Activity from doctornemo

I've seen that as well, drewbage1847. Natural consequence of not talking about G_nX. [more]
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Superb post, Rhaomi. [more]
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Thorzdad, Rooster Teeth is - was, sigh - an unusual thing. It started off as some gamers making funny machinima videos, then grew, adding new media, people, and projects. RT had such a great sense of fun. Check the linked Wikipedia article for… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Agreed, Dip Flash, especially for passages like this: the adoption of agriculture was not a definitive, one-way transition. Many societies ‘experimented’ with agriculture without becoming fully reliant on it. In other cases, societies that… [more]
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NASA, now release your own RPG system. For space adventures, baby Naveller? NURPS? [more]
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Ah, I remember booting up Doom from a stack of floppies. -signed, a GenXer [more]
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Dear GenjiandProust, I'm so glad you do these roundups. They are very rich and go straight to my podcatcher. [more]
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I'm reminded of the Dark Mountain Uncivilization Manifesto, which I still haven't been able to take aboard since the last time I mentioned it. ob1quixote, re: Dark Mountain, we had a good conversation with one of its authors last year. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Modes of Thought in Anterran Literature delights me. I love your term "Borgesian horror" for it, Kattullus. As an academic who studies academia I enjoy all of the portrayals and satire. Its erratic schedule actually fits the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Analyzing the groundwater crisis
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You know, it's been said that history shows again and again how nature points out the folly of men. [more]
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Speaking of students and facial scanning, one of my Chinese students told me a good story. When they were in 9th grade, they all had their faces scanned for ID purposes. They got used to facial scanners for going in and out of buildings, etc. But… [more]
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Moon landings, a wooden satellite, Tolkien on Mars, fiery descents
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It's Phil Dick's world. We just live in it. [more]
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There's a dark plotline about this in Extrapolations (for the 10 of us who saw it). [more]
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positive fortune telling enhanced the likelihood that college students gambled for money Which might explain the content of ads for this practice (which is growing a lot now, in the US). [more]
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More on Zone Rouge, if it's new to you: "The zone rouge was defined just after the war as "Completely devastated. Damage to properties: 100%. Damage to Agriculture: 100%. Impossible to clean. Human life impossible". Under French… [more]
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French official in 1916? Once again, WWI is hard to escape. [more]
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he's heard the last of First World War bombs in Belgium should be cleaned up in another hundred years. WTH?!?! Yes indeed. Belligerents plastered Belgium pretty thoroughly in fall 1914. [more]
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Thank you for this post. I've been looking into religious and spiritual responses to the climate crisis and the Tarot angle is a new one. [more]
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Thank you, sardonyx. I'm amazed Yahoo hasn't killed it yet. [more]
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Arg. I've used Google News daily for years, both the front page and for search. Is anything comparable in the front page side? [more]
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Thank you for this post, clavdivs. Including it in one of my space updates. [more]
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Judge Arthur Engoron: "Defendants'... complete lack of contrition and remorse borders on pathological." [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

From mental health to minecraft and WTF, plus two more islands.
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Like 43rdAnd9th, I recently lost a parent. Death has been on my mind. Several years ago a friend's father died, and apparently he was surrounded by his favorite books. That appeals to me so much. [more]
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"the constant coverage has its benefits: One Mathematics concentrator, Abe Lowell ’24, learned about his upcoming midterm from a New York Post article." [more]
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(to keep the spiders safe.) I love that note. Because we might supply other reasons: -to scare the hell out of people -to further the arachnid empire [more]
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braguette is a fantastic word. [more]
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And now we are in his bedroom, with the light out and the Squire in bed. The room is over the kitchen, and the night outside still and warm, so the window stands open. There is very little light about the bedstead, but there is a strange… [more]
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VR or XR version of Gashlycrumb Tinies. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

MR James is one of the greats. Such stories! Precise, deeply detailed antiquarian materials; gentle satires of academics; tiny, achingly precise drops of horror. "Ash-Tree" is sometimes my favorite. [more]
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My most recent book, Universities on Fire, explores the future of higher education in the climate crisis. It came out in 2023. [more]
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What a great last line for TFA: ‘I spend all my time reading or writing crimes in the Museum. Nice life, isn’t it?’ [more]
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Jacques Tourneur directed a movie adaptation of "Casting the Runes" in 1957, Night of the Demon. People usually criticize the ending for revealing the monster, but I think the rest holds up very well. [more]
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Novels are a comparatively new art medium I'm sorry to be pedantic, but that's really true only for Britain, which figured out novels very late in the game (then made up for lost time in a hurry). Roman literature has book length prose… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

Fun post, cupcakeninja. Takes me back to my young grognard days. Also: shouting with nerdy glee when the tv series Babylon-5 showed a military command using hexgrids. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

One thing I despise is when Amazon sends me bullshit metrics on my reading I love it when Amazon recommends books I've written. "We think you'd be interested in this." Well, so I am! I still travel with a book Me… [more]
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Great post. I've been exploring solitaire tabletop games, because it's hard to fine anyone in my family or community to play with. Also been sketching out some. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

"a seven-night Times crossword–themed cruise" - there are many, many things in this world. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Good to see another ReclaimHosting fan here. Coming in late, I can add: long-time blogger here who's still blogging. And commenting on other folks' blogs, and responding to comments on mine. Social media helps get the word out, but the… [more]
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So much stems from the catastrophe of WWI. [more]
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Good lord. [more]
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I really want a space opera window. [more]
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On TFA, I agree with much of it, as someone who taught in a liberal arts college and worked with hundreds of them. But there are some points I'd argue. "liberal arts" doesn't always = "the humanities." A liberal arts college… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

It's such a quiet and intense film. We were very surprised by it and appreciate the whole. I agree with GenjiandProust about the MR James vibe. Which is a great thing to achieve. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

The monster, shown.
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Dr. Orpheus: Did you say an ORPHAN?! Dr. Venture: Yeah, a little... orphan boy. Dr. Orpheus: It's powered by a FORSAKEN CHILD!? Dr. Venture: Might be, kind of — I mean, I didn't use the whole thing! [more]
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One more note: Waldrop reminds me of the late, mad RA Lafferty. [more]
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“I am today suspending my campaign"
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