Willem van der Horst

Une médaille ? Non merci !

For our November miniseries, we are looking a few options (see below)! In the thread following are links to the games themselves:

The Codex Alera Epic Fantasy series book notes

It's 2025 and I turned to my old Blogger site for new writing and posting. It's not even an April Fools post. Notes about reading the Codex Alera epic fantasy series by Jim Butcher www.willemvdh.com/2025/04/the-...

Je n'ai testé qu'une fois mais c'´était bien fun ! Je crois que ça aide beaucoup d'avoir quelques épisodes de telenovelas je dois dire (chose que je n'avais pas fait quand j'ai joué et euh toujours pas en fait, mais c'était bien quand même)

Willem van der Horst's review of Nomadland 5/5: A quite famous line from J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings came to mind as I just started writing this, "Not all those who wander are lost," and actually double checking it, the whole poem i...

I finished reading Nomadland and wrote a review. Fantastic book, highly recommend it. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Playing with pricing in Moonlighter Considering context and experimenting with pricing strategy

new newsletter! I'm relaunching as a monthly edition. Playing with pricing in Moonlighter (a video game in which you play a dungeon looting adventurer by night, and shop owner by day, which got me thinking about pricing and price elasticity).
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the… From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking sto…

I'm reading Nexus and getting to the epilogue at 52% of the ebook, realised the other 48ish percent is probably the bibliography, which I kept thinking throughout the book seems pretty thorough and diverse. Very much enjoying it, I'll probably finish it today. www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

My new website is live! I'm still fixing some bits and pieces, you can check it out over at www.playfulbrandstrategy.com

Happy Valentine's day everyone! It turns out cutting chorizo slices into heart shaped is not that easy 😅. The Spianata was a little easier

Comparative taste test this morning! A friend brought Vegemite back from Down Under. Quite different. It's easier to spread, feels sweet carrot like first, saltiness coming after. Marmite is stickier, feels like a burst of saltiness first enveloping the whole mouth. Marmite wins (for us)!

I may well remember that the next time I visit London!

All right, let's test run this thing a bit. Big treat this past weekend, a special visit to the Louvre with friends from the wine bar we like to hang out at. Our painter friend Sébastien Le Blanc guided us through some of his favorite artists and paintings. www.instagram.com/sebastienleb...

EDDIE IZZARD PERFORMS SHAKESPEARE'S HAMLET

It was fantastic! I saw her at the Chicago Theater in 2019, this was a much smaller venue. A best of / medley of a lot old skits, but in french and lots of improv. Not comedy but her solo Hamlet on a tour www.eddieizzardhamlet.com#schedule-sec...

Declassified CIA guide to sabotaging fascism is suddenly viral

🔗 www.404media.co/declassified...

@jcvim.bsky.social Funny enough I'm queueing for an Eddie Izzard show in Paris, listening to Haunted City S01E20 with Jarod asking about comedy and you mentioned her. Small world!

Hello Dissidents, there you go, have my second ever err... reply blurb. Or whatever it is tweets are called here.

I missed it! I don't look at this feed often enough haha

In other news I requested a download of my Foursquare account location data. I happened to look for places I'd been in South East Asia 12 years ago. It turned out Foursquare remembered better than I did. But maybe it won't be there next time. Audioboo isn't; I think those may well be lost, sadly.

My 1st tweet ever was on the 16th December 2007: "I'm checking Twitter out" Nearly 16 years on, I have an additional 160 characters to express myself on Bluesky. I still have 142 characters to practice saying less with more now. That my friends is progress, tangible change we can wholly appreciate.