This Vlak1 lamp is a beauty. Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. -― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red How much can we ever know about the love and pain in another heart? How much can we hope to understand those who have suffered deeper anguish, greater deprivation, and more crushing disappointments than we ourselves have known? ―- Orhan Pamuk, Snow Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space....

“In modernist art, obscurity can be a conscious strategy. It is one of the ways in which the artwork can avoid being consumed too easily. Poems need to thicken their textures and scramble their syntax if they are not to slip down too easily, which is the fate of the commodity. Everyday language is no longer a medium of truth. It has grown stale and threadbare, and only by wreaking violence on it can you force it to yield something of value....

Here are some quotes from Alex Rosenberg. Is there a God? No. What is the nature of reality? What physics says it is. What is the purpose of the universe? There is none. What is the meaning of life? Ditto. Why am I here? Just dumb luck. Does prayer work? Of course not. Is there a soul? Is it immortal? Are you kidding? Is there free will? Not a chance!...

“It’s not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough to avert by word or deed the misfortune that is rooted in the iron laws of his character and his life.” – Sandor Marai, Embers “The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean....

Sometimes you just want to hear these flipping sound. Here is the code for both Flip 7-segment digits and FlipDot. FlipDigits FlipDots Another interesting thing is LED display of tixy.land. Rust FFI and cbindgen: integrating embedded rust code in C. Distinguishing an interpreter from a compiler, Jan 26, 2023. This leads to the excellent course, UCB CS294-113: Virtual machine and managed runtimes.