It took me two years, January 2011 to November 2013, to downsize my home library to under 1,000 books—giving away 1,200 (all fine) and throwing away another 300 (damaged books, outdated textbooks, and similar). Since then, I’ve only stocked up on ebooks, and I bought perhaps ten physical books, not counting role-playing stuff, in ten years! But last week, I went to my former professor’s home who’s family’s in the process of selling their home and giving away most of his personal library. And, lo and behold!, I felt that long-forgotten thrill again of stuffing substantial piles of terrific physical books into a travel backpack! Just like in the olden days! And last night on Bluesky, Dave Perry posted a joke (here’s a screenshot) that led to a grand thread full of book recommendations to buy as a gift for the season! Which I also contributed to, of course, with a pitch for my recently published Ludotronics: “Are you and your friends good at game code and art, and you would love to create an indie game? But y’all are not sure how to get from your great idea to a magnificent concept and a smashing pitch? Then this book is the perfect present for yourself & your friends!” Soooo—as it’s less than two weeks until Hanukkah, and a bit over four until Christmas, the best time for you to place an order would be now! 🙂
I still haven’t posted new albums with old stuff on Flickr, and I couldn’t post any new stuff because my scanner died. Thus, there are only my daily vintage-style travel squaries at Pixelfed, and some posts at my Instagram accounts betweendrafts and voidpunkverse. I also haven’t ranted about “AI” for quite a while at just drafts; I might pick up on that habit again next year. However, I took a lot of stuff I had posted on social media lately and shoveled it over to between drafts, mostly micro reviews of movies, concerts, operas, or plays I saw throughout the year. Some reviews are more substantial, like for Millennium Mambo, the Juilliard String Quartet, Dürrenmatt’s Besuch der alten Dame, or Wagner’s Parsifal, some are less so—here’s the full list.
Finally, for your entertainment, here’s Cyriak’s most recent clip featuring a goose, and a terrific thread at Mastodon by Half-Life developer Ben Burbank about fixing that floating scientist bug with a hex editor. Enjoy!
J.
I still haven’t posted new albums with old stuff on Flickr, and I couldn’t post any new stuff because my scanner died. Thus, there are only my daily vintage-style travel squaries at Pixelfed, and some posts at my Instagram accounts betweendrafts and voidpunkverse. I also haven’t ranted about “AI” for quite a while at just drafts; I might pick up on that habit again next year. However, I took a lot of stuff I had posted on social media lately and shoveled it over to between drafts, mostly micro reviews of movies, concerts, operas, or plays I saw throughout the year. Some reviews are more substantial, like for Millennium Mambo, the Juilliard String Quartet, Dürrenmatt’s Besuch der alten Dame, or Wagner’s Parsifal, some are less so—here’s the full list.
Finally, for your entertainment, here’s Cyriak’s most recent clip featuring a goose, and a terrific thread at Mastodon by Half-Life developer Ben Burbank about fixing that floating scientist bug with a hex editor. Enjoy!
J.