Some people know me as a guy who started a music blog back in 2001. Or from the other music blog I started in 2008. Or the heavy metal trivia thing I started on social media in 2011. So when people ask me what I’ve been listening to lately, well, ummm… it’s an awkward conversation, since I’m listening to so much electronic music. Dark ambient, drone, jungle, minimalist techno, and stuff like this (above).

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-98432 for the project Linux, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a use-after-kfree where retransmitting a crafted connection request while finishing the handshake of that same connection causes funny things to happen up to and including arbitrary code execution. This is due to the affected components being written in C, the only programming language where these…

Today I have no motivation to work at all. I have a long list of tasks which are rather important. I do not feel like doing any of it. I know that if I do not finish the tasks, I will regret. First, I go to toilet, I got myself a cup of tea, sit in front of the computer, start a forest river video and I start my work. I aim to work for five minutes. If I reach five minutes without distraction, it is a win. Then I repeat the 5 minutes clock again. Sometimes when you are having a bad day or lack…

I've just added a /domains page to my growing list of /slashpages. /domains is my proposed new /slashpage for people who, like me, have a problem with "collecting" domain names. Mine's semi-automatically generated: it periodically probes the APIs of three of the domain registrars I've most-frequently used and, in theory, if I register anything new it'll show up on that page all by itself (unless I pre-add it to a "blocklist" of domains not-to-show). There's a few others manually-added, usually…

Stop whatever you’re doing. Just stop. I need to tell you about one of the weirdest, wildest, and most interesting board games I’ve played all year. Scratch that. Ever. That’s right. Ever. This is Grinivil. It was designed, illustrated, and published by Rudy Priecinsky. It’s tempting to lob a jab in there — “I can tell!” hardy har — especially once you get a look at the scattershot rulebook, the potato-headed character portraits, the mishmashed card layouts, the box itself… okay, as soon as you…

i barely made it here and i keep my coat on because i am still exposed, well i would simply write "hopeless" one million times but that wouldn't be interesting, would it? it would take a long time, too. and yet every single fucking day other things said hopeless Yesterday :: Wednesday, 28th October 2026

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Nota bene: Here are the previous installments — parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 — in my multi-part series on Adam Smith’s day-to-day duties as a commissioner of the Board of Customs of Scotland. The next record in my sample of signed Adam Smith documents is Order #125, the longest and most complex Board of Customs order in my sample thus far. This order is dated 15 November 1784 and is signed by David Reid (top signature), Adam Smith (middle), and James Edgar (bottom). This order concerns a…

Another useless AI rant, me screaming into the void, feel free to ignore. When we see someone brandishing a knife, we tend to go "They have a weapon." Then they use it to cut a rope or open a letter. Or just cut some bread. Then we go "It's a tool." When we see someone holding a firearm, we immediately go "They have a weapon!" But then it turns out that it was a flaregun, which they fired in a forest to help the helicopter pilot to find the person in trouble. Then we go "It's a tool." Now…

Remember a couple weeks ago when I asked for Cleveland recommendations from y’all? Well, the time finally came to go to Cleveland with my dear friend Lily, and we had an absolute blast. I want to spend the next few posts regaling you with my exciting tales of Cleveland, but I figured it made the most sense to start with the place we stayed at. While some people feel like a hotel room is the most unimportant aspect of a trip since it’s just “where you sleep,” I find that I require a certain…

Friend of the blog, Mike Wolfer, has been making quality comics for decades. His classic, "Widow," series has been going through the process of being remastered and tweaked as, "Widow Unleashed." A number of issues that have been released were funded via Kickstarter, but due to recent concerns about how strict or lenient they might be with anything vaguely "Adult," in nature, the latest entry, "Widow Unleashed," #25, which is also the first part of the, "Progeny," arc, is being funded on Dooz.…

Slow Horses changed showrunners this season. And while I think this was capable television that accomplished exactly what it set out to do, I'm finding that the past three and a half seasons of the show — which is to say, starting with the climactic sequence of Slow Horses (Season 3) in all of its bang-bang shoot-'em-up glory — have drifted increasingly orthogonal to what I loved so much about the first season. I would argue that the show has two main themes: Institutions prioritize their own…

Another night at the local YMCA. Maybe I should rename this “Mostly a selfie a day” challenge 😆 Selfie a day for a year, day 57: Oct 28, 2026 edition.

Media GuideAaaaaand we are back! The last two months have been a bit hectic at Foofaraw HQ with a print edition of the September magazine, a new novelette, and our Best of 2025 anthology all rolling out at once plus many WIP things we can't wait to roll out. While we did miss talking about a couple things like War on HBO and the return of The Lowdown and South Park, plus movies like Digger (which seems like it's already been dropped by most theaters), and Wicker, overall it was a light month…

Though I attended two conventions recently, I only refereed events at one of them – CleriCon. At Gamehole Con, I was there solely as a participant, playing in several games run by others. Partly, I did this out of superstition. The first time I signed up to referee at GHC was back in 2019, when I was hit by a car the day before my flight was scheduled to head to Wisconsin. Though I was able to literally) walk away from the accident with only some superficial lacerations and a non-displaced…

— A book I love is Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life by Sofia Samatar. On page 56 of my very dogeared copy, she says, “I want the writers I love to be seen, not for the self but for the ecstasy, the writerly ecstasy, caught and passed on like an electric charge. — I’m questioning a lot of stuff right now. And frankly, a lot of it is stuff I have no power to change, no influence over. Libby, for example, the library app doesn’t disallow ai-sloppola, I learned recently. They announced…

