<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:54:53 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@mountainwashere/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Epic Fantasy Lineup: Mistborn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brandon Sanderson has a LOT of fantasy books out, but the series I first encountered (and that Sanderson first became really well known for) is the Mistborn series. [Image source] The Mistborn books are]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fantasy/@mountainwashere/epic-fantasy-lineup-mistborn</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fantasy/@mountainwashere/epic-fantasy-lineup-mistborn</guid><category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2018 02:03:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmhz7WSHfyLpi2NfQmqHpb3SAgQPY2WQQQaszC71Kf71r8AT2Vef8H7AeeCqrL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[My Future Steemit Plans]]></title><description><![CDATA[The few of you who read my blog regularly have probably noticed my infrequent posting the last couple months. I'm here to talk a little bit about what's been going on with that, and what my plans for the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steem/@mountainwashere/my-future-steemit-plans</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steem/@mountainwashere/my-future-steemit-plans</guid><category><![CDATA[steem]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2018 01:23:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmhbaaBC5hW2hMq74LsfRJiYCpDYczdSwXbYJXKfYYQtRmzkuZKcunUhDC9uJm?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epic Fantasy Lineup: The Wheel of Time]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sorry for the long absence, just got done moving for the first time in over four years. The new place is awesome, but man was that a hassle and a half. Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series is one of the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fantasy/@mountainwashere/epic-fantasy-lineup-the-wheel-of-time</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fantasy/@mountainwashere/epic-fantasy-lineup-the-wheel-of-time</guid><category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2018 05:09:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmiKZZwds8KJmbsRpmoQB2UMaLhqhRg5Ad3R4JrQoHobfWcdzh1gtJJtEJRjnU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature Identification Thread #23- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with anyone else who would]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@mountainwashere/nature-identification-thread-23-now-paying-out-steem-basic-income-memberships-to-participants</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@mountainwashere/nature-identification-thread-23-now-paying-out-steem-basic-income-memberships-to-participants</guid><category><![CDATA[nature]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2018 23:27:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmjGNCN2srongyMdKZ1NbuW1LegCS7jztst1uXv3dAU49G18bBKEkgLJX6sKzr?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epic Fantasy Lineup: Malazan Book of the Fallen]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Malazan Book of the Fallen is easily one of the weirdest- and biggest- of the giant epic fantasy series. There are ten books in the main series, as well as an additional six book side series, a couple]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fantasy/@mountainwashere/epic-fantasy-lineup-malazan-book-of-the-fallen</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fantasy/@mountainwashere/epic-fantasy-lineup-malazan-book-of-the-fallen</guid><category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2018 03:00:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmpSUTqLmrxDKhXELvXekwUNdgyym79QcrGQqSJxmiEU2ej2sVJLSnqyqjWHur?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Epic Fantasy Lineup: Jim Butcher's Codex Alera]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's no secret that I'm a huge sucker for epic fantasy. Part of that is my reading speed- I read really, really fast, so most books are over just way too fast for my taste. A good epic fantasy series,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fantasy/@mountainwashere/epic-fantasy-lineup-jim-butcher-s-codex-alera</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fantasy/@mountainwashere/epic-fantasy-lineup-jim-butcher-s-codex-alera</guid><category><![CDATA[fantasy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2018 06:23:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmoVXYwRTbycPQCJUujhPDVx1GeeifJjmcZ2JAai25Z7vvHJkcSxh3xeLoScqb?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature Identification Thread #22- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with anyone else who would]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@mountainwashere/nature-identification-thread-22-now-paying-out-steem-basic-income-memberships-to-participants</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@mountainwashere/nature-identification-thread-22-now-paying-out-steem-basic-income-memberships-to-participants</guid><category><![CDATA[nature]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2018 22:17:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmixUQi7ZL6V5apF62SbugG9V95w1R3JEMun98yoK2hanmK4V3bZDXfVZYTPLM?