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What have you recently finished reading? I think the last thing I actually finished was volume three of Liu Gou Hua’s After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine, which I loooved. The vibe reminds me of… well, for other danmei...
Developer: hoolisYear: 2026Genre: ArcadeSystem: DOS Just a few days ago the full version of a DOS game called Europa Panic came out. A demo version was previously released for a jam last year and I enjoyed that so I was happy to see this...
I read this book as part of the NYT Summer Reading Challenge, but it has languished in my Kindle since 2018. I purchased it as part of following The Tournament of Books, and I intended to start reading it but each time I did I...
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol that describes how agents can connect to external tools and data sources, and is now widely supported by the most popular coding agents (like GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and Codex) and...
Bonus Bird
Keychron builds good boards. They are imaginative in their choice of materials, and they are one of the few – maybe the only – gaming keyboard manufacturers that give equal support to Macs and PCs. The two boards I’m reviewing today are...
At the edge of a busy orchard lived many animals who worked together through the changing seasons. The squirrels gathered nuts. The rabbits cleared fallen leaves. The birds warned of storms. The badgers repaired the paths. Among them was...
A journey into Spain’s astonishing cave paintings, by Stephen Phelan (2026)
The Big OOPs, by Casey Muratori (2025)
Mentioned writer's block the other day in my little literary thoughts and I'm back for more. I said there's probably ten kinds for each eight billion of us and if anything I think that's probably an understatement. There are different...
Easily the worst show we've seen at the fringe. Garrett Millerick has trained an AI on his stand up. Can it replace him? Yes, but only in the sense that the AI is obnoxiously dull and Millerick is simply obnoxious. He insulted a kid who...
Dr. Robert Behnke, the late and eminent fisheries biologist who literally wrote the book on trout taxonomy, was a matter-of-fact kind of guy. In my early years as a newspaper journalist, Behnke was on my speed dial as I navigated the...
Last night I was up fairly late watching the Phillies find new ways to lose. Too many double plays. What the fuck did Kevin Long do with Arraez? Dude was hitting like crazy, and he gets here and immediately hits inconsistently at best,...
In recent weeks (probably months, if we’re being honest), I have felt stuck in a rut when it came to groceries. I had no ideas, and frankly no motivation, to get anything other than the basic essentials like milk, bread, and maybe eggs...