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Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***A new month is with us and the nights are drawing in.But Marvel's artists are also drawing in.They're drawing in comics.And these are those.Now the Avengers are in trouble - because it's the mind-melting debut of Chicken Man, or whatever it is he's called!And, thanks to him, we encounter a tale of Voodoo that restores Wonder Man to both life and the pages of the Avengers and leads to all…

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On Sunday morning, the first in October, shall we be industrious and fruitful? No, I don't think so, definitely not. Feel more like this guy right now!This Sunday, we're watching 1950's commercials, starting with our favorite radio comedians, Bob & Ray, as Bert and Harry Piel.Can't wait to celebrate National Jell-o Week!Especiallly like animated cigarette commercials. Relax - it's light up time!Instead of the dance of the hours today, it's the dance of the marching cigarettes.

My Top 10 Fountain Pen GRIPES! (via Doodlebud). A bad cap seal tops my list as well, especially when it causes the ink to evaporate altogether. This can also be a problem with ink bottles.Interview with Scrively: What Makes a Good Notebook? (via Scrively). 100% it can’t just be about the notebook. Pen and ink play a huge role as well. Profolio Oasis Notebook Review (via Pen Addict - Sarah). I love multilined/hybrid dot-grid rulings, which is why we decided to bring the Profolio notebooks back…

A few years ago, I suggested why focusing directly on “quality” wasn’t as productive as it sounded: In many cases, and definitely my own experience, “quality” is an abstract word that smart people use to procrastinate. There’s an exceptional subset of people who are really good at shipping high quality work, but more often than not, that’s not the case. What happens is the bar for “quality” makes people procrastinate, because they keep setting the bar higher and higher and higher, or scope…

I’ll never get tired of mentioning how much I enjoy the fact that a really good day doesn’t have to offer all that much to be one. A calm morning in a café, a delicious dinner, and some time with loved ones in between is really all I need to consider my time well spent. On an unrelated note: the second panel might be one of my favorites I’ve ever drawn. I love everything about it, especially how perfectly it captures my excitement for the XO noodles at Batu. They’re genuinely some of the most…

I was in Steigen this weekend to help my father fix the roof of his garage, which was demolished by a storm last winter. Saturday brought us sunshine and 13-14 degrees, which felt nice. All in all, we are happy with the result and how the job went. We used some plates he had lying around, so they aren't all looking very pretty, but they definitely get the job done.

Triceratops, Leiden, NetherlandsAt the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, a visit to the dinosaur gallery is also a glimpse into the work of a research institute. Naturalis studies life on Earth through its vast natural history collection, and its dinosaur discoveries have given us something remarkable to talk about.Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden traces its

Figured this would be a quick post. Wrong! MacOS ridiculous security policy broke all my automations again. The permissions were all properly set in Privacy and Security, but of course they weren't being acknowledged. Usually just toggling the switch is enough to get things working again. Not this time. Had to reboot. Fuckin' Apple. ✍️ Reply by email Originally posted at Nice Marmot 10:52 Sunday, 4 October 2026

Hex Park is one of those games I really have nothing to say about it. It’s not that it is bad, it is fine, but really quite forgettable. Its a puzzle game where your goal is to move hexes off the board within a set number of moves. Each hex has an arrow which is direction it will move. So course, completing each level is easier said than done. There are twists, like a piece switcher, or a stopper piece, or saw that destroys hexes. There are three tools to help you, a hammer(that destroys a…

It feels like bragging but this week I took long-distance trains again and once again, everything went smoothly. (Well, except that my original train was canceled but at least I knew that early enough. And I’m not going to mention the groups of retirees who celebrated their train trip with sparkling wine and liver sausage sandwiches. In many ways it seems like these people only exist in German long distance trains.) Once again I’ve noticed that I’m really due for a break from every day life.…

In 2004, I married Leah and instantly had 7 brothers and sisters-in-law. And spouses. And I became an uncle. And Leah and I had been dating for several years before that and visited them and been visited by them in California. For 15 years to do I was in the family. Christmases and Thanksgivings and Easters and mental health struggles, and the struggles of kids and nieces and nephews, and graduations, and marriages and travel. I was family. In 2019 we filed for divorce. When the divorce was…

Here's a Spiny Softshell Turtle from the Quarry Hill Nature Center: Absolutely the most phallic and the most fishlike turtle I've seen in my life. I love that snorkel nose. Here's a catfish. I measured it with my Nevada Native Plant Society plant ruler. You could, if you wanted, color-correct my photo of the catfish to match the swatches on my ruler. The catfish is alive. It's just floating around in a tank of water so clear, behind glass so unscratched and clean, that it looks kind of like it…

The blur of a passing cyclist in an Ironman race. This week’s Sunday Stills challenge theme is ‘Ephemeral.’ See more responses here. Captions on the photos. A Green Darner Dragonfly caught in the act of darting back and forth. An ever-changing sprinkler. A rainbow over the water. Jumping into the water at Coconut Island in Hilo.

