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The Powers of Darkness from left: unidentified, Dave Moreno, Anthony Anchundo, Dave Perry and unidentified. Photo taken at Southland Mall in Hayward Eric Burdon of the Animals with Dave Moreno of Powers of Darkness The Powers of Darkness...
A batch of previously unseen videos from the Golden Age of coin-operated gaming for you this week. Lyle Raines was one of Atari Coin-Op’s most influential employees. He arrived at Atari with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical...
My roommate and I watched Converge’s What’s in my Bag, and both wanted to look up all their picks online. That reference doesn’t seem to exist, so I made one. To the highly specific demographic for which this is useful, you’re welcome. 🎵
Created by ChatGPT May 2026 In a prior post, I surveyed the rates at which consumers do not complete online age authentication processes, what I call the “balk” rate. There is no single canonical balk rate. It varies by destination...
I’m psyching myself up with writing by assuming everything should be polished. This is my personal, anonymous blog where I don’t want anything perfect. It’s almost like a diary. So no, I don’t need to be profound or have the best prose...
That's a topic, i've been playing with recently. The CH32V3xx and CH32V2xx RISC-V families have a internal bootloader than is able to flash software over USB or UART.No need for swindle, wch-link, ... (you'll need them to debug...
This is a slight precursor to launching my other blog page on fully researching and documenting the entire remaining parts of Western Command Stop Line No 28 / Teme stop line. Of the defences put in place in 1940-41 to prevent an assumed...
Enough games let you commit crimes, time to prevent them! Okay actually no, it is about catching the pettiest criminals of all: people with late rental fees. But it doesn’t matter. Get the thrill of catching people in the silliest...
The bumbling cop kept taking me out of any slowly building suspense. If you want me to be afraid of a zombie, then they need to actually zom-bite. There write some good bites, but they always lost their tooth when sloppily slashing at...
From The Traveler: One Man’s Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris, by Andrea Wulf (Knopf, 2026), Kindle pp. 201-202: The seas here are notoriously dangerous, with the warmer water and weather fronts of the...
In addition to the REM, of course, Montréal has an older mass transit system, the Metro. I love the logo (that down-pointing arrow is very clear that we're talking about an underground system, but also visually distinct and...
Dear IF Seal, Holds up a salmon and a trout. Which do you like better? Actually, you know what? You can have both! 🐟🐟 So I'm dealing with something weird and could use some advice. I posted about my IF WIP project early on in the dev...
Finally back home to mornings on the patio being sernaded by the cicadas. We saw a lot of the following during our road trip.
I do enjoy long train rides when I’m overseas. You get to see so much more of a country by train than you would when travelling by plane, observing details that you otherwise couldn’t. Even though you’re objectively hurtling along metal...
I've just installed the latest beta of Tinderbox so I wanted to see if the time issue I'd been seeing is still present. Not so, at least on this post. For the most part, Golden Gate has been pretty well behaved. Launches are faster, but...