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johntaitorgon Revisited: Watership Down

Bright Eyes is a very emotional song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elkCXVp_BqU

johntaitorgon Revisited: Watership Down

Watership Down index (work in progress):

https://johngtait.github.io/

johntaitorgon Texture – As open as LaTeX and as simple as a classic word processor

Yeah, LyX is excellent if you understand LaTeX but don't use it often enough to memorize it.

johntaitorgon A Theory of Creepiness

I sort of explored this a few years ago in a story. A scientist creates rabbit-human hybrids and it causes all kinds of problems precisely because they can't be treated as animals and can't be treated as human.

https://github.com/johngtait/mixie-novel/blob/development/fr...

johntaitorgon Knuth reenacts his first Stanford lecture: The Analysis of Algorithms [video]

Nice hat

johntaitorgon Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text

I requested tag hierarchies on the mailing list back in 2011 and here it is in the release notes.

johntaitorgon Knuth 3:16 (2002)

Luke 14:34-35

johntaitorgon Edgar D. Mitchell, Sixth Moonwalking Astronaut, Dies at 85

Stories

johntaitorgon Edgar D. Mitchell, Sixth Moonwalking Astronaut, Dies at 85

Was it really happen, moonwalk NAH

johntaitorgon Atari Star Raiders Source Code (1979)

Might be worth converting that nice PDF to indirect DjVu format to get the size down.

johntaitorgon Impossible Mission – Commodore 64 game remake in JavaScript

Raid on Bungeling Bay was one of the few C64 games I actually passed!

johntaitorgon DeepMind uses the Daily Mail as a huge training corpus for text comprehension

Another use for the Daily Mail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPlEIryW8zA

johntaitorgon The Amazing Disappearing BSD License (2005)

My own license is a more family-friendly variant of the WTFPL: http://www.johntait.org/webhelp-mobile/WYLPL.html

johntaitorgon 1980s computer controls Grand Rapids Public School heat and AC

I thought this was going to be about a C64. You'd have to POKE it to switch the heating on.

It. Just. Works. though - they should never upgrade.

johntaitorgon How my father gave me a terrifying lesson at 10

Here's Kes again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBJi5tA-L1o

johntaitorgon Goodbye?

Please, please don't do it. It'll be the best news I'll have all day if you post that you won't

johntaitorgon Pac-Man in Google Maps

Does the 'before noon' rule not apply worldwide?

johntaitorgon Stallman wants Git commit and push to be a single operation

I think this is just about Emacs, not about git.

(and I care about what RMS thinks)

johntaitorgon Code Keyboards

Cherry MX Green? Clear? I think these guys are being different for the sake of it.

I really don't like any Cherry switches. They are for point of sale terminals.

I'm saving up for a Realforce (Topre keys). My little Happy Hacking Lite has excellent (non-Topre) keys, though I don't know what's under the key caps. Some sort of high quality membrane technology.

johntaitorgon TANX: online multiplayer tank battle using WebGL and Node.js

At last, someone has found a use for the world wide web!

johntaitorgon Why are glasses so expensive? (2012)

I went to a place in Kyoto and had a very similar experience. Same day, cheap, great quality... Japanese consumers don't put up with any shit.

johntaitorgon Why are glasses so expensive? (2012)

Get your Japanese wife to take your prescription to Japan and get good glasses for <£100 (<$100).

That's what I do.

johntaitorgon USB Typewriter

I went to the site, looked at its many impressive pages, went to Youtube and left a joke, came back to site, came to HN comments and finally clocked it wasn't all a sophisticated joke.

Big shout out to all the other Alphasmart people here though!

johntaitorgon Bond – Robowritten notes as a service

Uncanny valley.

johntaitorgon Ask HN: Anyone to implement striptease code coverage tool?

WAT

johntaitorgon “Just remove the duck” (2013)

Commonly known as a 'red herring'.

johntaitorgon Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free

It's available at no charge, but it's not free.

johntaitorgon ASCIIFlow Infinity – ASCII diagrams with export

Yeah, I though of artist-mode immediately!

Check this out with M-x org-mode and DITAA...

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-d...

Also org-mode gives you kick-ass ASCII tables.

johntaitorgon Shoegaze: an oral history

Yeah, see my Pitchshifter link above. There's a lot in common with both genres going for a kind of sensory washover.

johntaitorgon Shoegaze: an oral history

I remember 1991 and shoegazer very well. I was a metal fan into Ride's Going Blank Again and Spacemen 3.

It's a shame than stuff from the metal world like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fegt-bD3q_k didn't cross-pollinate and make a super-popular strain.