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2000 AxySoft Platform: PC Abattoir in Cosmos was an unreleased shoot-em’-up game developed around 2000 by the Russian shareware game company AxySoft (known for creating the relatively popular 3D Qix/Xonix clone AirXonix). According to...
Phoenix rising by the sun in the Aberdeen BestiarySource: University of Notre DameIt has been intensely hot again this week and I was listening on the news this morning to reports of fires in the Midlands. It made me think of these lines...
Manage .env files across Git worktrees with Dottler, a local Rust CLI that imports, stores, and dumps project environment variables without a server.
Didn’t get up until nearly 10a.m. Did all the mowing and some weeding as well. Kitten seems to be settling down ok. Went to the pub at night. Quite warm but cloudy.
I've left it late getting to Beak, a brewery which shares its Sussex home town with the redoubtable Harvey's. But it looks like they complement each other well: Harvey's being staunchly traditional while Beak is colourful, playful and...
As the band celebrates the 20th anniversary of this album with a 30-day tour and the release of a remastered version, coupled with the roll we have going on here with related posts, it is high time we discussed one of the foundational...
August 14, 2026 It’s a good thing that our heroine bought cotton gauze clothes last month; it’s still screeching hot in Paris. At least her tiny short-term apartment rental has air conditioning…. But our heroine knows that she’s going to...
പ്രിയപ്പെട്ടൊരു കൂട്ടുകാരിയുണ്ട്, അവൾ വിഷമങ്ങളിൽ വീണ് പോകുമ്പോഴും സന്തോഷത്തിൽ മനസ്സ് നിറഞ്ഞ് നിൽക്കുമ്പോഴും ഒരു ഫോൺ വിളിയുടെ അങ്ങേത്തലയ്ക്കൽ നിന്ന് സമയഭേദമന്യേ എന്നെ മുട്ടി വിളിക്കാറുണ്ട്. ആൾക്കൂട്ടത്തിൽ അവളെ കേൾക്കാൻ ആളില്ലാതെ...
Case in point: an absurd article in the Wall Street Journal that compares Newton to the modern academic, claims autistic people cannot possibly behave in public, and asks if Newton would fit as he was in the 17th century into a 21st...
I keep forgetting to write a post. Instead what happens is I leave myself little bread-crumb trails of notes (“chitaru shiota exhibit; can’t relate”, “birdhouse craft”), like a woman fleeing a crime scene that she will later have to...
First off, a few notes about the site. Yes, I tinkered with the appearance a bit, bringing it a little more in line with What Had Come Before. The post titles are now all caps again, we’ve got serif fonts back, and most importantly, I’ve...
We seem to often arrive at Lik Be during Rack Toy Month, and while I tried to resist poking the Northern cow-pat of competitiveness this year, reader Keith Harrison mentioned he had all the missing clear-plastic 'Vitrine' LB robots, of...
I finished The Vivisectors by Missouri Williams yesterday, and it's the seventh book from this year's Booker longlist that I've read. *(As I mentioned in my review of May We Feed The King I'm transcribing these over from tiktok, so...
After observing a large weather balloon (launched from the top of Mt. Everest), I have determined that this would be a good day to share some RANDOS. First up is this nice photo, date-stamped "August, 1967", featuring the entrance to...
Really need to get my mind off the usual lunacy we are forced to live with on a daily basis, so how 'bout a nice lighthearted musical melody to soothe the nerves and bring in the weekend... So all you younger readers, aspiring musicians,...