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Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been working on figuring out how to do some remote reading of NDQ. I’ve done this largely through using Claude Code to deploy its robots to read both the first 23 volumes of NDQ but also the output of...
Matthew Haughey: I want to say between the years of 2000 and about 2010, I always had an AIM client running on any computer I was using while I was sitting at it. It was kind of like using Slack at a workplace today, but you’d glance...
The setup for Dungeon Module B4: The Lost City is as follows:The player characters are traveling with a desert caravan when a sandstorm separates them and causes them to become lost. They wander the desert for days. Their mounts die, and...
A new post from ben.balter.com · Read it on the web →Most companies didn’t go remote. They shipped everyone a laptop, bolted Zoom onto the same approval chains, and called it a day. That wasn’t remote work—it was office work in...
The Diplomat Viper remains one pen that is incredibly difficult to keep in stock, with both the fountain pens and rollerballs remaining popular as Diplomat expands the colors on offer. We currently have all five colors (Black, Blue,...
The photo above was taken at the Institut Français in Berlin in 2017, during a Q&A session with the pianist René Urtreger following a screening to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Louis Malle’s Ascenseur pour l’échafaud (released in the...
Who doesn’t love a sunset.
Overcast and cool. Here and there, black walnut leaves are beginning to yellow. A deer foraging at the woods’ edge breaks into a trot to try to escape her flies.
Quick one, because the states just won round one. On Monday, a federal judge granted a 14-day temporary restraining order (a TRO — an emergency, short-term freeze, not a ruling on the merits) halting the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery...
I was recently interviewed about SPINE by Chase of the Rascal News team. Rascal Interview: Agency, frustration, and secrets in Asa Donald’s SPINEPodcast Episode · Rascal News · 20 July · 1hr 3minListen here or wherever you get your...
I remember seeing The Hardacres (2024-) on our Upcoming Frock Flicks list, but it never
This is my entry into this month's Bear Blog Carnival, which I am hosting! Go check out the main post to read submissions from others. When I had just turned 19, I moved to Tokyo to begin my year of study abroad. Not two months before...
Pasted up on the base of a light pole, framed by silver steel, is this hand painted flower. Quick and dirty, alive with the rush of creation. The magenta center dot is the only thing that feels considered. The rest is all organic and...
CapnRex101 / Brickset: The LEGO Group, in collaboration with Disney Entertainment, today unveils the LEGO Ideas The X-Files (21369) set, a 1,478-piece model that invites adult fans to celebrate the iconic ’90s sci-fi drama. To mark the...
Finally getting around to reading “The Age of Reading is Over” in The Atlantic (the hard copy, one of my last since my subscription has lapsed, arrived). It’s some of the saddest stuff I’ve ever read, and I’m not even to the AI section yet!