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A rant triggered by sticker shock in vintage stores. Yesterday I went on a bit of a trip across town to a famous local comic shop called The Beguiling. They are owned by the guys who founded the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and although...
One answer to the Fermi Paradox is that advanced civilizations develop AI and lose interest in space travel. A researcher now argues that's backwards: AI, robots, and cheap probes make space exploration easier. Which means the paradox...
Red chopsticks swirl into a ball of red string on the poster for Nothing Can’t Be Undone by a HotPot [Mei you yi dun huo guo jie jue bu liao de shi] (dir. Sheng Ding, 2023).
I am hopping on an airplane right now and I’m headed to the biggest pen show in the US! Come see me at the DC Supershow this weekend. I will be at the Dromgoole’s tables as their resident ink expert. I would be happy to help you find the...
Not in Edinburgh so much these days, I'm a little out of touch, but it seems like these new pink bikes (for hire) are everywhere. Trouble is I've not seen anybody actually riding one of them so far. Perhaps there's a few mad hours later...
I’d heard rumors that the FFXIV Mobile version would be canceled about a week or two before the official website posted an announcement. Because I’m honestly not sure how long the site will remain up, I’ve screenshotted the info and...
📔 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 5/hopefully 31 posts in August, and a post I started writing on the 19th of July. A page I've added to my blog this year but not linked anywhere (my 'page' page needs a spring cleaning) is little...
These are the terms we’ll be having people pick up starting in early 2027 and ongoing through the following five fiscal years, to accommodate the need for rhetorical conflict and animus in the RPG scene.Friendplay: long-form RPG play in...
Here’s a good post and tips from Mike Harley: How I make my blog posts more resilient. Mike recommends self-hosting media. I’ve been back and forth about doing that vs. using something like Cloudinary or Cloudflare. I think Mike makes a...
So, I purchased a new pen again. This is becoming a thing now it seems. I’d been eyeing the Neon Yellow Lamy Safari so I went ahead and bought it.I just arrived in the mail this morning, but I’m super happy with it so far. It writes well...
Everything in this world has an expiry date. Literally everything you see has a mechanism through which it dies, and you know that in advance. Thousands of years ago, Hindu scriptures described the world as cyclical. Everything that has...
So, Glen Hansard died last week. Yes, ONCE was a good movie. Yes, “Falling Slowly” is a good song. But Hansard was at BEST problematic. His partner in Swell Season (and ONCE) was Marketa Irglova, whom he met when he was 32 and she was...
No One’s Happy (via Matt Birchler): Most native apps collect far more data than their website equivalents ever could. They request permissions to hardware, sensors, and background processes that browsers deliberately restrict. The...
ICM2026 in Philadelphia was, for me, a celebration of mathematics and people. I met many friends and colleagues, as well as several mathematical ideas and results. The nature of these meetings is that they are abrupt and random. (Some...