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After completing the Montana Backcountry Discovery Route, we're up to ten BDRs since we started running them in 2017. Through the running of each one, @mrs.turbodb and I are - as you can imagine - regularly comparing the current BDR to...
Sometimes – all the time, if you’re me – you see something that you don’t need yet you must have. Thus… Starslayer vol. 1 #1-5 As a kid, I remember seeing ads for this comic in Comics Scene and wanting it because Mike Grell, but nothing...
This is a history of my homelab, since about 2008, arranged chronologically. Formerly, this was a post on imgur, but I’m porting it over here for posterity sake. Enjoy! 2008 Homelab version alpha This cabinet was all full of old Athlon...
Next month Contemporary Textiles London – of which I am a member – are exhibiting at Morden Hall Park from Saturday 3 September to Saturday 27 September. Morden Hall Park is a Thank you for reading my blog. Please join me next week on...
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Recently my family gave me a hologram-making kit that they found at an antique mall in Indiana. I was with them when they first spotted it among the alien masks and vintage comics, and when they pointed it out, my first thought was "yeah...
Writing on the theme of a lost spellbook, suggested by Semiurge for Glaugust 2026.Inspired by this post over on Oversights and Oubliettes, as well as the same book that inspired it, I present six manuscripts attributed to the same...
There are at least five different core questions around data centers and their politics. In what ways are specific concerns people raise about data centers legitimate? In what ways are specific concerns people raise about generative AI...
“The Greatest Benefit to Mankind – A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present” by Roy Porter was published in 1999. It’s a magnificent 848-page book that I am working my way through. Many people, I’ve discovered, own a...
I recently listened to two completely unrelated Buddhist lectures that involved developing equanimity as an important part of Buddhist ethics. Both were met by Westerners thinking they had the ultimate gotcha question. Obviously, you...
Hey! Paper jam on the scanner. OK, I’ll remove the jammed paper and then press the stop button. So what do you think happens when I press the stop button? I’ll give you a chance to guess… Yes, exactly! It starts passing all the remaining...
Imperial Messenger: Escape from The City Absolute2027, WuYa Software An adaptation of the Kafka parable A Message from The Emperor. After a brief cutscene in which the anonymous player character is seen leaning over the enormous deathbed...
Paul Taberham’s impressive study of film animation was released earlier this month. The title brings to mind a major concern of David Bordwell in studying cinema, poetics as an aesthetic approach. Taberham has indeed been influenced by...
In this week’s issue of The Savvy Diabetic: Landmark treatment slashes cholesterol by 62% with a single dose Amylin design debate heats up Could Your Insulin Pump Detect an Occlusion Before Your Glucose Rises? Yale Researchers Identify...
My initial concerns about Horizon Hunters Gathering possibly ruining my annual prediction have been quelled. Jason Schreier has reported that the cartoony online co-op live service game has been rebooted. Here's a gift link to his...