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Friday, 19 November 2021

Hyperspectral Radio Eye the Size of Earth #

Casey Handmer, writing about the Starlink satellite network:

Starlink has received its fair share of criticism, drawn perhaps by its overwhelming scale and potential impacts to ground-based astronomy. But Starlink can also be the single greatest scientific instrument ever built, a hyperspectral radio eye the size of the Earth, capable of decoding information about the Earth and the universe that is right up against the limits of physics.

Saturday, 6 November 2021

99-Year Old Fighter Pilot Bud Anderson Talks About Flying the P-51 Mustang #

Very interesting commentary about flying the P-51 Mustang from Chuck Yeager’s life-long friend Clarence “Bud” Anderson , interviewed at Fighter Pilot Podcast.

Via M0rt75, if I recall correctly.

Homo Ludens #

While thinking about the concept of playing again recently, I remembered the book Homo Ludens, which is in my to-read list:

Homo Ludens is a book originally published in Dutch in 1938 by Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga. It discusses the importance of the play element of culture and society. Huizinga suggests that play is primary to and a necessary (though not sufficient) condition of the generation of culture.

I don’t remember if this is the book referenced by John Cleese in his LOL-filled lecture on creativity, which means I should what it again!

Thursday, 28 October 2021

The Little Prince #

Adam Gopnik, writing about Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince in The New Yorker:

The desert and the rose—his life as an intrepid aviator and his life as a baffled lover—were his inspiration. But between those two experiences, skewering them, dividing them with a line, was the war.

What a strange memory reading this piece has made surface in my mind: A theater production of “O Pequeno Príncipe“ that I attended as a kid in Rio de Janeiro, I think (I need to ask my mom)!

In today’s stream I will be flying the airplane that Antoine flew for the French postal service, the Bréguet XIV, which is in the new update for the IL-2 Sturmovik flight simulator.

Wednesday, 27 October 2021

Metal Detecting as a Metaphor for Success #

Andrew Crawshaw, speaking about his new game The Magnificent Truffle Pigs over at my childhood friend’s excellent website, Yin Indie:

I felt that metal detecting was a great metaphor for success; you can spend your whole life metal detecting and only find junk, or you might do it for the first time tomorrow and find a gold hoard. There isn’t always that trade-off between hard work and the end result.

I think that’s one of the things that a lot of people overlook when they’re playing the game; recognising that when something good happens in life it can be a result of luck and not always hard work. Or that sometimes you can work your fingers to the bone and never get that reward you feel you deserve. I think if you don’t recognise that, it can cloud your appreciation of how other people get along in life, or don’t get along in life.

So true.

Monday, 18 October 2021

Spoiler: HTML Details Disclosure Element #

Today I learned that HTML now has a spoiler element!

Spoiler: Life Advice

Know thyself.
Nothing to excess.
Certainty brings insanity.

Via WildCraze.

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