Plume & Akakak

I cAlL iT tYpOgRaPhIcAl YoDeLiNgâ„¢. A dIfFiCuLt TeChNiQuE.

Every 4 years or so, I put on a Ancient Greek drama mask (or anything close that comes into my hands, like a Goofy cap), climb to the attic, find my Atari ST, dust it, and then play Populous II for a few hours.

I'd say "Defeated", by The Legendary Pink Dots. An extraordinary band, by the way.

These are really nice drawings, GregroxMun. Keep them coming !

Hehe, I've listened a lot to those two Biosphere albums in the nineties. They are great indeed. I've never listened to what the guy has done from the 2000s though. His "most recent" track I remember is a remix for cEvin Key (of Skinny Puppy) & friends' project Download, and it's from 1996. : / Monolake is simply fine. Didn't know of Neosignal, but it sounds a little bit too pumpy for me. The artwork, on the other hand, brought back good memories of a very similar installation/night some friends and I have done/spent somewhere in the middle of a mountain forest, recording music and experimenting with our cameras, during our student years. The generating set roaring in our ears... --- Speaking of Download members, and close to the ambient spirit of Biosphere, there's one track you may like from their project platEAU : "Grasshopper", I think it was only released on Sub-Conscious Communications records' 1997 compilation Paradigm Shift. It's an appropriate time to suggest Rechenzentrum's "IBM", from their John Peel Session in 2001 : Cheers

I saw the TT18 clamp as a droid carrying more metal pieces in its fuel-ducts-arms to fix the wall. Anyone else ? Maybe the guy who sees submachine-gun-shaped ships ?

Our toes crowded with fungi ! I swear I can hear them setting up their first political system.

Lights. I'm not sure whether I've posted this .gif of Bob's miniLab before.

Thanks . Look, it has cute crenels ! Adding to the theory : doesn't the view of Kerbin on the menu screen suggest this kerbal is standing near the Munar north pole ? Near the equator, Kerbin would appear rotated by 90° to the left or to the right, depending on whether it is a kerbinrise or a kerbinset. Kerbin would be "upside down" at the south pole. Nah ?

Screw it. Voilà, I've seen it too.

Currently enjoying a storm. I'm tempted to go run naked in the streets.

It's 5:AM. 31°C in the room. BoohoohooOOARG !

Kerbin Fuel station n°6, now Kerbin 'uel station n°6, thanks to Ronzer and Rodzer Kerman's docking skills.

Thanks to Ronzer and Rodzer Kerman's docking skills, Kerbin Fuel Station n°6 became Kerbin 'uel station n°6.

How much new features are needed is debatable, as well.

I'll follow NFUN : I try to keep some distance with the part of me that wants to belong to a club. Science-fiction probably never was that much of a niche market, to be fair. I just meant there has been an expanding popular enthusiasm for SF in the last few years, pushed, among other explanations, by "geek culture". (It's not the main reason in my opinion, and I'm not sure this particular reason is a fad, future will tell.) Anyway, if this means widening the audience of a multifaceted genre and increasing the number of its readers, well it's all good. Also, I do feel out of the club when it comes to orbital mechanics. I do on this forum. The little knowledge I have of astrophysics comes from attending science popularization lectures, reading popularization press, and recently from Kerbal Space Program. I was attracted at first to authors who were mainly focused on the social, symbolic or psychological aspects, like Herbert, K. "Rick" (ok, I get it now), Lem... I admit I have a very French tendency to take astrophysical phenomena as metaphors of social mechanisms. I share your view. Verhoeven's direction is so rigid and unsensual that it often gives the impression of being clumsy. But I really appreciate how heavy-handed he can be, he's taking blockbuster ways and strips them down, reducing a complicated dance to a set of robotic yet accurate poses. It is interesting that it didn't prevent Starship Troopers from being euphoriant. This nudity may explain the awkward feelings Verhoeven's movies can inspire. They are formally rather obscene. You're right, like Lem, Jonathan Nolan's angle is metaphorical and psychological. But I think there is a difference in subtelty, and perhaps accuracy. Interstellar shows a set of characters reduced to great, emotional lines. I think neither the Nolans, nor the hundreds of scenarists armed with PhDs in litterature and cinema working for big studios are idiots. There is a difference in how these aspects are treated. Coming to my mind is Lem's reaction to Soderbergh's adaptation of Solaris (which I didn't dislike). In fairness, it has to be noted that Lem apparently made this statement while admitting he didn't saw the movie : "[...] to my best knowledge, the book was not dedicated to erotic problems of people in outer space. [...] This is why the book was entitled "Solaris" and not "Love in Outer Space"."

Yep, it's back. :|

That's beautiful. I need a seashore, now... When I read "yellow post box", I thought of something resembling the French ones. : ) Pretty different, actually. I imagine all post boxes in Turkey don't look like the one on your picture.

How about showing us more photos of your trip, worir4 ? : )

Seems we sort of agree on this movie's enjoyableness. It's better than nothing. But please shorten your train of "ha". I've heard cinema students praising the film, arguing that its end is as "what the f*ck" as the last part of 2001 (a statement I found worrying for their understanding of 2001). And I've read enough paeans when Interstellar was out to feel embarrassed. Not in the most reliable press, sure, but weren't we talking about popular culture ? Things come in extravagant attires before they die pretty fast in pop culture, but I find it interesting that Interstellar is that much represented here, in a thread populated by science-fiction enthusiasts ; science-fiction being not a niche market currently, but a part of a very mainstream, so-called "geek" culture.

A terrible situation. Why the drama. Just take a break.

Kinda sucks the sand out of the box.

So maybe that's 99% of a million users not complaining about the game. Hurray.