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This week Mallika of Literary Potpourri is hosting her annual Reading the Meow event, a celebration of cats in literature. I’m hoping to post a new review later in the week but first I thought it would be interesting to look back at some...
You don’t know what to say to me. You don’t know what I’ll understand. And if you do say something, you don’t know how I’ll take it. So you say nothing. You decide it’s not worth the risk. Your mood changes like moonrise over dirty...
The first version of Linux I ran at home (23+ yrs ago) was Gentoo with KDE (where a typical upgrade involved a nail-biting setup and overnight build where you kicked off the compile and hoped like hell you hadn't messed up something when...
Escapeque was a game developed around 1991-1994 by Stavros Fasoulas and Tomas Dahlgren (aka. Uncle Tom of Scoopex, who was a known musician in the Amiga demoscene in the early 90s). The exact genre/premise/gameplay description of the...
Am 13.06. durfte ich zum Programm der “Sicherheit ohne Überwachung” Demonstration einen Redebeitrag beisteuern. Diesen möchte ich hier kurz dokumentieren. Ich glaube wirklich, dass es aus linker Perspektive absolut unverzichtbar ist, die...
The SpaceX IPO, valuing a motley collection of dubious business at over a trillion dollars, marks the abandonment of the Efficient (financial) Markets Hypothesis, one of the zombie ideas I criticised in the wake of the Global Financial...
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Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits, please. I’m now using Substack as a blogging platform, and for my monthly email...
The SpaceX IPO, valuing a motley collection of dubious business at over a trillion dollars, marks the abandonment of the Efficient (financial) Markets Hypothesis, one of the zombie ideas I criticised in the wake of the Global Financial...
Our time with our friends was short. We only had two days to spend before heading back to Lisbon to catch our plane home. Axel rented a car, and Brit put on her ‘tour guide’ hat, and the next morning we headed to beautiful Ponta da...
I made a decision a while ago to step back from shadowing the International Booker Prize, and as a result, I’ve read few of the longlisted books from the last two editions. That’s not to say that I’ve been ignoring it completely, though,...
Over at "anmut und demut" Benjamin writes about reusing dungeons, and I immediately thought of two things. Dungeons wiederverwenden ben_ Hero Quest I spent a considerable amount of my youth playing Hero Quest with friends at a table in...
When I was in 4th grade, 45 years ago(!), I was properly introduced to soccer. (I know, I know - most of the rest of the world calls it by the name that makes the most sense: football. But I am an American, so I'll stick with what we...