🔆 Doc 🔆 @doctorsidrat@fandom.ink

Hello mastodon people! I'm Doc, 30-something librarian in SoCal. Same username on Dreamwidth/Twitter, if you'd like to visit or follow me there.

Day 3 (or 4?) of being sick with a snotty cold & I HATE ITTTTttttt 😷

Waiting for the train to go to my conference this weekend, and it's been delayed by 1.5 hours. 💀

"And your iPhone doesn’t only feed data trackers while you sleep. In a single week, I encountered over 5,400 trackers, mostly in apps, not including the incessant Yelp traffic. According to privacy firm Disconnect, which helped test my iPhone, those unwanted trackers would have spewed out 1.5 gigabytes of data over the span of a month."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/05/28/its-middle-night-do-you-know-who-your-iphone-is-talking/

#privacy #internetprivacy

Oops, just deleted two books I'd bought but DNF'd years ago. Uh. 😱

I am also deleting books I've read and don't plan on rereading! (Again, just free ones.) That's fun, too.

Going through my ebook library & deleting (free) books I've had for 5+ years and never read is fun! Now if only I could feel okay about deleting the ones I PAID for...

I have to do a lot of emails now for work, and I will totally be using these tips.

I checked out Murder on the Orient Express (book, paper) but honestly if anyone has an #GLBTQ mysteries (with romance as a bonus??) to recommend, plz send them over. —I can also provide recs for ones I’ve enjoyed, if ya want!

#books #bookrecs #mystery

Horrible busy day at work, but now I have a three day weekend to decompress & read books! And next week a genealogy conference to go to! 🎉

16 year old me would be mortified by all the leg stubble that 31 year old me can’t be bothered to shave 😴

(Getting older is fun, I’ve definitely stopped caring about certain things that stressed me tf out in high school.)

I loved KJ Charles’ ANY OLD DIAMONDS, a historical GLBTQ (m/m) romance with jewel thieves and heavy emotional stuff: https://books.doctorsidrat.com/any-old-diamonds-by-k-j-charles-2019/

#bookreview #romance #historicalfiction

Looking at RVs to purchase & am like “do I ACTUALLY want to spend $$$ to live in a tin can?” Not really, but I also don’t want to buy a cheap older model and end up spending $$$ anyway on repairs 🤔🤔

I wrote a #bookreview! It's for a 1928 #mystery book, the first in the Miss Silver series. GREY MASK: https://books.doctorsidrat.com/grey-mask-by-patricia-wentworth-1928/

(Let me know if anything's broken; I just got the site up today.)

Anyway, partly this came up because I just read two books this weekend and I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THEM. Normally I'd just put them on my Dreamwidth account, but I like adding personal things to my own, self-hosted webspace. Easier to back-up, for one, and I can use plugins to make it look fancy.

So I've decided that it's time to let my old book blog go. I haven't blogged there since, uh, 2016, and every time I think about starting it up again I start feeling anxious.

Instead, I'm going to close it (as in, actually delete the blog) and start a NEW book blog as an subdomain to my "fandom and whatnot" website. Meanwhile, I MIGHT turn the old book blog domain into a Shopify store, perhaps? It's a good domain name!

I think re: the TV it’s because I have an older Samsung model that can’t be updated any more, and that network bug has a fix in the newer software versions. (See: https://forums.plex.tv/t/bug-plex-for-tizen-just-stops-playing/239303/7?u=littlebro) But the iPad app should work fine, as it mostly worked fine with the Laptop!Plex server.