I’ve released my SF Sapphic meet-cute as a standalone ebook. You can find it in my shop and on itch.io. (Attentive readers will remember it can also be downloaded for free in Hearth Stories.) I’ve begun the process of updating the ebooks: tweaking covers, interior formatting, front- and backmatter, and adding an imprint. (Lazy Afternoon Books is what I’m using for digital-only releases, which at this point are all un-ISBNed reprints.) This has nothing to do with the content—if you’ve bought the…

Dear Constant Reader, Recently I found two lengths of blue linen in my stash that I bought for some project, lost to the mists of time, but I suspect neither color was exactly right for what I wanted. I put it to my Advisory Committee ($5+ Patrons) to pick which color I should use first. They chose Moroccan Blue Next I selected six patterns that took 3 yards of fabric (that being all I had in that color) or less and let them vote on that. And the winner was I’ll be making either view A or B —…

I’m sitting at the local Starbucks. A number of men are huddled in the corner having some sort of church thing. There’s a lot of murmurs of “hell and damnation” and “inappropriate relationships”. Maybe they’re making plans for the fellowship hour on Sunday. Now I’m hearing chats about Facebook and its importance to the Bible. God help me. God help us all. As I was sitting here, I read blog entries from 10 and 20 years ago. Both were related to the elections of the moment, with the entry 10…

"I CAN'T WAIT until the election has happened and all this is done!" groused my local wine store owner when I stopped in today. "The ads, the signs, the arguments, it's all too much!" And I see where he's coming from.Yet at the same time, it's all so important.It's so important that Beatrix spent weeks researching how to vote — and sent the ballot back with us because she (wisely) does not trust the mail.It's so important that when or flight arrived home at 7:35am on Sunday and I realized our…

I've often wondered what it would be like to spend an extended period of time without the devices I use to distract and entertain myself. I'm talking at least two weeks without screens. No smartphones, tablets, laptop or desktop computers, televisions, video game devices, etc. How could I even make something like that happen? The problem is some of the same devices I use to distract me I also use to work, communicate, travel, manage finances, keep track of my health, and a host of other things.…

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by Art Scott & Bill Pronzini BRETT HALLIDAY – Nice Fillies Finish Last. Dell, paperback original, 1966. Reprinted several times. Around 1958, Davis Dresser cut back on his writing and the Halliday by-line was passed along to various ghosts. A number of mystery writers-including Dennis Lynds, Mike Avallone, and James Reasoner-have produced the Mike Shayne novelettes in Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. As to the novels, Ryerson Johnson did a couple of them, and Robert Terrall…

by Cláudio Alves The history of Laika is one of classic nepotism by way of Maecenas-like patronage to the arts. It’s the story of how Nike’s owner, Phil Knight, took the Will Vinton Studios from their namesake and presented it to his son, Travis, who was originally one of Vinton’s animators. Some see this as a coup, others as the way studios are always formed in good ol’ Tinsel Town. Not that Laika has its headquarters anywhere near Hollywood. Instead, they’re up in Oregon, in the Portland…

The city has just released their election results, and I am happy to say that not one of the people associated with Bill and Steve won anything. Please welcome your new Kawartha Lakes City Council:Drilling down into the actual election results provides some additional detail. For one thing, McDonald won by a landslide, which I did not see coming. Congratulations, Mayor McDonald!Ward 1 elected Brian Bartley as their councillor with only 32.6% of the vote. Reading over his website, I see some red…

In this post, I will do something that years of being online have taught me not to do: admit that I didn’t notice something. I’ll explain why this is extremely brave of me in the miscellaneous section at the end of the post, but for now I’ll just get straight to the point: Yeah, I somehow never put it together that there’s a very obvious Halloween thing happening in Super Mario World. I suspect I’m not the only one who knew of this thing and did not identify it as specifically Halloweenish,…

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Yeah, this is another one of those posts about Bubbles. But what the fuck, why not join the others in praising something that actually gives me a lot. Entertainment, curiosity, enlightenment, and strong doses of reality. All that, plus the break it gives me from the algorithms. I can read posts by real people, written for real people. Not curated. Not targeted. Just shit people want to say, whether it is a deep philosophical manifesto, somebody talking about a book they are reading, a strange…

Time for Meadow Gold – Tulsa, OK – Fujifilm X-E5 – AgfaChrome RSX II 200 Expired This new Fujifilm Recipe comes courtesy of Thomas Schwab, who has created or co-created a number of wonderful Recipes on this website, including several that are personal favorites of mine. It’s a real honor to publish another: AgfaChrome RSX II 200 Expired. Thank you for allowing me to share it on Fuji X Weekly! While this Recipe was a collaboration between the two of us, I only contributed a small amount, so I…

yesterday i deployed a broken /feed.xml you might see duplicate entries if you fetched my feed yesterday simple solution: mark them as read… depending on the feed reader, removing the feed and adding it again might also get rid of the duplicate entries i told naty that this happens to the best — i guess i was right about that…

Perfume PosseGoose Egg My darling Posse It’s HARVEST! here in the Midwest and I was going to say ‘I Got Nothin’… but I do have a few things. To wit: I have THE most inflamed sinuses – my upper sinuses and… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseGoose Egg

