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Adorei esse mini documentário sobre uma das cenas mais engraçadas de Saturday Night Live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Kzy0Os9mo
In many old school games and AD&D, you hire retainers to help you in the dungeon, which can give a player lots of actions (see my last post). Does that mean tactics and consequences are more varied and fun in OSR retainer play than...
This update covers Sunday 07-19-26 through Saturday 07-25-26 (icon Glossary, if needed). LIFE 🈁 Prepping for a purge. 📕 L. had her first colonoscopy on Friday 07-24. I altered my schedule to support her preparation and the procedure. 📜 I...
Orginal post: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks The earliest entries in Ochtrup's church book date to 1667. Yesterday 359 years ago, the baptism of Berndt, son of Jo[h]an[n] Ißinghoff and Marg[aretha] Lambert is recorded. I would be baptized at...
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I miss writing on my little blog. Yesterday, I went and hung out in a charming cafe in Bowanville called The Toasted Walnut. I sat and did some drawings for my next one-page zine. I people-watched out the window, and half-listened to the...
TL;DR: Traceroute is fun tool to investigate how packets travel through the internet. Due to how it's made, we can make traceroute tools show (almost) arbitrary poems. This blog post gives you an idea how. Decades ago, only a bit after I...
I began attending Diane Zinna’s Grief Writing Sundays in the early stages of writing my memoir, An Obesity of Grief, and her portals, as well as the writing shared by others, helped me recognize grief’s impact in other areas of my life...
Album of the Week, July 26, 2026 We’ve heard several albums by the great Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, featuring the hallmarks of the qawwali tradition: accompanied by harmonium and tabla plus a chorus, extended introductions,...
Or How to Solve Writing By Removing the Word "Delve" SPECIMEN #020: Promptus optimus Classification: Productivity Guru / Workflow Evangelist / Reformed Mediocre Writer Habitat: Medium.com, LinkedIn carousel posts, YouTube thumbnails...
You've probably heard the story. Victorian doctors, worn out from manually masturbating female patients to relieve their "hysteria," invented the vibrator to save their poor tired wrists. It's a brilliant story. It's been in bestselling...
And look! He’s a mlem going! Truly, a quality cat photo. Have a great weekend, y’all. See you back here on Monday. — JS
Walking down to the water at Lapakahi recently, my wife and I found the trail blocked by this fallen tree. Luckily, we were able to work our way around it and carry on to our swim. After the swim, I saw the park maintenance man cutting...
A fun 16-minute video from PortalRunner with this premise: This is an image file, containing a picture of my cat. But if I rename it to .MP4, it becomes a video file – also of my cat. If rename to .PDF, it becomes a text document...
Just finished “The Phoenix Project” and the idea that stuck with me is Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints. Every system has one bottleneck, and any improvement made anywhere else is a mirage. Find your constraint, protect it, and stop...