I’m curious what you thought about the Halloween spell on Unsung! In case you enjoyed it, here are some follow ups I collected since publishing: A few people online suggested the distinctive and creepy “I can do it” Monopoly Deluxe sample is from a cartoon Ren & Stimpy, which premiered not long before the game. I found an example that’s very close, but not quite exactly like the one from the game. (It’s not creepy in the video!) Nik Clayton added some color to the YouTube red and blue squares…

Stoppani Glacier in 2015 and 2016 October Landsat images. The snowline is at 350 m in 2015 and at 700 m in 2026. Yellow arrows indicate a significant narrowing of the terminus tongue. Stoppani Glacier is a large valley glacierof the Cordillera Darwin Icefield on the Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego (54.8 S 69 W). The glacier terminates in an expanding proglacial lake at ~100 m, this lakes drains into the Rio Yendegaia and then into the Beagle Channel. The snowline altitude at the start of the…

Today I am sampling some medium-sized red apples, many oblate, with a blush that is deep and purplish in some places. ¶ Triumph's stem well is filled with russet that varies (from sample to sample) from green to brown, and there are many small light lenticel dots sprinkled throughout the blush.

screen shot from a Guardian video of anti-war protesters outside the DNC convention in Chicago in August 2024; the mainstream pro-war, pro-genocide Democrats wouldn’t even let them or their delegation in through the door Vincent Bevins has recently become something of a go-to person for information on why protests, especially by the ‘left’, almost always fail to achieve their objectives. Here’s a summary of a recent extensive interview he did with The Tea. His thesis, based on both having…

so i know i said i wouldnt talk about ai before but this is more an ai adjacent topic so its fine probablyanyways have you heard of "book of mario: thousands of doors" before?if you dont know (and you probably dont, its over 6 years old at this point)its a mod of paper mario ttyd but with all of the text shuffled through google translatenow this isnt the first time gt was used to make content (malinda kathrine reese and random typek come to mind here)it was different though, in that it was…

I could’ve written this post much earlier if not for the pressing need to upgrade OS on my main machine. It took time and it will take even more time to configure it to a more useable state; but I’ve made enough rants about software updates already so back to the original topic. I’ve finally reverse engineered CDV format. While the format itself is quite remarkable, the fact that I had to deal with CauseWay DOS extender packed executable is more important as it offers possibilities to explore…

Ich bin auch am Überlegen das Mastodon Profil aufs Blog umzuziehen. Allerdings(!) ist das Follow Feature halt noch recht neu und so wirklich glücklich bin ich damit auch noch nicht geworden. Das darf IMHO noch eine Weile köcheln. Bis dahin bleibt der “echte” Mastodon Account für den daily chit chat 🤓 Voll in die POSSE by Niklas Barning (niklasbarning.de) Manchmal möchte ich einfach einen Gedanken aufschreiben. Eine Beobachtung, eine Idee oder irgendetwas, das mir gerade durch den Kopf geht. Für…

@overholt It would be on the evening news. Sometimes they would resign just because something that was not their fault happened on their watch. I’m so old…

[The Cybertruck will wind up selling well short of 100,000 units across its entire lifetime.] In December of 2023, I stated that Tesla’s Cybertruck should not exist. For the past three years, it has indeed existed, in all its eye-rolling whatever-the-opposite-of-glory-is. Two years later, I made note of the Cybertruck’s paltry sales numbers, which have continued to fail to impress. After moving about 39,000 of their massively overpriced vehicles in 2024, the company sold just over 20,000 in…

@neil I, too, felt that the push to ban children from more types of sites was more about pushing age verification than protecting the kids. After all, I still remember being a kid. Banning stuff just made it more appealing. And, if we couldn’t get to the thing you highlighted, we would decamp to something less protected and more dangerous. Being old, I remember what happened when they banned a bunch of party drugs. More ravers wanted to try them out, and many users sought out the so-called…

Site Refresh Before 2026 Ends⁠§Last week, I finally started tackling an issue with how CSS is set up on my Hugo site. It’s been a long-standing issue that has bugged me ever since I learnt about how Hugo theme Git submodules worked, excessive theme CSS overrides (custom rules trying to override the theme’s main.css), and the mistakes I made while learning the basics of CSS (not being aware of the a11y practices). I couldn’t resist doing HTML Hugo template refactoring along the way too, so I put…

I did take a selfie yesterday and forgot to post it 🫣 Selfie a day for a year, day 63: Nov 8th, 2026 edition.

Recommended by Kate Bingaman-Burt: This is where I fell in love with the Faber Castell Artist Pitt Pen Family. I was a Super Fine Tip girly from 2008 until 2022, and then they introduced the FH tip, which stands for Fude Hard. It’s like a short, hard brush tip, and I love it. I use the SB (Soft Brush) for the outlines on my paintings and the Brush for fills and for type whenever I need to draw lettering that needs to be vectorized (it transitions to digital cleaner than the Super Fine). I…

Strings for Palestine: My Heart Keeps Walking Towards YouFreshly released this past Bandcamp Friday, Strings for Palestine brings together some of our best guitar pickers / slingers / players — from Danny Paul Grody to Golden Brown to Shane Parish to Myriam Gendron — for close to two hours of celestial vibrations. Great music, of course, but the cause is even greater. All proceeds are going to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF), a humanitarian organization dedicated to providing…

