Linked List: October 2021
Thursday, 28 October 2021
- The Little Prince ✶
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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 ✶
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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 ✶
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Today I learned that HTML now has a spoiler element!
Via WildCraze.