Today’s recording starts with the end of Don’t Tell The Bride. There’s a trail for Lip Service. There’s 60 Seconds of news. The first of the trapped Chilean miners have been rescued. Plus a trail for Are You Fitter Than A Pensioner? Then we have a film. It’s Déjà Vu and I’m probably going to spoil it quite a bit. It’s a Tony Scott film, which you can tell from the opening sequence, which is a lot of busy, long-lens footage of a lot of Naval personnel getting on a car ferry in Louisiana for some…

All players begin as freshly decanted Noms with 1d3 HP. DIRECTIVES: ENTER TRASH STRATUM VIA EGRESS POINT NORTH OF OCTOTHORPE. MAP STRATUM LAOYOUT AND RETRIEVE OBJECTS OF SIGNIFICANCE FOR SORTITION AND OFFWORLD EXPORT. SPECIAL DISPENSATIONS: ITEM CLIENT ------------------------------------------------------------- GLASS BEADS CUMULAR ACADEMY MUSICAL NOTATION PLANETOIDAL PHILHARMONIC INFORMATION RE: GRAVITOR CORE HRÖNIR RECTIFICATION OFFICE RARE ISOTOPES THE ANOME HAZARDOUS MATERIALS SUCH AS GOLD…

Since May, I've been attending a weekly picket outside a local Chevron gas station.1 Chevron is a priority target for the Boycott Divest and Sanction movement because it is the main extractor of Israel's gas fields in the eastern Mediterranean and profits from an illegal pipeline running through the Gaza strip. For two hours each Saturday afternoon, we (anywhere from 4 to 12 people) occupy a specific world, that of the street (specifically the "stroad"). In daily life, it is a world experienced…

When Ali G discovers that his long-term girlfriend is 8 months pregnant, he ends his 20 year nap and heads to America to reclaim his former glory and earn some “cashmoney”. This turns out to be far from the formality he expected. Wicked! Wicked! The movie changed into a mockumentary and it tries to feel realistic, but also is over the top, which is pretty confusing. It’s a weird mix between The Office and Jackass, and it has some stronger and some weaker moments. It gets 2 popcorns though…

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours . Monument to Lady Elizabeth Nightingale, Westminster Abbey, c.1910 What could be more appropriate to the season of spooks and spirits than a virtual tour of the tombs of old London, courtesy of these glass slides once used by the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society for magic lantern shows at the Bishopsgate Institute? We can admire the aesthetic wonders of statuary and architecture in these magnificent designs, and receive an education in…

Iranian musician Ava Rasti’s latest long-player for 130701 is concerned with the concept of “home”. Written following a trip to Tehran, to visit friends and family, and then a period, when due to war, she couldn’t return, “No One Knows How Wild The Wind Blows” contains pieces inspired by themes / thoughts similar to some of those raised in Christopher Nolan’s recent reading of Homer’s “The Odyssey”. i.e. that once we leave, “home” no longer exists. Both person and place are changed irrevocably.…

When I run, I often cover the same ground. This was especially true years ago, when I was in school—it made tracking the distance easier. If I ran a new route, I had to drive it in a car to measure the mileage, so for the most part, I stuck to familiar routes. It was important to keep track, though. I recorded each run in a notebook. Each page had a grid for that day’s mileage, workouts, heart rate, and more. Each night, I’d go to my room and tally the mileage for the day and week. It was…

I've been wary of and interested in putting a CDN in front of my site. I had tools in place to block bots (and several countries), but they were fragmented and it was an ongoing rock fight. I had a Go job that banned IPs after too many 404s, a crawler denylist that mirrored my robots.txt, and an SQL-injection probe filter (regex). I also wanted the improved load times and other niceties that come with a CDN. The catch (and cause for my concern) is that I wanted my existing Redis caching, live…

Saturday, October 31, 2026 - 07:00 lhmpodcast.jpg Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 355 – The Sultan’s Vetala by Priya Sridhar - transcript (Originally aired 2026/10/31) I love it when we not only get a fiction episode at the end of October, but we have a story to schedule that partakes of the supernatural or a touch of horror. When I suggested to Priya that we might air this story on Halloween, she was delighted by the idea. Priya Sridhar is a 2016 MBA graduate and a published author.…

What have you recently finished reading? The last thing I finished was Clay McLeod Chapman’s Devil Inside, which I enjoyed reading and which I think I really liked! I say “I think” because there’s something a little grotesque about it as a love story; Lilith and Jordan are mutually obsessed in a horrifically selfish way. It’s horrifying and a romance all at once (and some of the horror is really horrifying!). What are you currently reading? Long, long ago I got an eARC of Cherie Priest’s The…

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At Seattle’s Japanese Garden, there’s a stand of (probably Mugo) pines that are somewhat of a size with the shore pine I’m attempting to train. I have on my calendar that this time of year is appropriate to make heavier cuts, so I was curious to try to figure out how they prune theirs. the main pine we looked at because it was closest to the trail so we could see better I was trying to understand where and when they cut — this year’s cuts are still bright — and how large the branches were when…

Working from home let me be there for my wife and son every day. I'm not ready to give that up. That's been my life for the last six years. The job title matters less to me than keeping it, and I'm happy to take on new kinds of work to protect it. Work-life balance is a bit of an acrobatic act, and it gets riskier as a contract nears its end. Mine ends in November. My priority is for my family to feel full and abundant, even in this chapter of our life. So I'm stretching out as far as I can:…