Deciphering Youjo Senki – bonus: Zugspitse location
According to the anime, the 203rd candidates are at the Imperial Army Zugspitze training grounds - which makes sense in the main universe since the Zugspitze is the highest mountain…
Deciphering Youjo Senki – part 3: fonts
There has been no official character set released, not even in the art book, so I made my own mapping tables. There are two main fonts; the "print" style used…
Deciphering Youjo Senki – part 2: numerals
The Youjo Senki universe has at least 2 numeral systems, one "Roman" system where 10 is represented by "X" (though their "X" is different from the X in their alphabet)…
Deciphering Youjo Senki – part 1: text
I love the attention to detail that went into this 12 episode series, where they invented a full alphabet with capitals and minuscules, in calligraphic, print and cursive form and…
Youjo Senki first impressions
Youjo Senki was a 12 episode anime series by Studio NUT that aired in 2017, based on the light novel series by Carlo Zen. I consider it the most notable…
Tumblr turns Nazi
In December 2018 Tumblr started banning "adult content" and "female-presenting nipples", using bots to automatically flag earlier posts and make them invisible. This erases a good chunk of internet history…
Doweling by eyeball
How I doweled my cabinet door parts together on sight for lack of a doweling kit: 1: clamp your wood exactly parallel to the edge of your work surface: 2.…
Originality
I visited the Kröller-Müller Museum, which has the second-largest collection of Van Gogh paintings. There was a very interesting expo showing Van Gogh's work next to that of artists that…
Tour de Geuze, 2015
I joined a tour of Lambic and Geuze breweries. Unfortunately the weather was quite bad, and breweries tend to be dark, but here are some pictures I took. One of…