A short website status update, since my ongoing writerâs block on a relatively simple interesting-place-visit post wasnât enough for the universe: Ithaca12, the beat-up old laptop on which this fine website is hosted, is poorly, and has a noticeable bulge coming up around the battery. Everything is backed up and iâm looking into a new, dedicated server machine, but if the site goes down all of a sudden, youâll know why.
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Lords of Misrule 2023 â let the misrule begin!
Itâs been a long year. Thatâs the traditional thing to say, but honestly, itâs been quite a short year for me, and autumn has crept up without me even noticing. That can only mean one thingâŚ
Io Saturnalia!
Itâs time, once again, for our third annual Satyrsâ Forest Lords of Misrule, where in the spirit of the season, i put you (yes, you) in charge of the site.
If you write or put togeher something â absolutely anything* â and email it to misrule@satyrs.eu, come Saturnalia (December 17 to 23, for those who arenât up to date on their Roman calendar) iâll put it up on the site, on the blog and on its own dedicated permanent subpage, etched in stone for all to see.
As in years past, i ask only that you refrain from political polemics and anything that would get this noble forest in legal trouble. Other than that, the sky is the limit. A video essay on the occult implications of Gremlins 2? A rant about that new skyscraper that blots out the view of your favourite billboard? Anything goes. Whatever you â my lords of misrule â want.
You can submit your entries from today until the 16th of December, 2023. Have fun, and donât be afraid to get weird with it!
â Xanthe
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Welcome back, ladies and gentlefolk! Iâve been trapped labouring in a Colombian salt mine for the past four months, but after a daring escape which my lawyers have advised me not to speak of, iâve returned to safety to provide you all with yet more contentÂŽâ˘.
Some links iâve had sitting around gathering mothballs to start you off:
- One Adel Faureâs collection of ascii art
- Tedâs pawpaw page
- I am, admittedly, a big sop, but this 3D reconstruction of the city of Tenochtitlan made me cry a little. All the things weâve lost!
- Tom Scott visits Englandâs first longbarrow in a thousand years â file under âPagan interestâ, of course; in general, i just love to see modern revivals of our ancient traditions
- See It. Say It. Sorted.
A minor pause
Hello. Youâve probably figured this out by now, but my personal life has been getting quite busy at the moment, and postings on the site will be taking a back seat until, hm, letâs say the end of June or thenabouts. Donât call it a hiatus â itâs just a minor pause.
Please enjoy these filler photos in the meantime:
Lords of Misrule 2022 â let the misrule begin!
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The cycle of a year is a wonderful thing. Trees grow and wilt, rivers ebb and flow, and every winter, GĂŚa blankets Herself in a snowy coat. All across Europe, people gather together, huddling around, exchanging gifts. Most would call it Christmas.
For us? Well⌠Io Saturnalia!
Itâs time for the second annual Satyrsâ Forest Lords of Misrule! In the spirit of the topsy-turvy season, iâm putting you in charge of the site.
If you write or put together something â absolutely anything â and email it to misrule@satyrs.eu, come Saturnalia (thatâs December 17 to 23, for those who arenât up to date with their ancient festivals) iâll put it up on the site, both on the blog and on its own dedicated, permanent subpage, etched in stone for all to see.
Like last year, i would ask that you refrain from political polemics or anything that would get this noble forest in legal trouble. Apart from that, anything goes. Your granâs chocolate cake recipe? An impassioned defence of Freddy Got Fingered as an ironic masterpiece? Hell, iâll even let you vandalise one of the permanent pages for a bit if you ask me to. Whatever you â my lords of misrule â want.
You can submit your entries from today until the 16th of December, 2021. Have fun, and donât be afraid to get weird with it!
â Xanthe
One thing iâd like to do at some point, i think, is find a way to synchronise or link up the WordPress comments here on the blog with the jury-rigged PHP comments on the main site. Much as i admire the single-style, chronological blog format, it can be terribly limiting at times â iâd love to be able to post simultaneously here and there and not have people worry about missing out on the discussion.
