Ok last week was back to being pretty chill after the craziness of the week before lol. Our little pinball league started up two weeks ago but because of my concerts I missed both dates so this week I went twice to make up for it. I had some okay games but was definitely playing a little worse than usual (but had friends in both groups that week so that was a plus at least). I'm curious to see how our little pinball league is going to be this season. I wrote about this on here earlier but the…

I’ve started working on a game about being a frustrated and ineffectual manager of a goblin village. Most of the work is writing narrative snippet and then asking Claude to turn it into code. On the phone, usually on the way back from school drop off. Here is the opening the snippet. You live in the Weald. It’s an ancient forest. It’s dark, it’s dank, the soil is terrible, and there are probably monsters in the dark, or at least very large boars. There are other goblin villages out there.…

Below Deck season 13 episode 1 is here with Fraser, Captain Kerry, Rainbeau, and new crew like my new favorite Mo, the chef. But there are already hints about what may go wrong.

Perfume PosseBetwixt Posse! It’s Betwixt Time here, where the weather seesaws and swoops from blistering late-Summer type days (today is supposed to be 90F!!!) to mid 50s by midweek! The mornings are cool, as is to be expected, and the afternoons can… Continue Reading → Perfume PosseBetwixt

is not a simple app. It manages real-time audio on Windows, a domain where the operating system itself does not make things easy: shared vs exclusive WASAPI modes, driver boundaries, clock drift between devices, a callback thread that is not allowed to allocate memory or wait on anything. On top of…

Some years ago, I noticed a handsome, narrowly growing oak tree on 16th St. NW. The leaves and the acorns suggested that it might be an English oak, but the "columnar" shape was not at all that of the usual English oak. Last month I happened to see a new sapling planted, and saw from the tag on a limb that this was a "Regal Prince Oak". That is "a hybrid of Fastigiate English Oak and Swamp White Oak". It is handsome, it grows to a good height, and it will not grow limbs out into the traffic…

Angry man. User:Tomia, original image en:User:Polylerus. Public domain image via Wikimedia Commons. I’m late with my blurb this week, since I was traveling on the day I usually write it. And it’ll be brief and uselessly indignant, because of post-trip catch-up and exhaustion, yes, but also thanks to the very weird state of mind I’m still in about hoofing it to a football game after having just learned that this country’s administrators are going full Discipline and Punish/Stalin/Taliban and…

My wife and I finally saw Aaron Sorkin’s long-awaited sequel to The Social Network this past weekend. To minimize spoilers, here are my top-three takeaways: The Good: If The Social Reckoning is to be believed, Facebook played a pivotal role in the chain of events leading up to the violent insurrection in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021. (Or to be more precise, it was a series of changes that Facebook made to its secret algorithms that created the conditions that led to J-6.) The sequel…

The first recording today starts with the end of The Story of Tracy Beaker. There’s a promo for the Doctor Who online games. Then a bit of continuity with Chris and Dodge T. Dog. Then it’s What’s New Scooby-Doo? – Reef Grief. The gang are in Australia, because Scooby and Shaggy are seeded in the Sand Castle Building Competition. They meet another of the competitors, Frankie Martin. Also on the beach is a pop concert featuring Smash Mouth. Also there is Rama Yam, some kind of hippie. A large…

08-10-26 The forecast was great so I caught a couple of buses across town to Cammo. This is quite a palaver so I waited for a really strong forecast. Unfortunately the weather did not remotely match the forecast and instead of sunshine it was overcast and the day was largely a waste of time and energy. A jay turned up and almost saved the day. Had it not, I would not have bothered to blog this outing which was mostly just recording one greedy magpie eating all the bait I was putting out for…

My brother was visiting me this whole week, it was nice. We spent time chatting, hanging out, talking about nerdy stuff, and also went to eat a few of my favorite places, like Lovely’s 5050. Operation Smokey The cat who has been living outside is starting to get attention more and more people in the neighborhood, I think it’ll be very soon that we can catch him and house him with someone who will give him a safe place to live. De-cluttering In my effort to de-clutter, this week I dropped off…

Fantastic Twins is creative alias of French artist, Julienne Dessagne. Her debut release, “Obakodomo”, picked up by Optimo back in 2017, was the score for a contemporary dance piece. Since then Dessange has cut sides for the respected imprints Kompakt and Hippie Dance. Subsequently launching her own label, House Of Slessor, in 2025. In the past, she’s been a live guest of Andrew Weatherall at his Convenanza festival, and collaborated with folks such as Cosmo Vitelli, JD Twitch, Superpitcher,…

It was a chilly, rainy day today, but I’m good with that. We could be having a snow storm, as we’ve had in the past since moving here! Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian reader, and Happy Columbus Day to my readers from the US! My older daughter ended up doing all of the meal today, … Continue reading Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

Nine is a very small number but sure I’ll play along, and I no doubt will have a half dozen to switch in tomorrow.

