Dunnet revisited

A throwaway remark about King's Quest led to a general conversation about text adventures and, eventually, the amusing sight of a Millennial struggling to get to grips with the impossibly basic interface of Dunnet.

The take and drop commands took a while to figure out, as did navigation — largely because Dunnet does not repeat descriptions of locations unless you deliberately look around. Attempting to use one object with another also resulted in a certain amount of confusion, when the message "You must supply an indirect object." was initially assumed to be a Lisp error.

Eventually they got as far as reading the paper but gave up when asked to ftp to a remote location. Entering the die command, they discovered they'd got 0 points out of a possible 90...

Bruckner's Ave Maria

Anton Brucker wrote the second of his three settings of the Ave Maria for an unaccompanied seven-part choir. As is typical of Bruckner's motet writing, the piece manages to combine long, chant-like lines with a strongly Romantic sensibility, giving it a timeless quality.

The performers here are the Norwegian choir Schola Cantorum.