Happy Goblinization Day
Happy Goblinization Day
The Taklamakan Desert and the Loulan Kingdom
"I often worried most about about things that afterwards did not happened" - Sven Hedin
Walpurgisnacht is tonight, get ready
Under the Bridge
Listen to the Trees, they know better
Meditation 15 seconds. If you don’t have time, then you need to watch twice.
I'm back after taking a break from this blog for a week, which was wonderfully refreshing.
"Do you have any long term goals? Just death"
V.S. Ramachandran - What are Breakthroughs in Biology?
"Secrecy does not necessarily scale" - Dan Kaminsky (1979 - April 23, 2021)
I'm increasingly thinking that every functioning system has two forms: The abstraction that outsiders are led to believe, and the reality that insiders actually and carefully operate. You don't incrementally learn a system. You eventually unlearn its necessary lies. - Dan Kaminsky
Australian People Magazine, Sept 1961
A generating system… is a kit of parts, with rules about the way these parts may be combined. Almost every ‘system as a whole’ is generated by a ‘generating system’. If we wish to make things which function as ‘wholes’ we shall have to invent generating systems to create them. - Christopher Alexander, 1968, “Systems Generating Systems”
If you want to make a living flower, you don't build it, you grow it from the seed. - Christopher Alexander
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Art from Grave of the Fireflies