While getting ready to teach about religion in Late Imperial China, I thought that someone must have better pictures of the Taiwan City God temple than I do. Lo and behold Josh Ellis has a great post with lots of pictures and descriptions. This blog post has it all. Father and Mother official, temple as center of a community, Buddhism in Daoist temples, worship of mortals–In this case General Shi Lang (施琅), who helped drive the Zheng family out of Taiwan and 廖添丁 an anti-Japanese bandit of the…

A few years ago I had a Rosetta stone subscription for 3 months. I didn't like it, so I didn't renew.I missed that it auto-renewed on a 3 month cycle. I also failed to see the transaction against Apple Card, the scrolling through wallet transactions didn't work for me. I only found out when I had to change the Apple Card number and the renewal failed. I didn't have them on my subscription list. I bet I did not know about the auto-renewal, and 3m intervals combined with the Apple Card review…

So titled because I Married a Witch was already taken. Scholar-dropout-turned-copyist Shih Chun takes a gig to copy some holy sutras, heads to a quiet place in the country where he can focus, and that plan sure does backfire. First he gets wasted at the annoying neighbor’s house while her daughter Melody plays trance-drums, then he wakes up and Melody claims they slept together, so they get married. Now he has a new wife, an annoying mother-in-law and a contradictory host, and they’re all being…

New charter guests had nonstop requests and demands on Below Deck season 13 episode 3. How did Fraser, Moe, and the team respond?

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I have a lot to do today, so instead, I put together this Sopwith Salamander. It was based on the Snipe, and I foolishly thought, as ever, that since 'd already done a Snipe it would be no trouble at all. And as usual, there turned out to be a lot more work in it than I'd expected.The Salamander was a British WW1 armoured ground-attack specialist, intended to support the great assaults planned for 1919. However, though a large order was placed for them, only two ever made it to the front before…

This is a blog post that accompanies the most recent bonus pod! You can listen to the first 15 minutes of the bonus pod below, but you’ll have to subscribe on Patreon to get the RSS feed of the full episode (as well as access to our Discord). Do you guys ever have a movie that you didn’t like, only to come back around to it years later and think, “wow, this is actually great”? That was me with Hail, Caesar!. I distinctly remember watching it with Spencer when it came out and leaving the theater…

Is Hulu's The Mob the next Traitors? Or a tragic imitation with a thin game, tedious opening episodes, and a baffling underuse of host Parker Posey?

I don’t know if I could convince my husband to go on this type of camping (glamping) trip, but the ambiance of doing this sort of thing in the wintertime is very appealing to me. I discovered Go4x4’s YouTube channel a couple of days ago and I have been enjoying the serenity of his videos, especially his solo camping trips in his Jeep Wrangler 2-door. I find those videos very inspiring.

Nota bene: For reference, here are the previous installments — parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 — of my multi-part series on Adam Smith’s day-to-day duties as a commissioner of the Board of Customs of Scotland. The next letter signed by Adam Smith in his official capacity as a Commissioner of Customs is Letter #121. It is dated __ November 1784 (alas, the day on my copy of the letter is cut off) and is signed by Adam Smith (top signature), Basil Cochrane (middle), and James Edgar (bottom). In this…

OpenAI has announced a mathematically rigorous existence proof of certain interacting quantum field theories containing gauge fields and fermions in four dimensions, including Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and a unified completion of the Standard Model of particle physics… Our models produced a natural language proof for Yang–Mills existence on September 9th, 2026, and then subsequently produced a proof for QCD on September 18th, 2026. Given the length and complexity of the work, we postponed…

After having skipped almost half of the end of September, and a fair chunk of October, today’s only recording starts with the end of Dennis the Menace. There’s a trail for Bear Behaving Badly. A trail for Mission 2110. A trail for Merlin. Then it’s a repeat of What’s New Scooby-Doo? – Large Dragon at Large. Media Centre Description: Children’s animated series about a group of teenage sleuths and their cowardly dog. The gang attends a Renaissance Faire, where a dragon interrupts their fun.…

(It’s Halloween Week on Unsung, where we’re sharing scary, spooky, and creepy stories. This is a story of a second creepy bug I remember from my childhood.) The Monopoly Deluxe computer game from 1992 fascinated me for one reason that you will understand even if you know me only a little bit: despite not running on Windows, it had a really elegant rendition of a Windows-like user interface. The game came with a pull-down menu, two kinds of keyboard shortcuts, and fun sounds. There was a history…

Look at this wonderful web app Davey Barker made: It's called TitleArt. Give it a try, and make sure you hit the little play button at the end of the toolbar.

More than twenty years have passed since my father died at this time of year and thoughts of mortality always enter my mind as the nights begin to draw in, as I prepare to face the spiritual challenge of another long dark winter ahead. So Luke Clennell’s splendid DANCE OF DEATH engravings inspired by Hans Holbein suit my mordant sensibility at this season. First published in 1825 as the work of ‘Mr Bewick’, they have recently been identified for me as the work of Thomas Bewick’s apprentice Luke…

AI development has been fueling a lot of the demand for data centers in recent years. The second-order costs for their construction and operation are largely borne by the people in the respective local communities. Just as plantations diverted streams to maximize production while leaving communities dry, today’s tech giants divert energy, water, and public resources to feed their own system. If we build AI the way sugar captured water—extractive, consolidated, and dismissive of community…