CompleteTheHaiga is a haiku, senryu and tanka prompt project with images created by Josiah. All haiku by Cendrine Marrouat. Source

Displaced Gamers’s Behind the Code series is one of the best code explainers on Youtube, and here they describe, in 35 minutes worth of no-nonsense detail, how Mario in Super Mario Bros. moves, runs, skids and jumps. Super Mario Bros. basically created an entire genre of video games, but it probably wouldn’t have happened without its exacting attention to how Mario moves, which is a large portion of the gameplay. A few of the details: Mario’s position and velocity are stored in pages, pixels…

I love Roseanne. Roseanne Conner, that is. From the original run of ABC's Roseanne. Okay, from the first eight seasons max.I also love a good ol' sitcom Halloween special, and I think we'd all be lying if we said Roseanne's were not the Greatest of All Time. So, what else am I to do this October than watch and rank them all for your reading pleasure?I will be going through each of Roseanne's Halloween episodes and ranking them by Halloweeniness (rating out of five jack-o-lanterns). Oh, and I'm…

Discoverability Is Only Solved If You Can Be Discoveredby WiddershinsThis is a follow up to my post where Widdershins talks about how they agree with certain parts of my argument, but that the discoverability piece is flawed.Read post ➡ Saw this in my RSS feed and thought it was an interesting take that's worth sharing - also Widdershins' blog is excellent. I'd recommend adding it to your feed reader. I think the argument around other people controlling the gate to discoverability is a sound…

⚽ I actually can’t do this torture any more. Watching Manchester United is bad for my mental health. Loosing every bloody week is just getting mega boring at this stage. Bad luck is one thing, but this is just rubbish.

Last weekend, I released a quick update video on my YouTube channel talking about what all I’ve been up to both in and out of FFXIV.

For those new to CabbieBlog or readers who are slightly forgetful, on Saturdays I’m republishing posts, many going back over a decade. Some will still be very relevant while others have become dated over time. Just think of this post as your weekend paper supplement. Out-Eiffeling the Eiffel Tower (24.09.13) Riling the French has been a national sport since before Waterloo, but no one has taken it to the lengths that Sir Edward Watkin did 150 years ago in Wembley. In 1869 he proposed…

Good morning from Charlottesville, Virginia! ☕️ Well, well, well, it’s been a couple weeks since my last post, I think? Life is busy around the Fahrni household from early October through the end of the year. We love Halloween, host Thanksgiving, and Christmas, and have grandkids we love to hang out with. Our youngest daughter has been living with us for the last five years. She finally decided she’s had enough of Mom and Dad and moved back to California. Of course we miss her but she has her…

I ran up the Royal Mile this morning. No running allowed on the Castle Esplanade, even though that barrier looks like a finishing line. 😉

Other people (notably Wudugast and IRO) really get stuck into painting orks during Orktober, but not me! So is this year any different? Are those orks you can see in the picture below? No, they’re not! Look again! They are Victorian Science Fiction/steampunk Afghans in home-built suits of steam-powered armour, ready to fend off the attacks of either Martian or British invaders (whoever is deemed most fiendish)! They are 28mm/32mm 3D printed orks I bought from Highland Gaming Miniatures. I asked…

After I switched to Android last year, I tried a Samsung Galaxy Fold 7 for a few weeks. It was my first foldable, but I ended up returning it and spending the year with a Pixel 10 Pro XL instead. Three things bothered me about the Fold 7: The fingerprint sensor. Not because it’s bad or slow, but because of where the design forces Samsung to place it. On the tall Fold 7, that placement always felt wrong for my hands. Either too close or too far, making it harder to position a finger for an…

Originally Published in Pyramid Magazine – September 15th, 2000 In 1988 the anime feature film Makai Toshi Shinjuku was released in Japan. Based on a novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi (the Japanese SF/Horror author), Shinjuku told the story of Kyoya, a young student of the mystic combat art of Nempo. Ten years before the film begins, Kyoya’s father (a Nempo master himself) attempted to prevent Levih Rah (a Nempo master who had turned to evil) from summoning demonic powers to conquer the Earth. He died…

There’s a belief floating around the angling community that the fastest way for beginning and intermediate trout fishers to improve their skills is to sign up for a top quality class or attend a first-rate fly fishing school. I’ve thought about that assumption a fair amount over the years, and while schools make a ton of sense for some folks, they’re not necessarily the right approach for everyone. If you’ve been wondering whether you should invest the time and money to attend a fly fishing…

On Halloween, here at A Shroud of Thoughts, we only offer you treats and no tricks. As to the treats, they are vintage pinups. Without further ado, here are this year's "treats."First up is Jane Harker, who looks ready for a Halloween party./Next is Jeanne Crain, who is posing with a rather large pumpkin. And here's Dusty Anderson dressed up as a cat.And here Audrey Totter is doing some pumpkin carvingAnne Nagel standing atop a large pumpkin.And it wouldn't be Halloween without Ann Miller!Happy…

Houdini shows off his physique in 'The Secret of Terror Island' (1920).This year's Halloween silent film screening marathon concludes today with a special double feature of films starring Harry Houdini.'Haldene of the Secret Service' and 'The Secret of Terror Island' will be shown today, Saturday, Oct. 31 at 2 p.m. at the Town Hall Theatre in Wilton, N.H. Lots more info on the films is in the press release pasted in below. We're running these Houdini films not because they're scary—it's because…

Goodreads seems to have killed their RSS feeds, so that kills my auto posting that happens on my socials. Maybe some are you are happy to hear that 👀 let me know. But for me, I like that feature. I may switch to something else over this.

