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Work had me in Glasgow for a few days earlier this month, a city I had never been drinking in before, so was pleased to get it some way ticked off, though far from comprehensively, I'm sure. I was based on the western edge of the city...
June 29, 2026 Happy Birthday To Me! I should be sitting in a cafe in Paris when you read this… It seems from your emails that traveling in September is very popular – except for that whole “warm weather? cold weather?” question. Of...
So ahead of seeing the new Supergirl movie, I believed I was in bit of a quandary. As you may have noticed, the film had already attracted some negative chatter, primarily from The Usual Suspects. You know, the folks that regularly...
Let's continue our long series of Big Thunder-related scans, graciously shared with us by the Mysterious Benefactor! We left off from the last installment with some photos of Big Thunder cast members, and the first three continue that...
Home Sweet Home (1982), a television film directed by Mike Leigh, part of the BBC’s Play for Today series, might be Leigh’s bleakest film. In it, the last of his contributions to this series, Leigh portrays the lives and dysfunctional...
What This Book Tells Will Surprise You Plenty. Go Get It.Ad/Odds: Drews Delight in New Book, Mac/Eddy a 60's Happening, Cooped Up Lost World Watchers, and What Got Looked At Twenty Years BackThey Go Way Back but Still Are Funny for My...
The view as I fly over Star Fox 64‘s take on Corneria is nothing short of breathtaking. Spray kicks up as I skim over the reflective water at the start. The roads I can duck under or fly over as giant robots topple entire buildings with...
In the previous article we took apart the reflect package and found that its magic is mostly the compiler leaving very good notes — type descriptors frozen into read-only data at build time, and a package that knows how to walk them. The...
Following on from last weeks ‘Commission Monday’ today I share a trio of Slaters 16mm/ft WDLR skips. These models are built from injection moulded plastic with one piece skips bodies…The wheels are obviously the only weight in the model,...
A lighter set of links as I was travelling - but for more, check out the huge set from the previous list found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch,...
Commons as lived infrastructure, not theory, not an idea waiting to be implemented, they are practical, community-led way of meeting shared needs that already exists wherever people cooperate outside of markets and hierarchy. Commons are...
Just got back from a short trip to Sydney. I took a pile of photos a few of which are not too shabby. I will share them here, spread out over the next few days. Also. It is a cold and raining evening here in Canberra. Of course I can’t...
Her boss called it “girl talk.” She had just discovered the largest geological feature on Earth, a 10,000-mile mountain range running down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Marie Tharp mapped 70% of our planet from a basement lab at...
I am deeply saddened to report that this weekend, far too soon, we lost Gor Nishanov: a friend and colleague, an extraordinary software engineer, and a long-serving member of the C++ standards committee. Gor was always intelligent and...
Why Do My Partners Fall Out of Love With Me? The answer may be partially explained by a difference in emotional intelligence. Key points Generating closeness is not the same as sustaining closeness in an interpersonal relationship....