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So last time I told you mostly about what was supposed to happen in Fantastic Four #296, the triple-sized 25th anniversary issue of The World’s Greatest Comic. (And the time before that I just kept yappin’ about the Barry Windsor-Smith...
It's time for another selection of BUPIX! Photos from the personal collection of GDB friend Bu, from his days in the 80s, when he worked as a balloon vendor, and in Guest Relations, AND as a Tour Guide. He has kindly provided some fun...
During the pandemic, we completed one of our largest projects at work. To celebrate, since we couldn't meet in person, we all ordered food on DoorDash and played an online escape room game together. We were on a Zoom call, helping each...
I’ve always been fond of a good essay, and a search through the archives of the Ramblings would no doubt reveal a number of essay collections I’ve covered. Some of these would have been via indie publisher Michael Walmer’s...
The first time I reached for testing/synctest, I assumed it was a sleep helper with better manners. The public API is small enough to support that assumption: synctest.Test(t, func(t *testing.T) { ... }) synctest.Wait() synctest.Sleep(d)...
On August 12, 2026, a total solar eclipse will cross Greenland, Iceland and northern Spain. While eclipse chasers in Spain can enjoy totality, there is one potential problem. By the time the Moon's shadow reaches the Iberian Peninsula,...
The usual clear lines between reality and fiction blur almost instantly in Nanashi no Game (“The Nameless Game”). I play as, um, me. I look out at the world exclusively through my own eyes and I am the kind of person who not only owns a...
I have now been inside a second tunnel... a different tunnel from the tunnel I blogged about previously!! I super can't say where this one is. The facilitators who got me into this tunnel were very concerned that we not reveal its...
Not every Rapido Manning Wardle due to cross my bench this summer is having a cab conversion (!). This example started out as Forward and has just been renamed and detailed and weathered, demonstrating just how good the original model is...
I received an invitation to watch the latest Spiderman movie. I grow up watching loads of superheroes and sci-fi shows. I am definitely a fan of such genre. Obviously, I agreed to catch the movie. I received a message from another friend...
Today, we welcome the 47th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Nepal. Their National Cyber Security Centre now has access to monitor Nepalese government domains against the data in HIBP. This gives the NCSC the...
Norridge Mayhams and his Barbecue BoysVocal by Johnnie TunsillVocal blues with orchestra acc.Vocalion 034951937 Sloppy Drunk Woman Early Norridge Mayhams later better known as Norris Mayhams or Norris The Troubadour, rather...
Source In the 16th century, a violent storm uprooted an English oak tree to reveal a freak geological anomaly: the only large-scale deposit of solid graphite ever found on Earth. The deposit was located in Borrowdale, a valley in the...
I was at this gaahden paahty in England with a mission. Actually, of course, I went for free booze and sausage rolls but I found myself getting all Ancient Mariner "long grey beard and glittering eye, now wherefore stopp'st thou me" etc....
July kicked off with some relatively cool weather here in Tokyo, which feels absurd considering how hot Japan's summers usually get, but it was a welcome start to the month. By mid-July we had some pretty darn hot days, but the plus side...