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Game of Thrones Season 8 ending predictions

Related imageTime for some GoT season 8 speculation :p. At least we now know the ‘Last Battle’ with the armies of the dead will be at Winterfell, aptly named like Hodor, which again shows GRRM knew what he was doing when he started publishing the whole shebang 27 years ago.

As to my speculative bona fides (and some of you may remember this 😉 ) … After book 5’s release in 2011 (and then when Jon Snow’s stabbing was filmed in season 5 (2015)), I predicted he’d be back, unlike Ned and Robb before him, which would be GRRM’s signal that Act 3 was underway …

So, without further ado, how might GoT end?

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Posted by on November 5, 2018 in Book Reviews, Passive Media, TV reviews

 

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2013 Nobel Prize for Literature: Alice Munro

Lives_of_Girls_and_Women_(novel)Congratulations to Alice Munro for her Nobel Prize! Back when we read Lives of Girls and Women in high school, I had wondered at the eclectic choice of a Canadian feminist author by the English faculty of a conservative and religious all-boys’ school, but in hindsight they were just attempting to teach us great literature … one of our other books that year was, naturally, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice 🙂

 
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Posted by on October 12, 2013 in Book Reviews, Passive Media

 

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WetWareGames: Initiating Coverage with a Strong ‘Read and Discuss’ Rating!

Welcome to WetWareGames, and pleased to make your acquaintance!  This a personal blog for sharing thoughts and discussions on hopefully interesting topics with friends and colleagues – and perhaps make some new friends along the way.  According to Wikipedia, the fount of all human understanding, “wetware” refers to MC900089582both the physical brain and the human mind. So the name “WetWareGames” covers a breadth of subjects on which I might write:

  1. Games, especially unplugged, acoustic or analog games (aka boardgames, cardgames or tabletop games) – since these are games that can be played with just your wetware
  2. Passive Media (books, film, TV) – as the most intelligent media can set off a around of mental gymnastics (wetware games)
  3. Tech Disruptions – while tech is about software and hardware, in the end it’s wetware that drives the biggest innovations
  4. Social Commentary – as not everything is a game
  5. Cognitive Development – with a young family, it’s fascinating to watch a child’s wetware develop, and for them, learning is play!

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