This two-issue series, which was originally released as Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends and Flash/Green Lantern: Faster Friends, was collected in Flash by Mark Waid Vol. 6. That's where I pulled the image at the top of my post about the DC Plus specials, and, since I had already checked the collection out, I figured I would give the story a reread. The idea is definitely a fun one, a sort of team-up of two different team-ups, the original Flash Jay Garrick and the original Green Lantern…

I was going to add this to yesterday's (very brief) post but I think this deserves a post all its own. KLPS posted this a few minutes ago on Facebook:Yes, of course this is Bill. Of course it is.Bill was, as previously noted, arrested yesterday after police searched his home. He was taken into custody (Gwen was not - she's still a free woman). He's not on the docket for a bail hearing yet, but that isn't unusual; sometimes it takes all day for that to be updated, especially if someone is…

Another Chicago Magazine published three poems by Axel Pinpin in my translation: "How to Kill Boredom Inside a Cell," "Reality Show: Bus No. 914," and "In and Out."Read them here.

Planning with an agent through a chat interface usually ends in a document: phases, file lists, open questions, and a request for a yes. I skim it and say yes. What each of us meant only shows up later, in the diff. Now I ask for a few versions of the idea I can try. A prototype I can click through, a behavior I can change. Rough is fine. It only has to be real enough to react to. One reply, four versions of how a chat app follows it as it streams in. From Displaying long replies. Play it on…

Jasper Johns, Small Numbers in Color, 1959, 10 1/8 x 7 1/8 in., encaustic & collage on wood printing block, photographed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2021 for Mind/Mirror, collection:the artist, but it’s there in 2026, too. The incredible Small Numbers in Color, 1959, that Jasper Johns loaned to the Philadelphia Museum for the 2021 retrospective is [again?/still?] on view there. We saw it last weekend after the Duchamp show, and it was [again?/still?] fantastic. I have done nothing to…

A delayed flight put us back to Cincinnati’s airport (in Kentucky) well after midnight. Friends retrieved us and we stayed way late to catch up. Headed home the last leg this afternoon, Edie in tow, and started to unpack. The counter filled with souvenirs from along the way. Currently Listening: OMD “Souvenir”Reply via email

The recent Arcana Unleashed sourcebook added Evolving Magic Items to the DM's toolbox, but where does one begin adding them to a campaign? The post How to Incorporate Evolving Magic Items in Your Campaigns appeared first on Hipsters of the Coast.

Originally posted: Oct, 24, 2013. [Editor’s note: A version of the pulp-o-lantern patterns first appeared in a 2006 post — 20 years ago. This post ran in 2013. The last time we featured these was 10 years ago, in 2016. With Halloween approaching, I thought it might be time once again to encourage you to […]

all the slave wants is to be the master. cause he doesn’t know any other way today you are not a slave anymore. at least physically. but maybe mentally slave mentality entails basing your value on society caring too much what others think not believing what is in front of you thinking you have to do something wanting to keep others down be free you lovely human being. get rid of the shackles you’ve put on yourself h/t rex eloquens and wes cecil (youtube)

So what was our conclusion after trying the Noovo Plus?While it took a little getting used to, we found it comfortable to live in (other than when I knocked some skin off my head on the edge of the cab; we’ll definitely add some padding there in our van!).The Plus passed all the concerns we had: drivability, bed access, bathroom and kitchen usability, and electrical capacity.While the cab seats weren't the most comfortable, once we figured out how to adjust them, they weren't too bad. We really…

A baby is born. Well, more accurately hatched. It is a motherless creature, constructed by men through acts of violence against the culture that blessed them with life.Needles to say, this is no ordinary infant. It is Brainchild. Artificial biology. A chimera. A hybrid mind: man and machine.A patent is issued. A propriety genome – possessed by Brainchild but owned by Antiropos. Genetic makeup for dark skin, blue eyes, fiery red hair; intellectual property of an almost human beast.Remarkably,…

Celebrating Halloween with the local Kinder. Another day, another Halloween party. This time, I found myself at an elementary school. V works as a teaching assistant at both the school and the after-school center. The city recently built new facilities and she wanted to show me around. Since I went as a skeleton two days prior, I pulled out my bat costume. It used to fit like a dress but now it's more like a shirt. I decided to put makeup on at home and dress at the school, so I wouldn't draw…

In 2021, I reviewed A Time for Murder (2002/13) by John Glasby, a prolific fictioneer of the 1950s and '60s, who produced science-fiction, westerns, hospital romances, war stories and crime fiction – nearly 300 novels, novellas and short stories. Glasby made a comeback in the 2000s on the insistence of his literary agent and pulp historian, Philip Harbottle. A Time for Murder was the first new entry in Glasby's series about Johnny Merak, "an ex-con turned private eye," which appeared alongside…

This October marks the 40th anniversary of the publication of Dragon #114. All year long, I have been waxing nostalgic about my gaming experiences from 1986 and how they set the tone for the next 40 years of my gaming life. I have also spoken at great length about the witches who have shared those gaming experiences with me over the last four decades. So I would be remiss if I didn't mark this particular anniversary as something important.But the question is, after spending so much time with…

A few days ago I linked to a nearly 10 hour documentary of the Gold Box computer D&D game Pool of Radiance. Maybe it’s something in the air, maybe it’s people desperately trying not to think about elections, but now there’s someone on Youtube talking for five-and-a-half hours of strategy for Kirby Air Riders. It’s been some time since I obsessed in detail about KARs (my acronym for the sequel, it’s KAR with a plural y’see) here. I haven’t had the chance to play much of it, but I still like…

