Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • The story of Ash Dilishush

    Ash Dilishush (aš-dili šu, from Sumerian "𒀸𒋙"), as villagers called them, was born into the woods. Their situation was akin to "The boy raised by wolves", except that Ash had no wolves, either. Some say the mysterious muse Ninna Uzud (𒊩𒄷𒇧𒍚) raised them, but Ash's background is still unknown to this day.

  • Šibenik

    Today we explored Šibenik. We bought the ticket for three fortresses and used that as an excuse to walk all over town.

    Claudia took most of the urban pictures; I took most of the flower pictures. 😅

• Politics and World Events

  • Vietnam War Apocrypha

    It's been half a century since the Vietnam War ended. South Vietnamese call it the Vietnam War not the American War like the Northerners do. The South Vietnamese perspective is often neglected for reasons that should be obvious. It doesn't fit neatly within the historical narrative that's been built. Do not speak of David Halberstam, Neil Sheehan, or Ken Burns to me. If you think it is sometimes difficult to hold a different opinion in the West, consider that voices of dissent are even less acceptable in the Asian sphere.

    Many veterans, American and South Vietnamese, would not talk about the war to their children. My father, who was South Vietnamese, on the other hand would talk about just about anything.

    This series of mini-vignettes are meant to be typical of what one might have heard back then. Some are first-hand accounts, others rumors that would have been passed around. They are not really about my father even though he is how I came to know of most of them. I did not write them down while he was alive and my memory isn't the greatest so expect representations but not fiction invented wholesale.

  • Israel

    The European Song Contest doesn’t allow Russia: [...]

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Getting SFJAZZ recordings

      Something I just saw on fedi: The SFJAZZ Historical Archive has a ton of material online.

    • Gemini frontend

      I can post here with a bash script and an http browser but not lagrange or a gemini browser. Did I miss an important step?