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The enormous two-day event that was DinoCon 2026 – the second of our dinosaur-focused comic con-style meetings – is over, and wow. It went so well, the attendance being around twice that of our first event of last year. Caption: a...
Hong Kong is so rich in details and keeps many layers of information I’d like to unveil with time. Fascinating place. I didn’t plan to stay for many days. In my dreams I would like to spend months there, writing high above in a quiet...
These days, my primary "third place" is my local game store (LGS). For those unfamiliar, an LGS is a small independent retailer of physical gaming merchandise that can include board games, card games, tabletop games, and role-playing...
This is such a useful book. It makes the case that there's no such thing as "human error" - instead most catastrophes are caused by system issues, misaligned incentives, and unrealistic processes. You are not the custodian of an...
Amber is a band I know very little about. I found about them on an Instagram post by an account called diversesvenkst and got me curious. Then I notice the great David Chalé had posted one of their songs, “Yatzy”, on Youtube and well, it...
极简的原来基本就就是：眼不见为净! 13 minutes ago |
Breezy, cool, and very damp. A fledgling chipping sparrow at the woods’ edge chirps nearly non-stop, pausing only when the sun comes out for a few seconds.
Usually reserved for their Christmas slot, this summer, Sadler’s Wells eschews the classic musical for a touring revival of Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man based on the opera Carmen and the movie The Postman Always Rings Twice about lust,...
Birds on the canal, Bruges, Belgium.Blog Note: This post was originally written in 2022, but for some reason not posted at that time. I discovered it a few days ago while looking through my blog archives.1990 was our big year for touring...
If you are going to read one paper on economics this month, let it be this one.
More fun stuff from Matt Levine's newsletter. There are a couple of stories here, both interesting but only one important. The inconsequential one is a ingenious variant on the paradox of the heap. As Levine cleverly points out, under...
This detail from In The Mood For Love (2000) represents the essence of HK as I imagine it. The realty is slightly different but somehow it keeps the feeling.So many layers to learn about Hong Kong.
In 1981, the journal of the Northern Earth Mysteries Group (now known simply as “Northern Earth,”) published an article by Frank E. Earp where he described a fairly indescribable “close encounter” he and some friends had years before. It...
Tonight I left my apartment, walked down to the station, tapped my phone at the gates, went down some more stairs and stood in front of train car 4 door 3. I took the train to Nihonbashi, walked through the station, weaving through...
Today, Monday 3rd August 2026, being the first Monday in August, is a Bank Holiday in Ireland. This holiday was created by the Bank Holiday Act of 1871 when Ireland was under British rule. While the August Bank Holiday was subsequently...