BB hurt his foot somehow yesterday and was limping a bunch. Hard to tell how bad it was so we went to urgent care, he got to see his skeleton on Halloween.

Week notes, week 1343-1344 / 2026-10-18 through 2026-10-25 Another double feature! I got carried away with writing last week, and never got around to finishing my weeknotes! wail But, important things first: I have achieved INBOX ZERO! This thing needs a better name; "inbox zero" is getting stale. A "no-task" list? Anyway... Took some dedication, but now both my personal inbox and my company email inbox are all empty! Also ended up cleaning up some stale tabs/tasks and similarly following up…

Four in the tent, six on standby in the Vseed. If none of the six are needed to replace one or more of the tent plants they will be transplanted to fabric bags and grown outside. This is the first time I've tried this dual grow; I've pretty well wired the tent grow in RDWC. This time of year a tent temp of mid-70s is pretty easy, and the water chiller has the DW nailed at 76F. Perfect conditions for Cannabis. The outdoor plants, who knows. This will be the first time I've tried outdoors this…

The king is dead, long live the king.

Watching United at Chelsea. Can't remember the last time I saw them play. Terrible start to the season, but they're playing well enough today. Even game, could go either way in the second half.

An annual tradition. Spyder passed on October 31, 2020.Since then, I just celebrated Halloween at home with Daniel, but last year I finally decided to celebrate the holiday with friends again. My friends had a lot of fun and wanted to host a Halloween party this year. I was apprehensive at first, because I was so accustomed to celebrating the day of Spyder's death our way: just family, with a "spooky" meal and my horror movie of the year. However, it has been six years, and I felt that as long…

Happy Nevada Day / Halloween! , I referenced “International Calligraphy Today”, book published for a 1980 exhibition. This rescue was inspired by Crous-Vidal. I wholeheartedly recommend that book for anyone interested in this art. There is endless, amazing work on Instagram but the platform is built distraction, not study. , This was inspired by Hans-Joachim Burgert. But I broke the script by tossing a small “o” instead of a full sized circle which gave that page a lovely texture between the…

A while back the rest of my family got hooked on some match-3 games, mostly Royal Match. The game is annoyingly addictive, and you might have limited attempts before the game makes you wait for a while – unless you pay, of course. So, I figured, why don’t I just vibe up a new match-3 game without all those dark patterns? How hard could it be? TLDR: Try my new game at PlayAeon.eu! Turns out, it’s both easy and difficult at the same time. My first issue was, what should the theme of the game be?…

I had two very nice walks through Ruse toward the end of August, and I want to combine talking about them in this photo blog post to remember these nice days. Even though it was AT LEAST 36 degrees Celsius (96.8 F) outside on both days, which was like, pretty much the height of the summer heat here. In the first picture above, you see a park that the walk started in on August 22. Then there’s this beautiful church – or better yet, the “All Saints” Orthodox Church”. After walking quite a lot…

After years of finding myself more on the "Metroid" side of the Metroidvania divide, Aria of Sorrow finally made me understand Castlevania. So much of that comes from the way it iterates on both the successes of Symphony of the Night and the failures of both Circle of the Moon and Harmony of Dissonance while also being fully aware of its limitations as a Game Boy Advance game. That understanding of its portability feeds into the fairly liberal placement of save and teleportation rooms which —…

Raymond “Bud” Overholzer created the Shrine of the Pines near Baldwin. A phantasmic furniture collection of pine! Bud was intrigued by misshapen pieces of pine so plentiful near his Michigan property he turned it into the epitome of rustic, eccentric furniture and nicknames. He worked on the collection from 1920 to 1950. It’s all joined by dowels! No nails.All early 20th century furniture should be so well balanced. One of the more intriguing facts is that he invented his own sandpaper out of…

#WCC NOVEMBER 2026 : threads DATES How much writing are you hoping to accomplish this month? Do you have a writerly "season"? When does it begin? When does it end? When did you last challenge yourself? Do you include a cast of characters at the beginning of a work? What do you get the most pleasure writing? What are you earnest about in terms of writing? How detailed are your plans before you write? How aware are you of yourself while writing? How does the writer you are now compare to the…

The elevated pedestrian walkway at Umekita Park spirals and winds its way across the park. うめきた公園の高架歩道は、らせんを描きながら公園内を曲がりくねって続いている。