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Note: This review, as with all content I write on this site, is my opinion. It does not reflect the opinion of others, including the American Knife and Tool Institute (AKTI), the cutlery trade group that I advise on legal matters. In...
I did not check On This Day in the marmot before writing the preceding post, but back in 2017, I wrote something similar. It's a theme, I guess. On This Day is ephemeral. If you're coming to this post anytime after the 29th of June,...
A new week, and a new Fantasy with Friends prompt! All the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about series reading order: When reading a favorite fantasy series, which reading order would...
Hi there,I hope that you're feeling great these past few days. I think I needed to talk about these things earlier with a therapist, but putting them down makes things a bit lighter and offer different perspectives to look into a...
Fossil Whale Skeleton, Wadi Al-HitanEgypt’s Eocene limestones captivate geologists and paleontologists from around the world. These pale, fossil-rich rocks hold the story of an ancient sea and the remarkable creatures that once swam...
All the OldWeb is NewWeb again. This is just to inform you of warppoint.games, a new directory and webring devoted to game-related content! Set Side B is listed there, and there’s a new link to it in our own sidebar. There’s already a...
Candy and Denise, in trouble again.Jackson, IL is a place where 1980s horror rules apply.I just finished watching "In Search of Darkness" on Tubi, and it was wonderful. It is about 4 and a half hours long and covers movies from every...
American Honda Presents DC Comics’ Supergirl #1 Release: 1984Cover: 1984 Creators WriterJoe Orlando | Barry Marx | Robert Loren FlemingArtistAngelo TorresCover ArtistAngelo TorresColoristJoe OrlandoLettererJohn CostanzaScripterAndrew...
It is certainly a choice for James Gunn and other DC Studios decision-makers to follow last year's joyful, inspirational, all-around fun Superman with this movie, in which the traumatized star attempts to self-medicate by badly abusing...
And stuff on my mind. So here I am. This kind of post was perhaps the greater proportion of the posts in Groundhog Day, where I was often trying to "figure stuff out." Urgent questions about why my life was not working out the way I...
Sir Roger Casement exposed colonial atrocities in the Congo and Peru, fought for Irish independence, and was executed for treason in 1916. His sexuality became a weapon against him.
Over the last holiday break, I covered for my boss, the VP of Engineering. During that time I covered his full scope, around 40+ engineers, six different squads building everything from a DAO to Core Infra to hardware integrations. As I...
OK, this one was funny. I searched the Epstein files for “statistician” and found this receipt from biologist Robert Trivers: Only $1000 for the statistician??? What a cheapskate! Especially given that he said the statistician “did an...
Memberwise initializers in Swift allow you to create struct instances without manually writing an initializer. The compiler examines the stored properties of your struct and automatically generates an initializer that accepts values for...
Howard Wasserman observes, on Prawfsblawg, that my recent National Affairs essay, “The First-person Appeal of Free Speech,” neglects to call out contemporary impulses toward censorship emanating from the right. My piece begins by...