The Stochastic Game

Here’s an interesting post about the “baseline test” scene in Blade Runner 2049, the “dropping in” acting technique, and a Nabokov poem.

Birds of the Deer Lake Park, hanging out on branches, from a few days ago… nice to see the local eagle found a friend.

Ooooh a Stone Age horror movie entirely spoken in a reconstructed paleolithic language… I’m interested!

Interesting difference between common snack foods in Europe vs Canada: titanium dioxide.

Working from home is really hard work

Quiet morning from a few days ago

Hey I forgot to post this month’s chocolate delivery! Really good selection, as always by Origins Chocolate Bar.

This story about “Zoozve”, the sort-of-moon that vaguely orbits around Venus, is incredibly charming.

Once again: if something’s got DRM, you didn’t buy it. This time, it’s digital copies of anime from Funimation, which will be lost in a couple months. Ownership only comes from ripping or torrent/nzb’ing stuff.

“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement. Indeed, it’s amazing that, to this day, podcasting can still be self-hosted, open, and backed by web standards. More of this, please.