Welcome to another The Simple Catholic Sunday Funnies! Growing up, one of my favorite parts of Sunday was flipping to the comics section of the newspaper: a little pocket of humor, color, and light-heartedness to start the week. Now, in that same spirit, I’m excited to share this weekly collection of wholesome, funny Catholic comic … Continue reading The Simple Catholic Sunday Funnies: Episode 40 The post The Simple Catholic Sunday Funnies: Episode 40 first appeared on The Simple Catholic. The…

Some people are perpetually preoccupied with getting the most out of every situation. Their minds are constantly devising new schemes: manipulating people, exaggerating their own achievements while undermining those of others, twisting narratives in their favour by any means necessary, and cultivating relationships purely for strategic advantage. To them, everything is a means to an end. No person is truly important, and no value is sacred. There is no depth to which they wouldn't stoop to get…

What I'm...Working on Dealing with course issues Preparing all our 600+ online courses for Fall 2nd 8-week delivery Contemplating Starting a JPRG with a gaming bullet journal (it's kinda a preoccupation right now and I really want to do that instead of paid labor) Celebrating A major breakthrough in singing with my tongue placement and vowel vocalization Purdue's football team winning against Illinois and ruining their homecoming and further making the Gies Private Equity Stadium big ass…

This week, Off The Console celebrates 100 episodes. I couldn't be more excited.If you didn't know Off The Console is my weekly podcast that I record with my friends James and Hi-Tech Lo-Life.You can subscribe to us via RSS and/or on YouTube. We also have a Discord server and a Patreon.In this article, I want to shout out some of the incredible guests we've chatted with over the last two years!Brad from SadlyItsBradleyWe had the honor of inviting Brad Lynch of SadlyItsBradley a few weeks back as…

The Neighbourhood remain on top for a second week with “Private”, while Phoebe Bridgers‘ “Lost Boys” slides into second place, followed by Fontaines D.C.‘s “Marianne” at #3. “I Can Take the Sun Out of the Sky” by Brigitte Calls Me Baby enters the top 10. For the fourth week there are two new entries to my chart, starting with “I Kinda Like That” by American pop-punk band The Paradox. Formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 2024, the all-Black four piece consists of Eric Dangerfield (lead vocals, rhythm…

Below I’ve embedded via youtube-nocookie.com a screen recording of a macOS Virtual Machine showing the first run experience of the Meta Muse app. If you’d like to view the video on YouTube, here’s a direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYhS6Wo_F0 I created the VM (running macOS mac 26.6.2, because I already had an ipsw file of that version downloaded) using the VirtualBuddy app. For testing I used a fresh VM, not signed in to my Apple Account, because of course I don’t trust Meta with…

I haven’t really posted about it on here but I’ve been playing a lot of pinball lately. I’ve always liked it but for whatever reason, I really got the pinball bug about two months ago. I think it’s mostly because I made an account on Stern Pinball’s achievement tracking thing, that automatically tracks achievements and scores across their tables as long as you scan a QR code on your phone using the machine’s QR reader. I’m generally not an achievement fan but it makes sense for pinball to me,…

Brian Martell 1938-2026. A slightly revised version of what I said at my dad's funeral. Brian was born in 1938 in Wolverhampton. He kept a trace of black country in his accent through his life. Of course, he supported Wolverhampton Wanderers, and even in his last days in hospital was asking about the Wolves scores. In the 2nd world war his dad, Cyril, was posted to India and they were separated for Brian's early years. Dad and his Mum, Hilda, hunkered down in the Anderson shelter in the garden…

Well, if I'm going to talk about the advantages of elevated rail, it feels only fair to discuss some other advantages: like the advantages of the other main grade-separation option, underground rail.Because if there weren't any, well, we'd all build the cheaper, elevated option, wouldn't we?Note that when I say "we," of course, I don't mean the Quad Cities. Lord no! It would be nice, but let's get some basic bus frequency and maybe a rail link to Chicago first.But "we" in the larger sense do…

I’m loving the resurgence of zines! Violet B. Fox just released on on radical books that aren’t a slog, a collection of books for leftists that aren’t super dense theory by old dead white guys. There’s so many good ones to choose from, but I started with The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. For posterity, I’ve saved a local backup, but you should visit Violet’s site instead.

Mitzi's in Montreal, so I've got the table cleaned off and I'm playing with one of my Apple IIc computers. (Siri tells me the plural of "Apple IIc" is "Apple IIc's" without the apostrophe, inserted by autocorrect, which I suppose actually reports to Siri, so I don't know what's up with that.) There was an interesting thread at the Retro Computing Forum, discussing the chronology of Star Trek gameplay and code. Apple Trek, by Apple III creator Wendell Sanders, was one of the programs included…

netip.Addr features an Unmap() method returning the unwrapped IPv4 contained in an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address: from ::ffff:203.0.113.10 or ::ffff:cb00:710a, it returns 203.0.113.10.1 There is no Map() or To6() method for the reverse direction. Such a method is trivial to implement, but Go maintainers have rejected it on the grounds that users should write netip.AddrFrom16(ip.As16()) and let the compiler optimize it.2 Today, this pattern is eight times slower than a native method. How can we teach…

Every morning, before the family wakes and after the cat has been fed, I light a stick of incense, bow toward a kakejiku of Amida Buddha, and plunge it into the little bowl of sand and ash. It’s said that our sense of smell is more closely linked to memory and emotion than any other. It bypasses the Thalamus; straight to the dome. Shoyeido's Kyoto Autumn Leaves (Kyonishiki) incense takes me places. There’s a whole world in that tiny stream of smoke, rising in the light of a fake candle. It…

My host at Brown University was the fascinating Basilis Gidas whom I first met in Rio in 2018. Basilis has had a remarkable career, taking him from electrical and mechanical engineering through quantum field theory to many areas of applied mathematics. In the context of AI, Basilis told me about a well-known passage in Plato—new to me—expressing concern that reliance on writing (new technology at the time) would weaken human memory. Overall, Basilis thinks that the most creative aspects of…

Find all previous and future episodes listed here or in your podcast app under “Barbican Station”. This episode I speak to Saskia Reeves about her performance on Slow Horses. We talk about Lamb’s relationship with Catherine and Reeves character choices. Plus how the books inform the show and how she works with the directors to add character moments to the show. Finally, what does Reeves want to tell fans of the show? All that and more in this episode! For more on the slow horses, click here.…