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🎧TLDR; I'm doing a podcast episode a day. The podcast is called Daily(ish). You can check it out here, and subscribe in various apps here.When I coming to the end of my Selfie a Day project (debrief post here) I was honestly surprised by...
It’s been a bit since I was typing SQL into a REPL. One interface that didn’t come back to me right away is the percent character in a like or ilike query: select full_name from users where full_name ilike 'jake%'; Returns: full_name...
A few months back, we went to Costa Rica for my nephew André's Bar Mitzvah. I have no photos of André in this post, but rest assured we love him more than these birds. We just happened to spend a few days in Monteverde before the...
Dark Knights of Steel, Vol. 2 #2B Travis Moore Variant Release: Aug 19, 2026Cover: Oct 2026 THE HOUSE OF EL IN DANGER! A sickness has befallen the Els, sending the Kingdom of Metropolis into disarray. But what–or who–could bring true...
This month is the Hungry Ghost festival. The elderly would warn us not to go out late at night and be careful of ghost who lingers in the earth realm. I am afraid of ghost, but I am more afraid of human beings. Ghost may frighten us, but...
In November 1934, retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler sat down in front of a congressional committee and calmly explained that a group of wealthy businessmen had spent the previous year trying to recruit him to lead a...
There’s the safe way to write a novel, and then there’s Tim Pratt’s way to write a novel. Abandoning any worries of appealing to the masses, Pratt hit the gas on all of their most interesting ideas and crafted the newest addition to...
One of the coolest things I've discovered since getting a PS5 last year was remote play: you could use a device, such as my iPad Air, to connect remotely to your PS5 and play games. I've successfully connected using both the standard PS5...
Professor Steve Peers, Law School, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Martin Robson, via Wikimedia Commons Recently the Reform Party proposed that in government it would withdraw benefits from all non-UK citizens,...
Hettie O’Brien, in the current Guardian newspaper (UK) has posted this First Edition taster:<info@editorial.theguardian.com> https://www.theguardian.com/uk ‘Apparently, gangs of “feral yobs” now rampage the streets in “lawless Britain,”...
Title: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Author: Italo Calvino Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Pages: 260 Italo Calvino’s stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding...
11-08-26 Far too long since I'd visited the Botanics. It was sunny enough to bring out a few insects but a little bit disappointing overall, with speckled woods being the only butterfly species out in numbers. I had gone mainly with the...
I'm a sucker for lore, so this bonus entry chronicles all of the books I'm finding in Pagan: Ultima VIII. It will be updated continually until the game is finished. (Note that this entry published at the same time as "Pagan: Skull...
ORKO — 200X MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE ORIGINS (MATTEL) Well, this year hasn’t been *without* Masters of the Universe reviews, but it has been a little sparse. I had the two movie tie-in figures of two of the three figures I always buy from...
I really quite like the front cover design for Taiwan Travelogue. I would like it even better without the National Book Award Winner stamped on the top right but that doesn’t detract too much from the overall design. Cover design is by...