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Dear Constant Reader, Happy Friday! I hope you’re enjoying Juneteenth and reflecting on the day. This week’s tip is a thoughtful one: There is always more to learn. Even if you are an expert (or think you are an expert) in a subject,...
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This is mostly me rambling about how difficult it's been to get a job, with a little update on how I've been lately.
The 'June gap' and brood breaks; does the queen stop laying, or are the larvae cannibalised? Probably both, and more. Plus some brief comments on hayfever and honey, and determining when OSR/canola honey is ready for extraction (it's...
CORSAIR X-MEN (TOY BIZ) And here we are, at the end of the week. It’s been a hell of a week, but it’s over. Let’s just celebrate that simple fact. Last week, I didn’t have a post of the flashback variety, but it’s okay, because I’m...
DC has posted their full complement of solicitations for September 2026, and here’s everything relating to the Flash. It’s still a summer of the Super Family, so the Flashes are taking a bit of a breather, but there are two ongoing solo...
Although I’ve played way too many games for way too many hours over the way too many years I’ve been writing these histories, it’s safe to say that I haven’t spent more time with any one game than Heroes of Might and Magic II. Partly...
William Gore was the penname for Cora Josephine Gordon (1882-1944) and Godfrey Jervis Gordon (1879-1950), a husband and wife writing duo. They wrote two other mysteries, Death in the Wheelbarrow (1935) and Murder Most Artistic (1937)...
I recently finished reading The Orphan Master’s Son, a (Pulitzer-winning, apparently) novel set in 2000’s-era North Korea. In one plot point, Kim Jong Il has agents steal a Japanese telescope designed to measure the cosmic microwave...
For the last eight years or so, going back before the pandemic, Mexico’s economy has been growing at 1% per year or less, which is barely faster than the population of Mexico has been growing. It is a fact of arithmetic that an...