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I began replaying Skyrim again so here’s my Argonian, Chicken-mimic, with his beautiful, but perpetually afraid, husband Derkeethus!
I have a new Blu-ray review up at Classic Movie Hub!In this month's Western RoundUp column I've reviewed THE MAVERICK QUEEN (1956), starring Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, and Scott Brady.THE MAVERICK QUEEN has just been released on...
"Many a mickle of Scottish stones make a muckle of a wall." Robert Burns.Some time in the 18th Century.Near to Gatehouse of Fleet.Or Fleethouse of Gate.--:--
Having recently returned to the land of comics, here are a 2 titles that felt satisfying — like a cool drink of water on a sweltering July afternoon in Singapore: D'Orc, Image Comics — what happens when a half-dwarf, half-orc...
A computer science professor Paul Cantrell, on Mastodon: Creative work keeps taking roughly the same amount of human labor / attention / care, even as new technologies accelerate or remove things that used to take time. This is because...
There was once a kingdom deep in the forest called Oakridge, where animals of all kinds worked together to gather food, build shelters, and prepare for the long winters. At the center of Oakridge stood the Great Tree, where the Council...
On Tuesday, I happened to look at the University of Toronto's Representative Poetry Online (RPO) site. I did not find what I was looking for (something short and pithy for ESL students to recite). I did see, though, that the Random Poem...
Book Review: Python for Algorithmic Trading Cookbook Amazon Packt Code on GitHub I was offered to read Python for Algorithmic Trading Cookbook by Jason Strimpel in exchange for an honest review. This book is a cookbook of 68 recipes that...
For years I manually copied my Letterboxd reviews into Obsidian like a primitive. Then I realized that automating tasks has never been easier, so I made a skill and turned this process into one click. -- Read More
Part of the ongoing Big Tech's War on Users series. This week, within days of each other, Google and Meta both shipped facial recognition as the answer to trust online. Turns out you don't need a bar stool and a theme song for everybody...
What's on the tabloid news racks at your local grocery store in August of 1985? Jackson, IL is not ready for this! This is gold for my Jackson, IL NIGHT SHIFT Night World and Weirdly World News introduced in the Night Companion. Article...
I’m going to write in much more detail about this over August recess, but in my view people are overthinking the political dynamics of Congress right now. It boils down to five things: Narrow majorities in both chambers, but particularly...
Yesterday Paul Soulellis posted “I feel so free,” the opening track of Madonna’s Confessions, time-stretched 800%, and now he’s posted the whole album. It runs 8.5 hours. I’m less than an hour into it, and Stretched Confessions is...
[This is one of the finalists in the 2026 book review contest, written by an ACX reader who will remain anonymous until after voting is done. I’ll be posting about one of these a week for several months. When you’ve read them all, I’ll...
Hjørring from above.