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Hi all, You may have noticed my Counter Craft posts have slowed a little the last couple of months. That is because I’ve been furiously revising my forthcoming horror novel Haunted Hills. I’m going to write a little about revision today...
I asked MS Copilot: It returned a list of products. The first 7 were sensible choices, including my own table planning app, PerfectTablePlan. But there were a couple in the list that I didn’t recognise: I clicked through to the web page...
Even if I’ve reviewed a product before, I like to return to it every few years if the company keeps it in the lineup. It doesn’t have to be changed much, if at all, but I do want to see if anything is different as the product matures....
Roddy McDowall in Evil Under the Sun (1982) Vitals Roddy McDowall as Rex Brewster, flamboyant gossip columnist Adriatic Sea, Summer 1939 Film: Evil Under the Sun Release Date: March 5, 1982 Director: Guy Hamilton Costume Designer:...
I’ve written before about how I reset my digital life every so often. Most of those resets are housekeeping: old posts deleted, histories cleared, accounts closed and obsolete email/messages/etc cleared out. This time I’ve taken it a lot...
Taking a pause from our usual game as Josh was off on vacation, Lanse offered to run Beetle Knight, an RPG based kinda on the setting of the Hollow Knight video game (of which I know very little) but basically you play bug knights on...
One Sunday, I slid the six-foot-glass door of my casita to the right, and instead of closing, all 100+ pounds of glass fell toward me off the tracker, into my hands and almost on to my five-foot body. Luckily, I used to do CrossFit, so I...
In my last post, I talk about looking at Sun Rot through the lens of OD&D and how recently I've been looking more into miniature-based skirmish games. But don't worry, I am still exploring the fever-dream isles of Cuccagna and running my...
[fade to dream sequence] "We all know the importance of a water filter. It is an important part of every household." This cake is very ugly!Water Filters For Less "There are many brands of water filters. Many are good brands." This cake...
Welcome to part 110 of my Never Ending Mixtape where the latest additions take us from 5,012 songs to 5,074 with the addition of Here Come The Tears by The Coral (pictured below).Over 5,000 songs! The idea behind this playlist was simple...
Thinking about Bibles in the Holiness churches of my childhood this morning. Thompson Chain Reference was standard issue. Everyone who wanted to study the Bible had one of these. (Needless to say, Holiness churches were KJV-only.) The...
Windows Latest Microsoft is already putting effort into dumping legacy Win32 and WebView2 code across Windows 11 in favor of WinUI, and also admitted native apps still use more RAM than they should. I still like Windows and owe much of...
Casio AQ230 AnaDigi Watch. Photo by Unattributed. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Introduction There are things watch collectors are warned about when they start getting into watches. I made several mistakes. Some of them are common, there are...
The Filth, Sir, of some Parts of the Town, and the Inequality and Ruggedness of others, cannot but in the Eyes of Foreigners disgrace our Nation, and incline them to imagine us a People, not only without Delicacy, but without Government....
Drawing is a top activity. It's an unique human mind skill we should use and enjoy.