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The fifth volume of D.C. Jones and Adventure Command International is out, and it gives us a new foe as the timeline moves into 1977, when the original G.I. Joe toys ended, to be replaced with a new group. We get a cover style similar to...
So as I mentioned in my last post, there's a bit of a blind spot to this blog sometimes, which is that while urbanism is about how people live and move in their cities, I tend to focus more on move than live.I'm not going to fix that...
The 'Special Value' Pi 4 pictured above is probably the rarest Raspberry Pi I own—even rarer than my blue special edition Pi. A Raspberry Pi reseller briefly listed a special 'value edition' Pi 4. But the product page 404's now. While it...
This post contains spoilers for the various endings of Star Fox Command. Old… man? (Images in this post come from vgmuseum) The always-excellent Hardcore Gaming 101 is currently working through the Star Fox series, due to the...
Larina Stephanie Nichols at 16 On Monday, I talked about Larina and her genesis in 1986 and before. On Friday, I am going to talk about the character's future. So today I thought, what about the present? What is Larina doing right now,...
How to leverage an old dirty trick in your Bazel wrapper for great effect As powerful as Bazel is, sometimes it’s not featureful enough. When using this build system, it’s common practice to wrap it in a launcher script—and in fact, this...
Link: Your SaaS Metrics Are A Result, Not A Strategy, by Itay Sagie in Crunchbase NewsI still subscribe to sites like Crunchbase News from my time in startup-land; although it’s been a while since I’ve run the financial side of a...
“Radharc álainn” I said. Beautiful view. “Nach ea!” he replied. Isn’t it? He sounded surprised to be addressed in Irish. We were, after all, very far from Erin’s shores. The beautiful view in question was of the bay of Loggos on the...
How's this for a location?! I mean, last week was nice with Scott in Mallorca, but Marrakech is, well, wow 😮 Anyway, about those data breaches... This week I'm talking about the futility of attempting to remove piss from a pool, yet here...
Women get a lot of crap about being basic in the fall, with the pumpkin spice lattes and sweaters and such. But, listen, I have a long beard and use beard oil and love brewpubs with craft beer and dabble in woodworking. It doesn’t get...
It was my visit with an Italian to Ferrari, a place I greatly liked, that led me to read Giorgio Bassani’s The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, which is a Penguin Modern Classic....
The seemingly legitimate news article, which several people sent to me and was shared on social media by many more, carried a stunning headline: “The Ghost Paper That Ate Alabama: How a Media Startup Killed 47 Weekly Newspapers and No...
June was an incredibly productive and good month for me.I taught my parents how to do some basic things on a laptop I gifted them. It’s their first laptop. It runs Android so they can easily adapt their familiar touchscreen interactions...
Sally Field is probably one of the most well-known actresses of the last 60-odd years.
Raukar: Gotland, Sweden's Limestone Sea Stacks Along the rugged Baltic shoreline of Sweden's enchanting island of Gotland, hundreds of towering limestone sea stacks known locally as raukar rise from the coast like ancient stone...