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A small string element appears on one investigation board in Metro Exodus (4A Games/Deep Silver, 2019).
child labourers, Pennsylvania, 1910, photo by Lewis Hine in the National Archives A couple of people have asked me, after I’d written several times about what I call the “Patriciate” and what many call the “Epstein Class” or simply the …...
With the 4th of July on the horizon, not everyone is feeling particularly patriotic. Author Meg Elison has been brushing up on her American history and all the unpleasantness that comes with it. Take off your ball caps, place them over...
Another painting tangent today, one that chronologically followed my Marvel Zombicide models in terms of when I painted and finished these two, and in a big way the painting connection is pretty obvious – while painting a bunch of...
As someone who sometimes struggles to put multiple colors together in a cohesive way, I’m fascinated by fabric collections. As I delve into quilting, I find fabric collections of 18-20 different prints somehow designed to all go...
In 2011, three physicists won the Nobel Prize for showing that the expansion of the universe speeds up, which is usually attributed to aa mysterious type of energy called “dark energy”. But last year, though, a different group published...
Okay, housekeeping, because telling people about my own stuff is the single thing I am worst at as a person who makes stuff. The Cryptid Cataloger has two halves. Half is the serial — that one’s for patrons, because a guy’s gotta eat....
The Agile Manifesto was written in 2001 in response to heavyweight, process-centric software development. It argued that communication and adaptability mattered more than rigid plans and documentation. However, Agile largely failed at...
The current mess and tragedy is that the tools we need most are often the first things that stressed, messy, #elitist systems defund, discredit, and dismantle. Why? Because these tools threaten the psychological certainty that people...
Printing Impressions has a piece pushing POD as an addition to a printer’s armory. They keep focussing on customization, which may become an important feature of book making I guess. Not sure however that I’d like to receive a book with...
Tim Cook told the Wall Street Journal that Apple will have to raise its prices due to the skyrocketing demand for RAM and storage. “Unfortunately, price increases are unavoidable,” he said. “We’re doing our best to mitigate the huge...