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Some time ago, I fell out of the habit of doing old school Dungeons & Dragons posts on social media, but recently I’ve been trying to get back in the game! This is the latest compilation of threads; all of the compilations can be found...
Privacy and compliance theatre, with its endless acts and elaborate productions, is getting exhausting, to be honest. The latest performance comes courtesy of Amazon:“As customers shop with us more frequently, including on their phones,...
“These days, buying a charger requires you to be familiar with USB PD, PPS, GaN, and a handful of other acronyms, on top of having to check wattage, making it surprisingly difficult to figure out which specs actually matter. The good...
For as long as my children can remember, I have told them that they are students at Hurst University. It has no campus, no accreditation, and no admissions process. Joining the family is enough to get you enrolled. Graduation is another...
A poster created for the Donner Bike Camping Overnighter Last month's Pony Express Bike Camping Overnighter was so fun, I decided to do the August overnighter that California Travis convened, the Donner Bike Camping Overnighter. Here's...
I’m now reading my way through The Many Days: Selected Poems by Norman MacCaig (1910-1996) and enjoying greatly the directness, simplicity, and thoughtful depth of his poems. This morning I read this poem he wrote on a train from London...
Shoppers I Shoppers II
I'm still knee-deep in work on the revision of Thousand Suns and a couple of other writing projects, hence my continued neglect of the blog. Apologies! I will have more posts when the opportunity permits. However, I did want to break my...
A storm erupted in the western sky. The rafting People worried. Hand and Knife promised that they would be safe. The storm would not come to them. Upon the ocean the rafts drifted east. The Child God urged them forward. The ocean current...
Back in the 90s a notably pedantic coworker informed us ignorant peasants that, according to International Electrotechnical Commission standard IEC 80000-13:2008, disks and memory were now to be measured in “bi” units such as kibibyte...
My character, Raymond, is a member of the main cast but not the lead character. He is Tulalip native, and is the only human in the main group with the rest being non-native werewolves. The group as a whole is all fresh out of high...
Here’s some comics I’ve read over the past fortnight… Mostly French(ish) comics, eh? Didn’t really plan that. So as usual, a couple of issues of Spirou. I really like the Imbroglio météo series. It fun and fresh, but in a very classic...
It’s mid-August, and still hot summer in Palo Alto, but the nights are now cool (quilt time is upon me) and it’s cool when I get up (around 3 am), moving me to put on a thick flannel shirt and gelling the coconut oil I use to treat my...
Is this worth including beyond the street photography joke, do you think?August 16, 2025. Just a little over a year ago. Still surprised how little time I've been in Minnesota.
This post is an entry for the Indonesian TTRPG Blogwagon The Pocong is one of the most popular Indonesian ghosts or spirits besides Kuntilanak, the white lady ghost. Personally, it's not my favorite. That honor goes to the Kuyang, a...