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Dusty Game Society September game: Professor Layton and the Curious Village for Nintendo DS. Cozy for some. A puzzle-shaped stress test for me.The story keeps stopping for random puzzles. The one about the dog that got run over was where I checked out.TD's Professor Layton video.

I have been using GO Club for two things I already paid attention to: my steps and how much water I drink. Apple Health records steps, and I have used apps dedicated to either activity or hydration. GO Club stays on my iPhone Duo because it puts both habits in one place. Its widgets keep the numbers visible, and I can log water from my Apple Watch without opening my phone.That is a more convincing reason to keep an app than an attractive screenshot. GO Club has plenty of those, and Apple named…

This post expands on a talk I gave at the 5 Prime Sciences Symposium at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) in Montréal on October 20, 2026, titled “Managing an R&D portfolio through the critical value creation period (CVCP).” The slides and a companion guide with full references are available here and here. A PDF copy of this blog, which was created with the help of AI, can be found here. A paradox at the heart of drug R&D Biopharmaceutical R&D does not lack…

A calorie and macro tracker that logs a meal from one photo and adjusts your targets each week.

After a few years under Digital Ocean’s ownership CSS-Tricks has a new owner, Geoff Graham, and is an independent site once again.

Weekly cleaning and home improvement series, with some thoughts in between. Good afternoon, everyone. This is probably the latest I've ever started my cleaning day so far. We had breakfast around 11, and then I immediately went back to Witcher 3 to collect some Gwent cards. Now that my decks are more built out, I'm having more fun playing Gwent against NPCs and no longer rely on Daniel to help me. What I thought would be 5 minutes turned into an hour, and then I had my language exchange call.…

Our recent art trail trip into town was inspired by the announcement of a Banksy exhibition at The Minories gallery in Colchester. I believe this has been the most successful exhibition the gallery has ever held. The gallery is supported by also being a popular cafe. But with no sign of tea and cakes this time, they've had to charge an entrance fee for (I believe) the first time.We had to book in

You've probably spotted some strange signs here and which read ANCIENT LIGHTS such as this one in Newman Passage:I am befuddled as to why the two words are rendered in different letterform – ANCIENT (SANS) / LIGHTS (SERIF)But, what do signs like this signify? A friend suggested that perhaps this was an advertisement for old shop where oil lamps or candles could be purchased. I explained, no, signs like this signify that the owner of the building is aware of a 'right to light' law which prevent…

AND THEN THERE WERE TWO: Fair winds and following seas to Walter Koenig, Star Trek’s Pavel Chekov, passing at 90 from natural causes.

If you strike up a conversation with someone online and Blades in the Dark (or one of its Forged in the Dark successors) comes up, you can buckle in to hear all about their favorite heist. You'll never believe the flashback that they invoked to bust the job wide open and make out with more loot than they could carry. If you've never played the game, or you've only played one-shots, you might walk away from the conversation thinking "boy howdy, that sure does sound kind of loosey goosey. But…

Someone has been leaving arcade-style claw machines on street corners in the Mission lately, and I’ve been wondering where they came from. They’re all in pretty good condition, and some still have money in the coin box! A friend on Mastodon suggested it might be the work of a Claw Machine Fairy, which inspired my newest drawing. TBH, the drawing started with a long claw machine arm dangling down from the tiny wings from a fairy, but that was just a little too, uh, phallic. So the drawing…

Monday means Fantasy with Friends time! All the prompts are hosted at Pages Unbound, if you’d like to join in. This week’s prompt is about whether fantasy is about magical realism: Do you see magical realism as related to fantasy? Do you enjoy reading it? Why or why not? I think this question means to ask about “magical realism” as in the off-brand, non-Latin American stuff that gets used to spice up literary and contemporary fiction sometimes. As far as the “original”(?) stuff goes, I don’t…

We’ve made easy things sound like childish things. Why do shoes have laces? Velcro has existed forever, and children have Velcro shoes that are great, and then they grow up and suddenly we’re told that convenience is for children. Every piece of clothing that has buttons could be slip-on or zipped. Every single one. Buttons look great, and so do shoelaces when they’re not dangling around because they are so ridiculously inconvenient. Children wear helmets all the time. Then they grow up and not…

This Thursday I’m heading up to Michigan, home of Subterranean Press, to sign and personalize literally hundreds of copies of Monsters of Ohio that people have ordered through them. The folks at SubPress tell me that they still have some copies left that can be ordered, so if you want a signed/personalized copy of the book, and I’m not coming to your town on tour, this is the best way to get one. Especially if you live outside the US — SubPress ships internationally. But you have to hurry,…

I am haunted by the religious impulse. A quirk of evolution, a product of childhood indoctrination? Attempts at uncovering its roots have been stymied by my own idiocy. Decades of study, practice, and reflection, all for naught. To be clear, this isn’t a question of god(s), or even religions per se. My antitheism is up there with antinatalism as one of the few ‑isms on solid ground. The Abrahamic god is an amalgamation of Near Eastern myths and superstitions. The resultant religions are…

