Make Asylums Great Again

“[T]he sacred being-function of ‘conscience’ is completely atrophied among contemporary terrestrial what are called ‘journalists’ and ‘reporters’” - Gurdjieff, Beelzebub’s Tales, p. 942

How to balance unbalanced factions in a game. I cut my teeth making Age of Empires' factions asymmetrical yet balanced. The most fun I ever had was developing Age of Empires III: The Warchiefs, which were also the very most unbalanced factions we'd ever created. I carried this

And one more for the bibliomaniacal research collection of #AtlanteanExodus: Mineral Deposits of North Africa (2016). Has some really nice and colorful geological maps. For the enterprising Atlantean who is not content to live in Stone Age conditions.

Beefsteak tomatoes are just starting to get a hint of color. #gardening

Sometimes, it is as if I know what I am doing.

Why did I suddenly remember this song? I haven't heard it since I was child. No wonder I was such a melancholy child. Sometimes, I think I have reverse Alzheimers. “Ben Bolt” (sad 19th cent. song) Oh, don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben... youtu.be/vNT3ePtTKpQ?si… via YouTube

Gathering some black currants. And some blueberries now that the robins and catbirds have had their fill. Squirrels cleaned us out of hazelnuts, but I don't mind. We burn more hazel wood than we eat hazelnuts anyway.

Despite my mother's side of the family all speaking French, they did not teach us children French. So I took French in school anyway. Later, I translated a work of G.I. Gurdjieff from French into English (Meetings with Gurdjieff in Paris 1944).

The protagonist of Gurdjieff's magnum opus, Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, lays blame of the fall of man on the unforeseeingness of certain angels (for the miscalculated path of a comet, and for the negative residual effects of a spiritually retarding organ temporarily