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Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! Rex Morgan,...
I admit, I asked ChatGPT to help me with today’s TDC. I asked it to give me ideas for “two nonsensical but logical sets” to use for a Venn Diagram and then refined it to ask for one with “funny … Continue reading →
Advancing and retreating glaciers during Ice Ages crushed rock into dust. Meltwater pulses that occurred when climate cycles shifted to warm stages washed this dust into rivers. Then, when climate cycles shifted to arid stages and rivers...
I bought a Skådis pegboard from IKEA, and now I can have my modest collection of Aviationtags on display. It's actually only half of all the Aviationtags I have. I use the rest as luggage tags.
Writing acknowledgements is always gratifying if a bit bitter-sweet. For me, at least, it marks the end of a project and I get more joy from the doing than the having. Yesterday morning, I wrote the acknowledgements for my book on oil,...
13 May 2026 While we slept 3.88 million birds flew over Allegheny County last night! BirdCast’s Migration Dashboard as of 5:20am shows a huge jump in migration. Here’s the rest of BirdCast’s Migration Dashboard for Allegheny County, PA...
By The Crafty DMSelf PublishedOSRLevels 1-3 Arriving with little coin and no reputation, the player characters must earn their place through action, not titles. The town is wary, its people practical, and its problems real. Strange signs...
Coloured filters have a long history in black and white film photography. The best black and white photos render the delicate play of light and shadow - stripping back a...
It's a chilly Canberra evening at the senior citizen's club. Everyone's arranged in a grid, ready for an evening of line-dancing. Our instructor walks us through a dance step by step, in portions, then all at once to a beat — before we...
Once again, I feel the need to tell you all that Vellum is a great tool. It is also the best example of ‘do one thing well’ that I have seen in software aimed at non-technical people.
Hear me out. I think you'll agree.
This is not my lunch’s view after I swallow: It is, rather, a picture I took inside a steel tube post – an HSS section, to be pedantic – used as part of some newish dunnage on an old industrial building. I positioned my phone’s camera...