The last Renaissance festival of the season in this area is the Folsom faire. The faire was somewhat diminished because the Folsom faire lasts but one weekend, and this year it coincided with the final weekend of the Northern California Renaissance Faire down in Hollister, CA. For example of the diminution, I inquired after one […]
Author Archives: Markham
From the Undercroft
(originally posted 9 Oct 2011 in Kingdom of Horror vol. 7: Poetry) (in anapestic tetrameter: ––+––+––+––+) Late a breath stirs from deep in the chill undercroft But say who, after dusk, could make breath so to waft? Eft a scratch sounds, a rasp, then a shamble-ing tread Which each scatters to echoes ‘mid rows of […]
Watch Star Wars on the command line
Let’s exult in the excellent transcendence of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope across barriers of media. It’s on telnet, all animated in ASCII characters. You can watch it from your command line. (Instructions follow.) /~\ |oo ) We’re doomed! _\=/_ ___ # / _ \ # /() \ \\//|/.\|\\// _|_____|_ \/ \_/ \/ | […]
Ruby on Rails on Notepad++
For everyone who doesn’t use emacs or vim to write code, Notepad++ (alias: npp) is a great text editor. With the following instructions, you can adapt to Ruby on Rails, correcting a syntax highlighting issue that occurs in .erb files (viewed as HTML). download replacement SciLexer.dll (2011) What we’re fixing I use Notepad++ for Ruby on […]