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Spider-Man: Brave New Day (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for action violence and occasional profanityAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 8.9.26After the chaotic...
On the one hand, there are plenty of HTML entities that can be used as icons on your blog. On the other hand, just try finding them! I wrote about this recently when I pointed out that there is indeed unicode for the magnifying glass...
AUDACIOUS BOOKCLUB HAPPENINGSOur August bookclub selection is The Simp by Roshan Sethi. We will be in conversation with Roshan on August 26th at 8 pm EST/5 pm PST. Registration is open. If you missed our conversation with Mary H.K. Choi,...
In November 1942, in a Berlin coffee shop, a Jewish woman living under a fake name sat down with a woman married to a soldier serving Hitler's army, a woman who reportedly liked to boast that she could smell a Jew. Two years later, the...
...Well? It ain't gonna fill itself! Howdy, Farmhands! Into The Oddish, written by Warren F. Smith of Prismatic Wasteland, is a heist-funded parody hack of Chris McDowell's "Into The Odd", using the chassis of the system to emulate (and...
Wowee, it has been such a hot and very dry summer here. There has been no proper rain for months now and we’ve just had a drought declared, despite having had a very wet winter. The countryside is currently looking completely parched and...
NEW RELEASE – CHRIS HAZELTON Oscillations and vibrations on repeat. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Chris Hazelton (organ), Brett Jackson (tenor saxophone, bariton saxophone), Peter Schlamb (vibraphone), John Kizilarmut...
This is an interesting tool to use on super-wordy or super-mixed-metaphorical LLM conversations: rewrite in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English I’ve set up a snippet/shortcut at work so when I type ;ste it gets expanded to ASD-STE100...
I wrote ryg_rans in 2014. I still regularly get questions and patch submissions from people who want to use it as a library. That is not what it’s for! ryg_rans is not a library, never was. It’s a toy implementation of an algorithm whose...
A reader recently sent me a message asking: "How are you able to publish blog posts and raw notes so fast? What's your setup like, and are you using some background automation or API?" It's a great question. When people see someone...
Hello Toronto!
I was saddened by the recent news that Joanna Pettet had died. In the Comfort TV era she was a frequent guest star on several quality shows and was always memorable regardless of her role. To me she was television’s equivalent to the...
Total Copenhagen vibes.
Finished reading: Firestarter by Stephen King 📚 I know a lot of Stephen King books are considered scary, but so many of them, including this one, make me sad. Compulsively readable as King always is.
It’s a bit annoying that the most amazing bike path, only 10min away is a little on the dangerous side to bike to in the city, but this is how we roll.