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Today's xkcd:



And this, ladies and gentleman, is why I don't like programming. I would never want to inflict that kind of pain onto a computer.

L'Engle time...

Methinks it is time to reread the Time Quartet, especially A Wind in the Door, which has always been my favorite of that particular saga. It's funny, I've read the whole thing through many times since I was a kid... more often A Wrinkle in Time and Wind because I got them more when I was younger, and A Swiftly Tilting Planet and Many Waters kinda just went mostly over my head with its biblical babble, though the last time I read through the series I quite enjoyed them. I however always come back to A Wind in the Door more often than the others, mainly because the concept of Teachers, Namers and Echthroi always resonated deeply with me. Especially Namers, how their job is to not only know and love people, things and other parts of what we'll call for the sake of the point Creation, but to help them be more themselves in the face of forces that would confuse and work against that. That concept is about the closest anything's ever come to describing what I feel my purpose in this world really is... and every so often I need the reminder.

GIP

...well I always wanted a Yul Brynner icon...