Each book in the serieshas a cover by Joe Wilson.(Image via Amazon)There are many reasons to recommend Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Tyrant Philosophers, the five-book fantasy saga whose conclusion The Grave of Perfection is set to hit bookshelves in February 2027.There’s a sprawling cast of memorable characters struggling against the oppression of inflexible ideology.There are interesting themes surrounding the alienation of labour, about what it means to be a moral being, and about the mutability of…

H. P. Lovecraft was a weird dude, but through his writing he influenced so many others. Probably a reflection of his own chronic inadequacy, racism and xenophobia, he became the master of what was dubbed "cosmic horror", a type of absolute dread that comes from knowing you are powerless against indifferent strange things that could smash you as easily as you do an ant. Imagine an almighty god, then imagine he actually doesn't care about or even remember you and, if he did, he would probably…

TL/DR; If you are using an older WiFi access point you may need to enable a setting called NAT boost, NAT acceleration, hardware NAT, or flow offload to see performance at the highest range of what the hardware vendor says it supports. It started with an email from Xfinity last Thursday saying it was time to upgrade our Xfinity TV equipment at no extra cost. I clicked through expecting a replacement for the cable set top box we have in the living room, but instead saw an offer to replace the…

It’s not often that physical locations seen in Mark Frost and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks go on the market. There have been a handful over the years, and each time I dream of owning them. The latest is the famed Bookhouse seen during the first two seasons of the groundbreaking television series. I’ve previously discussed the... The post Go Inside The Bookhouse Now For Sale in Fall City, Washington appeared first on TWIN PEAKS BLOG.

This post starts out seeming to have nothing to do with photography, but if you’re patient – or impatient with the scroll wheel at the ready – I promise it will eventually relate to camera work. I spend about six hours at day at a computer keyboard, editing images, writing, doing email, moderating forums, editing other people’s writing, computer programming, and long bull sessions with ChatGPT about the meaning of life (OK, you caught me: that last one is a lie). I am a touch typist, having…

Learn how to define a TypedDict that accepts extra items of a given type. A TypedDict is a type constructor that allows creating specialised types for dictionaries that have a fixed set of string keys: from typing import TypedDict class Movie(TypedDict): title: str year: int The snippet above creates a new type Movie that represents dictionaries with the key "title" and a string value, and the key "year" and an integer value: forrest_gump = {"title": "Forrest Gump", "year": 1994} In Python…

We always love having Sherry Wong visit the podcast. She told us about really weird and dark things happening in the Sex Cult that is parts of the AI industry in Silicon Valley. Apple Spotify YouTube

The Swedish investor Deqa Abukar is not only known for being a great entrepreneur. She's also known for her smile. When someone once pointed it out, she replied: "I love life, and I think one of the most beautiful things in life is not knowing what will happen tomorrow." Simple. True. No one knows what will happen tomorrow. Not accepting this is the root cause of a lot of unnecessary unhappiness. The fear of the unknown, the desire for control, the urge to be prepared for anything. We can make…

Links I’ve collected at Links and Notes recently. Fun Trailer Time Machine Watch random film trailers from a year of your choice! I have clicke through a few from the year I was born (1958) and the year I went to university 1976, 58 seems a better year so far. Great fun. I never got the wordle habit but I am finding these interesting: MapTap.gg – Daily Geography Game I have been playing this for a week or two every day. Birdle UK | Guess the Daily Bird a fun way to encourage more people to…

I saw this Alfa Romeo while walking Hazel downtown and told the owner how much I appreciated it. The color is a newer (Hyundai? Kia?) one not offered by Alfa, but it absolutely works for this vehicle. And this Oldsmobile was sitting in the parking lot at the Panera, all by itself, waiting for the sun to set.

Link: 'It's offensively cheap': How solar power is quietly becoming bigger than nuclear, by Jocelyn Timperley for the BBCThis is something we should all be excited about:“The world's solar power is crossing a threshold. A decade ago, it barely registered on a global scale, providing just 1% of the world's power. In 2026, it will almost certainly increase to 10% of power, and overtake nuclear, a mainstay of electricity since the late 1970s.”Solar energy is abundant, and the cheaper and more…

Observing autumn colors at Gruga. Back home we played more Switch Sports Resort today, even Ulya joined!

https://youtu.be/LOpFQYF5leA?si=0xVti5oIJOdNWRKU Two Cynthia Kurtz posts in a row! Participatory Narrative Inquiry has been a very powerful way to connect my own facilitation, evaluation/research and change work in my practice. We've done PNI projects that have lasted from a few days to five years. Narrative capture and sense making creates a grounded and co-owned process for planning, creating change, adjusting strategy or simply understanding a current state. It works with the capacities and…