Nolan Dost ⏹️

Language Arts enthusiast, Vollmaniac
Propulsion Lab Engineer
Canonically a Black Mesa scientist

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

@realMattKParker This is one of my favorite antiquarianism experiences, I hope you enjoy your experience with it.

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

Literature's high watermark has been reached. It's all downhill from here.
https://t.co/qESujR7Cf2

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

New Boards of Canada just dropped
https://t.co/UQHDf8VbZI

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

So apparently a medtech patent i worked on at a previous company got completed and I was given credit as a co-creator. That’s now the latest feather in my cap alongside that whole Black Mesa situation back in 2020 and the satellite work being done now. Crazy times, crazy life

[🇯🇵星空音夢🇯🇵🧀Cheese police 👮 @hoshizorarock]

アメリカ人男性が日本に遊びにくる時は画像のような正装でお願いします。

正装でない場合は入国を拒否しすぐに帰りの飛行機に乗ってもらう場合があるので注意してください。

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

@realMattKParker Can't remember where but I read once that Henry James writes in a style so narrow that thoughts can't get through. Wings of the Dove was great when I read it but his style can feel like squirming your way through a cave system.

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

Italian modernism with William Blake's subject matter and the humor of Kramer from Seinfeld @DeepVellum

[sebastian castillo @bartlebytaco]

i do find this very moving, and think it’s probably useful to remember that while readers of challenging and adult books have declined significantly, there are still thousands of people out there who care about literature and take it seriously

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

Barberbeats low-simmer arena shooter

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

home sick listening to moog

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

Every year on my family retreat to Occidental, we give informal talks to eachother and this year my topic will be Finnegan's Wake. Excited to finally rant about this piece again, it's genuinely been life-changing for me.

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

Wishing there was a multi-media recommendation system. Any books that capture this style require my immediate attention.

https://t.co/4sdwmVnbId

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

Anyone who suggests mandatory real identity internet legislation is an Orwellian tyrant that should never hold political office ever again. Surveillance state is an understatement, this is world order panopticon overreach. This is my single-issue subject.

[Amtrak @Amtrak]

THE UNBRIDLED GREATNESS OF TRAINS WILL ENDURE FOR A MILLION YEARS

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

@Studio_Kerosene @skullvolver This is an insanely cool project that I have extremely high hopes for. Best of luck to the team with their upcoming launch!

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

My friend is making a game in his high performance custom engine and you should go check it out immediately

[KEROSENE @Studio_Kerosene]

We are proud to announce our first game: FIRESTARTERS.

Kerosene's debut Action FPS will be showcased during Steam Next Fest this February.

Don't miss the world premiere of the Announcement Trailer and the launch of the Steam page, streaming live tomorrow on @skullvolver!

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

@maxdaniellawton Speaking of free lectures on Finnegan's Wake, Gavin Young's youtube channel has some great content on that subject and it's so good that it got me to read that this year. Maybe you'll find it interesting too.

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

And that's it.
More will come in the last few days of the year. It's been a long year of bus commuting. For 6 months this year, I was commuting in the range of 3 to 4 hours per day for multiple days a week. Then there's time to read before bed, and on the weekends. It adds up.

[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

As many of you know, reading is my primary hobby. This is what I've read this year.
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country by William H Gass
On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
On Architecture by Vitruvius
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[Nolan Dost ⏹️ @dost_dev]

Aesthetics by Dietrich von Hildebrand
Ice Trilogy by Vladimir Sorokin
The Skeleton Key to Finnegan's Wake by Joseph Campbell
Every Man for Himself and God Against All by Werner Herzog
Voluspa
Havamal
New Science by Giambattista Vico
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
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