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review: Charles Stross' Laundry Files Series]]></title><description><![CDATA[Charles Stross' Laundry Files books are my single favorite series of spy thrillers, bar none. They're also my single favorite Lovecraftian horror series, bar none. I don't know what provoked Charles Stross]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/scifi/@mountainwashere/book-review-charles-stross-laundry-files-series</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/scifi/@mountainwashere/book-review-charles-stross-laundry-files-series</guid><category><![CDATA[scifi]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2018 09:43:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmja4GKtomxwxqBwjdUcCVaw4FGQP1yNoYr4hUUMC2BdqVZzLZ2BBVk6gHJmFw?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Urban Geology Part 1: Manhattan]]></title><description><![CDATA[The character of any city will to a great degree be shaped by its underlying geology. Chicago's even, straight grid is possible thanks to its flat terrain. San Francisco's steep hills underlie much of]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/geology/@mountainwashere/urban-geology-part-1-manhattan</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/geology/@mountainwashere/urban-geology-part-1-manhattan</guid><category><![CDATA[geology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2018 03:57:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmkaPsgtoB9cnYPSe4fb4DZYvfQrTYdiCvL7xeX3qs3mt5whdWD6Xdxbp12ACm?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature Identification Thread #21- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with anyone else who would]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/natures/@mountainwashere/nature-identification-thread-21-now-paying-out-steem-basic-income-memberships-to-participants</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/natures/@mountainwashere/nature-identification-thread-21-now-paying-out-steem-basic-income-memberships-to-participants</guid><category><![CDATA[natures]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2018 22:39:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmoSajgfv7D6J35hkE4SrF81dd2E2xnfpvjyBHP3bMhwHRAshsUQeQXSPDjwVa?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy of Science Part 3: Physics Envy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Part 1, Part 2 There's a fantastic XKCD comic strip that discusses the relative "purity" of the sciences, ranking them with physics and math on top. And, indeed, in the history of the sciences,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/science/@mountainwashere/philosophy-of-science-part-3-physics-envy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/science/@mountainwashere/philosophy-of-science-part-3-physics-envy</guid><category><![CDATA[science]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2018 01:43:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmkc223oqrpt4623CDFE3EQpeQBML2PDSeu2dKinhQwxfLqAVLKTumMSqpyf1m?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Humanity is Changing the Course of Evolution Part 3: Surviving the Asphalt Wasteland]]></title><description><![CDATA[Part 1, Part 2 As heavily as the damage humanity has wrought upon the oceans has changed the course of evolution, the damage on land has done even more to shift the path of evolution. (I really should]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/ecology/@mountainwashere/how-humanity-is-changing-the-course-of-evolution-part-3-surviving-the-asphalt-wasteland</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/ecology/@mountainwashere/how-humanity-is-changing-the-course-of-evolution-part-3-surviving-the-asphalt-wasteland</guid><category><![CDATA[ecology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2018 07:50:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmiatBYDSQE67fMBScCUW48rHAJEV6c8N7FuK5teTeUJUwmJmfLhzoFsg8TTZC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review: My Friend Dahmer, by Derf Backderf]]></title><description><![CDATA[I grew up in a hippy family, so there were always weird left wing newspapers that ran Derf Backderf's comic The City in them. The stiffly drawn (but deceptively difficult) artstyle is immediately distinctive,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/comics/@mountainwashere/book-review-my-friend-dahmer-by-derf-backderf</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/comics/@mountainwashere/book-review-my-friend-dahmer-by-derf-backderf</guid><category><![CDATA[comics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2018 08:40:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmp6WuuVbMPTHKLx7NovxKS793Err8V9qXJ6bCwNUFcLsoK6FcaTpZYDdjWgfo?