Jeremy.

Jeremy.
Jeremy.
@jeremy@blog.jeremynathanial.com

My blog for extended length posting on gardening, tinkering, and rants.

Main social account: @germ@deletethis.lol

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  • Assassin’s Fate is the Definitive Ending You’ve Been Waiting For

    I’m suffering from the mother of all book hangovers, and Robin Hobb is to blame. Assassin’s Fate is here to destroy your ability to read another book for months.

    A lot of people say they grew up with Harry Potter. I get to say that I grew up with FitzChivalry Farseer, and it’s made me every bit as snooty as that sounds.

    We were boys together, when Fitz first met the Fool and Nighteyes. We shared our first rocky relationships. When Hobb came back to Fitz for a second trilogy, we were both grown ups, seeing the world with matured eyes.

    Fool’s Fate felt like it wanted to be the ending for the series, but there was something missing.  We weren’t quite there yet. Hobb must have agreed. After leaving The Realm of the Elderlings to write The Soldier Son Trilogy, she returned to write seven more novels.

    After more than twenty years and seventeen books since we met Fitz, I can say that we have finally reached a solid conclusion.

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  • My Favorite Things in 2016!

    My Favorite Things in 2016!

    2016. The Year of the Reaper.

    What a wild ride. We lost our heroes, we lost our favorite bars. Goodbye Eagle. Goodbye Black Crown. Some parts of the world were turned inside out and upside down, while other parts put an egomaniac in the highest office of power. Oh? And Pebble? The greatest smart watch there ever was? Gone.

    Sigh.

    Despite 2016 going down in the books as a Very Terrible Year, it’s actually been a pretty great one for me. Which is wild – I’ve been dreading this year my whole life. The year I turn 30.

    But I made it a year of transition, and managed to shift my life in a different direction for this next chapter. I left my stifling, corporate dominated job of 11 years and started new. A new job, in a new home, as I gradually inch closer and closer to city life. I fell in crazy, stupid, mushy love, and was lucky enough to travel. International, for the first time. Iceland, Australia – you were wonderful. But I still like Seattle the best.

    It’s been a pretty great year for nerds too. Especially gamers! I’m dizzy from the amount of great games that came out in the last three months alone. Some of these I’ve been looking forward to… since… well, the last time I did one of these posts.

    I didn’t get to see, read, or play everything. But here are some of my favorite things I did have time for this year.

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  • LiveJournal, ICQ, Forums & Fan Sites: What Happened to Our Internet?

    The other night, a friend and I took a brave trip down memory lane into our first years with LiveJournal. What we found was, unsurprisingly, horrifying. Eleven years ago, we were completely different people. We over-shared, we over-emoted, and felt no fear in doing so.

    But so did everyone else. The internet was a very different place, back then.

    Our generation had the unique position of growing up with the internet. As we first began to find our voices, define ourselves and finally venture out into the world, so too was the internet still finding its legs. Not many people even knew what to do with the internet, beyond knowing that they should have an e-mail address (so you can forward chain mail). We ran no risk of running into our parents on social networking sites. There was no worry of your employers seeing the post about your bad day at work. It was rare to even find your friends on-line. The internet was a refuge from all these things.

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  • My Favorite Things of 2012!

    My Favorite Things of 2012!

    It’s been years since I’ve done one of these. But they’re some of my favorite LiveJournal posts to look back on, so why not resume the tradition?

    2012 was a busy year for me, and most of my leisure time was spent grinding in a panic to complete as much as possible in FFXIV before the servers went down. I missed a lot of things. Many of these I probably won’t get to for another year yet. As such, this is by no means a comprehensive, absolute best of the best list. Don’t jump down my throat because I didn’t list Assassin’s Creed III – I’m sure it was amazing! I bet that one book you keep telling me to read was great too. I just haven’t done it yet. These are some things I did get to, and happened to enjoy an awful lot.

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