Behold, the mass melting of blood-brain barriers
It's Brave New World, 'cause they've never been merrier
Contagion camaraderie's gotten much scarier
To those who don't want to be good little carriers
1/4 "Barbarians" by Jacek Markusiewicz impresses me like no other recent work of #GenerativeArt has.
The images of majestic mountain slopes and neatly arranged fields – with occasional buildings strewn in between them – at first feel strangely detached and bland, thanks to a distant, aerial point of view and bleached, bright colours. Yet the way the landscapes are unexpectedly interrupted by smooth, deep, geometrical gashes appears alien and out of place.
"Sweet Talkin' Woman" is a 1978 single by #ElectricLightOrchestra (ELO) from the album #OutOfTheBlue (1977). Its original title was "Dead End Street", but it was changed during recording. Some words that survived from that version can be heard in the opening of the third #verse, "I've been livin' on a dead end street". The track became the third top ten hit from the #LP in the UK, peaking at number 6. As a novelty, initial copies of the #12inch. https://youtu.be/TEfn4ieqqjI
Simon Peyton Jones is smartest, nicest and most infectiously-enthusiastic people in the whole of computing. So I'm thrilled to be learning from him this week as he joins me to talk about his long history of pushing #FP & #Haskell to the state of the art; his present work for Epic Games, formalizing Functional Logic Programming with #Verse; and his vision for the future, raising the bar for computing education right from primary schools. ❤️
Here, I portray your self-image
as a victim
of life's apparent absurdities,
but soon realize
that it's my own divided perception
of myself
I've set out to seek to immortalize
in a shadow world
full of indistinguishable similarities.
Final assembly steps and firmware upload for
“64 Pixels” and “Recursive Tile”.
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A thread with some WIP captures in our studio. #gysinvanetti #digitalart #verse
Congratulations to our Limerick-Off Award Winner, the LIST-Themed Limerick Winner, the Random Word Generator Limerick Winner, and to the Honorable Mention Winners.
Attention All Limerick-Off Procrastinators: The current Limerick-Off ends this Saturday, Nov. 11, at 4 pm (Eastern time.) So please get your #limerick stragglers in. It's 3 separate contests in 1:
"The waves have a story to tell me,
As I lie on the lonely beach;
Chanting aloft in the pine-tops,
The wind has a lesson to teach;
But the stars sing an anthem of glory I cannot put into speech."
The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
Robert W. Service died #OTD in 1958. He was a popular verse writer called “the Canadian Kipling” for rollicking ballads of the “frozen North,” notably “The Shooting of Dan McGrew.”
Are you missing the experience of #Web1 random meaty information from experts? I'm on a weekly email list from #Gard, "The World's Leading #Shipping Insurer", and I highly recommend it!
It's easy to ignore, but if you feel like clicking in, you can hear about the #coup in #gabon, or the latest in #windPower for #ContainerShips, or the dangers of fumigating grain in transit... And it's all written for people doing work.
If I was a #SpaceOpera writer, or running a #verse or #traveller game, I would have great story seeds from this.
Anyway, they're so web 1.0 that to sign up you need to go to https://www.gard.no/web/frontpage and fill in a form, but I think it's worth it.