Ludwig II of Bavaria is best known as Mad King Ludwig.He inherited his crown at 18 after a childhood of privilege. He was not interested in the business of governing, which was still at least part of the job of European royals in 1864, instead occupying himself with art, architecture, mythology and fantasy. Otto von Bismarck, minister-president of Prussia, a man who was not a king, but was deeply interested in the business of conquest and governing, easily outmaneuvered Ludwig ultimately…

Y'all I am NOT feeling the oncoming Christmas season. I am even less feeling the already-here Christmas season I keep encountering in stores. MOAR DOPAMINE US consumer culture (possibly in other countries too but this is the one I've spent the most time in) runs on hijacking our dopamine. Our entire consumer culture is about manufacturing wants and then only-kinda-just-sort-of-enough fulfilling them to keep us coming back. Yet Christmas - and its related dead-of-winter holidays like Saturnalia,…

"Three of a Kind" is a team-up story arc staring three characters with a lot in common: Each was a very young man, each was a legacy hero who had replaced a Silver Ager and each was then a member of the Justice League (although one of them was only on the team for eight issues). They were, of course, The Flash Wally West, who replaced Barry Allen after he gave his life during 1985-1996's Crisis on Infinite Earths; Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, who Ganthet gave the last Green Lantern ring to after…

This blog has moved to https://blog.caseyhandmer.com/?moved. All the old posts are there, with interactive versions of many of the charts. The RSS feed is now https://blog.caseyhandmer.com/feed.xml. This site stays up for old links but won’t get new posts.

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Great video and effort by Leo Wilson (aka Leotheepic) creating 3D skate photos to print under lenticular boards. /via Jasper Tandy’s September Recap.

I've been a Mark Whitfield fan since the sock club days. He's always doing interesting, slightly off-centre things. The latest is this magnificent little book about ordering food by sketching. A very reasonable £10. Another perfect stocking filler.

We had two trips to Alaska planned for this year: an RV trip to visit 7 of the 8 National Parks... which didn't exactly go as planned. And a week on a cruise ship to catch the last National Park in Alaska, Glacier Bay, which one can only reach via boat.Although our RV trip didn't work out, we were able to do the cruise to Alaska. So that officially completes our visiting all 50 states.I'll do one post per day about this trip, starting with embarkation day.Here's the route of the cruise:We…

As a fan of occult detectives, I have been aware of Flaxman Low for some time, but have yet to read any of his stories. He is one of the earliest of the occult detectives, and some try to claim he is the first full-time occult detective versus someone who sometimes deals with this. But […]

With MagicCon Atlanta kicking off this week we take a look at the events and panels we're most excited to check out. The post What We’re Most Excited for at MagiCon Atlanta appeared first on Hipsters of the Coast.

I didn't plan this post today. In fact, I wasn't planning a post at all today. I have some projects I have to finish up, and posting will take a back seat for a bit.But today I wanted to talk a little about my "Carbon Vale" campaign. Though it is less of a campaign and more of a collection of ideas I have had for my Jackson, IL game that I later rejected.There is a Doctor Who episode from the Matt Smith-era, "The Almost People," that deals with these created doppelgängers, or just Gangers, who…

More information on the legacy of Stop N Swop. Stop N Swop was the stuff of schoolyard legend. Rare had figured out a way to transfer state between games with no memory card. The idea was, you could do something in a future game, Rare’s upon release only-planned sequel Banjo-Tooie, that could be recognized in Banjo-Kazooie. Deviously, you could see items in Banjo-Kazooie that you couldn’t collect, like an Ice Key visible behind a frozen wall of ice, that they promised you could eventually get…

writing with a pen (photo from Wikimedia Commons) 9 November 2026 Nineteen years ago today, 9 November 2007, I posted the first blog article of my blogging “career.” A “flamboyance” of 19 greater flamingos kicks off the celebration. 19 adult and juvenile greater flamingos, wading in Pallikaranai Marsh, Tamil Nadu, India (photo by Timothy A. Gonsalves, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) And there’s cake (not mine) which celebrated 19th years of Wikimedia Serbia in December 2024. 19th Birthday…

I’ve long-considered doing a “Real Setup Tour” sort of post, eschewing the impossibly clean, tidy, cable-less desks you tend to see in those for a more, er, realistic showing of the work setup I have here. However, once you shovel your way through the iPod parts, cables, and failed 3D printing prototypes I have on my desk, I don’t really have anything that interesting to show. I swept this dismantled iPod aside to start writing this post. Yes, I have a fancy keyboard, and a nice monitor on an…

All my recent thinking about the shapes of teams in the AI era has got me all up in my feelings about the shape of things over the 25 plus years I’ve been doing this. These were some of my favourites; The Webmaster era – just me, a copy of Notepad.exe, Filezilla and a ‘HTML for Dummies’ book. The Webmaster+ era where it was still just little old me…but with the addition of M$ Frontpage or Macromedia Dreamweaver. CMS days – the Wild West. Wrangling distributed publishing, trying to set and…

I have a problem1. I am a discovery writer2, meaning when I write I usually do so without a big plan or outline, so my first drafts are often huge messes. Plotlines go nowhere. Characters grow inexplicably. When I have ideas for something that will make it better, I don't go back to make the change, I will just continue writing as if the change has already been made. Structure signposts are nowhere near where they need to be. Pacing is all over the place. It's just a mess. This makes it really…