What I Played in 2010

Just like Notch!  Okay, I was planning on doing this anyway, but his blogpost got me to do it now. 

Serpent Babel

Today I talk about the Bible and Snakes and Harry Potter and Milton, I guess.

Infinite Elephants

Here's the latest thing I'd like to share.  From the fantastic mind of Vi Hart, doodling infinite elephants.

 

Those of you who know me are aware this is a pretty fantastic representation of the way I think at any given moment.

Fall

Autumn Song

Know’st thou not at the fall of the leaf
How the heart feels a languid grief
   Laid on it for a covering,
   And how sleep seems a goodly thing
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?

And how the swift beat of the brain
Falters because it is in vain,
   In Autumn at the fall of the leaf
   Knowest thou not? and how the chief
Of joys seems—not to suffer pain?

Know’st thou not at the fall of the leaf
How the soul feels like a dried sheaf
   Bound up at length for harvesting,
   And how death seems a comely thing
In Autumn at the fall of the leaf?

--Dante Gabriel Rosetti, 1883

Thoughts: The Secret of Kells and Traditional Animation

Traditional animation is a dying art.  Within, why this is bad, and how a small film by a no-name studio fought back.

Beginning, End

I urge everybody to read the short story "Beginning, End" by Jessica Soffer, a new up-and-coming author.  I've had it open in a tab for three days because I don't want to lose it.  I hope that you will not want to lose it either.

The Prime of Life

"Our indifference to money was a luxury we could afford only because we had enough of it to avoid real poverty and the need for hard or unpleasant work. Our open-mindedness was bound up with a cultural background and the sort of social activities accessible only to people of our social class. It was our conditioning as young petit bourgeois intellectuals that led us to believe ourselves free of all conditioning whatsoever."

Simon de Beauvoir, The Prime of Life