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Artist: Ad Vitam Infernal Album: Le Ballet des Anges Year: 2024 Genre: Death Metal Web: https://youtu.be/MWampDm6JEY / https://doloremrecords.bandcamp.com/ad vitam infernal Country: France Quality: 320 Kbps Tracklist: 1. The Overture 2. And the Watchers Will Be Frightened 3. Shemihazah the Great 4. Asael (God Has Made...) 5. Enchain Them All! 6. A Peaceful Place to Wait... 7. Wandering Spirits 8. I Saw Everything 9. Free Will Has Set Us Free 10. …

I’ve been backtracking a bit. Whether it’s through improved flying skills, or greater knowledge of effective tactics, or just having access to all the Special Items now, I’ve managed to pass level 4 on Normal difficulty, with the result that I can start Normal games at level 5 from now on. I’ve also tried restarting from the very beginning on Easy. There are advantages to this: by the time you …

When Honeycomb was a small company, All Hands meetings had announcements and discussions. Discussions mostly took place in the meeting chat, where everyone can answer anyone’s question. Between that and the announce channel in Slack, information got out to the whole company. Or did it? It’s hard to check for understanding in that big a forum. We’re past 150 people now, past the number of people who can know each …

Last August I posted an item about the visit my brother and I made to the Fayette Art Museum the month before. In this post I wanted to offer photos and information about the city of Fayette itself.The town is located in northwest Alabama and is the seat of Fayette County. That county was created by the legislature on December 20, 1824, from parts of Marion and Tuscaloosa counties. The …

This is a shortlisted entry from the Daily Philosophy Global Essay Contest 2024.If you like reading about philosophy, here's a free, weekly newsletter with articles just like this one: Send it to me! I see myself and a multitude of other Grasshoppers engaged in playing the most elaborate, subtle, and challenging games. […] And the Utopians will look back on names like Queensbury, Naismith, the Parker Brothers, even Rubix, with …

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Miller Oberman’s poetry collection Impossible Things is a mesmerizing elegy for a young child and thoughtful examination of the author’s own childhood. The …

Why is A Mirror for Observers by Edgar Pangborn out of print at Amazon? There is no Kindle or Audible edition either. This 1954 novel won the International Fantasy Award back in 1955. Being out-of-print is especially puzzling when you consider the other winners of that short-lived award: Earth Abides by George R. Stewart (1951), Fancies and Goodnight by John Collier (1952), City by Clifford Simak (1953), More Than Human …

I can’t believe another sci-fi stop-motion feature exists with the same plot as Mad God – Phil Tippett must’ve been so steamed when he saw this. Both movies’ worlds are packed with lore and backstory, which they mostly don’t bother us with, as we follow a little guy who descends into lovingly-detailed hellish depths on some doomed mission. This guy’s human body has been mangled so he’s been robocopped into …

Last week I went to see Robert, because I'm a gracious person and sometimes you have to bring joy to the little people. We were heading into town from Aigburth station and I spotted something on the line diagram on the platform:Do you see it? Computer, zoom and enhance.The map has been printed with Liverpool Baltic station already on it. According to Robert the sticker covering it keeps being ripped …

It may be #GermanLitMonth, but Japan is rarely far from my (literary) mind, and when planning my choices for this month’s event, I was reminded of a book that had been on my shelves for a year or so, one that bridges the gap between east and west. It’s a tad wet and humid in Melbourne today, but that doesn’t matter if you’re wanting to do a little vicarious gardening, …

I’ve been using my denim pen wrap a bunch lately and thought I’d share some pictures. I made this wrap back in 2008 and it has had a lot of use in the past 16 years. I used to make a lot of denim objects like this when I was a tailor at Self Edge. My denim wallets still get a lot of use too. The post Denim Pen Wrap, …

Just busy, mostly. The house has just about recovered from various illnesses. Obviously with R’s birthday on the horizon we’re expecting a delicious cocktail of coughs and colds for the start of the festive season. Got a game of the new edition of Underworlds in. Much smoother, a teeny bit less character to each warband, still lovely opponents. Did a turn at the Public Digital networking event. It’s been ages …

Notepad++ is a free source code editor and Notepad replacement that supports several languages. Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API and STL which ensures a higher execution speed and smaller program size. Notepad++ development began, in September 2003, by Don Ho, a former Paris Diderot University computer science student. Notepad++ was built as a Microsoft Windows application; the author …

One of the big current admin tasks is informing organisations that my Dad has passed away. I started on the utilities this week, calling BT to let them know, and to have the name on the account changed to my Mum’s name. (They do have an online form but it’s ambiguous in places.) That seemed to go OK. But then it was apparent the broadband at the house had stopped …