The users of more than 300 Ledger cryptocurrency wallets have suffered an estimated $86 million to $93 million in losses after thieves drained assets across blockchains including bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tron. Ledger is a popular manufacturer of hardware wallets — a type of physical, offline device used to store cryptocurrency keys in an attempt to be more secure than storing keys on Internet-connected devices.Ledger has claimed that the targeted wallets appear to have been sold via CryptoBilis,…

The story is always better...over coffee.

I recently read Connla Stoke’s “Once upon a time in a Hanoi café” and thoroughly enjoyed it. It transported me to a different time (and a different pace). I’ve been walking more in Toronto recently, especially drawn to the strip-mall lands in the East end. On Friday, I ended up at Pho Metro at Warden and Lawrence where they made me a nice dark coffee with condensed milk. The next day I read Connla’s piece about Hanoi cafes. It got me thinking about my relationship with coffee, Vietnamese…

My Fujica with the wide-angle lens on Wells beach. Following our evening with The Hu, we woke early-ish in a Premier Inn off the A47. We grabbed some bad coffee and drove an hour to the coast, aiming to retrace the walk we enjoyed in spring 2023 along the beach at Wells-next-the-Sea and back via the edge of Holkham Nature Reserve. The forecast was for a cold, blustery, wet day, but it was hot, calm and mostly sunny. Lucky us. It’s a good time to be in Norfolk, with the autumn migration well…

LittleJS just got the biggest update since it launched! It is still the small, fast, dependency-free HTML5 game engine it always was. Now it also has a full 3D renderer sharing the canvas with your 2D game, built-in level editors, a library of ready-made particle effects, a much faster core, and new tools for making […]

Okay, a lot of business to attend to here: First, there’s been a small influx of A.I.-generated comments on the site, with links to A.I.-related companies. It’s particularly insidious, signing themselves in with real-sounding names and generating comments from stuff either I or other commenters have said. A couple just sounded like they were agreeing with me, but more often than not they were just slightly rewording what we’ve said. Ugh. Look, I think A.I. can have its uses (once they solve the…

Click here to book for The Gentle Author’s Tours In my opinion, Jim Howett is the best dressed man in Spitalfields. Here he is with a characteristically shy smile, sitting on a seventeen-twenties staircase in a houses in Fournier St he was restoring for the Spitalfields Trust. Jim was entirely at home in this shabby yet elegantly proportioned old house, a specifically localised environment that over time has become his natural habitat and is now the place you are most likely to find him. For…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 36:07 – There’s a Hippopotamus on the Roof Eating Cake. Also brewing a caffeinated beverage, the fact we can still run and program old things (I know, right?), visual novels, ScummVM, the PalmPilot, 35 mm photo slides from Hong Kong in the 1950s, Tame Impala’s Deadbeat album, Calliope Mori from Hololive’s Deadbeats, and using Navidrome to self-host our own music streaming site. Recorded Friday 9th October 2026. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for…

Saturday, Satoshi wanted to check out some things for an upcoming tourwe ended up near the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Offices and saw this line snaking four deep (when I took this photo the line had subsided quite a bit)I had asked one person standing in line what the line was for and got a very snarky/snippy answer..."can't you tell?!" um, no that is why I was asking...bruh!Anyway, it turned

Another week of October is gone, just like that. The coldness of the air is finally felt enough for me to wear a long-sleeved shirt every once in a while, I am yet to actually keep a jacket on for a whole day honestly! 🗓️ I made a plan! Detailing the videogames and books I want to complete by the end of October (plus one week of November). So far very good, a book finished, a game started. 📚 Updated the firmware of my XTEINK X4 to the latest version of CrossPoint 1.6.5. There have been plenty…

thinking for yourself is a terrible business model.

I participated in my first pixel art jam! It was a Game Boy themed one. It was a lot of fun to work with such a limited palette. The theme was Three, and I went with three player ships from SpaceDeck X. I was happy to see how well my sprites translate into the Game Boy's original colors. Once I finished drawing it, I had to animate it, so here is the animated version: I even toyed with the idea of making a small demo game for it (not a real Game Boy cartridge), but due to the time limit, I went…

I followed the news as it trickled out from this year's New York Comic-Con. Three things stuck out to me the most. Let's discuss...1. In terms of comics, DC looks like it keeps firing on all cylinders; Marvel appears to be struggling.Marvel generally is doing fine in the comic-book sales market. However, it doesn't feel that way. With the insane success of its Absolute line, a vibe that DC is letting creators be creative with cool mini-series/one-shots, and there is an air of excitement with…

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Ran into the farmer up the road again this morning. Chatted with her a bit about her cows, and thanked her for the gallon of cider she gave us a couple of weeks ago. She asked me if I wanted another one, and said of course. She said she thought this batch was better. She may be right... ✍️ Reply by email Originally posted at Nice Marmot 18:38 Monday, 12 October 2026

Look at this clock. It’s a clock. I bought it once because I needed… a clock. It’s $29, which is totally reasonable for… a clock. Then it was Daylight Saving Time one day, and I went to update it, but… it was already updated. That’s because: The Atomic Time Feature conveniently allows the clock to sync with the WWVB radio transmission from Fort Collins, CO, for accurate time updates. That’s amazing? It listens to a radio signal and adjusts itself to the correct time, even during major time…