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Another one in the long line of Korean toowoomba variants. This one looks a little different – it seems like this is definitely more pasta than an instant noodle. Let’s delve into the depths of this bowl. Surasang Toowoomba Pasta – South...
Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Husband/Wife, and Domestic Partner are all older terms for what is really a partner. A partner in life. I have a wonderful partner in life who I adore. Saying anything but partner seems weird as I look at us as...
You’re not a leader if you are a CEO of your own company and you have two contractors having a dispute and you tell your staff that you don’t want to hear about it even though you’re the only one who can resolve the issue. Leaders are...
How Animals Sleepby Jiří Dvořák, Marie ŠtumpfováGenres: Children's, Non-fiction Pages: 40 Rating: Synopsis: How do animals sleep? Curious young minds will be fascinated to discover the amazing variety of ways the animals featured in this...
This week for my Patreon supporters I am taking a look at a round robin novel, which was written by the California chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. The contributors were, William A. P. White (Anthony Boucher), Terry Adler,...
Following on from my 'unanswered questions' post, questions have been asked and answered. Founder Herman, and Robert Birming, both sent swift, charming and illuminating replies. The pith is: Of the six figure number of accounts, 'the...
The latest moral panic among the chattering classes and online intelligentsia is the so-called “end of reading.” Two weeks ago, The Atlantic proclaimed that we are entering a “post-literate age.” NPR similarly asked, “Are we living...
Lost in Cult is publishing a 400+ page book diving deep into video game UI by Edd Coates, the brain behind the excellent Game UI Database. It looks pretty darn slick and like the perfect compliment to Arcade Game Typography: The Art of...
I got pissed at Chrome the other day. This is not the first user-hostile thing Chrome did – off the top of my head, I remember the updater fiasco from some years ago, and the more recent auto-installation of a 4GB file – but as you’ll...
This sounds delicious! 😋
After the events of 1471, King Edward IV seemed more secure on his throne than any English monarch in several decades. A king in such a position can afford to be munificent. Now that the House of York had won out, Edward strove for...
Here is a truly fascinating item. It’s a leaf of papyrus from Oxyrhynchus. On it, someone has drawn out a table of the forms of the Greek verb γράφω (“I write”)! Here’s a splendid image of the verso: What is displayed here is the forms...
The Video Game History Foundation has released a massive collection of E3 materials. It's remarkable and just the thing folks like me growing up longed to one day see in person. Now with E3 defunct, this is the closest we will ever get...
Celebrating 15 years of Incidental Comics! Here's a page from 2012 about my creative process. My methods haven't changed much since then… pic.twitter.com/RVO1Xpd8Hv— Grant Snider (@grantdraws) March 7, 2026
It's 9:28am and 101° already. They say it could hit 115° by 4:00pm, that's 46.1° Celsius for non-Americans. Desert life