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The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – Battling the Enemy Within. Ash and friends are looking for the Pyramid tower, that’s in the middle of a lot of ruins, when they fall down a hole and find a statue of Pikachu. Ash...
Kashmir Hill, of the New York Times (gift link), learned about an A.I.-generated biography of her for sale on Amazon for $27. It is just one of many wholly-generated books available there: Amazon does not mind if people hawk...
On “Scrabo Electric”, The Vendetta Suite pays affectionate tribute to the music of his body-popping, backspinning youth. The track’s title is taken from the nickname for the electrical store where he and his friends, growing up in County...
I was thinking of doing laundry, but then think the air will make my clothes uninhabitable on the way back.
Would’ve made a good One Battle After Another double-feature. A wanted couple is staying on the move, low on resources and comrades. Their teenage daughter is starting to become a liability, acting impulsively and attracting attention....
Background I have been a sumo fan for more than 30 years. I attended the Las Vegas Koen in 2005 (where I met a young Hakuhō and Ama/Harumafuji wrestling in the lazy river of the Mandalay bay). I have participated in Konishiki’s Sumo and...
I've played ping pong for many years. A thing you notice with anyone that's self-taught is that they tend to hit the ball flat. It works. If you work with a coach, they'll tell you the right way to hit the ball back is to loop. It takes...
Perfume PosseWe’re back up! Sorry, folks — gremlins started a dumpster fire (that’s my technical explanation for why the site was down all day) and we had to spray Mitsouko on them until they gave up and went away. Go read Portia’s post!...
Photo by Nathália Rosa on UnsplashAI companies have built their entire product empire on the misconception that infinite choice is a Good Thing ™️They’ve convinced themselves that abundance is a gift - that we somehow want *more*...
Waiting for the doors to open for Semisonic with Humbird opening.
The art of conversation What French cafes are for. Quote of the Day ”Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it’s easier to get away with murder. James Carville Musical alternative to the morning’s...
The term Non Player Character is fairly self-explanatory. They are characters that aren’t normal players. They are operated by other forces such as a gamemaster or in the case of video games a pre-programmed script. The term has also...
North is up (aprox). 0.53 "/pixel. [24' x 23' field] FWHM = 3.75" A relatively unremarkable spiral galaxy... but hey, what's that in the background? Click to toggle annotations. (needs JS) Well, it's not actually in the background: the...
Power Cat: Strip 300 2026-07-16 Strip 300
I got a copy of the book free as part of Goodreads Giveaways. I’m a big history geek. Anyone who talks to me long enough has heard me make reference to history, whether relatively recent or in the distant past. So when this book came up...