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Comics Curmudgeon readers! Do you love this blog and yearn for a novel written by its creator? Well, good news: Josh Fruhlinger's The Enthusiast is that novel! It's even about newspaper comic strips, partly. Check it out! It’s here! The...
When woodworker and instructor Kelly Mehler died unexpectedly last year, he left behind a shop full of meticulously maintained woodworking machines that he used in his personal work after he closed his woodworking school. The Mehler...
Some tourists flagged me down outside the 4th and King Caltrain station to help with transit directions to Golden Gate Bridge. Their app had them walking up through the TL to catch a bus. I got them safely loaded onto a Muni to Powell to...
I’m not a professional developer, a computer scientist, or an IT expert. I’m just someone who writes code to tweak tools for my own needs and build scripts to improve my workflow. Because of that, I often barely know what I’m doing. My...
Based on the press around the release of Liquorice last year, I had a feeling that Hatchie was going to eschew the full North American touring she’d undertaken for her first two records but it’s still a little disappointing that besides...
Links 📖 Created a new tool for my own personal use today https://readings.concertman.uk. It's amazing how we can create new tools so easily now and at such a low cost.
I didn’t know what a near-infrared LED mask was a week ago, and now I am obsessed with this ad from Omnilux. Because there’s a lot going on. The aesthetic of the mask itself is wild: the lines look like sinews as if the woman has been...
Discrobble is now free to start, with a one-time $4.99 unlock for unlimited scrobbling. If you were already using the app before this change, you keep…
Volume five of Dinosaur Sanctuary gives us some more of the uneasy working relationship between Suma and Katase, which continues to be a bit rocky, and some background into the vet, Shiranui, […]
The Japanese Mega Drive ports of T&E SOFT’s New 3D Golf Simulation series are my favourite golf games, and recently I’ve been living inside their ROMs. As with all the craziest ideas, it began with a “I wonder if I could”… In the early...
Our Lady of the Artilects is like a cyber Da Vinci Code: religion, artificial intelligence, demonic possession and villainous plans that threaten the entire world. It's well written, with very intriguing ideas, but ultimately a little...
In which I painstakingly remove functionality from a Linux live image. Like a normal person.
Decolonizing the archive with Black speculative fiction: Insurrection, Black Speculation, and a New Archive in Nineteenth Century America. A Talk from 2021.