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This might sound funny, but the game that kept springing to mind while playing Gruntz, the tiny-as-it-gets wargame by Carter Scott, was none other than Kurt Vonnegut’s GHQ. Like that ancient (but now resuscitated) title, Gruntz is about...
What the enabledPlugins setting is, how its three states work, and why project scope can override your user scope
I’ve been working on my Emacs config for three weeks now, coming this weekend. It’s one of the deepest and most fun rabbit holes I’ve been exploring. As I stumble upon new ways to do things, I dig deeper, learn more, and keep tweaking my...
In the 1990's you saw a huge number of kids playing with Mighty Max and Polly Pocket (both owned by Mattel since 1998). Max was geared more towards boys with creepy monster playsets, and Polly towards girls with mansions, boutiques, and...
In 2024, I presented a paper on “Parametric Type Design” based on the technology behind the Nupuram font at the Grapholinguistics conference in Italy. The proceedings of the conference—edited by Yannis Haralambous—are now published as a...
Without spoilers, which should I watch, and which should I skip? Archive Colossal The Space Between Us Rim of the World Kin Spaceman (with Adam Sandler) Paradise Anon Extinction The Great Flood Office Invasion
This post is my entry for July’s IndieWeb Carnival being hosted by Joe Crawford. Joe prompts: I invite you to consider what masks and cosplay mean and how they interact with identity, for you. For effectively my entire life, I’ve been...
Novels The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (2025): This historical (with a modern frame) tackles genocide head-on. The bloody revenge portions don’t quite rise to the level of power fantasy, and the you-are-what-you-eat...
# I disappeared to the studio for about an hour-and-a-half last night. As is the way when I'm struggling,1 I started something new rather than returning to the couple of works in progress. I kept to the approach of only having a few...
Thanks to my friend Darlene for pointing me to this article! I’ve talked a lot about invisibility on this blog and have written papers on invisibility physics and even written a book on the history of invisibility physics, but still...
Click to book for The Gentle Author’s tours . Apart from memorable excursions outside London as an evacuee, Marie Iles lived her entire life within a quarter mile of Stepney and it suited her very well. Those wartime experiences taught...
I've been gradually working my way through unseen John Wayne films, with the latest being REUNION IN FRANCE (1942). It's an interesting and somewhat unusual film from Wayne's early '40s career years.He had broken through to stardom with...
One thing about having a large network of incredible people, is the potential to have them open doors for you. Now the hard part about having lots of options, is knowing which option or door you want to go through. The Hard Part I got...