My Favourite Quotes

If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than take a portion out of the common stock.

Favourite Articles

AI crap - Drew DeVault, August 29 2023

My 6 (+2) Dream Dinner Party Guests

Amazing Websites

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My Recommended GNU/Linux Learning Resources

BashGuide
"Everything is a file" in UNIX
Creating systemd Service Files
Understanding Linux named pipes
Simple Cron Job Creation
Network Sockets
X Window System
List of widget toolkits

Beautiful Music

I've listened to thousand of hours of music in my lifetime. Out of everything I've listened to, the following songs are the most beautiful I've found. As a secular person, listening to these is the closest thing I've come to "experiencing God".

(The loudness can vary somewhat across the audio files.)

Starting off with Suo Gan from Empire Of The Sun, a movie starring a very young Christian Bale. Suo Gan is a traditional Welsh lullaby:

Next, a song I first heard as part of Carols from King's, a TV show in England (now a traditional one) that's shown on Christmas Eve. Some lyrics:

How do you capture the wind on the water? How do you count all the stars in the sky? How do you measure the love of a mother Or how can you write down a baby's first cry?

Some more:

Next, some music from the amazing movie The Thin Red Line. From what I remember (it's been a long time since I watched it), the thing that resonated with me was the conflict between a lieutenant colonel - who believes that nature is cruel and that you need to throw bodies at your enemy until you overwhelm them - and a soilder that ultimately disobeys his order.

The chants here repeat many times, so feel free to skip the end of each one:

And a classical piece by Hans Zimmer based on the melodies of the chants: