilles' tendonitis and said that it might have required surgery if left untreated!
The upshot: I'm wearing a “boot” for the next couple of weeks to immobilize my ankle. It's a heavy, Velcro-loaded piece of footwear with super-high arch support and a snug inflatable pocket for my heel. The med tech who fitted it said it would feel like wearing a high-heeled shoe.
So now I know how that feels. My drag career may not be happening.
I can get around in it fine but feel a bit like Herman Munster. Walking around on our hardwood floors makes an ominous, shuffle-clump, approaching-horror sound. Driving with it on is basically impossible, but I can remove the boot whenever sitting or lying down, so I'm not trapped in the house. I've already confirmed that I can make it to the pub and play pool.
So at the moment it's basically an inconvenience. I still get a little pain from the heel now and then, but I can already tell after a couple of days that I'm not making it worse. We'll see how it goes....
Update May 2026: greatly improved, mainly due to stretches prescribed by the physical therapist.
from De avonturen van Koffie de kat
3 Halloween in de zomer?
Hittegolven zijn slechts tijdelijke fenomenen: vaak worden ze opgevolgd door een periode van koelere lucht al dan niet gepaard met regenbuien. Waardoor we de ramen en deuren openhielden tot het begon te regenen. We hadden onze zwarte bezoeker nog eenmaal opgemerkt in de tuin, maar daarna niets meer.
De eerste dag van afkoeling was zalig: de drukkende hitte leek gebroken. We konden terug iets of wat rustig slapen. Tot opeens Mus wakker schoot en zei dat ze iets had gehoord. Mus hoort nu eenmaal beter dan ikzelf, maar ik dacht dat ze het zich had ingebeeld omdat ik niet hoorde wat zij hoorde. Je weet wel: typisch mannelijke patriarchale betweterij. Ze bleef echter volhouden dat ze iets hoorde in de gang, maar het geluid verdween toen ze ging kijken. Na een paar valse alarmen werd het geluid persistenter. En zowaar: ik hoorde ook een geluid in de gang. Het leek wel een zacht gemiauw. Dus vertrokken wij samen op onverschrokken speurtocht door ons huis naar de bron van het geluid.
Kamer na kamer: all clear, niets te zien, rien à signaler. Tot we in de laatste kamer keken en het licht aandeden in een kleine gastenkamer op de tweede verdieping: helemaal in het duister tegen een muur zat een zwart hoopje vacht heel erg zachtjes te miauwen. Als we een stap dichterbij zetten, trok het zich terug naar een hoek van de kamer. We hebben niets tegen occasioneel (liefst aangekondigd) bezoek, maar deze vreemdeling hadden we toch echt niet verwacht. Terwijl Mus op een vriendelijke toon miauw geluiden maakte, ging ik naar de mezzanine en draaide er het raam open dat uitgaf op het platte dak van de keuken. Net toen ik terug de eerste trede van de trap wou opgaan, zag ik een zwarte stofwolk langs de trap naar beneden stuiven, en halverwege de trap een noemenswaardige – zeg maar heroïsche sprong maken door het raam. De landing op het dak was slechts het beginpunt van een Olympische spurt, die leidde naar van muur tot muur tussen de aangrenzende huizen. In een paar seconden verdween het zwarte bezoek tussen een paar bomen.
Mus kwam naast me staan en vroeg waar dat zwarte geval naartoe was. “Geen idee”, antwoordde ik. We deden het raam terug toe, en ik stelde voor dat we de zwarte schim een naam zouden geven. Na wat voorstellen, werd de allitererende naam “Zwarte Zwerver” toegekend. Waarom zwerver? Alhoewel de kat er vrij gezond uitzag, hadden we geen bandje rond zijn of haar nek gezien, waardoor we aannamen dat het hoogstwaarschijnlijk een schichtige zwerfkat was.
Maar was die kat echt wel een zwerfkat?
from De avonturen van Koffie de kat
2 Nog meer ontmoetingen in het schemerduister.
De hittegolf nam af, maar het bleef nog steeds tropisch warm overdag. 's Avonds koelde het af naar warm. Ik keek iedere avond een paar keer nieuwsgierig rond in ons tuintje, maar er was weinig te bespeuren.
Tot een paar dagen later...
