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Over the last week or so, I’ve been slogging through some revisions on my article about the the first 23 volumes of NDQ. While this has involved lots of spinning wheels, some crunching of data, and some new prose (especially after I...
To anyone who hasn’t played Discworld Noir, FOR SHAME. I ah, also can’t blame you. It’s hard to find and equally hard to run on modern systems, which is a shame in itself. Discworld Noir managed to land at number 6 on my Top 10 Point and...
Western sandpipers in flight (photo from Wikimedia) 19 August 2026 Though the growing season hasn’t ended yet, it is waning fast in Alaska. The Fairbanks area has already lost 5 hours and 45 minutes of sunlight since the June solstice(*)...
For this interview, I had the chance to sit down with the three people behind Cocoon: lead developer Mothrip, UI/UX designer and developer lnkd, and sound designer and developer Tristan Serva (who goes by Anti). Rather than just looking...
As walked back from lunch, my friends and I encountered an itinerant preacher. He was a bit more bellicose than is usual, which is saying something. He had a megaphone, and he was using it to proclaim that queer people deserve to be...
I gave Megan and Dina a month or so to cool off. I assumed that once the anger faded, they would understand how everything had happened and realize there was no reason to throw away our friendship over one teeny, tiny mistake. That is...
The northwest corner of North 6th Street and Berry Street in Williamsburg (Brooklyn) in 1940: The four-story building on the left is 111 North 6th, “Jersey Hogs Pork Products” is 115 North 6th, and the building between (the second...
working on the slatsGetting the length between the rails and adding 5/8" for the mortises. I sawed the length of the slats 1/8" less then the OAL.3 down with 2 to goCleaned up the four edges of the slats with planes and then fitted the...
This post is an entry for the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon Hi! I'm Citaaticat, taking over my husband's blog to join in his Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon. One word stood out to me from his list of topics: politics. That is the source of our...
Linux 7.2 officially slams the door on x86 processors that lack a Time Stamp Counter. We are finally shedding legacy fallback timing code that is genuinely older than some of the fresh-faced nerds currently trying to untangle enterprise...
Visitors watch for dolphins at Pier 21 as the sun sets on Galveston, Texas. The post Watching for Dolphins appeared first on 75CentralPhotography.
Here at MPorcius Fiction Log, we are reading stories from 1925 issues of Farnsworth Wright's unique magazine, Weird Tales. Today, three stories from Henry S. Whitehead, an Episcopal minister from the greatest state in the union, New...
The August theme for the Read Christie challenge is ‘Beloved Duo’, so one of her Tommy and Tuppence books was the obvious choice for this month! I’ve read the first three in the series, which made this an ideal opportunity to pick up the...
If you played the original Gratuitous Space Battles game about 500 years ago, you will recall that the online challenges were a very popular part of the game. If not, let me explain: GSB was the first autobattler, so its a game where you...
The following is a guest post by William Barter, who recently finished a term as the ‘physics coordinator’ of LHCb-UK. –o– The European particle physics community recently undertook a two-year process to update our strategy – setting out...