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I’ve always loved clamshell bookcases – fold-up bookcases that allow you to transport your personal library to a lighthouse, campsite or war zone. I started building them while working on my book “Campaign Furniture” (a free pdf download...
And 7 other true-crime reads for your late-June weekend.
Added AriGPT overview to search
Listening Post is such a great scrobbling solution. I’ve been listening to a lot of radio and am really happy that it works so well to capture that listening and mark favorite new tracks.
In my last blog post I mentioned that I own a signed paperback copy of Harlan Ellison's Alone Against Tomorrow. Over ten years ago, at a Half Price Books location in Iowa or Ohio, I paid just two dollars for the volume, a 1979 Fifth...
Monday “Who is the man with the black umbrella?” “There are thirty guns in the box.” I’ve started using Duolingo again. I could potentially weave black-umbrella man into the Duolingo story, but I’m less sure about thirty guns in a box....
During the first half of 2026 I delved pretty deeply into the catalog of Japanese-exclusive products I’ve been testing, many of which have made their way into our shop. You might be surprised to learn that most of my favorite new...
As you know, my apartment is in the depths of hell right now under a blanket of cement dust. The new printer I bought for my zines and art is now dead. It was right under the window of the cement dust cloud that effectively destroyed my...
This post on reddit asks how to rule a forest fire started by player characters. My day job involves running forest growth and wildfire simulations. I got into it via GIS & R coding and have little formal forestry/forest-ecology...
Billy Idol Rebel Yell (1999 Expanded Edition)Get It At DiscogsRebel Yell is Billy Idol's high-water mark, the place where he spun his breakthrough hit "White Wedding" into a full-blown rock & roll lifestyle. Maintaining the...
Yesterday went pretty well in regards to the pride commander event I ran at the local card shop. It was myself and 2 other people, so another low turnout but it was enough to play so it was good enough! The game was fun. I went to buy...
Should have posted this yesterday, too... but Quadrilateral Cowboy has been updated in honor of its 10th anniversary! Brendon added an Extras menu full of development footage, including development screencap time-lapses. He also...
Full disclosure: I actually got this on Thursday, but I’d held off on posting it immediately because I was expecting something else to arrive that same day and wanted to post them together. However, it still hasn’t arrived, and the...
My first exposure to “frames” (the data structure) was when I took my “Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KRR)” class in college. That class was an elective. I simply picked it because I was interested in it, and I wanted to pursue...
Sometimes I have too many thoughts at once and I can’t keep track of them. I think this is why I’m compelled to write.