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Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 17, 2026 12:40AM

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A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)

by Christopher W. Alexander

bookshelves: currently-reading, architecture, design, owned-pbook

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The God is Not Willing (Witness, #1)

by Steven Erikson (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fantasy, might-and-magic, owned-pbook, _fav, currently-reading

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Randy’s Quotes

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

tags: cats, humor, women

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“Design cannot rescue failed content.”
― Edward R. Tufte

tags: design

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“What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.”
― Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning Information

tags: design

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“We have a closed circle of consistency here: the laws of physics produce complex systems, and these complex systems lead to consciousness, which then produces mathematics, which can then encode in a succinct and inspiring way the very underlying laws of physics that gave rise to it.”
― Roger Penrose, The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe

tags: consciousness, mathematics, physics, science

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