Solomon Foster
@colomon
Father to a teenage geek, librarian's husband. C++ and Raku programmer by trade. Interested in RPGing (Amber, 5e, Ironsworn (Starforged & SI)), Irish and Newfoundland trad music (Peter Horan, Rufus Guinchard), reading SFF, and Michigan football.
Now listening to Kitty Lie Over by Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh & Mick O’Brien
Now listening to The Thing Itself by Maeve Donnelly and Peadar O'Loughlin
Now listening to Music of Sligo (pitch-shifted down to D) by Peter Horan and Fred Finn. Best ever.
Reading Will to Battle in ebook so I can’t share a picture of book with pet, but here’s my sweet old Lab who identifies as a pretty kitty trying to fit on a cat bed.
“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that's all I need to know about you.” I was surprised to find none of the X-men or New Mutants covers from my 13th year really jumped out at me, but I really fiercely loved MythAdventures!
Robert Foster (March 13 1942 - April 17 2016) after a long day fishing on Lake Nagagami, Ontario.
Here’s the art easier to find on the internet! www.jclary.com/great-lakes-...
14. I love the Raku programming language! This morning I spent a couple of hours hacking together a script which takes a Typst file, goes through it looking for #ABC function calls, uses Lilypond to convert ABC to music notation in SVG, and then embeds back in the Typst file. 26 lines of code.
13. I love the Amber Diceless RPG. First tried it as GM back in '92, and right on day one it was the best role-playing experience I'd ever had. Taught me that players generate more interesting randomness than dice and we should love our characters. Now been playing it for what, 33 years?
11. I love Caroline Stevermer's A College of Magics. One of those great fictions that comes at subjects you love from odd angles, making them feel fresh and exciting again.
10. And I love Kelly Russell's Fiddle Music of Newfoundland and Labrador Volume 1: Rufus Guinchard & Emile Benoit. Rufus passed down dozens of really great tunes from the west coast of Newfoundland circa 1900. Emile composed loads of really nice tunes. This book collects them all.
9. I think of these paintings as a pair, a sort of "This is what Sol likes." Only just a minute ago realized they were painted about a year apart. So yes, I also love Winslow Homer's "Eight Bells". I strongly associate this with my father but... I don't know why.
8. A few years back the Detroit Institute of Arts had van Gogh's Starry Night Over the Rhône, and I completely fell in love with how he'd captured what light on water at night looks like. Unfortunately 2D reproductions don't cut it.
Obviously this is a fraud. You cannot purchase a brand name two-row button accordion for $370, much less $37. Meanwhile "The Box: A Beginner's Guide" is available for $15 on Amazon, so the $37 price on that is broken in the other direction. But what would be the point of making this shop?
Pretty sure it's not a swastika -- it's a voided Greek cross. Note that it's also referred to as the "sign of addition". Unless there's a horrible history behind this that I'm not aware of!
This is Meta AI, not EB, but the principle is likely the same. The FB post was talking about the (purely instrumental) 4-part jig "The Old Gold Ring", to which Shannon Heaton composed a 5th part so it could fit into a parody of "The 12 Days of XMas".