Walking down e-memory lane
Sometimes i like to go back in the Wayback Machine and take a trip down memory lane, and see how this place has evolved as i hone my HTML-craft â especially pertinent given the forestâs rapidly approaching fifth birthday. I thought you might like to take a look as well.
I am not good at computer
Non-techies, you can safely ignore this post and go on with your day. But, tech people, if youâre still reading⌠a little help for an ignorant soul, please? đ
Iâm planning to add a comment section to the main part of my website. The problem is, of course, that iâve barely ever touched PHP and Sql before, let alone tried to make something like a comment system, and as such, i have no fucking idea what iâm doing.
Iâve got a design figured out â see above â and a rough idea of what the database will look like:
- postId: Integer, generated by adding some random digits to the end of a Unix timestamp
- timestamp: Integer, just a Unix timestamp of when the comment was submitted
- commentLocation: Unicode string, max. 32 chars?, indicating on which comments section the comment was posted
- displayName: Unicode, max. 128 chars?, is what it says on the can
- emailAddress: Unicode, max. 128 chars?, used to generate the avatar via Gravatar and maybe filter spam if it comes to that
- website: Unicode, max. 128 chars?, used to⌠link to the commenterâs website
- commentText: Unicode, max. 4096 chars?, the actual text of the comment; will be processed as a subset of Markdown
- planet: Unicode, max. 16 chars?, any comment for which the response isn't earth will get thrown out
So, erm⌠any suggestions? Improvements? Ways of not getting my site hacked? Polite ways of telling me that this was a terrible idea? are welcome in the comments below.
Update: sidenotes are back!
Itâs a meta one, this; you can safely ignore this post if youâre just here for the trudges through increasingly-obscure north-eastern locations and hauls of links to websites which arenât this one.
That being said, sidenotesi are now back and functioning again! My apologies for the delay.
Your regularly scheduled programming will be resuming soon, with a walk down a stream which turns into an unexpected microcosm of local history. Iâm sure all the Americans in my audience are thrilled.
Chrimbo updates
Iâve mentioned a number of Christmas traditions i keep up here in the past, and thought you all might have wanted some updates.
I, alas, lost the Pogues Game on the very first day â i was putting on âDriving Home for Christmasâ and failed to notice that The Algorithm had queued the song of my nightmares up for me next. (I proceeded to lose again on the night before Christmas, this time at the hands of Bradley Walsh.)
Youâll be pleased to hear that our annual exchange of Christmas gifts on Minecraft went all according to plan this year. Someone built me a little shrine to do as i pleased with, which was quite nice of them.
Finally, iâve added the annual haul of records to the database for your perusal⌠but mostly for my own reference. :-)
Construction work underway
Hi, all â just a little update to tell you fine folk that iâm doing some retheming around the blog, and, as such, sidenotes will be borked for a little while. Sorry for any inconvenience. (Donât see anything? Press Ctrl+F5, or â+Shift+R if youâre on a Mac.)
Lords of Misrule
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âIĹ Saturnalia!â So went the cry that marked the start of the eponymous classical holiday. For one glorious week, Roman society was turned on its head: slaves became masters; togas were out and ostentatious displays of colour were in; gag gifts were given; and one lucky person was elected the local King of Saturnalia. Whatever orders the King barked had to be followed, no matter how ridiculous. This tradition clung on even into the Christian middle ages as the English âlord of misruleâ â a lone pagan vestige in a monotheistic world.
So, in the spirit of those winter holidays, to lighten up this frosty time of year, i thought it would be fun to let you play that rule for my website. Welcome, one and all, to the first annual satyrs.eu Lords of Misrule!
If you write or put together something â absolutely anything â and email it to misrule@satyrs.eu, come Saturnalia (thatâs December 17 to 23, for those who understandably arenât up to date with ancient festival customs) iâll put it up on the site, both on the blog and on its own dedicated, permanent subpage, etched in stone for all to see.
