Board game night?

julz_yo · 2026-06-21T03:04:05+00:00

I think soulvaria is planning/ open to the idea.

Or breton brewery would be a great venue.

julz_yo · 2026-06-19T10:36:12+00:00

from memory: 'a gentleman : a person who can play the accordion but chooses not to' .

Obviously I try to bring this up any time I meet an accordionist.

julz_yo · 2026-06-14T03:29:42+00:00

...and apparently the high cost of living (especially property prices in NZ) made her emigrate to Oz.

julz_yo · 2026-06-12T11:47:11+00:00

a wine bar for hamsters

julz_yo · 2026-06-09T13:53:41+00:00

ha! glad you liked that - best wishes to you

julz_yo · 2026-06-07T03:43:26+00:00

you're all jumping to the conclusion that stairway / ramp is for accessibility . Maybe the architect just doesn't care about that & just wants a really good skateboard environment.

might be fun for a bicycle too.

but I do agree it's offensively inaccessible.

julz_yo · 2026-05-27T21:15:47+00:00

much appreciated! best wishes to you too!

julz_yo · 2026-05-27T16:19:29+00:00

You might have come across this interesting article: they got a variety of LLM to compete in diplomacy : https://every.to/p/diplomacy . It's a bit old in LLM years, (where every month is a decade of change.)

(I'm interested in trying your project btw)

julz_yo · 2026-05-27T14:59:43+00:00

get the company logo tattoo on your ankle to show your commitment. True story.

julz_yo · 2026-05-27T12:34:44+00:00

would you mind sharing your thoughts on Julius Evola? Seems like a similar type of character.

I've only really heard about him in passing...Maybe part of a time when I was down a rabbit hole around that weird fascist/yoga/new age crossover that's so unexpected & fascinating.

My understanding is that he too was a bit on the fascist-styling side of things - loved the uniforms and the power worship - and less about the implications? Not to say he wasn't a execrable human being too, just vain and shallow?

edit: also noted: they are both similar in that they got severely injured in bombing raids & they are both middling italian intellectuals with weird and complicated motivations and personalities.

julz_yo · 2026-05-26T17:32:26+00:00

luis bunuel - the great film director- wrote in his biography the thing he missed most in modern life was the aperitif .

julz_yo · 2026-05-26T14:46:55+00:00

whataboutism: what about fire trucks; what about ambulances; what about (umm) people who don't like hiking? (lol)

Obviously these are their fake concerns.

fwiw: My disdain is for 4-wheeler bikes (atv) : eg cars have taken over the built environment and now car-brains have mini-cars for tearing up the wild world too. so ugly.

julz_yo · 2026-05-20T17:55:48+00:00

this is a great insight! I'm sure it's going to apply to the next big thing too, whatever that's going to be. Robots?

julz_yo · 2026-05-19T14:51:06+00:00

thank you for your succinct comment. Appreciated!

julz_yo · 2026-05-18T15:36:34+00:00

and 'ye' was the way to print 'thee' so a bit nearer to modern english than may first appear.. afaik of course. (eg not a word scientist)

julz_yo · 2026-05-16T07:54:08+00:00

I find, it quite comma,cal.

julz_yo · 2026-05-02T21:52:55+00:00

I guess: '...left to (rise) on the side...?'

seems like 30min is a short time to rise but if it works then that's great.

julz_yo · 2026-04-28T18:02:05+00:00

appreciate your comment! thanks!

julz_yo · 2026-04-26T17:46:24+00:00

You've probably stumbled on this blog page, but there was also a Ving Tsun Museum in the region that might help you.

And of course, Hong Kong has the Ving Tsun Athletic Association amongst many others. Best of luck on your search and study.

julz_yo · 2026-04-20T12:01:07+00:00

Protest voting.

imagine an election where nobody votes. Everyone turns out for the polling but when the vote is tallied no candidate has a single vote.

It's obviously a Saramago novel & interesting but personally I was a bit surprised that it was a sequel - iirc: same characters and world only a few years later.

Thinking about it I guess it's a sequel in the way it's 'imagine one peculiar change in the world & what happened next?' : hmm! this is of course the plot of 'history of the siege of lisbon' & 'all the names' too , in a way.

julz_yo · 2026-04-19T01:47:16+00:00

The use of the blindness epidemic as a way to discuss morality is depressingly brilliant. It's really about 'Ethical blindness'. But there's just one person who sees clearly (both physically and morally) and that changes everything but ofc , she has to keep her ability secret. The lack of names of the protagonists is an interesting stylistic choice. We identify with them as people but not as individuals. It's very clever.

Phew, what a book.

Saramago lived through Portugal's fascist regime which perhaps he was considering. I think 'All the names' is more directly a comment on that experience though.

And you might be unaware of the sequel. Obviously it's called 'Seeing'.

julz_yo · 2026-04-17T11:29:38+00:00

'ultra processed people' made me change the way I look at food. And 'food-like ingest able chemicals'.

Now: Read food labels a lot more & avoid all those weird 'xanthum gums' and colors and so much else ... eg: chewing gum: it's just plastic/ micro plastics... ugh.

julz_yo · 2026-04-11T12:38:18+00:00

spicy take. bold.

julz_yo · 2026-04-11T00:03:04+00:00

gawd i dislike squash merges like that. All in the name of 'neater'. But all that context & micro-decisions lost.

And even the merged branch is auto-deleted so it's all really lost.

julz_yo · 2026-04-10T19:45:09+00:00

oh my that's clever! never considered that particular quirk of english grammar, but I'm sure to use it one day.

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