October 2009
10 posts
“I felt a sudden rush of the past upon me; for a moment grief pierced me like a winter night; yet it came to me like an old grief, I had suffered it long since and now it was behind me. Everything is change; you cannot step twice into the same river.”
—The Last of the Wine by Mary Renault
“Molly looked closely at him, as she had not done for a long time, and she saw that he had come at last to his power and his beginning. She could not say how she knew, for no wild glory burned about him, and no recognizable omens occurred in his honor, just at that moment. He was Schmendrick the Magician, as ever—and yet somehow it was for the first time.”
—The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
“But the strength of a puzzle is not just about the logical deduction necessary to solve the problem - for games it is equally about the psychological rewards for using each of the tools, in reality toys, in solving the problem.”
—Ascii Dreams: The Quest for Quests: The Puzzle (Part Two)
“The number one killer of characters in Angband is tiredness, followed by boredom. The best strategy to winning the game is to attempt this in as short a time as possible - a counter intuitive approach in a game which is effectively infinitely grindable.”
—Ascii Dreams: The Rules of Game Design:The Golden rule
“Meditation is not easy. It takes time and it takes energy. It also takes grit, determination and discipline. It requires a host of personal qualities which we normally regard as unpleasant and which we like to avoid whenever possible. We can sum it all up in the American word ‘gumption’. Meditation takes ‘gumption’.”
—Mindfulness in Plain English - 1 to 4
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I’m not really sure what to say other that this is pretty much what I’ve been waiting for my entire life.
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It almost sounds like chairs are the refined grains of the furniture world.
Or, perhaps more fittingly, chairs are like shoes. They are modern “conveniences” that force our anatomy into unnatural positions while purporting to correct flaws intrinsic to our bodies.
” —Sitting is Unhealthy (and What to Do About It) | Mark’s Daily Apple