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tl;dr: After the long and painful goodbye to my Star Labs StarBook Mk VI AMD, I caved and did what every Linux nerd eventually does, which is buying a ThinkPad. I left Team Red and chose the X1 Carbon Gen 14 Aura Edition with Intel’s new...
I think I will need time to get used to it. Less texture makes lines thicker and miss that grain feeling. Also it looks so different in the picture. But definitely it’s great for watercolor. This hat drawing has a lot of water on it,...
Just avoid durian (read each label carefully to be safe from a fatal disaster). The one I ate yesterday said “8 deluxe ingredients”.As for the watercolors, the new limited palette is ok for desaturating colors. Or just use Payne’s Grey...
Fantastic progress in the last few weeks has culminated, on Sunday, in this latest cameo layout being ‘boxed in’ and wired up…This project has been something of a slow burn - in fact, I was asked the other day if there is a sketch or...
Tricky FM Sugar in my Drink Opening with a dialling tone, one-sided snapshots of a phone call and warm, widescreen synths, Trick FM’s new single evokes a kind of late ‘90s / early ‘00s electronica. Fractured drum beats and ambient found...
(Post written while electricity was still out) Upon waking up for work on Saturday evening, or, as many will remember it, the worst 4th of July ever, I shoved myself out of bed to the sound of rain pounding the windows and my air...
Many times online, when asked what their dream job is, some users will reply that they “do not dream of labor.” The statment broadly means that in their fantasies, they do not do (ostensibely employment-related) work, and can instead...
LOIS LANE HUMAN TORPEDO cover detail from Superman Family #201 (June 1980), art by Ross Andru and Dick Giordano
I hadn't realised that Dutch brewery Swinkels, formerly known as Bavaria, was still selling Bavaria beer after they got in trouble with the people of Bavaria for calling their beer Bavaria when it's not brewed anywhere near Bavaria. They...
It seems like it's been a while since we've had a good look at Merlin's Magic Shop, located in the courtyard of Fantasyland, right near the castle. Unlike most other original 1955 Fantasyland buildings, Merlin's is beautifully detailed,...
I was pleasantly surprised that the Museum of Modern Art was open on July 4th, when it was a million degrees in my apartment and most other activities were closed for the holiday. I figured the museum would at least have good air...
The problem of high level playWhy do players struggle when they leave the dungeon and enter the wider world? RPG provocateur Sam Sorensen’s bsky thread on domain play prompted my thinking here. It's enough of a complete thought-arc that...
Captured this pic of a chair in a local take away. I get the message.What event(s) led up to this being painted onto the chair?
Ben Folds spends a non-stop hour swinging wildly between virtuosic on, and literally violent, with a capital V, to, the piano, while he and his bandmates tear through 15 absolutely unskippable 90s bangers as if they share one brain,...
20th explorers on their way to Antarctica, including Ernest Shackleton, often visited NZ. They used local ports and quarantine islands, and gratefully accepted other offers of assistance. They also took on New Zealander crew with...