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This year’s Make a Terrible Comic Day comic, something that’s been on my mind a lot lately. OOPS!
I’m afraid it’s another passage from Richard Tarrant’s Texts, Editors, and Readers (cf. Abbots and Beavers, Textual Criticism as Rhetoric) — I just can’t resist this stuff! Disputes about the text of Propertius involve many of the issues...
AI prompt of the day: You export an app’s user list and want to import it into Okta before you sync the 2. Okta gives you a CSV template to download, usually (always?) called okta-csv-template.csv, but its format varies per-application....
Slothyyyyyyy hosts the Extremely Byzantine 5-Room Dungeon Jam and this is my ashcan entry. I am using an 'out-take' from the d24 woodworm dungeons set. https://itch.io/jam/byzantine-5-room-dungeons. This is the lair of hiver-bugs - a...
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Power Cat 2026-06-24 Normal women are always doing stuff like this. I would know!
Want to know less? This is a full breakdown of my holiday - day-by-day. If you want to just see the highlights, I will post a round-up at the end of this series. Previously # In part 2 we headed to the Korean DMZ for a tour, met a North...
It does look good, actually. After the odds had dropped quite a bit, they’re looking good again, with a 60% chance of restoration by July 1 and 88% by July 31, in the wake of groundwork looking like it is being laid in various places:...
Over on Craggenloch Tribune, the author discussed his dislike of empty rooms and offered three creative “dungeon-stuffers” to quickly populate an unexpected and undescribed empty room.I myself like the odd empty room, typically with a...
June 18-24We would hang out at Martha's sister's home in Brownstown, MI.Lots of waiting for the Ford dealership in Mansfield, OH to call us with updates. A couple of calls from me to them when I couldn't wait any longer. Very...
A home office can’t just be all fun and games; there needs to be some wine too. I’ve wanted a wine cabinet for a while. I often pick up a few bottles of red wine when I’m out travelling but have had no good place to store them. The...
Nau mai Yesterday we took our rest in a town just a day’s horse ride northwest of Philadelphia that takes its name from the 18th Century Inn that featured an image of Frederick the Great on its frontage. A few of us went to get massages...
Councils across Melbourne have united to get the State Government to add bus services and improve networks. This comes in the form of a resolution from the Municipal Association of Victoria passed by their State Council at its meeting...
Status: Heatwave day two. Managing pretty well in the house thanks to fans and water and not moving. Having worked in the bakery during heatwaves I know how lucky I am right now. Rabbits are doing OK thanks to slabbed areas of their run...
On the ethics of engagement, the problem with purity politics, and a world worth fighting for Crossposted from here. I am a contrarian who likes to argue and complain a lot. Because of this, I have never been inclined to block people who...