Comprar LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO (editorial Libros del Futuro)

Sinopsis:

Bran tuvo una adolescencia complicada, y su vida adulta no es mejor. Una sucesión de pérdidas familiares, una gran cicatriz en la cara y sus circunstancias personales han forjado en ella una personalidad esquiva.

Y como si fuera una maldición añadida, la protagonista hereda y debe hacerse cargo de una casa familiar, epicentro de buena parte de las desgracias que se abatieron sobre sus seres queridos.

Una visita a la enmohecida y arruinada vivienda, ubicada en un pequeño pueblo madrileño, sumergirá a Bran en una travesía angustiante por túneles oscuros, estancias claustrofóbicas y seres terroríficos.

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Portada de LA ATALAYA RECORTADA CONTRA EL CIELO

Quinta de la Fuente del Berro, Madrid

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Sorry you had to find out this way . . .

Most accurate summary every.

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The Price of Salt is, in my opinion, a very beautiful novel. The recent movie Carol, featuring Cate Blanchett and Roonie Mara, is based in this book and rather faithful.

Highsmith's crime novels like Strangers on a Train are also brilliant.

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All Highsmith's work is very recommendable. The Ripley series are very good books, special The Talented Mr. Ripley and Ripley's Game (which also was made into two movies: one by Wim Venders and a later one, better in my opinion, by Liliana Cavani featuring John Malkovich).

This _Plain Soleil_ french movie has a very different ending that the book and the remake movie that I consider more interesting and shocking.

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«nadie se extrañará si os digo que no ha sido un éxito abrumador»

Didn't realize my wireless plan capped tethering speeds, but now it makes sense. When your phone gets ~10-15 mbps and your tethered computer gets .5 or .6 consistently, you know they're screwing w/ the service you paid for.

Welp, I'm ashamed it took me this long to realize, but changing the TTL on my computer seems to have released the throttling.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/cmxp66/2019_bypass_verizon_hotspot_throttle_no_root/

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A reminder. Religion and traditions are just peer pressure from dead people who maybe have never even existed.

Yo creo que todo esta ralea fascista está haciendo más a favor de un gobierno progresista que ningún esfuerzo de la izquierda.

https://www.enriquedans.com/2023/11/quiere-usted-hacerse-dano.html

estoy en shock.

https://elpais.com/babelia/2023-11-10/las-hijas-de-la-criada-el-fallido-folletin-de-sonsoles-onega-y-la-autoinmolacion-del-premio-planeta.html

Ningún creyente individual es responsable

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You're great, people ❤️

Don't forget to read the guide before upgrading:

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I accidentally dropped it on a client's facilities and cracked a marble floor. No kidding.

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So, if the instruments are the hardware and the toolkit, and the interpreter is the compiler, then it's more or less true that music is the object and the sheets are the source.

Similarly, one may consider a MIDI file source code for music.

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This exactly.

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@LaComtesseJamie writes: I'm amazed by people who lose weight w exercise. When | exercise nothing happens bc my DNA still thinks I'm a European peasant. So it's like "Oh! Are we running from the English again, lass? Dinnae ye worry: we'll keep ye plump as a partridge to outlast the murderous bastards!"

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This is Ángel Ortega, crime and horror fiction writer and former systems programmer (on space, avionics and cryptography environments).

My first contact with a #UNIX system was on 1989 on a Sun Sparcstation 2 running #SunOS. I discovered #Linux on 1993 with the SLS distribution. I ditched all Microsoft software on 1999 and moved all my computers to Linux and never looked back.

My first encounter with #OpenBSD (inside a VM) was circa 2015. I was debugging a ground station software that was complicated as hell and had some memory leaks and was driving me mad; a friend of mine recommended compiling my beast on OpenBSD because the memory management is very different and it immediately crashed on a place I never expected. That filled my heart with bliss.

