May 18th, 2013

Echo and the Empress - “One More Tear”

Music Video
May 17th, 2013

Monday, one of the Tumblrs I follow[1] reblogged a post from Kinoko, indicating that her comic, The Epic of Gilgamesh #2 was available on Etsy.

Interested, of course, I popped over, liked the preview art I saw, and ordered both issues.

This is what came in the mail today. Our mailman actually missed delivering it with the rest of the mail, but when he saw the envelope, made a special trip on his way home to drop it off.

Truly, this is one of my favorite things I’ve ever received by post. Not only did a talented person use her time and energy to create these books, she also stopped whatever else she had going on to doodle on my envelope and include the smaller things.

Simply amazing.  And the comics are great too!

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[1] Sorry, try as I might, I can’t trace this back.

The Epic of Gilgamesh
May 16th, 2013
Zoom I love how demanding Old Babylonian epistolarians can sound.  Sometimes, their letters read like angry interoffice emails. Take lines 4-14[1]: “Concerning the giving of Iataratim’s ration, verily I wrote to you.  Why have you not given (it)?  When will you give Iataratum’s ration?  Give (it)!  If you do not give (it)…” —— [1]The missing cuneiform in this image for lines 12-3 reads i-na ma-ti ta-na-di-in/ i-di-in.

I love how demanding Old Babylonian epistolarians can sound.  Sometimes, their letters read like angry interoffice emails.

Take lines 4-14[1]:

“Concerning the giving of Iataratim’s ration, verily I wrote to you.  Why have you not given (it)?  When will you give Iataratum’s ration?  Give (it)!  If you do not give (it)…”

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[1]The missing cuneiform in this image for lines 12-3 reads i-na ma-ti ta-na-di-in/ i-di-in.

(Source: britishmuseum.org)

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Cuneiform Old Babylonian Akkadian
May 5th, 2013
Zoom oldschoolfrp: “The Tower of Babel” by Sam McLean, back cover of Heavy Metal, Vol. III No. 11, March 1980.

oldschoolfrp:

“The Tower of Babel” by Sam McLean, back cover of Heavy Metal, Vol. III No. 11, March 1980.

Reblogged from Old School FRP
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April 25th, 2013

Now this looks interesting…

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Kotonoha no Niwa 言の葉の庭 The Garden of Words Anime makoto shinkai
April 24th, 2013
Zoom Young Avengers #4 Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie just won comics.
Young Avengers #4

Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie just won comics.

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Young Avengers Marvel Comics
April 24th, 2013
Alida - “Feathers”

Beacuse I hadn’t posted any Scandinavian electropop this week.

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Alida Music Video
April 16th, 2013
Houses - “The Beauty Surrounds”

Can’t get enough of this album right now.

Music Video
April 13th, 2013
Zoom Three kinds of RPG supplements I’ll always purchase at a used bookstore: The core rule book in a system I’ve never played before. Second Edition TSR books that I don’t already own, especially if they’re from one of the campaign lines like Dark Sun or Al-Qadim. As time goes on, of course, my “want list” dwindles. I have almost complete sets of Planescape, Dark Sun, and Al-Qadim. Loose books that originally came in a boxed set. I just feel so sorry for them. With regard to all three points, my latest haul.

Three kinds of RPG supplements I’ll always purchase at a used bookstore:

  • The core rule book in a system I’ve never played before.
  • Second Edition TSR books that I don’t already own, especially if they’re from one of the campaign lines like Dark Sun or Al-Qadim. As time goes on, of course, my “want list” dwindles. I have almost complete sets of Planescape, Dark Sun, and Al-Qadim.
  • Loose books that originally came in a boxed set. I just feel so sorry for them.

With regard to all three points, my latest haul.

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D&D Spelljammer TSR
April 10th, 2013
Zoom Uncanny X-men #4 Today, we discover that the new Danger Room is controlled by Magneto’s iPhone. Given that Cyclops and Magneto are still wanted men in the Marvel Universe, did they 1) jailbrake the phone, or  2) actually submit Magneto’s controller app to Apple for approval?
Uncanny X-men #4

Today, we discover that the new Danger Room is controlled by Magneto’s iPhone.

Given that Cyclops and Magneto are still wanted men in the Marvel Universe, did they 1) jailbrake the phone, or  2) actually submit Magneto’s controller app to Apple for approval?

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Uncanny X-men Comics
April 7th, 2013
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - “Until The Sun Explodes”

It’s been too long, Pains.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Music Video
April 1st, 2013

CHVRCHES - “Now Is Not The Time”

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CHVRCHES Music Video
March 31st, 2013

I generally stay away from technology here, but Instashare really came in handy today. It’s the perfect replacement for Airdrop and it works with iOS.

Airdrop, of course, was a noble undertaking — something I’ve wanted at the OS level since the early 2000s — but it has awful, or at least unreliable, speeds.

Even in beta, Instashare works so much better.

Instashare
March 31st, 2013
Zoom aleyma: Caspar David Friedrich, Easter Morning, c.1828-35 (source).

aleyma:

Caspar David Friedrich, Easter Morning, c.1828-35 (source).

Reblogged from to love many things
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March 27th, 2013
Zoom Last night, I couldn’t figure out mu-du-ú, in line seven.  I actually went to bed worrying over it and the suggestion of mūdû came to me sometime before I fell asleep.  I think I was confused because I would have expected mūdû to agree with LÚ.MEŠ not only in case, but in number. This afternoon I went back through Huehnergard’s section on Participles (A Grammar of Akkadian, 20.1) and indeed he does note that “A Participle modifying a plural noun, when the former stands in the bound form before another noun, may be singular.” Well now, at least, I’m awīlum mūdû awātim annītim.  I’ll never make that mistake again.

Last night, I couldn’t figure out mu-du-ú, in line seven.  I actually went to bed worrying over it and the suggestion of mūdû came to me sometime before I fell asleep.  I think I was confused because I would have expected mūdû to agree with LÚ.MEŠ not only in case, but in number.

This afternoon I went back through Huehnergard’s section on Participles (A Grammar of Akkadian, 20.1) and indeed he does note that “A Participle modifying a plural noun, when the former stands in the bound form before another noun, may be singular.”

Well now, at least, I’m awīlum mūdû awātim annītim.  I’ll never make that mistake again.

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Akkadian Cuneiform
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