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	<title>The Tar Pit</title>
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	<description>"Now I feel like I know less about what that blog is about than I did before."</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>One year of gym training</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2026/one-year-of-gym-training</link>
		<comments>http://thetarpit.org/2026/one-year-of-gym-training#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spyked</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[in the flesh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=So the thirtheenth of March of the Lord's year twenty-twentyfive was, weirdly enough, my first time entering a fitness room in forever; and the same date -- other than dispelling every preconceived thought about "gym bros", "fitness culture" and so on and so forth -- also marked the beginning of my adventure in this world, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=So the thirtheenth of March of the Lord's year twenty-twentyfive was, weirdly enough, my first time entering a fitness room in forever; and the same date -- other than dispelling every preconceived thought about "gym bros", "fitness culture" and so on and so forth -- also marked the beginning of my adventure in this world, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>On perversion</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2026/on-perversion</link>
		<comments>http://thetarpit.org/2026/on-perversion#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spyked</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[asphalt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=In this post I'll discuss how perversion, or the act thereof, is a fundamental property of life; or, at the very least, of animal life, not to mention its ubiquitousness within the human species.

As per tradition, let us try to get a definition from the dictionary:


  perversion (noun)
  
  1 : the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=In this post I'll discuss how perversion, or the act thereof, is a fundamental property of life; or, at the very least, of animal life, not to mention its ubiquitousness within the human species.

As per tradition, let us try to get a definition from the dictionary:


  perversion (noun)
  
  1 : the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Sanitarium</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2026/sanitarium</link>
		<comments>http://thetarpit.org/2026/sanitarium#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spyked</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[food for the soul]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=Holy smokes, I can't believe it's 2026 and I haven't reviewed this yet! Sanitarium is a superb point-and-click adventure developed by DreamForge Intertainment, a small company active through the 1990s, that made mostly DOS-based role-playing games besides this one, plus a turn-based Panzer General clone set in the Warhammer 40K universe, and another adventure game [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=Holy smokes, I can't believe it's 2026 and I haven't reviewed this yet! Sanitarium is a superb point-and-click adventure developed by DreamForge Intertainment, a small company active through the 1990s, that made mostly DOS-based role-playing games besides this one, plus a turn-based Panzer General clone set in the Warhammer 40K universe, and another adventure game [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Winter in the postmodern Soviets</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2026/winter-in-the-postmodern-soviets</link>
		<comments>http://thetarpit.org/2026/winter-in-the-postmodern-soviets#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spyked</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[olds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=This post is a complement to the summer edition. Don't mind the almost-five-year gap between the two, as some things really don't change as quickly as the "official narrative" would have you believe.

So... Bucharest, and by extension, Romania; and by extension, Europe, and so on up to most of, depending on where you look from, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=This post is a complement to the summer edition. Don't mind the almost-five-year gap between the two, as some things really don't change as quickly as the "official narrative" would have you believe.

So... Bucharest, and by extension, Romania; and by extension, Europe, and so on up to most of, depending on where you look from, [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>A few stray thoughts on SuperCollider</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2025/a-few-stray-thoughts-on-supercollider</link>
		<comments>http://thetarpit.org/2025/a-few-stray-thoughts-on-supercollider#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spyked</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[computing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thetarpit.org/?p=578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment in time when I started looking at this -- it's probably been around three years of fiddling with the subject on a more or less consistent basis, and of practicing in order to get some grounding. In any case, I think that my current understanding is sufficient for [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=It's hard to pinpoint the exact moment in time when I started looking at this -- it's probably been around three years of fiddling with the subject on a more or less consistent basis, and of practicing in order to get some grounding. In any case, I think that my current understanding is sufficient for [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Liceenii</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2025/liceenii</link>
		<comments>http://thetarpit.org/2025/liceenii#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spyked</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[food for the soul]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=Liceenii1, i.e. "The Graduates", per IMDB, is, funnily enough, a crossover between a Romanian communist agitprop drama and a very early attempt at a liberal agitprop piece of Western influence. Let us dissect these two aspects.

As far as the first part goes, Liceenii is communist realism done by the book. Some dorky little boy (Bănică) [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=Liceenii1, i.e. "The Graduates", per IMDB, is, funnily enough, a crossover between a Romanian communist agitprop drama and a very early attempt at a liberal agitprop piece of Western influence. Let us dissect these two aspects.

As far as the first part goes, Liceenii is communist realism done by the book. Some dorky little boy (Bănică) [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Return to Monkey Island</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2025/return-to-monkey-island</link>
		<comments>http://thetarpit.org/2025/return-to-monkey-island#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spyked</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[gaming]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=Return to Monkey Island (abbreviated RtMI) is... well, I'm sorry I have to say this, but it's Ron Gilbert's attempt to Make Monkey Island Great Again -- of course, after his previous attempt to Make Point and Click Great Again.




I previously mentioned RtMI about a year ago, amusingly enough, in the context of a similar [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=Return to Monkey Island (abbreviated RtMI) is... well, I'm sorry I have to say this, but it's Ron Gilbert's attempt to Make Monkey Island Great Again -- of course, after his previous attempt to Make Point and Click Great Again.




I previously mentioned RtMI about a year ago, amusingly enough, in the context of a similar [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The perpetual transition</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2025/the-perpetual-transition</link>
		<comments>http://thetarpit.org/2025/the-perpetual-transition#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spyked</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[olds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=The few and far between folks reading this blog know that I grew up in a small peripheral (nowadays Western) country out in Eastern Europe, known to Western tourists as Romania1. Unfortunately, there's not much to say about it other than the fact that it's piss poor2 and that, in such being, it bears the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=The few and far between folks reading this blog know that I grew up in a small peripheral (nowadays Western) country out in Eastern Europe, known to Western tourists as Romania1. Unfortunately, there's not much to say about it other than the fact that it's piss poor2 and that, in such being, it bears the [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Bucharest, cca. 2025</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2025/bucharest-cca-2025</link>
		<comments>http://thetarpit.org/2025/bucharest-cca-2025#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 12:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spyked</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[in the flesh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=Yesterday, during one of my long weekend walks through town, it occured to me that it's been a while since I took the time to document this kind of thing. So since I had already taken a few shots up to that point, the first one as early as ten in the morning:

  

I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=Yesterday, during one of my long weekend walks through town, it occured to me that it's been a while since I took the time to document this kind of thing. So since I had already taken a few shots up to that point, the first one as early as ten in the morning:

  

I [...]]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Kin-dza-dza!</title>
		<link>http://thetarpit.org/2025/kin-dza-dza</link>
		<comments>http://thetarpit.org/2025/kin-dza-dza#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>spyked</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[food for the soul]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=Kin-dza-dza! is a late-Soviet take on life in the so-called Falloutian/Mad Maxian post-apocalypse. In fact I completely agree with the description by some other publication that this is where "Mad Max meets Monty Python", only let's not forget that this is neither an American film starring Mel Gibson, nor is its humour particularly British, despite [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[MjMzNTM2ODQxMDd8MTguOTcuMTQuODc=Kin-dza-dza! is a late-Soviet take on life in the so-called Falloutian/Mad Maxian post-apocalypse. In fact I completely agree with the description by some other publication that this is where "Mad Max meets Monty Python", only let's not forget that this is neither an American film starring Mel Gibson, nor is its humour particularly British, despite [...]]]></content:encoded>
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