For this post in the current series on books, Daniel Elkind reviews Alastair Johnston’s Book the Trip. Daniel’s thoughts are accompanied by some of Alastair’s favourites from the 700 photos that straddle the globe and proliferate across the publication’s 236 pages. Their captions are taken from the book itself.The Vernacular Returns: on Alastair Johnston’s Book the TripBy Daniel ElkindThe work of publisher, photographer, designer, and all-around polymath Alastair Johnston has never been centred…

48 Cabbage Continuing with incremental changes to the blog, I adjusted the size and compressed all my blog post images. By doing this I was able to shrink my storage usage from 570 MB to 46 MB which is a big improvement. After transferring my photos to my computer, I use Mac Preview Tools > Adjust Size and I do 1200 px as the width. I believe in an email, Pagecord says the images are automatically resized to 1600 x 1200 when uploaded to the blog and the originals are kept in storage along with…

I’ve encountered this time and time again: designers want fully branded and styled dropdown menus in forms; developers haven’t been able to achieve it with the native <select> element, so they’ve built their own. That usually involves a bunch of <div>s, <span>s, lots of JavaScript, and a good deal of ARIA. It’s a lot of work. While it’s totally possible to build a fully accessible select menu without using the <select> element, there’s a big issue with this approach: the behaviour of the…

Bowser’s Fury masters the “multiple goals; same geometry” and “expressiveness through jank” themes from GameCube-era platforming adventure games that I consider some of my favorites: Super Mario Sunshine, Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, and Billy Hatcher. If these games mean anything to you, then do not miss Bowser’s Fury. The entire game is one cohesive, snackable, free-flowing experience with a complete break from Super Mario’s arcade and hardware-constrained past, removing mainstays like 1-UPs,…

Anthropic filed its S-1 this week to prepare for its IPO. They still have to fill a lot of the numbers including the share price. That still left a lot to be learned, including how the messaging to investors differs from their other rhetoric, and exactly how their corporate control is structured. Anthropic remains a frustrating company, doing a variety of things that often seem in tension with each other. Google is claiming to be fully back, with the announcement of a new model Gemini 4 Carbon…

I checked out the David Lynch: LA exhibit at Pace Gallery. For more of my photographs, follow my Instagram.About I My Book | Consulting I X I Instagram I Newsletter I Email

New to the ongoing blog series called STQK "Would you like to know more?" Disclaimer: Episodes 11-15 will be using an oracle system I am developing for solo players; you can see it in action here. Once I am happy with the way the oracle plays it will be available for the community. Hello there, We continue with the last episode in the Dragon Quest SPI System. (Content Warning: Violence, Death, Traumatic Events) Scene 11 Nestled between his books stood the town of Neon now protected by a magical…

I’ve built four spell-checking plugins in the last week. This is not an unhealthy interest in spelling. The cost of rolling tools out is the cost of tokens + my time supervising AI. So, before adding another language runtime, package manager, configuration file, and CI job to your project, consider spending an hour vibe coding the missing plugin. This blog used to run a Python spell checker that took more than three minutes. It’s a Jekyll blog, which is Ruby. Why was I maintaining a Python…

L & I drive to York Saturday morning, I-495 to I-95 to I-695 to I-93 across the Mason-Dixon Line to PA-124 east to PA-24, to pick up Spidey certainly, Nugget maybe, L's friend, the cat rescuer, is crazy about Nugget, if she wants him she gets him, and then we get to see which other rescue kitten chooses us, I want this scenario, please please please. You may not know this, but I don't broil and baste in anger 24-7, as much as I adore broiling and basting in my anger. Did you know there's a new…

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Last week, my partner and I performed a familiar ritual of modern co-parenting: I told him that I felt overburdened by mental labor, and we made a plan to adjust. The logistical work of managing our kids’ lives has recently ramped up steeply, and while we’d been sharing the hands-on work equally, a lot of the ramping up had fallen into the category of family managerial work that can get out of whack without anyone meaning to shirk or to let-shirk. The challenge, of course, is that managing and…

This article also exists as a video essay on my YouTube channel, The Inquisitive Bible Reader. Click here to view it. To the surprise of many Christians, the Old Testament does not teach an afterlife of heaven and hell. The dead are not segregated into realms of permanent bliss and eternal torment. Instead, the authors […]

You may not believe this, but philosophers sometimes work in ignorance of research programs, bodies of literature, methodologies, and findings outside of philosophy that could be relevant to their work. In a post at his blog, Ethan Landes (Eindhoven) shares how he recently discovered that the relatively young philosophical subfield of conceptual engineering, to which he contributes, appears to have reinvented a wheel produced 50 years ago by scholars in the field of sociolinguistics. Neat find.…

I’ve been morbidly curious about Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971) for ages, but it’s really

I’ve written about Kapeli Dash before: it’s a Mac program that lets you download sets of documentation to your computer. This week I discovered a killer use case: pair-programming. Recently I was pairing in a domain I didn’t know well. Before the session, I loaded Dash with every docset I thought I might need. So, for Python, think: Python, Django, and SaltStack, plus React and TailwindCSS for the frontend. When we needed docs, we could effortlessly explore these resources without Googling.…