Monthly Archives: March 2026

savannah’s book reviews: I will never emotionally recover (realm of the elderlings: farseer trilogy)

Posted on March 28, 2026 by fiveducks

One of these days, I’ll write a review for a recent, relevant book, and it might finally get half as many clicks as me shitting on RF Kuang (I’m so sorry, Rebecca). I’d actually been sitting on plans to review The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi for a good year now. Trouble is, the more books and series I read like Book of The New Sun and Robin Hobb’s Realm of the Elderlings, the more my grading system gets thrown out of whack, because they push what I consider a 5/5.

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MCICR: The Color Crunching Algorithm Time Forgot

Posted on March 13, 2026 by mariteaux

You know, when I wrote that initial post on PageMill, I wasn’t expecting to find a new rabbit hole to go down every time I explore the CD-ROM. It’s just happened that way! There’s so much included on it, so many weird, forgotten relics of the 90s, software you can’t find elsewhere, graphics from companies long gone, that I keep wanting to write about.

For today’s rabbit hole, I only ask you, my reader: are you a gambling sort? Today’s program involves just that, random chance, high stakes, and lawfare. I’m being more than slightly facetious. Sort of. Monte Carlo algorithms aren’t nearly as fun as Monte Carlo itself, but I do regularly downsample full-color PNGs to 256 colors for GIFs and things, and a program on the PageMill CD-ROM proved to be, if nothing else, an impressive and completely forgotten stab at doing just that. Let’s talk about why and look at some Somnolian art and photos along the way.

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