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I was looking at the blue and white hat that I knit when I first got the Vcx/965i, and thought that the pattern would work well on a sweater. So I got out my sweater shape in Designaknit and started to apply the pattern. At first I had...
Trumpets From Oblivion is a historical action/adventure series by H. Bedford-Jones that appeared in Blue Book Magazine. This thirteen-part series ran from November 1938 to November 1939 and was cover-featured four times. The cover from...
Cal meditates on the act of downsizing in collecting. When we've found what we've been chasing, does the excitement remain? The post Learning to Let Go appeared first on Hipsters of the Coast.
We attended a game of the San Diego Padres vs San Francisco Giants at Petco Park in San Diego, California. Jenn’s game summary: The Padres beat the Giants 7-1, with an excellent start from Nick Pivetta, who limited the Giants’ offense....
Two unrelated things I’ve enjoyed recently that can be shoehorned in here via their relation to language and/or communication: 1) Ildikó Enyedi has been one of my favorite directors ever since I saw her weird, brilliant My 20th Century...
Mackie’s Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games often covers Nintendo-related topics, and this one is much more so than usual: a barrel-full of trivia related to Mario, his games, and his friends, enemies, rivals and hangers-on, spread out...
I join Guy Walker and Rob Heath for a look at twistedly comic mid-nineties British horror film that fell completely off the radar - and possibly with good reason - The Young Poisoner's Handbook.
I meet Rob for a drink. I’ve known him since university, when we both read the same books and watched the same films and mistook that for a life. He works for a housing charity now and attends council meetings, … Continue reading →
I heard about the above-titled book by science journalist Jesse Singal when it came out, actually before it came out, as the author had talked with me about some of the topics in the book and had run some passages … Continue reading →
On Tuesday evening, Rachel and I were discussing the extent to which members of a certain personality cult are responsible for their actions. As we talked, Rachel said that the root of our disagreement was probably in a disagreement...
Today's xkcd: Mouseover title: "They rounded down to 182.8 instead of rounding up to 182.9 because 182.9 might make the statement incorrect." The cited statement is clearly a violation of the Maxim of Quantity. But I don't think I've...
"Humans 40,000 y Ago Developed a System of Conventional Signs." Bentz, Christian et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123, no. 9 (February 23, 2026): e2520385123. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2520385123....