Let’s talk about Rolling Thunder. No, not the movie. Not the Bob Dylan tour thing either. And not the roller coaster or the Vietnam bombing campaign. Rolling Thunder the 1986 video game by NAMCO! (The first one, not the sequels.) I went in nearly blind, having only seen a clip or two of the game. Retrogaming isn’t...

The teaching aspect of the academic year has come to an end for me. Now all that remains is meetings, interviews, planning, and preparation for next year. This was my 19th year teaching. (In a previous post I said it was already my 20th, but as it turns out, I cannot count.) You know what I want to say. Even if you...

Credit Feed is the name I chose for my posts on video games. It is a term used by players of arcade games, particularly shmups, in reference to the act of using continues to finish a game. Most players have encountered shmups (shoot’em ups), and many are aware that arcade games are supposed to be challenging. I love...

Just over three years ago, I wrote a post about blogging. In hindsight, that was a pretty “OK” post. Blogging, and blogging about blogging, has continued to thrive since then. Blogging has strengthened its legitimacy as both a hobby and a source of revenue. It has never been easier to blog: true in the 90s, true...

NOTE: Some of the articles mentioned in this post were selected at random from my RSS feeds between the 23rd and 24th of April 2026. I didn’t take time to cherry-pick anything. Other articles came from my long list of bookmarked articles on Wallabag. Motivation The news is awash with headlines making claims about...

I’ve written about privacy a few times on my little blog. Two of the most shared and visited posts I’ve written are The Privacy-Security Rabbit Hole and the very outdated and long-winded Low Friction Introduction to Digital Privacy. My previous introduction needs more than an update, because things have changed a...

Attention! This is satire. Once again we have been attacked and slandered by state-sponsored shills. This continued harassment was unprovoked and is another clear example of the global plot to misrepresent SCHOLSBAG. On a recent pigcast by LibreLard, known for spreading lies about pig privacy and pig security and...

Today is CSS Naked Day! That means this site is extra basic instead of its regular about of basic. (I was very late updating my site for this, sorry.) Enjoy!

I teach. I’ve mentioned that before. I’m not an expert; I haven’t published papers or articles about teaching or digital tools for classrooms. Occasionally, I get the urge to move away from teaching and into instructional design, but then I come across articles like this: The anti-boredom tech tool kit for meetings...

Here I go again, knocking on things I haven’t tried and probably won’t. Don’t take it the wrong way, though. My goal here is to be informative, not pejorative. Mistral is Europe’s answer to all the other generative AI companies. While it is easy to find articles about this company, they haven’t quite made much of a...

On October 8, 2025, I sent an email some Members of European Parliament1. This was the first time I’d ever done something like this. The message was addressed to the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. They seemed like the right subset of Members to contact after reading a post on the...

I’ve got a problem. It a modern problem. I have too much time on my hands, and I’m wasting it using my hands to scroll. My eyes are in a perpetual state of strain and fatigue. My wrist aches and I have a sore neck and shoulder. I’m addicted to my phone and it isn’t the first time. Years ago the solution that I found...