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It’s late July, early August, so it is time for the annual Light&Saber Listicle. To clarify language here is my article about the price brackets. The goal of this article is to recommend to you a knife and a light that This year...
Galway Kinnell (1927-2014), The Poems of François Villon. New Edition. Translated with an Introduction and Notes (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1977), pp. 36-37 (Le Testament, lines 159-160) with note on p 227: Valere pour...
In the summer of 1922, a photographer named Fred Daniels posed three young women on a rock jutting out of the sea and took a picture that ended up in fashion magazines around the world. The women weren't models. They were dance students,...
My latest post on the difficulties of young parenthood has loosened something in the back of my mind. In a few others’ too; thank you so much for your encouraging messages! These small replies might not seem like much to you, but they do...
Every World Cup starts with outrage and ends with 'best ever' — and this one, controversies and all, was no exception.
An intriguing story in a compelling sci-fi world with genre-mixing gameplay held back by outdated technical limitations. A hybrid side-scrolling space shooter and top-down action adventure brought to modern platforms twenty years after...
This is another album in the series of Kansai-area techno compilations I played on here before. This one's got a bit more diversity in styles than the last volume - Okano Freak's track is much more straightforwardly bright 80s pop, and I...
This post is dedicated to the lovely Loch. The Forest of Worms is popularly held to be depthless, and exploration from the ground has certainly born this out. Whence then, comes the so-called 'Iron Panoply', which was retrieved about 150...
You know how I said last time Part 1 was just the introduction? I lied. My emacs-settings.org file includes an introduction that covers what I already went over and more. I thought I’d skip it, but as I looked through the notes I left to...
The function expq(x) is defined by taking the power series for exp(x) and keeping only the terms whose index is a multiple of q. For example, exp2(x) keeps only the even-numbered terms in the exponential power series and so equals...
I finished my game for the GMTK 2026 game jam! Play Five to Nine. My not-engine, Dollhouse, ended up working great. I made some improvements to collision detection and animation management and camera movement and dialog UI, and—this is...
There are currently thousands of repositories on GitHub that are spreading viruses. Any of you can find these repositories, and you don’t need any special knowledge to do so. All you have to do is use the standard search function on the...
Kevin Hartnett posted the following Friday: My profile of @Jacob_Tsimerman, published the morning he won the Fields Medal, and hours before he announced he’s going to @OpenAI, reads like a requiem for a field. While I’m trying to not...
Good and evil. Two sides of a coin. It often fascinates me how a person can describe what is good and evil. I watched this show called Dexter, basically a serial killer who kills other serial killers. But how come that's good in the...
Part of running your own website is being able to do what you want on it. Within the confines of the law, of course. Back in the day you'd add something trivial to your site and make a formal announcement about it to your adoring fan...