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I almost didn't want to write this review. John of John has had a huge amount of hype attached to it for months now, and the people who love it seem to really love it. So it's not exactly fun to sit down and admit that I didn't get on...
The global rush to the Moon this century is catalyzed in major part by the presence of water ice, soil rich in oxygen and metals, and other such resources. The long-term bet is that extracting resources in-situ on Luna, using oxygen and...
I have a couple of writing projects I’ve started, and I’m just avoiding them thoroughly. Inching around the file. I can’t get near the page. Much of my avoidance is, I think, due to my overall discouragement with the publishing part, the...
The Shadow of the Object by Chloe Aridjis is the tenth book I've read from this year's Booker Prize longlist, and at this point I don't think I can talk about any of these books in isolation any more. The longlist feels really cohesive...
Hey, I haven't created a sandbox on the blog in a while. I just finished up Pokémodule B1: In Search of the Unown, an Into the Oddish conversion of Dungeon Module B1. I made a sandbox for my version of B1 (which I've been running in AD&D...
Our Monday softball game was rained out for the 2nd week in a row, but I finally hit another home run on Tuesday! A straight shot to CF, after hitting the top of the fence in the same spot the previous at-bat. Guess I am consistent...
Something that's struck me about a few of the books on this year's Booker Prize longlist is how they feel plucked out of a different era of fiction entirely. Missouri Williams is clearly going for an 18th century Gothic vibe with The...
In case you were wondering, my wife and I are unaffected by the flooding that happened in Indianapolis over the weekend. We live far enough west of the White River in this city that the rising waters couldn’t touch us. We live on a...
Martin Freeman is one of my favorite actors to have come out of the last
Wow, it's the site's 54 millionth hit. These "hits" aren't a measure of humans visiting pages; that count would be much lower. It's just requests to the website: every time a robot visits some page, the count goes up. If a human views a...
The reason I post so many quotes from literature is to show that the desire to escape is neither uncommon nor certifiable. On the contrary, it’s perfectly normal and has been with us since, oh, around the time of the industrial...
Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 27th April 2026 I know we go on and on about Chile on this blog, but to be honest Costa Rica might be our next big obsession, given the glut of excellent bands appearing from this tropical little...
How many posts do you think it takes to qualify as a series? If it's just two, then I guess we could consider this post the second in a series in which I check out extremely popular manga only to find out that it's not really for me,...
I noticed the commenting feature was broken on my last post, but I've fixed it now. So, did I accomplish everything I set out to do yesterday? Let's see! Take my digicam out on a walk and try to snap some photos of interesting things I...