Fatal Flaw The consummate game designer sipped his tea while reminiscing over bug fixes he’d done on this one over the years. The “forty days forty nights” reboot appeared to restore balance to it. “Series of hurricanes” kept the players busy for awhile, but soon they were right back to the flawed parts that threw…
#Haikai Challenge #139: fragrant breeze (kunpuu) — Spring’s Fragrant Array
Spring’s Fragrant Array Rosemary pushes Against lake breeze from the west As it gathers friends. Violets, lilies, lilac; Hyacinth dance with humus. Earthworms inhale to Celebrate in their blindness Spring’s fragrant array. Today’s offering is an Oriental Octet. An Oriental Octet is an invented verse form that appears to emulate the syllabic pattern…
#SLS — “One More Cup of Coffee,” by Bob Dylan
Jim Adams is the accountable host of Song Lyric Sunday. Jim says: This week we have the somewhat different prompt of finding a song that includes a number and hopefully this will work out for us. Here are the “rules”: • Post the lyrics to the song of your choice, whether it fits the theme…
“Arithmetic, population and energy” by Dr Albert A Bartlett
Originally posted on Wibble:
This is one of those videos I keep coming back to. Each time I watch it, I find that it’s easier to understand. Greg Craven (of manpollo.org and gregcraven.org) uploaded the playlist of all eight short videos comprising in total 1 hour and 15 minutes. Possibly the most illuminating hour and…
#MM Saturday Mix — Spring Symphony
Through the mesh screen Sifts gentle breeze Cats watch birdies Hopped feathered tease Call from the trees Chipmunks chirping Pine cone burping Red-tails lurking Death watch flirting To snatch ‘ere flees Dandelion Dots are smilin As they’re dyin ‘Brellas flyin On warm breeze Sights sounds smells feels Spring charms and heals Pops wide soul squeals…
Doodads — 5/15/20
I’ve been working out in the yard a lot these past days. So many things to report! Other news: One of the bluebird houses is…. occupied by bluebirds! I moved a couple houses around and one of them is off by itself. I couldn’t be any happier to see them. Trillers have bullied them…
#MM Music Challenge — Mr. Fantasy ripples…
Jim Adams is the dependable host of Mindlovemisery Menagerie’s Music Challenge. Jim says: The challenge today is to focus on “Dear Mr. Fantasy,” by Traffic, written by Jim Capaldi, Steve Winwood, and Chris Wood, and use it for a short story, a piece of flash fiction, or a poem that you can share with the…
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