davefischer @ davefischer @beehaw.org

Artist / hacker from Providence, USA.

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TeX / LaTex documentation is infuriating. It's either "use your university's package to make a document that looks like this:" -or- program in alien assembly language.

I like postscript for graphic design, but not so much for typesetting. For a flyer or poster, PS is great.

Frankenstein is a really great read because the story that "We all know" is drastically different from the book.

The last few years I've been reading a bunch of Lovecraft's earlier influences. Some of that has been very good. (Chambers, Blackwood, Machen, etc.) But the absolute standout has been Dunsany. If you like HPL's "Dream Quest" material, check out Dunsany's "Time and The Gods" and "Wonder Tales".

Came here to say Chichen Itza.

Ancient sites are really incredible in person.

Funeral Parade of Roses is intercut with interviews with the actors.

The entire Muppet Movie is about going to Hollywood to make The Muppet Movie.

And of course, the ending of Holy Mountain.

I carry a Droid 4 (because I like the keyboard) which was running Android 4. Which was absolutely unusable for the web, but alright for ssh, xmpp, and as a camera.

A few weeks ago I replaced android on it with Linux (Maemo Leste) which is... great but also very rough.

I mostly use my phone as a wifi remote to control my computer. That's working much better now than under android.

But the camera doesn't work. Ugh.

Interesting, thank you!

Although that list is about twice as long as it should be. A lot of those aren't much more than two movies of the same genre...

It's incredibly weird that roughly the same story was adapted, the same year, into two movies, one serious and one comedy, and... they're both masterpieces.

On The Silver Globe, because it's the most epically manic film ever made. Sort of a Lords of The Flies revert-to-primitivism story, set on another planet with the descendants of a failed colonization attempt.

For context, previous favorite films: Stalker, Ran, and The Passion of Joan of Arc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBFRiSlcBAg

(Who said you should watch my favorite movie?)

As a hobby. I set up a tek-4015 running geometric fractals (trees, snowflakes, etc.) in an art gallery type installation once, about 20 years ago.

Weird. I've programmed tek vector graphics terminals, and I'd never heard about this before today.

Actually, what's really cool is the giant vector displays a few companies made in the 60s:

Ssssnake - The War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65V1H4HFEf8

That's a weird one. Same director as Cafe Flesh.

al-Aḥad ("The One") is nice. It's one of the 99 names of God given in the Qur-an. Coincidently, it's close to my younger cat's nickname: "One" (short for "Little One").

It's mostly linux now (except for most of the actual networking gear) but it wasn't 20 years ago, so the internet is certainly "possible" without linux.

When I was in my 20s, definitely Principia Discordia.

Now... maybe Brecht's Threepenny Opera?

Or Zamyatin's We.

The only time I've done something like that, I had a friend paint my 3B2 with leopard spots. Looks great.

Love longan. Also very photogenic. (Sometimes I buy fruit primarily to photograph.)

Heh. Presumably there's some very old FORTRAN in there somewhere?