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My name (and don't we all have one?) is Livingston P. Lovechild. I ask you, dear reader, if you exist, what was I to do with my life, cursed with such an appellation? Let's face it, you hear a name like Livingston P. Lovechild, and the...
Hey Friends, I did it! I rode along with the Riverwest24. I managed to arrive right around 7pm on Friday and just followed all the bikes until I seemed to be at the back of the line, I think near Pierce & Clarke. Once all the people were...
We played the fifteenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as follows:Llombaerth, CG elf thief 4 (Adam)Mirkle, N human...
I’m slowly improving my pie dough crimping technique, one pie at a time, but galettes will always have a special place in my heart because I could pull one off even before I knew what I was doing as they’re supposed to be a little more...
Alright, alright, I'll stop using comic sans for my blog. It's kinda funny, when I started using comic sans, I didn't really think anything of it. I knew people didn't like it, but good lord I didn't expect such a visceral reaction to...
Players: Osric III of Kikstahta, Hero (EvilTables); Grappadora Hamaques, Swashbuckler (Jay_zer0); Buster Diamantis, Theurge (Mistuh); Xaldun of Portage Town, Swordsman (roguewithwhimsy) SummaryAt the end of last session, the party of...
In a response to my recent post on compiling AI books, Thad McIlroy sent a link to a paper on the topic, “Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books” by Tuhin Chakrabarty, Xinyue Liu, Jane C. Ginsburg, and Paramveer Dhillon....
BOUGHT: Now That We Draw Vol. 5 (Seven Seas Entertainment) The previous volume ended with a pretty big cliffhanger, with high schooler and aspiring manga artist Uehara Yuu overhearing the other two points of the series' emerging love...
Why Intensity Can Feel Like Connection For many people who grew up with childhood trauma, love can feel confusing. Not because we don’t know how to love. Many trauma survivors actually love deeply. We tend to notice the smallest changes...
… are moments. Moments when you’re stood amid a strand of really tall sunflowers, listening to bees quietly buzzing and going about their business and, as you tilt your face toward the sun, mimicking a sunflower, the warmth radiates...
Hello, loves! We need to get the boundary behavior right. This may mean I have to understand my code. Arrgh. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. If you are like me—and if you are, you have my sincere sympathy—and if you’ve done much graphics...
I am hopping on an airplane right now and I’m headed to the biggest pen show in the US! Come see me at the DC Supershow this weekend. I will be at the Dromgoole’s tables as their resident ink expert. I would be happy to help you find the...
A rant triggered by sticker shock in vintage stores. Yesterday I went on a bit of a trip across town to a famous local comic shop called The Beguiling. They are owned by the guys who founded the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and although...
Red chopsticks swirl into a ball of red string on the poster for Nothing Can’t Be Undone by a HotPot [Mei you yi dun huo guo jie jue bu liao de shi] (dir. Sheng Ding, 2023).
One answer to the Fermi Paradox is that advanced civilizations develop AI and lose interest in space travel. A researcher now argues that's backwards: AI, robots, and cheap probes make space exploration easier. Which means the paradox...