jhilden

overholt, 13 days ago to random

Just appreciating the cover of Electricity for Everyone (1897) https://www.weberrarebooks.com/product/134297/Electricity-for-Everybody-Its-Nature-and-Uses-Explained

valoisa, 12 days ago to random Finnish

Tää on yks parhaista suomalaisista teoksista ikinä.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6728_PZdawM

luovaruho, 13 days ago to random Finnish

Ei-toivottuja crossovereita:

Taru kärpästen herrasta
Fifty shades of Dorian Grey
Viulunsoittaja ruispellossa
101 Muskettisoturia
Anne Frankensteinin päiväkirja

#kirjamastodon

valoisa, 13 days ago to random Finnish

Mietin just äsken, että onko laulussa pakko olla sanat. Jos ei niin se helpottaa mun biisinkirjottamista tosi paljon!

jhilden, 13 days ago to random

Attempting to explain to the 10yos about the difficulty in determining whether someone online earnestly believes some outlandish silly stuff or rather just is trolling the ones who do, using this image.

At least they found the picture funny when it struck home.

jhilden, 11 days ago to Trains

Bizarre:
"On 10 May 1931, the Schienenzeppelin exceeded a speed of 200 km/h (120 mph) for the first time. Afterwards, it was exhibited to the general public throughout Germany. On 21 June 1931, it set a new world railway speed record of 230.2 km/h on the Berlin–Hamburg line between Karstädt and Dergenthin, which was not surpassed by any other rail vehicle until 1954. The railcar still holds the land speed record for a petrol powered rail vehicle."
#trains
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schienenzeppelin

jhilden, 13 days ago to movies

I found The Zone of Interest quite good.
Wondering if it might have worked as well or better without the sound effects and abstract imagery trying to increase the sense of foreboding.

Also, maybe a bit far-fetched or excessive perhaps, but can be as an allegory of current society where many would just hope that the vines grow and cover the proverbial concentration camp walls out of sight.
#films
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7160372/

jhilden, 6 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to CrystalsHashtags

Very odd InDesign/PDF bug:

Font rendering incorrectly in an interactive PDF, but only in Chrome.

Previous PDFs exported from the same file render correctly. Only obvious difference is that the faulty file is PDF version 1.7. and the other 1.5.

You can’t choose the PDF version in Interactive PDF export. However, this was fixed simply by re-saving the PDF in Acrobat (no need to change version). So something tiny is broken in InDesign’s 1.7 pipeline and not in Acrobat’s. #InDesign #typography

jhilden, 8 days ago to random

Observation on visual culture, sparked by re-reading Lem’s Solaris:
The novel is full of vivid and disturbing imagery relating to the ocean (which both films alas mostly sideline), yet there seems to be very little visual art online inspired by it, apart from the movie posters and book covers.

I’m arguing that most of what could be termed ”fan art” is heavily reliant on some pre-existing iconic imagery. This also directly feeds into AI art. No Solaris storyboard by H.R. Giger, no fan art.

jhilden, 8 days ago (edited 22 hours ago) to random

It is funny how Gary Larson went from a niche cartoon that you would find on mostly biology people’s noticeboards to widely popular meme fodder. He was in the 2020s back in the 1990s? Or the nerds took over? Or… both?

Maybe specifically a false memory, but I think I asked dad to explain Cow Tools. Some other Larson cartoons for sure.

jhilden, 8 days ago to random

I was afraid that there were a lot less swifts than last year, but seems their arrival is staggered. Now in the beginning of June it seems like there’s about as many as last year. Their population is still down. Presumably they became a companion species to humans in the Middle Ages and spread widely in Europe, but changes in buildings is one cause of the current decline, possibly along with insect loss. https://vis.social/@jhilden/112469252884233799

jhilden, 13 days ago to random

I eat a lot of stuff past the best before date, but a bag of rucola that smells funny and was three days past the ”last use” date is an instant nope. Guaranteed food poisoning.