When a soldier's son vanishes at a US consulate, she illegally
remains on the premises to search for him, unknowingly entangling
herself in a dangerous conspiracy.
In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched
Exterritorial. The movie was
OK and I give it a 6 out of 10.
Wicked King Casmir cannot control Madouc, the wild and willful
changeling secretly switched at birth with Prince Dhrun, rightful
heir to the throne. So Casmir ordains a quest: whosoever brings him
the Holy Grail will have Madouc for his bride. But the fairy-born
princess chooses to decide her own fate, and sets out with a stable
boy to find the grail herself. Meanwhile, a spiteful wizard seeks to
undo the spell that prevents the war-torn Elder Isles from sinking
into the sea.
The third volume in Grandmaster Jack Vance’s Lyonesse trilogy brings
the epic tale of the Elder Isles to its magnificent and melancholy
conclusion. Madouc won the World Fantasy Award for best novel.
In the afternoon I started in
Madouc by Jack Vance,
the final book in the Lyonesse trilogy. My copy of the ebook came with
a great image cover by Luc Desmarchelier.
In the 1980s, a determined criminal-minded Cuban immigrant becomes
the biggest drug smuggler in Miami, and is eventually undone by his
own drug addiction.
In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched
Scarface. Although a bit slow
at times I liked the movie and give it a 7 out of 10.
In the second volume of the Lyonesse trilogy, new threads are woven
into the epic tapestry begun in Suldrun’s Garden. While war rages
across the Elder Isles, King Aillas’s true love, Glyneth, is carried
off to a parallel world by an amoral magician in the pay of the
wicked King Casmir. Meanwhile, a sorceress’s malice, condensed into
a green pearl, passes from hand to hand bringing poignant misery to
whomever it touches.
Jack Vance conjures up a tale of war and politics, magic and
derring-do, presented in the inimitable style that has made him one
of fantasy’s acknowledged grandmasters.
In the afternoon I started in The Green
Pearl by Jack Vance,
book 2 in the Lyonesse trilogy. My copy of the ebook came with a great
cover image by Luc Desmarchelier.
A smarter Dockerfile linter that helps you build best practice
Docker
images.
The linter is parsing the Dockerfile into an AST and performs rules on
top of the AST. It additionally is using the famous
Shellcheck to lint the
Bash code inside RUN instructions.
In the evening I checked out a Dockerfile
Linter with some of my Dockerfiles.
Today I used the so called quotient rule for logarithms: log(a/b) = log(a) -
log(b), to eliminate a call to the log function twice in the tag cloud
algorithm I use in tumblelog.
After I had optimised the tag cloud algorithm of tumblelog in both
the Perl and Python version I posted the Python version of the
algorithm in reply to a question on Stack
Overflow.
Also today I made the Dockerfile for
resume-pandoc more
robust. This is a LaTeX resume template for Pandoc and can be used to
generate a PDF of a resume written in Markdown.
A pilot transports an Air Marshal accompanying a fugitive to
trial. As they cross the Alaskan wilderness, tensions soar and trust
is tested, as not everyone on board is who they seem.
In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched Flight
Risk. I liked the movie and
give it a 7 out of 10.
In the afternoon I finished The
Asutra by Jack Vance,
the final book in the Durdane trilogy. It was a very good reread. I
can highly recommend the Durdane trilogy!
Take a doomed princess, a dispossessed prince and a wicked king, a
vengeful magician and a melancholy witch; now add faeries, ogres,
changelings, scheming barons, wanderers who are not what they seem,
robbers, orphans, and a race of hardbitten warriors at war with all
humanity. Stir in politics, intrigue, plots and assassinations,
battles and sieges, then set it all to simmer in a mythical
archipelago across the western sea before the time of Arthur.
Jack Vance draws together the threads of fairy tale and pagan myth
to weave an epic tapestry of adventure and intrigue in the Elder
Isles. The result is a masterpiece.
In the afternoon I started in Suldrun's
Garden by Jack Vance,
book 1 in the Lyonesse trilogy. My copy of the ebook came with a great
cover image by Luc Desmarchelier.
Gastel Etzwane and his army of Brave Free Men have driven the
Roguskhoi from Durdane, only to discover that Durdane is but one
tiny front- a testing ground- for an implacable enemy intent on
subjugating all the worlds of man. Gastel and his people are in no
position to resist, but must find a way to escape a slave army,
forced to fight a war that is not their own, and defeat the Asutra!
In the afternoon I started in The
Asutra by Jack Vance,
the final book in the Durdane trilogy. My ebook copy came with nice
cover art by Konstantin Korobov.