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I was going to post here about how our power was back on and so it’s time to stow the battery-powered lantern that was our chief source of light these last few days. However, a new system looks like it’s forming in the central Pacific...
We played the sixteenth session of our Dungeon Module B1: In Search of Unknown AD&D 2e game last night. You can read past play reports here.The roster for this session was as follows:Llombaerth, CG elf thief 4 (Adam)Mirkle, N human...
We recently read The MANIAC, by Benjamin Labatut in my AI Book Club. This was our first work of fiction, though much of the text is imagined biography, so not really traditional fiction. It reads more like a collection of short...
RR Auction has something amazing for sale at the moment: an Apple I built for the Byte Shop. The auction page has more details: Well-preserved and fully functional ‘Byte Shop’–style Apple-1 computer (also commonly known as the Apple I,...
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Last year I started getting sciatic pain. Here's how it's going. It's said that good things come with age, and I agree for the most part. But one thing that I've yet to get used to is the random aches and pains that seem to pop up. In my...
I feel empty. No blog post ideas, no add-ons begging to be made, nothing on the watchlist screaming for attention. Emptiness. But also fullness. Sometimes, nothing is all you need.
Been wanting to try this one every since I saw it was out – saw it at 99 Ranch Market but ultimately got it at Boo Han Market in Edmonds, Washington. Dig that crazy font! It certainly looks like Shin from the imagery, however must be...
News flash. In the Stanford Report (faculty and staff news, serving also as p.r. for the university) today (8/20), this headline: Oh, the font! The trickster font! I expected a subhead along the lines of: Distinguished Professor of...
Previously: 30 NES/Famicom Games I finished as a kid, my list of completed console games from around 2002 Intro This is yet another entry in my (years/decades-long) attempt to chronicle the entirety of my gaming history. I wrote the NES...
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I recently bought two smartphones (one as a backup for the other), the first ones I've owned with AI "on board." A few days ago, I decided to take a trip down memory lane and started reading Paul Graham's Hackers & Painters (2004). I now...
Creativity and output are more important than process. And that’s coming from someone whose entire living is based around the process of making things. I’ve noticed that in certain subsets of people both in my professional life and on...
When we think of the word גְּאֻלָּה geula - we typically think of a divine redemption or salvation, perhaps with a messianic bent. It could be spiritual or it could be physical, but God is the one doing the redeeming.However, the root...
Using my Moto Razr flip phone, I forgot that simply opening it automatically answers a phone call — cool! And closing/folding it hangs up with a nice snap. I'm still routinely delighted by how nicely it fits in my pocket. My son's Galaxy...