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Stephanie Vale is 5'5" tall.Not short, but not exactly physically imposing either. Yet when Stephanie walks into a room, everyone notices. More importantly, they relax. She has the sort of presence that fills the room beyond her 5 feet 5...
Sunday 2nd August 2026 After the South East, the South West, South Wales, East Anglia, the Midlands and the Potteries this year’s relentless journey northwards checking out all Britain’s 25 bus routes numbered 99 brings me to South...
Welcome to a Sunday ramble-a window into what making this stuff actually happen looks like when you’ve committed to a lot. I’ve got three or four DJ gigs this month. Instead of building separate playlists, I’m making one big six-hour...
A zine chronicling the Conquering the Barbarian Altanis D&D campaign. This issue details sessions 117, 118, and 119. Charmed by gold; charmed by lust; charmed by the witch. You can download the issue here. Overlord's Annals zine is...
It's like if Challengers (2024) was a 45 minute long made-for-HBO comedy.
Warning! The intended audience of this article is medical professionals and students. I am not your doctor. This article is not medical advice. This article has not been subject to formal peer review. The following graph shows mean and...
(Or: How I fell into the (mobile) keyboard rabbit hole.)
Check me out! I am full qualified to dock a Soyuz spacecraft to the ISS!OK, a few caveats. I docked it on a simulator provided by the British Interplanetary Society. I bounced off the first time, and the controls, and the level I was...
Miscellaneous bits of news and fun stuff from around the Internet......More good news from Kino Lorber Studio Classics: The Dark Side of Cinema XXVIII Blu-ray collection will be out in November! It will include the Dick Powell gem CRY...
This post is written in response to Chris Shaw's August 2026 IndieWeb Carnival prompt, Purpose.[1] What is purpose? Purpose is an interesting construct. It can be assigned externally, as a concrete statement of utility ("the purpose of a...
The Bram binary now embeds SQLite with its FTS5 fulltext indexer and search engine. When you run Bram in a local GitHub (or GitLab) repo, here is what it indexes: – the JSONL session files written by Claude Code and/or Codex – the...
ThoughtsI ran an open table Dungeon Crawl Classics campaign for a year to the day at my friendly local game store. We met nearly every Tuesday for 43 sessions in total. The campaign was a conscious effort on my part to blast through a...
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share and enjoy! Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot...
My watercolor painting.1One of my most valuable possessions is the pawn my father carved eleven years ago to replace the one we’d lost from our chess set. We'd fallen into the habit of playing at the hospital while we waited for his new...
Back when I added a factorial operator to my assembler, the code only applied it to numeric literals because the code that implemented it appeared in the same function as parsing a numeric literal. I only found the bug when I tried to...