Finally watching Breakfast of Champions (1999) today (and in high quality!) thanks to this drive @wendigo sent me. About time I did, too, it's my favorite Vonnegut book. Dark. Weird. Fantastic. Didn't even know there was a movie til recently. Has Bruce Willis and Nick Nolte. Wild.

https://letterboxd.com/film/breakfast-of-champions

Got into Vonnegut as a teen after reading Slaughterhouse-Five, my dad had a copy from college (and I later dug Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, my favorite of his). But I'd never seen the movie adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five from 1972, so I'm watching it now. So far, so good- captures what I remember of the book pretty well.

Here's to the weirdness of becoming unstuck in time

https://letterboxd.com/film/slaughterhouse-five

@bmacDonald94 @JonChevreau This morning, I started re-reading "Venus on the Halfshell" by Kilgore Trout (transduced and recorded by Philip Jose Farmer). I believe I paid $2 for it to Apple Books. Philip includes a foreword in this edition, explaining how he came to write it. Great stuff.

I believe "Breakfast of Champions" was the book where Kilgore most found his voice--before VenusOTH.

#GreatWriters #Vonnegut #AuthorsOfMastodon #Synchronicity in #Writing

>"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
Kurt Vonnegut
#quotes #art #vonnegut

Have just been reminded that it's the anniversary of us losing Kurt Vonnegut.

I am a fan & in particular try to remember his advice to notice when things are good & to say "If this isn't nice, what is?"

I scribbled this on the day he died, & posted with the words "Kurt is up in heaven now" & was roundly attacked by someone for saying such a thing about a humanist, until I pointed them to the anecdote about how it was his favourite joke.

Anyway, read his books.

They're good.

Dear fediverse and folks at @discuss.systems – here comes a brief #introduction. First things first: I'm Peter, 37, dad of 2, postdoc at Ilmenau Tech/Germany. Posting personal views and stuff that fascinates me.

Originally joined to talk and learn technology. That said, I'm basically a #nerd-of-all-trades and so are my interests and topics I might toot or join discussions about. Below is a not even semi-exhaustive list of relevant tags… Executive summary in bio .

Tech stuff:

* #Operatingsystems concepts, design, implementation #os #osdev #osdesign
* Information security, especially #accesscontrol #infosec #cybersecurity #itsec #cti
* Programming languages #rust #rustlang #c #cpp #lisp #ada
* #Gamedev #gamedesign #godotengine #bevyengine
* #Linux #fedora #debian
* FOSS #vim #alacritty #wayland #swaywm #aerc #qutebrowser #texlatex #gnu

Science stuff:

* #Space #astrodon #spaceflight
* Future technology #scifi #sf #sciencefiction
* #Robotics
* #History
* Constructed languages #conlang #lojban #esperanto #fiatlingua

Other stuff:

* #Creativewriting #writing #storytelling
* #Animals #dogs #cats #birds #pigs
* #Music #metal #jazz #piano #orchestralmusic
* #Photography #filmphotography #analogphotography #fujifilm
* #Japanese language and culture #japan #nihon
* #Tibet #buddhism
* Magic the Gathering #mtg #magicthegathering
* #Snooker
* #Laphroaig #craftbeer #mojito

Some authors:

* Jorge Luis #Borges
* Kurt #Vonnegut
* Isaac #Asimov
* James #Tiptree Jr.
* Jeff VanderMeer #southernreach
* #StephenKing
* Colin #Thubron
* Eliot Pattisons #tibet
* Jon Krakauer #intothewild
* Tim Butcher #bloodriver
* Michael Marrak (German only, sadly enough)