Die duistere schim weer opdook in het schemerduister. Minutenlang bleven we elkaar aanstaren. Toen ik iets te luid zuchtte, schoot de gitzwarte schaduw bliksemsnel weer de ladder op en verdween in de nacht. “Nou ja”, dacht ik bij mezelf, “we zien wel hoe dat evolueert”.
Tot de volgende nacht er een forse zilvergrijze schim de ladder afdaalde. Een andere kat! Jarenlang was zowel figuurlijk als letterlijk geen kat in de tuin te zien. En nu op een paar dagen tijd twee verschillende katten? Interessant, niet? Blijkbaar is er iets in onze tuin dat katten mogelijk interessant vinden. Of misschien is er sprake van een territorium uitbreiding?
De zilvergrijze scherm bleek een mooie forse Chartreuse kat te zijn, die me met een nogal hautain blik leek te keuren. Voorzichtig stak ik mijn hand uit naar de kat, maar die draaide en toonde me zijn mooie rug terwijl ie rustig de ladder terug opklom. Een dergelijke afkeuring is niet echt bevorderlijk voor mijn zelfbeeld, langs de andere kant hecht ik weinig waarde aan het oordeel van een dier.
Mijn nieuwsgierigheid was geprikkeld, dus zat ik regelmatig 's avonds in het schemerduister rustig af te wachten op occasioneel dierlijk bezoek. De rest van de week was er weinig te zien.
Tot we 's avonds laat in de woonkamer naar de televisie zaten te turen. Vanuit mijn ooghoek zag ik iets bewegen in de open keukendeur. Ik gaf mijn vriendin een lichte por en wees naar de deuropening, want daar was een duidelijk afgetekende zwarte kattenkop. Voorzichtig probeerde Mus de kat te lokken door zachtjes “Poes, poes, poes” te zeggen. Waarop het zwarte kattenkopje snel oploste in de duisternis van de keuken.
Ik stond op en ging naar de keuken waar er, alweer, niets te zien was. Ook in de badkamer was er geen levend wezen te bespeuren. Toen ik in de tuin keek, zag ik nog net een zwarte staart over de ladder naar het dak verdwijnen. Jammer...
from De avonturen van Koffie de kat
1 Ontmoeting in het schemerduister
Het begon allemaal op een hele warme zomeravond. Je weet wel: dat soort avonden die maar een heel klein beetje verkoeling brengt na een quasi ondraaglijke hittegolf. Warm genoeg om alle ramen en deuren open te gooien en de arme airco wat te laten afkoelen — ja, dat soort avond dus.
Een van die open deuren geeft uit op ons tuintje. Nu ja: tuin... Een kleine koer want we hebben een stadswoning in een sterk bebouwde stad. Het is net groot genoeg voor een druivelaar en een paar bakken kruidenplanten. Da's nu eenmaal het lot van stadsbewoners. Maar ik wijk af.
Langs onze aangebouwde badkamer staat een ladder die ik had gebruikt om de dakgoot uit schoon te maken, maar had laten staan uit zuivere luiheid. Wist ik veel dat deze ladder uiteindelijk een portaal zou worden...
Die bewuste zomeravond ging ik even naar de badkamer om – nu ja, je weet wel waarvoor badkamers gebruikt worden, dat hoef ik je toch niet uit te leggen. Vanuit mijn ooghoek zag ik iets heel erg donker, zeg maar zwart, in de tuin. Ik kon me echt niet herinneren zoiets in de tuin te hebben gelegd, dus besloot ik maar om het van naderbij te bekijken.
Bleek dat het zwarte voorwerp een kat was. Een volwassen kat. Zwart, zwarter dan zwart. Zwarter dan roet. Even zwart als een sterrenloos stukje ruimte.
En dat zwart hoopje kat staarde me aan. Beiden staarden we elkaar bewegingsloos aan. En toen ik diep ademhaalde, schoot die zwarte kat als een bliksemschicht de ladder op om te verdwijnen in het schemerlicht van de valavond.
“Interessant”, dacht ik, terwijl ik terug naar binnenging. Ik vertelde Mus — niet een vogel maar mijn vriendin met wie ik samen in ons stadshuis verblijf, van mijn ongewone ontmoeting. We vonden het een beetje intrigerend. Wij zijn beiden diervriendelijk, maar hebben door omstandigheden op dit ogenblik geen huisdier(en).