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature Identification Thread #20- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with anyone else who would]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@mountainwashere/nature-identification-thread-20-now-paying-out-steem-basic-income-memberships-to-participants</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@mountainwashere/nature-identification-thread-20-now-paying-out-steem-basic-income-memberships-to-participants</guid><category><![CDATA[nature]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:01:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmooee6YbRCwckGd6RWQSxXoe9gywFbCZLzPADdFxrZPb32nbzsu32BMrQRPMA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review Double Header: Annals of the Former World & Bretz's Flood]]></title><description><![CDATA[John Soennichsen's book Bretz's Flood falls into that strange confluence that you often find in better quality histories of geology. It's hard to describe adequately, but it involves an intermixing of]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/books/@mountainwashere/book-review-double-header-annals-of-the-former-world-and-bretz-s-flood</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/books/@mountainwashere/book-review-double-header-annals-of-the-former-world-and-bretz-s-flood</guid><category><![CDATA[books]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2018 08:31:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmo98ndVUkEWdGEFjVmV2Aooh6MFTkt9EEtDoXwzTSkGP34YHgwffotqXcSpRP?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review: N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy]]></title><description><![CDATA[N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is some of the best fantasy I've read in years- and it's also unique in being geological fantasy. Geological science fiction is certainly common enough- Hal Clement's]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/books/@mountainwashere/book-review-n-k-jemisin-s-broken-earth-trilogy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/books/@mountainwashere/book-review-n-k-jemisin-s-broken-earth-trilogy</guid><category><![CDATA[books]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2018 06:34:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmiZo8M73UC8NH3z5XUEB44GHMzdiS9Vx8awCProKZk58GZASdprBRSK4e4HBP?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Book Review: Bone]]></title><description><![CDATA[In terms of sheer number of pages, Jeff Smith's all-ages comic Bone is by far the longest work I've ever recommended on Steemit- and it's more than worth reading all 1332 pages. Bone's won more awards]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/comics/@mountainwashere/book-review-bone</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/comics/@mountainwashere/book-review-bone</guid><category><![CDATA[comics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2018 08:35:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmoqrgVdoPuj1u1QceWS1NpX8LbfFkVrw4pzM8w5mqV84kYaiY8rSDnHQ6sCJG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature Identification Thread #19- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with anyone else who would]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@mountainwashere/nature-identification-thread-19-now-paying-out-steem-basic-income-memberships-to-participants</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/nature/@mountainwashere/nature-identification-thread-19-now-paying-out-steem-basic-income-memberships-to-participants</guid><category><![CDATA[nature]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2018 07:10:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmp89hAS1ukDhA9HYQwdBf2kZnJYFJvCXpEAzBBWMGT2zMBM6LnezrgcyHxee6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mightiest River in All of History: Geology of the Amazon River Basin (repost)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ugh, I know, too many reposts. Life is crazy right now, what can I say? The Amazon river isn't just the biggest river on the Earth- it's the biggest river known throughout the entire geological history]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/geology/@mountainwashere/the-mightiest-river-in-all-of-history-geology-of-the-amazon-river-basin-repost</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/geology/@mountainwashere/the-mightiest-river-in-all-of-history-geology-of-the-amazon-river-basin-repost</guid><category><![CDATA[geology]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2018 09:22:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmoWVbWmZ3V9TqBGmGR12RRN9WxWzjoJRFR8V6x9Cn2EYZpFWtnhiAGrLqb4mY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's My Steemit One Year Anniversary!]]></title><description><![CDATA[I've officially been on Steemit for a full year! It's been an excellent year, and here's hoping for another! I'd like to thank @kennyskitchen for introducing me to Steemit, first of all. Next, I couldn't]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@mountainwashere/it-s-my-steemit-one-year-anniversary</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/steemit/@mountainwashere/it-s-my-steemit-one-year-anniversary</guid><category><![CDATA[steemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[mountainwashere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2018 08:43:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrUMp8dW6yuJTR9MKNu8P8DCXDU9qmmjx6DFAs5AHPxEZbGkbd4PQ8maqzR2CjV1sZStGh9aDQagarL9nhpYdADGWvN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>