<@BrutalSlakt> we looked in a magazine I have from 2000, and the things in it
are suppose to be "omg how crazy", but looking in it today it was
more "yeah, that's things people do these days.." xD
<me> haha like?
<@BrutalSlakt> some guy killed by his friend, a hippo. a girl that can dive 35m.
some fat people. some dudes that put patterns of diseases (what
you see in the microscope) on clothes. some psychologist that
uses a therapy which one person pretends to be dead and the others
tell them stuff they couldn't "when they were alive".
<@BrutalSlakt> some hindu festival called Holi.
<me> haha
<@BrutalSlakt> a hotel under the waterNot in the 2000s:
Photography has created a chronic voyeuristic relationship to the world that cheapens the meaning of all events.
A study of paper vs. computers: an excellent experiment on how to write on both paper and PC and integrate the two with indexing.
My answer, actually, is that we’ve built a false dichotomy for ourselves. There is no reason why a system needs to be limited to one medium, or why a system should be limited to one medium, except for lack of imagination, laziness, and the kind of technological elitism described above.
Alyssa is not flying, on the beauty (and usefulness) of moving by train.
It’s 06:00 UK time, and the first of my 4 trains of the day just departed. Edinburgh to London, London to Brussels, Brussels to Cologne, Cologne to Berlin.
Enjoy:
Happy Esperanto-day. Celebrate by adding it to your duolingo.
Convertible computing, an alluring article about portable, mostly free and convenient computing solution. I would really like to get in touch with someone who tried the “Fully Modular” setup and managed to travel with it.
My ex city, an intimate photo-reportage, narrated with the eyes of an emigrated citizen.
San Francisco is fantastically beautiful, charismatic, smart, and compelling; also insane, abusive, and cruel. Visiting SF is like visiting a psycho ex. I lived and loved there 1991-2002, and my feelings will forever be mixed.
My friend Carina has finally found some time to try her typewriter. Ribbon might need to be replaced, results are encouraging:
Over the last few months, I have looked at most of the media used by painters to form their work, from the support of massive stone walls to the last layer of varnish. This article summarises the series, and provides links to each of its articles.
Theremin+Synth piece from whence you came.
Watercolor: A Slice of Apple.
Chronophobias of the past, involving the new-fangled electronic typewriter: A writer best friend.
A 1971 interview with Henri Cartier-Bresson.
“For myself — I’m not speaking for others. I take my pleasure that way. Freedom for me is a strict frame, and inside that frame are all the variations possible”.
Hilma af Klint. First abstract artist, even before Kandinsky.
In her will, Hilma af Klint left all her abstract paintings to her nephew, a vice-admiral in the Swedish Royal Navy. She specified that her work should be kept secret for at least 20 years after her death. When the boxes were opened at the end of the 1960s, very few persons had knowledge of what would be revealed.
Slowly shaping up:
Maruka highland / Keith Lofstrom's Vanity Web Page.
Moonlight Smugglers, a pleasant surprise announcement by friend and game-dev Qptain Nemo:
Bonus: falco pellegrino cam.
Bonus: <BrutalSlakt> 300SEK (didn't buy, don't have the space) (pic)
Play Kerfuffle by KKairos!
To play it you need DosBox and the ZZT engine. Move the .zzt into the engine folder, select a world with W and pick KRFFFL-C). The game is worth the setup pain, I promise!
Other: Dokmelody, (eo) Mazi en Gondolando.
Last year I decided to get back into reading more (I even compiled a handy list to help me in the selection process).
I read 60+ books in 2018: 53 from the public library, a handful of ebooks (I sold my ebook reader after realising paper is more comfortable to my eyes – and gets me in the mood to read more) and a few paperbacks bought in shopping sprees.
So here is a selection of the ones I liked most, if you want to start your 2019 with a similar goal:
After almost ten years, the time has finally come to say “goodbye” to Mnemosyne. Mnemosyne is an amazing spaced-repetition software (with simply the best user experience of them all), but I simply find myself more and more weary of screen-time the older I get.
I will replace it with a pen and paper method: one of A Simple Vocabulary Memorization Method and the Gold Book method.
Transferring ~9500 cards will be quite a task, but I am sure it will be worth it.
Do you want to be updated of new research papers via RSS? Then you will like gscholar-rss.
Happy to announce that lentil now supports Emacs org-mode (.org) syntax. Many thanks to Damien Couroussé for the patch!
Just played: Winter Storm Draco.
Here is a small thing I transcribed and tried to play today (synth: aeolus).
If you want to play it yourself, grab the score (abc/pdf).
Jean Giraud's illustrations for the Divine Comedy.
