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I’ve drafted this replay post about a dozen times because there are so many things to say about Morrowind that it is difficult to know where to start. The context of it’s development for Bethesda as a company is important, the direction it steered the Elder Scrolls series away from and into, and the unique take on world building, and storytelling. But how about we start at the bottom and work our way up? Let’s start with the vibes, man.
Seyda Neen.
Morrowind is a small roleplaying game that feel…
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This past weekend was my birthday. My partner and I celebrated by camping at Cape Lookout on the Oregon coast. We had dinner at Willy’s in Oceanside. Run by a husband and wife team they serve Japanese comfort food in a beach town nestled on a cliffside.
The Oregon coast is an unbelievably special place to me. It feels otherworldly. It is one of my most expected pleasures since moving to the state. Wide, often empty beaches, shrouds of mists crawling over groves of pine. The chance at glimpses of…
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If you visit the websites for such UK tabloid newspapers as the Daily Express or the Daily Mail you will no doubt encounter prominent stories about Megan Markle, Nigel Farage and “immigrants”. If these two august institutions are short of column inches, they’ll run a piece about how some former celebrity has had the unmitigated gall and temerity to get old. I mean WTF? How dare they do what human beings are genetically disposed to do. It’s outrageous. Similarly, head over to the Unherd website a…
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Richard Adams’ Watership Down (New York: Macmillan, 1972) is one of the classic works of xenofiction (the fiction set in strange cultures, real or imagined), placed as it is among and between the warrens of rabbits in the English countryside. Lapine, the language he sketches for his rabbits, is arguably the best naming language ever created, and is a minimalist virtuoso performance, a haiku of a language compared to the sonnet of Sindarin.
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Academic Aesthetic
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(This is my seventh post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.)
You may have noticed that each of my Blaugust posts is hung on a hook that is another article (sometimes several), sometimes only loosely related to my topic.
I’m liking the idea of using these as jumping off points, and the whole thing feels far less derivative than the “articles” I’ve frequently found in the past that were “Here’s a video with a paragraph about it that hits word count but really jus…
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Bandcamp Friday - 7th August 2026. I only just remembered to to get this one in the nick of time with a little over a hour to go on.
This is Violinbwoy’s take on a Belarusian traditional song. A beautiful interpretation by Laboratorium Pieśni remixed for sound system play by Violinbwoy in his laboratory. A tune gathering the ancient spirits - from that time to this time… play it loud and feel the vibrations!
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It's currently Blaugust, and so I'm counting all my blog posts this month as Blaugust posts, including the Linkdumps. I told a friend about it and she laughed, because "blau" in German means "blue", like the colour, but it can also mean being drunk. And I had this thought too... Blaugust sounds a bit like I'm planning to spend the month getting hammered. Sometimes a totally innocent or meaningless word in one language can mean something entirely different in another language. I'm always reminded…
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"Digga, läuft bei dir"
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In a meeting today I ended by referencing the public service announcement (PSA) “It’s 10 PM: Do You Know Where Your Children Are?”. No one got the reference—except maybe by way of The Simpsons.
Here’s the actual PSA I remember:
For years this would air before the nightly news. It’s kind of wild to think that, 40 or 50 years ago, this was the moment parents were prompted to wonder where their kids actually were.
There are plenty of memes about how feral kids were in that era, but what struck me t…
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A rant triggered by sticker shock in vintage stores.
Yesterday I went on a bit of a trip across town to a famous local comic shop called The Beguiling. They are owned by the guys who founded the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and although they've divested from running it (amid some small controversy of favouritism/poor management/slack addressing of abuses) they're still pretty tied into it. They're also pretty tied into the local zine/indie comics scene in general and at TCAF I pre-ordered a set o…
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Album#46
High Violet
图1 《High Violet》專輯封面
专辑信息
专辑名称： High Violet
歌手： The National
年份： 2010-05-10
时长： 47:40
要說這張專輯什麼最吸引我，無疑是主唱 Matt Beringer 的嗓音，低沉而温暖，在專輯裡你能聴到他的中音和低音，都很好聴。 Matt Beringer 的個子很高大，有時他戴著眼鏡，看著像是一個教授。
The National 這支樂隊的組成也很有趣，由主唱 Matt Berninger、雙胞胎兄弟 Aaron Dessner（吉他、鋼琴、鍵盤）與 Bryce Dessner（吉他、鋼琴、鍵盤），以及 Scott Devendorf（貝斯）與 Bryan Devendorf（鼓手）兩兄弟組成，也是挺少見的。
High Violet 是我聴的第一張 The National 的専輯，整體聴起來給人一種忧郁且深沉的感覺。封面看著像是插在瓶中的散亂的花，花瓣由許多單詞組成。
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This is an analysis of the Furbish of the first-generation Furby toys. I haven’t kept up with the language in the ensuing four generations (!) of toys.
Introduction
This web page is devoted to documenting and analyzing the Furbish language. Furbish and the Furby were invented by Dave Hampton, founder of Sounds Amazing (a games company) and a former Mattel programmer. Inspired by the success of Tamagotchis and Giga Pets, he decided to create a new kind of virtual pet, a completely interactive ani…
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This is a Blaugust 2026 blog post.
Next month I will celebrate my second anniversary of moving to Portland, Oregon. I’m so happy to be here.
I celebrated my first anniversary nearly a year ago with a series of Mastodon social media posts, one a day, each with a photo (or two) of something I loved about my new neighborhood. I posted them under the #pdxOneYear hashtag.
These memories deserve to be immortalized in something less ephemeral than a series of social media posts.
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A selection of tiaras with peridots, the August birthstone.
