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I recently ventured out to Asakusa to visit Leaves Coffee Roasters. Along with Glitch and Koffee Mameya, these three shops seem to be the trifecta of Tokyo pour over coffee shops commonly recommended on the internet. I mentally prepared...
Came home to two new modules I’ve been looking forward to checking out, the AMYboard and the XLOC 2.
Spellcasting in Fire Tales is based primarily on ideas from the spell-building system of Ars Magica combined with the earthy, fairy tale, folk magic present in Beyond the Wall, and Wolves Upon the Coast. (It is also inspired heavily by...
Awesome: Ten year old boy from Santa Claus, Indiana, catches a huge catfish with his bare hands. Are you more surprised by a ten year old noodler with the active support of his mom or that we have a town named Santa Claus?
Before I get into how things went this morning, I wanted to share this… You can click through for a short video I managed to take while doing the evening feeding. Being in the isolation shelter means cat soup treat. Curtis had spent the...
It's been a week. They started doing balcony repairs in my building, which involves heavy drilling of all the concrete slabs. Before starting the process, they told us to close all our windows and to remove all AC's from the windows....
The first recording today is Pokemon: Battle Frontier – Weekend Warrior. The start is missing, so we find a man competing in a pokemon contest, and his wife and child didn’t know he would be there, and don’t approve of him doing this....
No Sarah Connor will not save us. We will choose AI as our net just and benevolent leader. Just you wait. It sounds like a terrible Terminator script - artificial intelligence and robots dominate the Earth and rule humans. Global...
There are 5 tracks here from Canadian Serena Pasion aka Peach. Music inspired by trips to, and incorporating field recordings from, the Philippines and Vietnam, plus a “Soak” in a Tokyo sento. The latter providing the EP with its title....
Heck of an opening sequence. This silly meta-action movie isn’t gonna top that, I thought, then the opening sequence is followed by an entire heck of a film, to the point that I started wondering if it won oscars. Nominated, but tough...
On the phone in France, he said: “It’s not worth it.” I was being so negative, too negative, and he stopped me in my tracks. The words coming out of my mouth didn’t sound like me, and I couldn’t help but wonder how I’d gotten to this...
I took a half day today and visited Rhonda’s third-grade class. Instead of guitar, we launched model rockets that the boys and I have flown before. I took these to one of the middle schools in Vineland back before COVID. Der Max I...
Since returning from South Dakota, our lives have been largely taken over by John’s June Centex baseball tournament. As his team’s manager, I have had to be at 3 practices per week, and manage 3-4 games per weekend all month long. Even...
Before Casa Amore, Love Island USA’s hottest couple were two guys! Is this finally queering up a hetero show, or just queerbaiting? And how can we tell? Plus: news you may have missed!
About three years ago, archaeologist Lee Berger and a number of colleagues published a group of papers claiming that Homo naledi, one of our cousins who lived in southern Africa around 300,000 thousand years go, intentionally buried...