Nelly's song, "Hot in Herre," is a song I know well. It was a hit single off his sophmore LP, "Nellyville," which came out way back in May of 2002. I bought the CD at my local FYE in West Virginia (where I was living at the time) and listened to the album so, so many times over the Summer. There were some other bangers such as, "Air Force Ones," "Pimp Juice," and undoubtedly, "Dilemma," with Kelly Rowland. That said, "Hot in Herre," was probably the biggest track off of, "Nellyville." It has…

On the northern shores of Massachusetts there’s a castle that looks straight out of a fairy tale. Despite being built in the 1920’s - 1930’s it was modeled after 15th centry French castles by its creator John Hays Hammond Jr., an inventor and pioneer in the study of remote control who held over four hundred patents.

My /dvd NFS server has this li’l screen (because I’m tired of always running around and fetching a screen every three years when I have to do some BIOS-ing)… But… I really should attach it to the machine somehow, because it keeps on falling down and sliding around. I could use double-sided tape to stick it to the disk cabinets on the bottom there, but that would make future maintenance difficult. The machine itself has all these grilles, which makes it difficult to attach the screen to the…

The Coolest Toho Kaiju by a Mile Last week I was giving the Pipeworks Godzilla remaster demo a spin and was greeted with this loading screen: Cold, dude. What the fuck. Buddy didn't skip it, he wasn't included!! They write this like he had a contract dispute or preexisting commitments!! I'd planned on making a shitpost about the screenshot but the moment passed and then, as if by magic, on Halloween I was trick-or-treating with my kids and we happened upon another kid who had a pretty rad and…

18:31 - Pizza again for dinner. Half tomato and half pumpkin sauce. Yum yum.

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The US Democrats and Republicans, together with other political activity around the world, probably takes up too much space in my head. In 1945, C.S. Lewis gave a talk on “Membership,” later published in his collection, The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses. Lewis is writing one of his Christian apologetics in this essay. However, when he writes in the second sentence that he is “thinking only of natural values,” that is his way of setting aside his primary topic of Christian faith and…

I saw this l0m3zz article, a doorstopper at 4,100 words: My macro thoughts on where we are ahead of the midterms and the fight that is likely to begin on Wednesday morning regardless of the outcome. https://t.co/IujL2HO8BN — Jonathan Keeperman (@L0m3z) November 1, 2026 The midterms themselves are irrelevant, IMHO. The House and Senate will remain gridlocked—the same as they have been since the late ’60s. Given the GOP’s history of squandering wins, even a favorable outcome won’t move the needle…

I rant about Daylight Saving Time in April this year already. All the points from that post are still valid. And there’s another one, surfaced in the latest Apple Watch update, when the watch may start showing the wrong time after the change. My wife experienced this bug herself, bad that I didn’t record the bug on video. Well, there is also some good news about time. Leap seconds are now obsolete. Unlike with DST, people were able to talk to each other and agreed on the plan. Probably, because…

The Talking Earth by Jean Craighead George, 1983. Billie Wind is a Native American girl from the Seminole tribe in Florida. When the story begins, Billie has been brought before the tribe’s elders because she doesn’t believe in the tribe’s legends about talking creatures, nature spirits, and other supernatural phenomena. It was her older sister Mary who reported her to the elders, and many of the elders are also her relatives, including her uncles. At first, Billie doesn’t take it seriously.…

I recently had a friend ask about a social situation I’d been struggling with (something that has been happening a lot lately, and occupying a lot of my brainpower). “I have a readied action there,” I replied. I could have said, “I have an if/then/else set up to free up a mental desk.” Or, “I have a conditional response that I’ve thought through with the most likely scenarios, and that’s helped me have it take up less space in my thinking so I can get on with my day.” This kind of linguistic…

Oh, okay! Clearly because something is ubiquitous, that means it's fine! Microplastics aren't going anywhere, guys, so stop complaining about all the health problems they're causing! Sweatshops aren't going anywhere, so why are you trying to ruin businesses just because they're built on slave labor? Climate change isn't going anywhere, so shut up and broil to death with the rest of us, you loser! If you needed any more proof that this shit rots brains, there you go.

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Several years ago I built a server to host a wiki based on the Federated Wiki app and I maintained it as my digital garden. The server was hosted on Digital Ocean and I made the the bad choice of choosing a 32-bit version of the operating system that meant I couldn’t update to the latest versions that required the 64-bit operating system. I intended to migrate but never found the time and yet had been paying a modest fee to keep that server online. Now that it has been several years since I…

🥉 Third place winner of An Ordinary Contest, Year II Marta did not notice the rock until Tuesday evening when she went to get the mail. She took the eleven steps to the mailbox and pulled out the week’s bills with an efficient motion that allowed the flap to close on its own. She turned back to her small farmhouse, crooked shutters drawn tight across the middle window. There, on top of her forsythia and wild roses, was an inexplicable boulder. It resembled the ordinary quartzite in her…

Spooky season might be over – I’m pulling the fake tombstones and zombie arms out of my lawn today – but it’s always a good time for a live Cure set, particularly when it’s an hour of BBC-shot multi-cam footage. This comes from the August 1984 stop at Barrowland in Glasgow, Scotland while touring The […] The post The Cure @ Barrowland, Glasgow – August 1984 appeared first on Space Echo.

