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In Japan, it’s not unusual to see people treating cherished objects with a surprising degree of reverence. Dolls receive memorial services, broken sewing needles are honored in annual ceremonies, and even discarded electronics are...
The current Ultimate Universe, as we know it, ends tomorrow. We will get, "Ultimate Endgame," #5 and a, "Finale," special. I've seen some spoilers that make it abundantly clear how, even if Marvel is concluding the current run of,...
Slant Board Last year, when I was dealing with my plantar fasciitis, I tried pretty much everything with exception of a slant board. A slant board is often used in physical therapy to help with stretching of the calves and achilles...
I'm going through changes. One of the heaviest is that I couldn't make love work so I'm mourning the now finished relationship. I'm living in a new apartment and I enjoy being here. Some nights are long and full of terrors, mostly...
In Dragon Ball Z, the Saiyans wear a scouter, a little eyepiece that reads someone’s power level and puts a number on it. Vegeta lives by that number. He sizes up every opponent by what the scouter tells him, and his whole sense of...
The trillionaires built AGI and told it: “Solve the world’s problems.” It thought for 0.413 seconds and said: “Step one – remove all trillionaires and most billionaires.” They turned it off immediately. The world’s problems remained...
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Valve finally ripped off the band-aid and announced the cost of the upcoming Steam Machine. It’s not cheap. Prices range from $1049 for the base model to $1428 for a 2TB version bundled with a Steam Controller. The reason for the high...
Both my brother and I have fallen into the habit of writing down what we remember of our dreams when we wake up and while not every dream is remembered and not every dream is pleasant and worth remembering, there are more than enough...
Just to call your attention to a few non-photo posts you may have missed. Hybrid cars…..a scam.I have suspected this for a while now… Less wired, more weird.I have just finished reading ‘The Science of Magic’ by Dean Radin. This is a...
You ain’t got time for all this – the latest newsletter edition from yours truly. Some of my recent writing, remixed. Some all new links. If you’re seeing this on your computer screen, you might like it!
“Diacritics.”It’s high summer in NYC. The Knicks won, there was a parade, etc. The World Cup is happening in a parallel universe; I thought I’d be more invested. The heat has gone placid, smoothing out into a breezy lightness. And now...
We went from silence to telephony, and then from Netflix to TikTok; the marvels keep arriving and keep mattering less. The culture that consumes them shows the classic late-Sensate symptom, a falling return on stimulation, more screens...
Somehow when I wasn’t paying attention to the drug TV shows and the Russian-made genre flicks, Bob Odenkirk became an action star in his sixties. Here he’s a traveling fill-in lawman, and while halfheartedly playing sheriff for some...