My first experience with OpenBSD in real hardware was on a laptop in 2020. Everything worked (except Bluetooth because, you know, there is no Bluetooth support on OpenBSD). I finally had to install Linux on that laptop because of reasons and my heart was a bit broken.

I now have OpenBSD on a tiny Toshiba NB 200. It's 32 bit, so no Firefox for poor old Ángel, but I don't really care because I used it mostly for fiction writing and remote server maintenance while on coffee shops, libraries or parks. Battery usage is great. Everything works like a charm.

I love OpenBSD because it's compact. It makes me feel like on a vintage UNIX system, simple and solid. Native tools and servers share lookalike configuration files. Man pages are awesome af. It includes a C compiler in its base system and that means "I am a real Operating System" to me. I love security is one of its main goals. OpenBSD hackers are brilliant, stubborn, unique people.

I don't love the filesystem.

I don't care that it's a bit slower than other OSes.

If you haven't tried OpenBSD, do it this October.

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His name will be revealed tomorrow. This one may be tough since he is so young and not a celebrity in the traditional sense.

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Give your honest answer below, even if you’re not sure.

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Out of these four movies directed by Quentin Tarantino, which is your favorite, and why?

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Va a quedar una edición de mi libro TAN guay que ya le gustaría a cualquier editorial tenerla. Es que estoy segura xD

Great movie and great book.

https://www.thisman.org/oldsite/

Creo que las he visto todas, pero sí, un maratón no estaría mal. Aunque algunas no serán fáciles de encontrar.

@jmadelman @NBarreyre
Historians are, unfortunately, no more immune to hype and marketing than other humans under late capitalism.

Here's hoping someone creates a Karikó Prize, to be awarded annually to someone that academia kicked to the curb and who went on to change the world anyway. Of course, there should also be a UPenn prize every year for the most egregious example of an academic institution failing to support someone when it would have mattered but later taking credit for their work anyway.

The University of Pennsylvania is acting proud of Katalin Karikó now that she's won a Nobel. But they kicked her out of her research assistant professor job when she insisted on doing the work that won her that prize:

"She recalls spending one Christmas and New Year’s Eve conducting experiments and writing grant applications. But many other scientists were turning away from the field, and her bosses at UPenn felt mRNA had shown itself to be impractical and she was wasting her time. They issued an ultimatum: if she wanted to continue working with mRNA she would lose her prestigious faculty position, and face a substantial pay cut.

”It was particularly horrible as that same week, I had just been diagnosed with cancer,” said Karikó. “I was facing two operations, and my husband, who had gone back to Hungary to pick up his green card, had got stranded there because of some visa issue, meaning he couldn’t come back for six months. I was really struggling, and then they told me this."

"While undergoing surgery, Karikó assessed her options. She decided to stay, accept the humiliation of being demoted, and continue to doggedly pursue the problem. This led to a chance meeting which would both change the course of her career, and that of science."

Elsewhere she recalled:

“I thought of going somewhere else, or doing something else. I also thought maybe I’m not good enough, not smart enough."

She's now an adjunct in UPenn's neurosurgery department. Will they fast-track her for tenure now that she has a Nobel, or just live with the shame?

Both quotes here come from interesting stories. The first is from here:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech

The second is from here:

https://billypenn.com/2020/12/29/university-pennsylvania-covid-vaccine-mrna-kariko-demoted-biontech-pfizer/

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“Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman are brilliant researchers who represent the epitome of scientific inspiration and determination. Day after day, Dr. Weissman, Dr. Karikó and their teams worked tirelessly to unlock the power of mRNA as a therapeutic platform, not knowing the way in which their work could serve to meet a big challenge the world would one day face,” said Penn President Liz Magill. “With the truest devotion to their field, they’ve already promised they will not stop here, and that is the greatest inspiration of all. Our Penn community is enormously proud of their groundbreaking achievements and this well-deserved recognition.” From https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/katalin-kariko-and-drew-weissman-penns-historic-mrna-vaccine-research-team-win-2023-nobel

Gracias por su interés.

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