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If you're a regular visitor of this blog or have somehow landed here of your own accord, there's a good chance you are already familiar with the Swiss artist Tobias Möckl (a.k.a. Wintherr) and his involvement in the prolific projects...
It's always a nice feeling when I remember I have a bunch of railway photos from last year that I still haven't shared yet. This week, I recalled a batch of photos I had taken in Sarnia and elsewhere that had not yet made it into a post....
I consider myself a fairly unremarkable person. This isn't a self-deprecation thing, I just mean in the wider scale of the internet I'm not very noticable. Things I post online don't tend to get much attention, and I'm fine with that....
There is a video by Gamers Nexus making the rounds that makes me really angry. It reports about LG’s latest practise to add blatant spyware to a monitor. Or to be precise to the *software* application associated with that monitor. The...
I did it. Dead last in my age group, but I did it. Go me.
TLDR: Get a fast, uncluttered forecast at wthrtxt.com, or get the same forecast in a terminal with curl https://wthrtxt.com. I wanted a weather site that showed me the useful parts of a forecast without all the usual weather-site...
A members-only exhibition at the Royal Geographic Society, Skin Maps: Semi-Permeable Cartography, features “collages and reworkings of historic maps” by artist Steph Morris. From Morris’s website: The new collages by Steph on display...
The first thing you will probably learn about Postgres, if you follow people who don't like Postgres, is that MVCC is bad. The 40-year-old design mistake. It's signatures are everywhere. Bloated tables that double in size, 32-bit...
We drove our coach 113 miles, about two hours of driving, from Cummins Coach Care in Coburg, Oregon towards our our home base, but turned around in Salem when the Check Engine and MIL lights came back on with the same error code. Here’s...
Link: US government targets Cop City protester over phone operating system, by Timothy Pratt in The GuardianThis is worth knowing about and is concerning — but not necessarily for the main reason that’s being reported.The Department of...
Earlier this year, the revised third edition of Bookery’s Guide to Pulps & Related Magazines by Tim Cottrill came out from Murania Press. The first edition came out in 2005, which was actually an update of The Ultimate Guide to the Pulps...
One of the central design ideas behind Advanced Witches & Warlocks is something that, in retrospect, seems obvious to me.The Witch is not a Magic-User in a black dress. She is also not a Cleric with better eyeliner.I have joked about...
The world is full of traps for the unwary. There’s a whole genre of movie, mockbusters, that exists purely to try to catch people who are only vaguely familiar with some media property, and they make enough money that by cutting their...
Carolina Chase On My Mind Somewhat unbelievably, On My Mind, is the product of an artist who is just 15-years-old. Hailing from Los Angeles, Carolina Chase began writing songs at the age of nine, before releasing her first collection of...
CW: this post entails an excruciatingly-detailed breakdown of the SCP wiki’s systematic and years-long mishandling of a high-profile sex abuse case. It entails harms perpetrated against real people, many of them children, and there is...