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Earlier today I came home from having coffee with a friend (and her husband??????? more on this another time) to find a half-dead injured baby bird that had fallen out of its nest and was now flopping weakly/grossly on the pavers in...
This is #55 in a series of month-end reflections on the state of the world, and other things that come to mind, as I walk and hike in my local community. For most of my life, I’ve loved doing statistical analysis. Part of that, I...
While linking yesterday to Jordan Mechner’s website page about his Making of Prince of Persia book, I learned he also drew a graphic novel called Replay about his family’s past and his own life, including his game developments. I took...
I have no idea who said it first, but there is a saying, "Live your life so that even if you die at 100 years old, people will say you died too soon." For many of us that holds true of legendary actress Ann Blyth, who died on Wednesday,...
It's crazy that the maxed out MacBook Pro I bought just a few weeks ago is almost $2000 more expensive as of yesterday!! 🤯
Film Just briefly. There are typically two indicators that I'm not really enjoying a movie: either (a) I fall asleep, or (b) my film studies brain cells kick in and start looking for flaws. Supergirl (2026) currently has a Rotten...
New game to play on my last night in London: train passing or live percussion? The trick is to listen for cymbals. 💂🏻♀️
Director Alice Winocour takes us to Paris for fashion week in Couture, a movie that tells three loosely related stories, one featuring Angelina Jolie. Perhaps you can already sense a problem. By having to switch the movie's focus from...
Sometimes I wonder why things are more complicated than they have to be. I have donated to Gamers Outreach in the past, multiple times, so I obviously receive their newsletter. I also follow some VTubers, some are great musicians, some...
Acorn 8.6 is out! The big new things are: A new brushing engine that has been rewritten using Metal shaders. It includes an option for “velocity thinning”, where the faster you draw your brush strokes, the thinner the lines. A new acorn...
Notes from a burning Paris. People are dying – 55 people died in Paris alone in the past 24 hours. Festivals, school, gym classes are cancelled. Hundreds of thousands of chickens have perished across France. I just read an alert: a bus...
Developer: C.M. RalphYear: 1989Genre: AdventureSystem: Mac Caper in the Castro is a short point-and-click adventure game created in Hypercard and the earliest known queer game, so I thought it would be fun to check it out during Pride...
Some of you might be wondering where I've been for the past couple weeks as it's been about that long since I last published a review. We actually went on a family vacation and took a sleeper train (with a dining car) to New Orleans for...
I don't subscribe to this YouTube channel, but this caught my attention today. Skipping around on the usefully named chapters, I came upon this: You may wish to watch other parts, or the whole thing. ✍️ Reply by email Originally posted...
<!-- end-chunk --> <!-- begin-chunk data-anchor="haute-fuzz" --> <h4>Haute Fuzz.</h4> <p><em>Vol. 6, No. 7</em></p> <p><mark>Featuring: Telehealth, Billy Nomates, The Smile, Charles Moothart, Plastic Pinks, DBA!, Caroline Rose, Awreeoh,...