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It’s the physical edition of something I got in digital form months ago: Take The Fall Signed by Tess Fowler Gutierrez This memoir comic tells the story of artist Tess Fowler Gutierrez’s life before, during, and after the breast cancer...
Runescape: Dragonwilds developer Jagex seems excited about breaking free from their MMO roots with this new survival crafting entry in the long-running franchise. To quote Creative Director Rick Turek in an interview with GamesBeat:...
A fun 19-minute video from commonLuke trying to write a short Fibonacci program in increasingly esoteric languages: Here are the languages: Python, Scratch, and assembly (as control), LOLCODE, a language resembling lolcat memes of yore,...
I dream about being the type of cook who wanders through a farmers market, gets inspired by whatever is in season, and runs home to make something simple and delicious without consulting a single recipe. The reality is that I am...
They've finished remediating my apartment. A small part of me still feels like it's a toxic environment, though, with lingering dust on the walls and in other nooks and crannies. If I open these bags up, will a pouf of cement dust come...
My greatest professional achievement is never having created a LinkedIn account.
A podcast I just listened to raised again the thorny issue of blogger’s guilt, and tried to make it seem like nothing, that you are answerable only to yourself, that you can blog at any cadence that suits you. Almost all bloggers,...
IG-11 — NEVARRO MARSHALL STAR WARS: THE BLACK SERIES (HASBRO) “The blasted fragments of the assassin droid hero undergo a complete rebuild and reprogramming, including the addition of marshal stripes that denote IG-11 as Nevarro’s new...
Blue Swallow Motel – Tucumcari, NM – Fujifilm X-T5 – Vivid Velvia I’m writing this article while on a big roadtrip. Specifically, I’m traveling Route 66, photographing the neon signs, abandoned gas stations, old hotels, and whatever else...
This series about the notable changes in CIDER 2.0 continues with the change you’ll bump into first, whatever your workflow: the transient menus, and the broader push to make CIDER’s functionality discoverable. The problem: CIDER is huge...
Tell me if I got this straight, Two group mountain bike rides where I got to hang out with my riding group and shoot the shit, two drumming sessions (circle and practice on djembes), a basketball game, drawing and one skateboarding...
This April Max Rudin gave a nice history of Library of America at the 2026 Whiting Awards ceremony. LitHub brought us the speech. As Mr Rudin, President and Publisher of LoA, puts it “What we now think of as American literature was more...
In their book Scarcity, Eldar Shafir and Sendhil Mullainathan suggest that scarcity often starts with abundance. Imagine you have a deadline next week. That’s plenty of time to do the task—abundance—so you figure you’ll do it later....
Around two weeks ago, we went to a nearby Chinese buffet for my birthday lunch. The restaurant had just changed owners, and was still working out some scheduling kinks with a new supplier. After the host seated us, he said:...
It's time once again to revisit Larry Hama and company's original 1982-1994 Marvel Comics series, G.I. Joe, A Real American Hero (via Image Comics' 2024 G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Compendium Vol. 1). Today we we'll be looking at...