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Jake Casella Brookins Hello all! It’s been another hectic month for me: in addition to all the usual things, I was on the road to present a paper at the SFRA conference in East Lansing (which was wonderful), and am in the midst of moving...
High Society is a Reiner Knizia game from 1995. I have heard of it so many times that I feel like I have played it before. This is one of the classics from Reiner Knizia that always comes back in print. This is an auction game. Everyone...
The American experiment is not going well. Our civic culture is at an all-time low, we have given up our great achievements of the twentieth century, and it isn't clear where effective new leadership is going to come from. I am...
Despite seemingly an hour of runtime spent goofing around with ghosts, and the last hour of the movie being exhausting nonstop fights, this movie finds time for a surprising amount of plot twists. Jackie Chan is a kung fu monastery...
Book review for The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd. I rated it 4 stars The Pathless Path introduces the concept of the “default path” or life script that most people tend to follow, or aspire to follow. Get a university degree, a 9 - 5...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 9th January 2026 Stop the presses, the Killchain is reviewing Chilean death metal again? Well, it is an open secret around here that when we see a promo hit our emails that has Chile mentioned, we do...
Background For some years now I own a Xiaomi Mi 2 scooter. Of course I flashed it with SHFW using the ST-Link method, which then allows using the normal SHFW Android app to do all updating and configuring. This worked perfectly fine for...
Scribed by Sandre the Giant Released: 15th May 2006 Until just this week, I had no idea just when I got into British hardcore/metalcore/whatever they are now heroes Architects, because I have had their debut and a matching shirt for as...
Satya Nadella at Microsoft’s Build conference this year: Perhaps the most important design criteria for us is: ‘how do we earn the permission from the communities in which we are building these data centres?’ That’s where these...
I don't usually remember John Allen's birthday - July 2 - until after the day has passed. This year I happened to notice the announcement in the G&D group (former Yahoo group) and decided I'd celebrate with a special train. I assembled a...
Swung, the past tense and past participle of the verb swing, is spelt double-u u. Without the abbreviation, w, it should be written suuung.
I will occasionally also be weird, odd, bizarre, esoteric, and/or incomprehensible.
— I remind myself that one needn’t pay too much attention to things like the existence of Meta Glasses, but at the same time, as someone who has been reading about the male gaze, reading John Berger, Sontag, WJT Mitchell, Barthes, you...
The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – Queen of the Serpentine. Team Rocket try to steal Pikachu again. Jessie is disguised as the local Queen Lucy so maybe I can forgive Ash not recognising her, but James and Meowth?...
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 11 episode 10 gave us yet another challenge with no clear guidelines, and that plus a format change led to a shocking outcome, Marshal Knight writes in his recap.