I wanted to find books like Gore Vidal’s “Creation,” gifted to me by my erudite father, Roberto Calasso’s “Ka” about the origins of Hindu deities, or Umberto Eco’s mind-bending and esoteric “Foucault’s Pendulum.” My journey brought me here: “The Ghost Bride“ by Yangzee Choo: A historical paranormal novel set in 1890s colonial Malacca and the […]
Keram's Book Report
Notes & Reflections on Books n Stuff I Have Experienced
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This post is very much a work in progress with scattered notes about stuff that may be undercovered out there, and hopefully it helps someone along their journey. 2D Pixel If you want those 2D Sprites pixel-perfect but can’t find the 2D Pixel preset – instead, go to Project Settings -> Rendering -> Textures -> […]
Group your track regions Group Items : Control+G Remove Items from Group : Control+Shift+G Select All Items in Groups : Shift+G Toggle Item Grouping Override : Alt+Control+G CTRL+L to hide/show lanes T – Next Take Shift + T – previous take Also here is an important tip: Somehow my settings got changed – maybe I was on a new […]
When I was a child in the 1970s I grew up in a neighborhood with three Vanessas within a house or two from our duplex – including my sister – a Polish Ecuadorian, the Jamaican Vanessa around the corner and the Mexican Vanessa in the house behind ours, just across the yard before they built […]
Not necessarily games that were released in 2019 – but that I played and enjoyed the most (and most of which can be played solo – denoted with a *): *Everdell – this gloriously animated anthropomorphic worker placement, tableau/engine building game is quickly becoming one of BGG’s highest rated games of all time. *Renegade – […]
First of all Portland’s Microcosm Publishing is awesome. Starting in the very Gen X zine culture, they now publish really practical and useful books on everything from better urban planning and locomation to all things psychology. Which is where this candid and legitimately effective book comes in. Dr. Faith G. Harper offers a no-holds barred […]
I read this book when I was a kid – maybe 15 years old. It left an indelible impression on my though I could never pinpoint why. I suppose things happen, but there is a decided lack of bombastic adventure that shifted my energy in engaging it. Like a Brian Eno album, where you stop […]