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Don't panic, not a long post. I visit my university city every couple of months because I like the scene (whimsy) and I visited again today to catch up with a friend who's moving away for a Masters in a couple months. I won't air out our gossip 'cause it's none ya1 but the topic of location came up, which is something I've written about before.
I'm Thai in my blood but I never felt a strong tether to my home country, I grew up in a home town that's almost suffocating in how I will always be unde…
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Hello, I'm Magi, and I blog sometimes. (lol)
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I'm munching on shrimp chips as I write this. Both sushi restaurants I've been to serve these, while none of the ones I went to in LA did. This puffy variant doesn't read as Japanese to me, but I suppose when the menu lists pho and panang curry alongside its sushi and sashimi, there really aren't any boundaries.
Swedes like to ask me what I think of the Asian food here, and I'm never sure what to say. It's all good? The flavor's a little different, but I don't have the vocabulary to describe it.…
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Inspired by Tamarian, here’s a modest proposal for a mythometaphorical conlang: Intermythic English. Intermythic English is English with the addition of the 150 words below (newly updated!).
Sample Sentences
Yama can sarasvati Babel. “You can speak Intermythic English.”
The Minerva of Babel has Castor and Pollux. “The author of Intermythic English has twins.”
Yama and Nar can ahura mazda new Sarasvatis for Babel. “You and I can create new words for Intermythic English.”
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I guess it’s official now that Mike Caulfield has finally blogged about the new film podcast we’re doing: Couch to 4K. In fact, we’ve been recording episodes since April as we’ve tried to figure out both our chemistry and some kind of workable format. I’m easy—I think everything I do is great, especially when it involves talking about movies. How wrong can one be?* We have three episodes out so far, and now that I’m back from my extended vacation and Mike has taken over production duties, things…
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With this episode, number 72, Michael Branson Smith and I are 4 films deep into our series on international independent films from the 90s. We started down under with Muriel’s Wedding (1994), then we headed up to Tehran for The White Balloon (1995) then on to working class England with Life is Sweet (1990) then we jumped over to 1920s China for Raise the Red Lantern (1991).
Like many of the films from this series, I first experienced them as a young 20-something in independent movie houses in an…
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There is a sentiment that some “light” usages of AI are okay because it simply reduces the friction a bit on content creation. For example, Kelly writes:
But if AI can be helpful for things like blog production. I know, for example, that blog posts with an image are several times more likely to attract someone’s attention than one without an image. I lack time and artistic skill to create my own images, but I can craft a prompt and get a suitable illustration in seconds. This is hard to ignore,…
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Weekly Whaaa…?
I use the ISO weeks from Monday to Monday, so ISO Week 2026-W31 is the week of 2026-07-27/2026-08-02.
Backyard Bounty of the Week
Over the Fourth of July weekend we picked up a few herbs and other plants for our backyard container garden.
It’s now a (notably smoky) month later and the pepper plant (named Pablo, naturally as it’s a poblano) has already doubled in size. It’s now at least a foot above the tomato cage it’s been climbing like a ladder. We’re letting the two delicious-l…
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Culture is a container word. It describes something without actually describing anything in particular. We use it to gesture at something vast and real, but the word itself gives us no purchase on what's actually going on. It names the surface without capturing what's underneath.
The metaphor I find most useful is a pond. When you sit beside one, you just see the surface – it reflects the sky, changes colour with the light, looks calm or choppy depending on the weather. But the pond isn't the su…
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I created Kordron to show off the capabilities of LangMaker for Windows, my shareware conlang-construction software. Yes, people used to send me cash and checks in the mail for software they had downloaded from my website.
Kordron is one of the many dialects of Orcish spoken in the Shadow Mountains. Unlike most of Orcish, Kordron has been documented in some detail, due to the findings of Magnold the Cleric. While plundering an abandoned orc warren, Magnold discovered two scrolls, which comprised…
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Crystal City
Another post for the soon-deleted-blog-ether.
It's nice
An entry. 24 hours of thought/writing permenation. Then deleted. A there, a then. A time and place.
The ephemeral world needs this. Geopolitical bargaining, uncertainty. Hell, blog renaissance's, Smol Web growth. Zines. Analog lifestyles. Adjacent to full-time TikTokers.
Here are some nice words.
××× ttyl
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Memories Taken by the Heat
I've just come back from my morning dog walk. On the streets here, you can smell the nearby forests. The sea is only a couple of kilometers away. Clouds towered over our heads.
The cool breeze and the scent of water vapor in the air brought back memories from years ago.
After my divorce, I moved to a small flat in the downtown of Budapest. It was 2020, and I managed to buy a neat apartment that had previously been used for Airbnb. It became unprofitable for the owner a…
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I’ve been muddling through ways to stay interesting – to myself and friends – in the age of AI. Part of the answer, I have come to understand, is the construction of Thickets. Dreaming up such a thing without a way to traverse it kept the idea incomplete. One nagging thought was that it was important to get properly lost – as opposed to trivially lost. That feeling where you had a good sense of where you were, but a question you asked or a connection you made has left you in unfamiliar territory…
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It was just as well I went out yesterday afternoon to go for a walk and, of course, go buy myself a much needed gelato from my fav (and only gelato shop) on the rue st. Jean, Tutto Gelato.
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So naturally, I took a load of silly photos while strolling in what might be the last day of sunshine we see again for 4-5 day.
Welcome to August.
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"Wake up, woman!"
The earth dropped away in a whirl of colour and I tumbled through a blanket of clouds.
Only darkness remained.
I jolted up and stared into my dark bedroom, “Stupid dream, waking me up like this!”
A soft voice said, "Hello."
I sang, "My name is Elder Price," because ever since seeing The Book of Mormon in the theatre, that song played in my head when someone said hello.
"How droll."
That didn't sound like my husband. I clasped my hands around the blanket, cold sweat on my brow.…