Peak gameplay

Get Off My Band (Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition Soundtrack) YouTube video by Peaches Lamb

I started to listen to Age of Empires III soundtrack when working and the nostalgia hits hard. Imagine being a sheep venturing alone into the fog of war

Playing with our university system (SIS) and uploading some documents for a seminar I teach, I like how there is that one date before which you could surely not upload this document. It is a bit earlier than you might think. But you can also see there definitely was a thought behind it 😅

1984 calendar meme with the lady saying "the empire is at war with Persia and the Pope" and the calendar says January 1054

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

Join the hybrid #HTR event organized by Rita Sawaya (University of Toronto) on 20 March 2026, 10:00–12:00 EST, featuring three IMAFO speakers: Jan Odstrčilík, Ephrem Ishac, and our collaborator Anna Michalcová. #dh #htr #ocr #atr

ZOOM:
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Another talk for me next Friday together with more HTR specialists. Quite a busy Miss Lizzy week ahead 😅
@digilab-imafo.bsky.social

Presenting next week in my beloved Sudetenland (this time Louny 🚀)

a cartoon character with glasses and a yellow sweater is standing in front of a fire ALT: a cartoon character with glasses and a yellow sweater is standing in front of a fire

Trying to upload any attachment is just like

a man giving a thumbs up in front of a fire with the words " this is fine " below him ALT: a man giving a thumbs up in front of a fire with the words " this is fine " below him

First time dealing with the GRIS system applying for projects. Didn't know I need to save after writing every word since the system crashes so often

Officially Dr. Anna now 🥳

Guess who is on the picture in the middle 👀
Also who is going to the Transkribus User Conference 26? We might see each other there!

tuc.transkribus.org

I appreciate that according to the COST Grant Application, I seem to be member of every marginalized academia group possible 😅

The man killed by a US Border Patrol officer in Minneapolis was an ICU nurse, family says Family members say the man who was killed by a federal officer in Minneapolis was an intensive care nurse at a U.S.

Alex Pretti grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he played football, baseball and ran track for Preble High School. He was a Boy Scout and sang in the Green Bay Boy Choir.

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16/24 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar :). Today LayoutXML-to-trOCR tool created by @burnedlegate.bsky.social to easily convert PageXML and ALTO into training datasets for trOCR models.

advent-calendar.humanities.tools #htr #atr #ocr #trOCR #machinelearning #ai

That’s a wrap on HTR Winter School 2025 in Vienna! 🇦🇹 Huge thanks to everyone, and special thanks to the participants in the Medieval Czech group. You were wonderful and hard-working! It was a great experience and an honor to work with you. 📚🩵 @digilab-imafo.bsky.social

HTR Winter School 2025 is underway, with Czech medievalists as well ✨ @digilab-imafo.bsky.social @burnedlegate.bsky.social @martin.rocek.dev @catominor.bsky.social

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My little humble contribution ✨

Even on Sunday, our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar keeps going! 🙌 Today, something different: Can you answer a medieval question? 😉

advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #scholasticism #middleages

Day six of our DH Vibe Coding Calendar is here! 📅 Ever dreamed of becoming a composer 🎼? Now you can become a Unicode Composer! Try out our new vibe-coded tool and start creating (composite unicode characters) today.

advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #unicode #mufi #digitalhumanities

Well, can you pass the captcha? 😳

Found a little devil in a medieval Czech bible! Cute 🫀
(Olomouc, Scientific Library in Olomouc, M III 3, f. 223r)

Day 4 of our DH Vibe Coding Advent Calendar! 📅 IIIF Explorer: Never get lost in a #IIIF manifest again—view, download, split, and merge! (With some patience—optimization isn’t part of Vibe coding ;))

advent-calendar.humanities.tools #dh #tei @iiif.bsky.social @imafo-oeaw.bsky.social

Václav Hanka would like this 👍

A little surprise for dh people from a few of us 🙂

I don't believe this. My forefathers and foremothers have... lied to me?

I am going to say something controversial but brave.

Dvořák - Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 "From the New World": IV. Allegro con fuoco was used in Baby Shark as the main melody and you can't change my mind about this because I can't unhear it.

Found an ideal playlist for the finishing touches on my dissertation.