davefischer

@davefischer@beehaw.org

Artist / hacker from Providence, USA.

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davefischer,

TeX / LaTex documentation is infuriating. It’s either “use your university’s package to make a document that looks like this:” -or- program in alien assembly language.

I like postscript for graphic design, but not so much for typesetting. For a flyer or poster, PS is great.

Spooky reads for October?

Anyone else have some spooky reads lined up for October? My bookclub is reading Frankenstein this month, which will be a nice change of pace from the usual fare. I’ve got Tender is the Flesh, Rouge, and Black Sheep lined up. I will probably get to The Haunting of Hill House as well, which I’m really excited to read! I just...

davefischer,

The last few years I’ve been reading a bunch of Lovecraft’s earlier influences. Some of that has been very good. (Chambers, Blackwood, Machen, etc.) But the absolute standout has been Dunsany. If you like HPL’s “Dream Quest” material, check out Dunsany’s “Time and The Gods” and “Wonder Tales”.

davefischer,

Frankenstein is a really great read because the story that “We all know” is drastically different from the book.

Films and shows which tell the story of how they themselves were produced

In The Office (US version) it is revealed that the mockumentary the viewer watches does in fact exist inside the universe. Dunder-Mifflin crew is even interviewed as stars of the show and Pam has a thing for the boom mic operator who worked on the set....

davefischer,

The entire Muppet Movie is about going to Hollywood to make The Muppet Movie.

And of course, the ending of Holy Mountain.

davefischer,

Funeral Parade of Roses is intercut with interviews with the actors.

davefischer,

I carry a Droid 4 (because I like the keyboard) which was running Android 4. Which was absolutely unusable for the web, but alright for ssh, xmpp, and as a camera.

A few weeks ago I replaced android on it with Linux (Maemo Leste) which is… great but also very rough.

I mostly use my phone as a wifi remote to control my computer. That’s working much better now than under android.

But the camera doesn’t work. Ugh.

davefischer,

On The Silver Globe, because it’s the most epically manic film ever made. Sort of a Lords of The Flies revert-to-primitivism story, set on another planet with the descendants of a failed colonization attempt.

For context, previous favorite films: Stalker, Ran, and The Passion of Joan of Arc.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBFRiSlcBAg

(Who said you should watch my favorite movie?)

davefischer,

It’s incredibly weird that roughly the same story was adapted, the same year, into two movies, one serious and one comedy, and… they’re both masterpieces.

davefischer,

Interesting, thank you!

Although that list is about twice as long as it should be. A lot of those aren’t much more than two movies of the same genre…

davefischer,

Weird. I’ve programmed tek vector graphics terminals, and I’d never heard about this before today.

Actually, what’s really cool is the giant vector displays a few companies made in the 60s:

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davefischer,

As a hobby. I set up a tek-4015 running geometric fractals (trees, snowflakes, etc.) in an art gallery type installation once, about 20 years ago.

davefischer,

Ssssnake - The War

www.youtube.com/watch?v=65V1H4HFEf8

davefischer,

al-Aḥad (“The One”) is nice. It’s one of the 99 names of God given in the Qur-an. Coincidently, it’s close to my younger cat’s nickname: “One” (short for “Little One”).

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davefischer,

I do like Lem…

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davefischer,

The Lunar Trilogy by Jerzy Zulawski. And it’s a terrible translation (as far as I can tell without being able to read the original Polish). It’s very rough, sloppy english, and filled with trivial errors. However, the original story still shines through, and it seems like the translator mostly stuck with the original phrasing, resulting in awkward english, but an interesting view of the original. So… fine. (It’s the basis for my favorite movie, and it was a long wait to get any translation at all.)

I’ve read the Vietnamese classic Tale of Kieu in two translations, one trying to stick to the original language closer than the other, and it’s an interesting comparison.

Other favorites:

The Obscene Bird of Night, The Baron in The Trees, Collected stories of Bruno Schulz, Collected stories of Daniil Kharms

Forty years of GNU and the free software movement (www.fsf.org)

On September 27, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) celebrates the 40th anniversary of the GNU operating system and the launch of the free software movement. Free software advocates, tinkerers, and hackers all over the world will celebrate this event, which was a turning point in the history of computing. Forty years later, GNU...

davefischer,

It’s mostly linux now (except for most of the actual networking gear) but it wasn’t 20 years ago, so the internet is certainly “possible” without linux.

davefischer,

I’ve been reading a lot of Stefan Wul lately. Fantastic Planet was an adaption of one of his books. Great stuff. So weird.

(You know the scene where the Oms in the park take down two Draags? In the book, they don’t have weapons (and they’re not as tiny). It’s more like an attack by a pack of dogs. They bite the Draags to death.)

davefischer,

My favorite SF comedy is Dark Star.

davefischer,

Dark City is intense, but my favorite movie by Alexander Proyas is his first feature film: Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds. The genre of artsy post-apoc is small, and that’s one of the best.

davefischer,

A new transaction is different than paying off a debt. You can’t legally refuse cash for payment of a debt. You can for a new transaction.

davefischer,

When I was in my 20s, definitely Principia Discordia.

Now… maybe Brecht’s Threepenny Opera?

Or Zamyatin’s We.

davefischer,

Love longan. Also very photogenic. (Sometimes I buy fruit primarily to photograph.)

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davefischer,

I had a 3g modem in my cisco router that I used to use for that, but when they shut down the 3g network I was never able to find another cheap sms-only service for the 4g version of the cisco modem. (So I switched to wifi & xmpp.)

I wrote my own software to use it, talking to the raw modem interface. Which, interestingly, uses an extension of the old “AT” modem command set. Weird.

Being able to write shell scripts that access sms is fantastic, I miss it.

davefischer,

There’s SO MANY Alice adaptations.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Films_and_television_programme…

davefischer,

Bigbug - robot uprising comedy. Killer.

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