I started writing this years ago, and a couple years ago an old friend started helping me turn it into an audio book. I figured I'd start releasing what we did, and if enough people dig it, I'll see if we can continue.
youtu.be/hpa4mQY5Lcc
I just realized Weird Al has been dressing up like Kurt Cobaine longer than Kurt Cobaine dressed up like Kurt Cobaine.
@saracharles.bsky.social Didn't know if you saw this:
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Roman ink found INTACT. I wonder if the fats/bio components are related to your "softening agents" (bucket o' poo) or gelatins.
My assumption would be that it's a special drink that's made when it's available, probably for special occasions - like weddings (the honeymoon thing you hear about mead). So a modern version might be like saying Beowulf and his friends were drinking Fancy Champagne all night while they partied
golden orange pumpkin liquor full of yeasts being held up to the sunlight and ready to make sourdough
What does on do when the pumpkin guts spontaneously ferment overnight in the bowl you were gonna take out to the compost in the morning? Sourdough incoming.
@saracharles.bsky.social I think you might appreciate this if you haven't seen it yet
Come help us make a new game book!
Please tell me something positive you've seen in the past week. From something tiny, to seeing the Divine in your fellow human. How have we moved forward? Shine your light in the darkness, please.
Hey, if I mentioned someone being shot in a public space today, would you guess that I was talking about three students in a school shooting in Colorado?
abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-...
Paperback copies of The Medieval Scriptorium in a box
Back cover of The Medieval Scriptorium with reviews: 'This fascinating book explores the medieval process of bookmaking and reproduction that was often arduous, back-breaking, eye-straining work for the scribes and copyists involved. We learn how colours were made and calfskin prepared to create parchment and how these beautiful and enduring objects developed. Illuminating.' Financial Times Best Books of the Year' 2024 'A highly readable account of developments in book production in western Europe during the Middle Ages. Times Literary Supplement This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medieval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each chapter opens with a lively vignette by a medieval narrator - including a parchment maker, scribe and illuminator - introducing various aspects of manuscript production. Sara J. Charles poses the question 'What actually is a scriptorium?' and explores the development of the medieval scriptorium from its early Christian beginnings through to its eventual decline and the growth of the printing press. With the written word at the very heart of the Christian monastic movement, we see the immense amount of labour, planning and networks needed to produce each individual manuscript. By tapping into these processes and procedures, we can experience medieval life through the lens of a manuscript maker. SARA J. CHARLES works at Senate House, University of London, and has a PhD in medieval martyrologies. She has previously published on various aspects of the history of the book.
First page of The Medieval Scriptorium with reviews: This fascinating book explores the medieval process of bookmaking and reproduction that was often arduous, back-breaking, eye-straining work for the scribes and copyists involved. We learn how colours were made and calfskin prepared to create parchment and how these beautiful and enduring objects developed. Illuminating?' Financial Times 'Best Books of 2024' "The Medieval Scriptorium is a highly readable account of developments in book production in western Europe during the Middle Ages, surveying and contextualizing many of its best-known and most significant treasures while casting interesting light on the circumstances of their production. Sara J. Charles introduces us to various individuals behind the books and reminds us of the human cost: the sore backs, the eye strain and the freezing fingers.' Times Literary Supplement Charles conjures the feel, sounds and smells of manuscript-making in this jaunty book, which is filled with imagined vignettes starring medieval figures, as well as extensive detail and analysis of tools, materials and religious contexts.' Apollo Magazine 'The Medieval Scriptorium takes modern readers back to the origins - technical, social, economic and intellectual - of copying in late antiquity and the Middle Ages... Charles is a specialist in recovering medieval techniques of bookmaking, and her account is at its best when diving into the material culture of sharing ideas... Our present modes of copying may be immeasurably faster than the work of the medieval scribe, but this book demonstrates that the present has much to learn from the past. Financial Times A lively and very readable illustrated survey by University of London book historian Charles of all aspects of medieval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world, charting the decline and fall of the scriptorium and its makers over more than a millennium? Fine Books Magazine
Two copies of The Medieval Scriptorium on a window ledge
The Medieval Scriptorium is now available in paperback! 😊 reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/the-med... #bookhistory #medievalsky #skystorians #medievalmanuscripts @reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Hurray!
I'm starting to wonder if #Manifesting is really just creepy eavesdropping algo behavior making you think it's all a coincidence... sorta like a vague kind of AI psychosis, but with extra magical thinking and creepy corpo spyware.
We started jokingly calling spinach "spinch", and now my brain doesn't want to let that go... like I have to actively work to not say "spinch"
I'm settling in on how I plan to use AI coding while I explore it, and I think we need more discussion on the topic.
medium.com/@bigattichou...
Hey there #RyanCoogler, Thank you so much for your work. Finally got to watch Sinners, and it was amazing!
Could we get a #Sinners sequel about the Choctaw and other monsters they hunt? Or more vampires, whatever - You've created an amazingly beautiful and frightening world.
I created a script to allow running commands in an ephemeral VM to allow tool calling full access to a local directory. Instead of the LLM trying to "reason out" math, it can write a little program and run it to get the answer directly. This VASTLY increases good output.
github.com/bigattichous...
Going to Gen Con? Swing by booth #1850 and say hello!
#GenCon #GenCon2025
We'll be at Origins! We hope to see you there (booth #1004). #originsgamefair
Hey friends. Things are tough for a lot of people right now. If some 5E encounters, NPCs, or adventure could really help you out - email support@limitless-adventures.com and we'll send you something for free. Go sit with some friends and roll some dice.
I welded today for the first time in a few years. ASMR sizzle is extremely satisfying. Was feeling reticent due to the time since I the class, and the new welder that I got a few years back.
Repaired a broken bed frame. I need more practice, but it felt good to grind some XP.
Grind XP, Level Up.
Is it certified? bonafide?
Good morning all. We're half way out of the dark. Raise a glass and let the old world pass, look forward to tomorrow - the sun returns!
Is this one of those "what use will we ever have for those diamond anvil things"... oh, it could be used to house a tiny fusion reactor. yes, please.
Learned a lot making my water heater. Peltier based A/C is possible, I just needed to break it into stages.
bigattichouse.medium.com/diy-solar-po...
All Hail Science Brick! Share now, and Science Brick will bring you repeatable experimental results in the coming year.
I predict 10-20 years people will begin to combine the idea of Large Language Models with the christian idea of Logos. In the beginning was the Word. Some would say language is a sort of meta-virus. We've infected rocks with it.
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is a children's version of the story of Beowulf.
Can I tell you how satisfying it is to run 500mA tests of the inkwell battery? If this were one liter, it would be 8A @ 5.2Wh - this is real useful levels of power. This cell is 60mL.
Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) story about Lewis Carrol, when the queen loved the Alice books so much, she ordered everything he'd ever written.. and was surprised by all the academic papers on logic/math.