I would ask that you donât submit any political polemics (weâve had quite enough of those) or anything that would get me in legal trouble, but apart from that, anything goes. Your granâs chocolate cake recipe? An impassioned defence of Freddy Got Fingered as an ironic masterpiece? A rant about how keyboards arenât what they used to be? Whatever you â my lords of misrule â want.
You can submit your entries from today until the 16th of December, 2021. Have fun, and donât be afraid to get weird with it!
â Marijn
Welcome to the new Garden
Ah, i see you made it over. Welcome, one and all, to the new, improved, Press-tastic The Garden! After months of having to toil away at arcane computer code and consoles for the old version, iâve coughed up the money for a real web host, freeing me to use the much more user-friendly WordPress.
The new home is a little rough around the edges in some places; as a novice, i wasnât able to fully replicate everything. I think, though, that the missing pieces are more than made up for by whatâs new: you can now natively search through the archive of posts, i can post shorter postsÎą without having to go through so much faff, and most importantly, we now have comments!
So, with pride, here is the first dump of links of the new blog:
- Churchill sings the best of Queen
- Ben Perkins, teenage blacksmith
- Fifty beautiful photos of Earth from the Apollo programme, restored to their full glory
- Coke and Mentos bottle hits cameramanâââthis oneâs a vintage, from 2012
- Randomly discover cool links with Stumbledâââif you remember StumbledUpon, itâs like that
- Popcat.click
- ThisFuckedUpHomerDoesNotExist.com
And allow me to finally say: Leave your thoughts in the comments below! (Or donât. Iâm not your mum.)
Welcome to the new Garden
Ah, i see you made it over. Welcome, one and all, to the new, improved, Press-tastic The Garden! After months of having to toil away at arcane computer code and consoles for the old version, iâve coughed up the money for a real web host, freeing me to use the much more user-friendly WordPress.
The new home is a little rough around the edges in some places; as a novice, i wasnât able to fully replicate everything. I think, though, that the missing pieces are more than made up for by whatâs new: you can now natively search through the archive of posts, i can post shorter postsÎą without having to go through so much faff, and most importantly, we now have comments!
So, with pride, here is the first dump of links of the new blog:
- Churchill sings the best of Queen
- Ben Perkins, teenage blacksmith
- Fifty beautiful photos of Earth from the Apollo programme, restored to their full glory
- Coke and Mentos bottle hits cameramanâââthis oneâs a vintage, from 2012
- Randomly discover cool links with Stumbledâââif you remember StumbledUpon, itâs like that
- Popcat.click
- ThisFuckedUpHomerDoesNotExist.com
And allow me to finally say: Leave your thoughts in the comments below! (Or donât. Iâm not your mum.)
Welkom bij de nieuwe Tuin
Ah, je hebt het gemaakt. Welkom, een en al, bij de nieuwe, verbeterde, Press-tastische Tuin! Maandenlang zwoegd ik met esoterische computercode en consoles voor de oude versie. Nu heb ik eindelijk het geld opgehoest voor een echte webhost, met de vĂŠĂŠl geÂbruiksÂvriendeÂlijÂker software WordPress.
Op sommige plaatsen is het nieuwe site een beetje ruw: ik ben maar een beginner, dus ik kon niet ĂĄlles kopiĂŤren! Maar ik denk dat de missende stukken goedgemaakt worden door wat nieuw is: ingebouwd zoeken, het vermogen om kortere berichten te postenÎą, en bovenal, reacties!
Dus hier is, met trots, de eerste linkverzameling van de nieuwe blog:
- Churchill zingt het beste van Queen
- Ben Perkins, 17-jarige hoefsmid
- Vijftig prachtige fotoâs van het Aarde als gezien in het Apollo-programma, hersteld in hun volle glorie
- Cola en Mentos-fontein raakt cameramanââ deze is een vintage, van 2012
- Ontdek willekeurig coole links met Stumbled
- Popcat.click
- ThisFuckedUpHomerDoesNotExist.com
En sta me toe om eindelijk te zeggen: Laat uw gedachten achter hieronder! (Of niet. Ik ben niet je moeder.)