It’s Day 2 of Noirvember 2026 and today’s topic for the Daily Dish is Favorite Supporting Femme. I’m going to go with Ruth Berent (Jeanne Crain), of Leave Her to Heaven (1945). This rare color noir centers on Ellen Berent (Gene Tierney), a sociopathic beauty with a deadly idea of love; she’s the kind of gal who lets nothing – not her baby’s life, that of her brother-in-law, or even her own – deter her obsession for her husband, Richard (Cornel Wilde). Ruth Berent. She may be sweet, but don’t…

The past few nights have been the sort that makes you fall in love with October just as its ending. While still warm during the day, the nights are crisper and littered with leaves falling slowly through the streets. Even here in the city, you can smell the occasional scent of woodsmoke emanating from somewhere on cold nights. While the world seems like a never-ending shit storm, one night walking back to the car from a play up here in the neighborhood at the Raven (some fun horror shorts) the…

The revised edition of “Make Fresh Milk Paint” is at the printer, and expected to ship at the end of November. It’s almost twice as long as the first edition, and features a new cover color so it’s easily distinguished from the first edition: a cheerful earthy orange (a fine color to mix from quark, lime and fancy dirt). So what contributed to those additional pages? Read on, as author Nick Kroll takes you through the changes. Nick here! Thank you all for taking a leap of faith and making your…

StarringTom Holland, Sadie Sink, Tramell Tillman, Zendaya, and Jacob BatalonDirectorDestin Daniel CrettonOverviewA brand new day starts now.Fighting crime full-time as Spider-Man in a world that doesn't remember him—and the pressure of seeing his old friends move on without him—sparks a change in Peter Parker he may not have the power to control. But that transformation might also be the only thing that can stop a shocking new threat to the city and those he loves - a powerful villain no one…

I've been thinking about what I want to peel out of my old Hellbenders rules and playtests, and this morning Marcia at Traverse Fantasy shared a lovely post that crystallized some feelings I have had about class-based games. Specifically, I've wanted a framework for building a class identity around some small countable number of axes that lends itself to more intuitive DIY play. In response I wanted to snap a baseline on those thoughts and take my Overloaded Blackjack Table into a dedicated…

From The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914, by Christopher Clark (Harper, 2013), pp. 214-217: ‘The situation [in Europe] is extraordinary,’ Colonel Edward House reported to American President Woodrow Wilson after a trip to Europe in May 1914. ‘It is militarism run stark mad.’ House’s views may have been shaped in part by a personal experience: he was a ‘political colonel’ of the American type. He had been appointed to that rank in the Texas militia in return for political services…

Up until last year you would have never seen me in a muscle stringer… but somehow that was a challenge. #gay #gym #muscle #flex

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This looks promising, but I’m not sure. The other one I’ve tried in this range was pretty good as I remember. What’s interesting is this is topokki with noodle and not termed rapokki – second time recently I’ve seen this kind of nomenclature from Nongshim. Well, let’s try it. Nongshim Holey Topokki With Noodle – Cream – South Korea Detail of the side panels (click to enlarge). Looks to be meat free but check for yourself. To prepare, add in everything and fill to line with room temp water.…

Black Ink 3, the next version of Red Sweater’s app for crossword connoisseurs, is coming soon for both iOS and Mac. A preview beta is now available with one of the most anticipated features: iCloud Sync. Now you can start solving a puzzle on your Mac in the morning, put a little time in during the day on your phone, and finish up on your iPad that evening. Everything syncs seamlessly through your existing Apple account. The beta also includes an innovative new “share solving” feature that is…

November Writing Month: Haiku Project⁠§There are only 58 days before the end of 2026, and before we reach December there’s November which is National #WritingMonth! Created by the talented Amin, it is a project that promotes writing (of all types). There’s a buddy system where you can see each other’s projects and goal progress. If you want to add me as your buddy, send a request from my Writing Month profile! I have decided on a low pressure project for November: A Haiku Habit, where my goal…

A boxed set of novels published by Eerdmans in 1981. Not something I own, unfortunately. A couple of years ago I decided to read in order all seven of Charles Williams’ supernatural thrillers: War in Heaven (1930), Many Dimensions (1930), The Place of the Lion (1931), The Greater Trumps (1932), Shadows of Ecstasy (1933), Descent into Hell (1937) and All Hallows’ Eve (1945). The plan foundered at the end of Shadows of Ecstasy when I felt in need of a break from Williams’ fiction but this week…

This post does not represent the opinions of any current, past or future employers. These are my words, mine only. You do not know me at work. Either way, I’m just a dragon, rawr rawr… So… A year and a half ago (July 2025), I wrote a sad toot. I was in the middle of a huge anxiety spike, at work, in the middle of the open-space I am working in, with colleagues around me. Overall, the day was already quite bad, and during a casual conversation, my team leader misgendered me by accident (despite…

Bushby has walked approximately 36,000 miles (58,000km), breaking the record for the longest unbroken foot journey and far exceeding the 25,000-mile circumference of the world. When he gets home he will be the first person to have walked continuously across the world, visiting 29 countries. Now that’s a way to spend a life. 28 years, from 1998 to 2026, from Chile to the North of England. “I took death seriously. You’re dying, you’ve got one life, and what are you going to do with it? That…