Demon Knights Crime and Punishment The Hangover Twilight Star Wars Star Trek Babylonian creation-mythology The Little Mermaid TRON Catholicism Bhagavad Gītā Cats! Glee Dungeon World On the Origin of Species Charlie Brown My college Calc textbook Unified Field Theory The Treaty of Versailles The War of 1812 Hello Kitty Power Rangers Yojimbo Robocop (actually a remake of Yojimbo, which is a remake of Seven Samurai) DeMorgan’s Law The Pythagorean Theorem The Voynich Manuscript The users’ manual to Windows ’98 McDonalds’ corporate structure Led Zepplin The Protocols of the Elders of Zion The ingredients to a really...
Best Whatever of 2011
posted by Sage LaTorra
As is traditional, here are a few of my favorite things (from 2011). Best Album: Bon Iver by Bon Iver Bon Iver’s first, For Emma, Forever Ago is still one of my favorite albums ever. Bon Iver could easily have been a letdown but it’s the exact opposite: a second album that establishes that For Emma wasn’t a fluke, some strange quirk of recording alone in a snowy cabin. Bon Iver takes Justin Vernon’s ghostly vocals (you’ve probably also heard him on Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy), melds them with a band, and makes something truly special from it. There are nods to soft rock elevator music,...
Best Whatever of 201...
posted by Sage LaTorra
A few random thoughts about my favorite things of 2010 in a few different categories. Best Album: The Monitor by Titus Andronicus An epic concept album revolving around the Civil War about conflict, strife, and the need for both. Complete with dramatic readings of Lincoln speeches and musical...
Computerpocalypse No...
posted by Sage LaTorra
(Sorry to do this, but Skarka’s rant about the shrinking industry was just too bad/good not to parody. This is entirely a work of humor, and certainly does not reflect my actual opinions as part of the technology industry.) It’s undeniable that the computer industry in shrinking....
A Little Magic With ...
posted by Sage LaTorra
This post is a little walkthrough of using an XML document to provide content for an InDesign document. I'm far from an InDesign expert, but hopefully this post will lay out a process that you can adapt to your own needs.
Just Enough Subversi...
posted by Sage LaTorra
A couple of weeks ago I made the Dungeon World text available through a Subversion repository. So what’s Subversion? Subversion is a version control system. There’s two parts to it: a repository that lives on the server and keeps track of every change made to every file, and a...
