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Seen this morning at the Waller Street Skate Park: an in-real-life Cons pair: I looked around and saw a car but no obvious cdr, so perhaps this was a list of length one. (Sorry if this sounds confusing, but I hope it amused both LISP programmers in my audience.)

Carré d’Art in Nîmes, Foster + Partners Archiobjects Carré d’Art in Nîmes, designed by Foster + Partners and inaugurated in 1993, stands as an example of contemporary architecture embedded within a historic context. Located opposite the Maison Carrée, an ancient Roman temple, Carré d’Art presents a dialogue between the ancient and the modern, a recurring theme in Norman Foster’s design approach. The building […] The post Carré d’Art in Nîmes, …

Great blog post about how to build a Ruby LSP add-on that I'm totally linking to because it uses my Standard add-on as a case study. railsatscale.com/2024-10-03-the-ruby-lsp-addon-system/

Say yes to everything, shirk nothing, don’t try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen, you are not a Greek, you are not harmonious, or the master of yourself, you are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! —Hermann Hesse The day’s light is fading. The silence is palpable. So are the doubts and the anxiety. But not the questions. They buzz loudly, incessantly, urgently. The …

Michael McWhertor, Polygon: Sunderfolk is inspired by tabletop games like Gloomhaven and Dungeons & Dragons, said head of Secret Door (and hardcore tabletop game enthusiast) Chris Sigaty at a recent hands-on event in New York. The developers behind Sunderfolk were inspired by the depth and inclusiveness of those games, while also recognizing their shortcomings. “We’ve worked on games like StarCraft, Heroes of the Storm, and Hearthstone,” Sigaty said, “and one …

An absolutely splendid live date. View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize View fullsize Fantastic live album by Charles Tolliver’s Music Inc, consisting of 2 LP’s, recorded on the 9th of August 1972 at The Loosdrecht Jazz Festival in the Netherlands.I’m definitely after more of Tolliver’s stuff. He was a brilliant trumpeter and composer. He …

I recently spent a few days in Taunton in Somerset. While it’s an interesting place, and a good base for exploring the surrounding area, it has to be said that it’s far from Britain’s best pub town. One that I visited was the Ring of Bells which, for some reason, more than three years after the end of lockdowns, is still operating a policy of table service and card payments …

The book we should have written. Source

September was an interesting month, because I logged over 30k words.However, there is the fact that most of the words logged for this month were from edits and revisions. And speaking of edits...forty chapters in total, for This Hole Was Made For (You And) Me. Keep in mind that I later condensed these chapters into 25.A graph depicting 34,765 words for September. The highest was 2k on Sept 15.8k of …

Lately, I’ve gotten a bit tired of the typical modern Euro: mechanically solid, great art, but no real theme or story being told. In the last years, I found myself wondering more and more often “why should I even be playing this?” as combo-heavy, low-interaction games kept coming to my table that wouldn’t produce any memorable moment at all that would distinguish one play from the next. Going into SPIEL …

I don’t know who this guy is or where I found the quote, but it was staring up at me from my notebook this afternoon. Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth: People say that what we are all seeking is a meaning for life. I don-t think this is what we’re really seeking. I think what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive. I think that’s very true. “The …

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Or, to quote one of the Carry On films, “what’s this thing called, love?”. So if you take a picture of a thing, are you capturing the surface appearance of the thing or its essence? (And why would you care?) Edward Weston took multiple pictures of shells, fruit and perhaps most famously, peppers. What he said about his work was “To see the thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed …

(Disclosure: two members of this game’s development team, Audun Sørlie and John Linneman, have contributed articles to HG101 in the past. This did not factor into the author’s decision to cover the game, which was bought with their own money. This is an independent review.) It’s sometimes redundant to talk about the reputation of Link: The Faces of Evil and Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon. Developed by American/Russian studio Animation …

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