Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • settled dark

    when my fridge is settling, the "engine" tampering down (or whatever), it sounds like distant/fading MOOG keys from a Xasthur song. I am sitting in a dark room with waves of ominous acoustics radiating from behind where I sit

    That and a small puppy that hasn't stopped barking all day in the distance. Fascinating, how long a dog can/will bark.

  • the sanctity of silence

    now that i am here

    on my mountain-top

    i have grown

    increasingly reluctant

    to disturb the silence

    it's so quiet and

• Politics and World Events

  • Leitmotif

    A rise of a fourth repeated twice from a starting note and then the starting note held for longer may be known, but (until very recently) not from where. A coworker once responded with a correct response, sort of a waa waa waaaah, as it turned out they also knew the theme.

    The music has been claimed to be genre defining "oh, that's what a Western should sound like" despite not really being a Western, or rather an anti-Western evolution of the genre, one that more or less outcompeted the original around the time the Hays Code was relaxed. However, I have mostly no idea what Westerns sounded like before Ennio Morricone put his thumb on the scale, just as I don't know where I learned the (opening to the) theme from "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (1966).

• Technology and Free Software

  • Another Yesterday Aggregator

    A while ago, Morgan from circadian.gemlog.org created an aggregator that updates only once every 24 hours and called it yesterday's aggregator. This design was meant to ensure that posts get the same amount of exposure, regardless of whether they are posted early or late on some particular day. As a side effect, this design also proved to be a great way to combat the addictive affordances of live aggregators. If you already checked the aggregator once on a certain day, there is no point at all in checking it again, since you already know that there won't be any new posts.

  • The annoyance of video games, a review

    I a new title I was excited about, just came out with a demo and predictably was a huge letdown.

    The game to which I am referring is The Precinct, on the 14th the released a demo for public pre-alpha testing. I very much applaud this and the game does look excellent. Buuuut, why is an isometric shooter, unplayable on a semi recent AMD 4500U laptop?