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Power Cat Sunday 2026-07-05 Don't forget to do your taxes!
Happy Fourth of July! We celebrated the holiday with a barbecue at our house; I smoked both spareribs and baby back ribs. My parents came over, as did Joe’s girlfriend, and even Teri, my former boss from Vineland, joined us. We all drank...
As I’ve nattered on about before, I started including text pages from comics in the comics ‘zine search engine, and this has some unique problems. I’m just dumping hundreds of thousands of comics into the grinder, picking out the text...
Don’t believe it In a world too broken To contain its pain Don’t believe the lie That seeps skin deep Whispering ice cold That nothing can save you but you Don’t believe that pressing ache That soaks you tired and calmly says It’s easier...
The Athletic published an interview with Jorge Campos today and having also seen him in a Visa advert for the 2026 World Cup, it reminded me of his famous flamboyance and talents both in goal and up front. So I looked for a video...
Chrome 150 has landed support for focusgroup, a feature proposed by Open-UI and not yet in WHATWG HTML as anything more than a feature request. Open-UI has outsized representation from Google and Microsoft folks, so it’s no surprise...
We thought we'd finally fixed the root cause of one of the problems around the house that we mitigated a couple of weeks ago. Nope. Somehow the problem persists and we're back to the drawing board to decide what we want to do about it....
An interesting look at Atari’s assembly line screen printing process on arcade cabinets by The Arcade Blogger: When you see a Missile Command cabinet with bright blues, vivid reds and crisp graphics, you’re looking at the result of...
I haven’t been feeling much Fourth of July spirit this weekend for a lot of reasons, including Cape Town’s gray winter weather. So I decided to turn to 1926, when America celebrated its sesquicentennial, hoping to find a more festive...
For the final volume of the ECM Special series, released in 1980, we are given not merely a selection of standout Pat Metheny tracks, but a small atlas of an artist still discovering that a guitar could become a horizon-making...
Over 4th of July weekend, I introduced my son to the movie An American Tail. He loved it! (even though those wave monsters and that machine mouse are still pretty scary…) Didn’t realize until we watched it again that it was produced by...
Watching insects move about and inspecting them from up close is enjoyable and makes me happy. I like the idea of working with a laptop, but when it comes to it I have nothing to do or write about. Dante has been sitting next to me on...
Art has mostly no power except for the following: it can remind us that at least in theory we have the option to become better people than who we are. By “better people” I don’t mean more productive or more popular or more powerful....
June got off to a really good start. I had time to write a few posts on the blog. After that, though, a lot was going on. All sorts of things. I had a lot of work and struggled to find time for other commitments. That’s why blogging took...