Wordt vervolgd...
#koffie #kat #koffie-de-kat #koffiedekat
"VENGADORES: LA ERA DE ULTRÓN" Y LA ESTÉTICA DEL MOVIMIENTO M.A.G.A.
from Ábrete mundo.
Este fin de semana me senté con mi hijo a ver la película “Vengadores: La era de Ultrón”, e incluso llegamos a ver una parte de su secuela “Vengadores: Infinity War” y me impresionó mucho la fuerte presencia de arquetipos de la derecha populista iliberal, o sea, del movimiento MAGA y similares.
Destaca la figura de Tony Stark-Iron Man, el tecnoligarca, que respresenta un tipo de personaje que en los últimos años ha sido importantísimo en el movimiento reaccionario, con personajes como Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg o Peter Thiel. Lo presentan bajo una luz muy favorable, un mago que salva a la humanidad con su tecnología mágica y conduce el mundo hacia el futuro. La forma aspiracional del tecnoligarca es el criptobró y cierta estirpe de emprendedores adultescentes en cuyos modales a veces de adivina la influencia de Tony Stark. En el caso de Elon Musk, la retroalimentación con el personaje de Tony Stark es muy significativa, es difícil saber si Tony Stark imita a Elon Musk, si Musk diseña su imagen pública buscando el parecido con Stark o es más bien una mezcla de ambas cosas.
Siguiendo con Tony Stark, resulta dolorosa la transformación de Spiderman en sus películas. Peter Parker era un chico de clase trabajadora, con escasísima conciencia de clase pero de clase trabajadora y con valores de clase trabajadora. En algunas de sus últimas películas Peter Parker-Spiderman se convierte en ilusionado empleado de Tony Stark y es el millonario el elemento motriz de su vida, el que hace que le pasen cosas y prospere, y Peter Parker busca ser validado por su líder-patrón con una actitud de entrega propia de un perro faldero. El rol de Tony Stark en la vida de Spiderman y en la de otros personajes recuerda a la del Tío Gilito en la vida de sus sobrinos, pues es el magnate el que hace que pasen las cosas y Donald, Juanito, Jaimito y Jorgito disfrutan de aventuras y una vida excitante en tanto en cuanto se arrimen al magnate y sigan sus instrucciones. A un rol así se ha visto reducido Spiderman.
Junto con la figura del tecnoligarca, en estas películas de los vengadores también está representado el hiper-macho, esa estética cultivada por Desokupa, el Batallón Azov y muchas peñas ultras futbolísticas, en “La era de Ultrón” representado por el vikingo Thor. La figura del hiper-macho, supermusculado, con estética entre neonazi y yihadista, se ha extendido mucho en los últimos años, probablemente con cierta relación en la película “300” y con cierta relación con la postmoderna doctrina queer. Al no ser la condición de hombre o mujer una simple circunstancia biológica si no una autoidentificación con un cánon de género establecido social o comercialmente, volvemos al viejo problema pre-feminista de que había que demostrar que se es un hombre de verdad si es que uno se autoidentifica como tal, por lo que se hacen necesarios modelos incuestionablemente masculinos a los que adherirse, y ahí está la ultraderecha, como antaño el ejército, para validarte como macho.
El Capitán América representa el arquetipo del W.A.S.P. tradicional, en este caso con un sesgo militarista, pues este Capitán América de las películas de los Vengadores aparece caracterizado como un yonqui de la guerra. En estas películas el Capitán América ha perdido las connotaciones liberales y antifascistas que solían impregnarlo en los comics.
¿Y Wakanda? Un país situado en el tercer mundo pero redimido por la tecnología y un estilo castrense, al estilo del publicista y político Bukele.
El único perfil del movimiento reaccionario que eché de menos en estas películas de los Vengadores fue el del reaccionario cristiano, tipo evangélico fundamentalista o católico integrista tipo J. D. Vance. Por lo que veo la religión es bastante tabú en el cine, lo que puede explicar la ausencia de ese perfil. La única presencia de lo religioso en estas películas es la versión comiquera de la teosofía representada por el Doctor Strange.