Something is useful if it either:
* makes <money>
* creates <novel research>[novel knowledge], or present knowledge in a novel way, that others may find beautiful


Useful

{tag=Ciro Santilli}

Maybe those are genial. Maybe not. Nostalgia is just too strong to discern. Ciro still goes back to them for rest.


Art young Ciro Santilli consumed

Artist

Art trend

{c}
{tag=ASCII}
{tag=Good}
{wiki}

It should be a <crime> to automatically generate <ASCII art> from images.

For some <ASCII art> in the <Bitcoin blockchain> see: <cool data embedded in the bitcoin blockchain/ASCII art>.

Random fun mentions:
* https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roflcopter | https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/roflcopter
* https://www.ludd.ltu.se/~vk/pics/ascii/junkyard/misc/who's_who.txt "Who's who in the ascii art world" contains a list of well known artists with their signatures

``
        z

        ^
        |    *------*
        |   /|      /
        |  / |     /|
top -------*------* |
        |  | *----|-*
        |  |/     | /
        |  |      |/
bottom ----*------*
        |  |      |
        +--|------|-----> y
       /   |      |
      /    |      |
  x  /     |      |
    v
          left   right
``
{title=3D cube plot <ASCII art> by <Ciro Santilli> (2021)}


ASCII art

Audiovisual art

{wiki}

= Collectible
{synonym}

= Collector
{synonym}


Collecting

Comedy

Comics

Food

Game

{wiki}

<Ciro Santilli> used to read books when he was younger (<Harry Potter> up to the 4th, Lord of the Rings), but once you are reading code, technical articles and news the whole day, you really just want to <Magic: The Gathering>[watch videos of people doing useless things on YouTube] to rest, enough text.

Books are slow. No patience. Need faster immediate satisfaction.

Paradoxically Ciro feels like he's becoming a writer of sorts though, one semi independent section/<The Machiavellian Stack Overflow contributor>[answer]/piece of knowledge at a time.

Writing is not just giving out information. It is re-feeling it.


Literature

{tag=Evil}

One of the things <Ciro Santilli> most deeply despises.

Real luxury is to understand <quantum field theory> and <number theory>.

Clothing/jewelry/car luxury is at worst a way to show off. And at best a replacement for nature/the countryside. People living in big cities have lost nature, and to some, looking at luxury goods (or watching television) serves as a (unsatisfactory) replacement.


Luxury goods

{wiki}

<Ciro Santilli> took courses once upon a time, maybe that has influenced his passion? <Ciro Santilli's musical education>.


Music

{wiki}

= Porn
{synonym}

= Porny
{synonym}


Pornography

Public speaking

Quote

{wiki}

See also <Ciro Santilli>'s critique of <rooting for sport teams>.


Sport

State of the art

Typography

{wiki}

= Artistic
{synonym}

Stuff that is beautiful but useless because it does not make food or houses cheaper.

Or from <Ciro Santilli's best random thoughts>:
> Without technology, one cannot survive. Without art, one cannot live.

But that sure enough has a <Jesus> semi-precursor, and likely many others: <man shall not live by bread alone>.

There is some art however that lives in the fine intersection between beauty and usefulness:
* <mathematics>
* <physics>
* <computer>


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