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I had an email from one of my former students, Will Ross, the other day. It was short and sweet (which was surprising considering the reams he used to write for classwork just, I suspect, to extend my marking misery). Regardless, he...
You have to love brain twisters like this. Apparently, from all the videos online it is something many others like as well. More on the Channel and good Dune info. More
The extremely cool and awesome villain in Farcry 3 once said, “Do you know the definition of insanity?” Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results. And I feel like I’ve been doing that with Bluesky over the...
...well, it's not much of a grind. I've started playing Z-A again, this time to finish the "Mega Dimension" DLC. The DLC introduces a kind of weird, instanced, dungeon-run style experience to the game. The game spawns a bunch of...
Hey!You’re on this list because you give a damn about the written word. So I’ll skip the warm-up and tell you the news.SELF has relaunched.SELF is my studio for turning technical founders and builders into public thinkers. Essays,...
Today, I made my way to Sapporo to see my friends Dave and April and their kids. A quick refresher in case you don’t know: Sapporo is on the island of Hokkaido while Tokyo, of course, is on the island of Honshu. There is a train that...
Or shall I say soccer because I was raised in the US? I'm writing this because I need to. The sport was such a long chapter in my life, and thanks to my newfound unemployment, I've been able to watch by far the greatest number of World...
Back the Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster Kickstarter! Our Kickstarter for Rise of the Lazy Gamemaster continues to march on! If you haven't, please check out the campaign, enjoy the free 36 page PDF preview, and, if you dig it, support the...
Arizona Primary Is Tomorrow Arizona has elections for governor/lieutentant governor (one ticket), attorney general, secretary of state, state treasurer, superintendent of public instruction, state mine inspector, and nine House seats...
As of noon today the UK will have had FIVE Prime Ministers in the last FOUR years. We just can't hang onto them any more. When I was 10, I'd lived through two Prime Ministers. When I was 20, I'd lived through four Prime Ministers. When I...
It was a beautiful summer evening on the day when I learned how to see inside. I had to go back into work, even though it was a Friday and already past 7PM. An alarm had tripped on the monitoring system for a rack of backup servers we...
If you’ve ever stood in front of the fridge wishing for just a little something to brighten up a salad, roasted veg, or even a simple piece of chicken, these Four Basic Vinaigrette Dressings are about to become your new kitchen heroes....
I swear I’ll have the post and photos soon. It’s kind of weird how busy I can get doing things I don’t particularly enjoy. In the meantime, here’s as preview, with two of the photos I took. Photo 1, the pond at Iona Beach, looking all...
A while back I decided to use a picker and go out and occasionally pick up the bits of litter around our condo complex. One of those “If you want something done, do it yourself” things that has become a primary philosophy of mine. I...
It's always a thrill to fit strings to a new guitar for the first time. This one will sit in its case for a week or so before I attend to final action and intonation adjustments. The search for its new home can then begin in...