Thanks to everyone who participated in my John Wayne Giveaway quiz, which concluded earlier this week.Several participants answered all five questions correctly. I drew an email address from among those entries which had all answers correct.I have contacted the winner by email but have not yet received a response. If I don't receive a reply in the next few days I will draw a backup winner, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it! Next week I'll update this post either way.Here are the…

In Madrid, Amazing Race 39 teams panicked and used their Express Passes. But maybe that's good strategy, not just anxiety? Here's my recap!

Saturday, October 3, 2026 - 07:00 lhmpodcast.jpg Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 353 - On the Shelf for October 2026 - Transcript (Originally aired 2026/10/03) Welcome to On the Shelf for October 2026. For those who have been following the saga of my broken wrist, I’ve been officially released from physical therapy. I still have some range-of-motion issues, but they’ll have to work themselves out through ordinary activity. One new thing I’ve been doing this summer has been attending a…

You want glory and riches and fame and book signings and an HBO adaptation and Hollywood parties and piles of cocaine and then groupies and threesomes and orgies and more, so much more! Maybe a couple of statues and the Nobel prize and all of the trophies and medals and the bestseller status and a book tour and red carpets and people chanting your name at the top of their lungs and glory⁠—oh, how you yearn for that glory.There’s only one problem: you’re expected to sit down and write and…

“Opening a lock is the easiest thing for a clockmaker,” said Klausmann. From then on, they sneaked in day or night under the unsuspecting noses of the Panthéon’s officials. A group of Parisian craftsmen snuck into the Panthéon in Paris to restore a clock that had been broken and left rusting since the 1960’s. They set up a secret workshop, including tables, electricity, and a working computer, and completely serviced the clock before contacting the administration to show them the finished…

Paper Planesby Jennie Wood, Dozerdraws, Micah MyersGenres: Graphic Novels Pages: 216 Rating: Synopsis: After a life altering incident, Dylan and Leighton are sent to a summer camp for troubled youth. Can Dylan and Leighton save their friendship and protect their future while trying to survive camp? Former best friends Dylan Render and Leighton Worthington attempt to successfully navigate their way through a summer camp for troubled youth. They both need a good evaluation at the camp. Otherwise,…

I finally got tired enough of those irrelevant LinkedIn ads to do something petty about it. Now I have a bootleg Chrome extension which allows me to destroy LinkedIn suggested posts and ads which get on my nerves. The vid shows the shatter effect but I also have the option of a baseball bat, fireworks, or a boom boom. Browsing the LinkedIn timeline is going to be a LOT more fun now!

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Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 30th January 2026 I was sadly unfamiliar with British stoner/sludge/metalcore heroes Urne until January of this year, when everyone and their mother was raving about how good their third full length album was. But I didn’t really give ‘Setting Fire to the Sky’ enough of a chance on initial listen, and only been in recent weeks have I gone back to it to see what that fuss was all about. Boy, am I glad I did that? ‘Setting Fire to the Sky’ is out now through…

A one-day Salzburg travel guide covering the old town, fortress, catacombs, and Mozart’s beautiful Austrian citySalzburg is one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. Like Vienna, it is beautiful, rich in history, and still fairly reasonably priced. Start your day with a walking tour. I would highly recommend Rick Steve’s audio guide for that. I would recommend starting with the MozartSteg bridge and walking towards the Old Town. Then I visited the Catacombs; there is a 2 Euro entry fee. The…

Hadn’t watched the original in so long I’ve forgotten most of it, so why not refresh my memory with the remake, which everyone says is exactly the same movie but in English. No missteps noted in the adaptation, this worked out great for everything except the actors’ reputations. I’ve only seen one movie each by tormented parents Naomi Watts and Tim Roth (not counting Twin Peaks season 3) in the last two decades but maybe that’s a me-problem. Tormentor Michael Pitt was tenth-billed in Seven…

TOBE 2026 (Taiwan Original Boardgames Expo) was 25-27 Sep 2026. I participated as an exhibitor. TOBE was first held in 2017. I had never visited TOBE before, so this was not only my first time being an exhibitor, it was my first time ever attending. One thing different about this exhibition for me was my wife Michelle joined me to be my helper. I have exhibited at many boardgame

PlayersG. A. Webb, former Air Corps Pilot, Mystic - Liquid Video Victor Hayes, bootlegger and gangster on the run, Smuggler - TheValibuk Andreas Albrecht, veteran soldier and arms dealer, Merchant - Shaman Session 1 - January 7th, 1930The crew jumps off a train upon getting into Kansas City proper. Before they jump another tramp points out the Catholic Mission and wonders at the treasures smuggled there by the Vatican during WW1. They bump into large guy and a small guy, Kirby Malone and Gus…

If it were not for the “Leaving Soon” label on Prime, I wouldn’t have clicked “Play.” On the same breath, I also wanted to rant about how almost all the movies we wanted to watch that were supposed to be on Prime (according to Google) weren’t, and it boils my blood. More on this at a later post; let me talk about Dead Man Walking on this one. It’s an iconic title that I’ve always heard around, but I’ve never really watched it, nor have any knowledge about the film except for the synopsis…

If it were not for the “Leaving Soon” label on Prime, I wouldn’t have clicked “Play.” On the same breath, I also wanted to rant about how almost all the movies we wanted to watch that were supposed to be on Prime (according to Google) weren’t, and it boils my blood. More on this at a later post; let me talk about Dead Man Walking on this one. It’s an iconic title that I’ve always heard around, but I’ve never really watched it, nor have any knowledge about the film except for the synopsis…

I took a long lunch break and visited my favorite garden nursery with my sister and cousin. Selfie a day for a year, day 41: Oct 2, 2026 edition.

Some testing with dividing the page in three panels that can be resized.

Planetfall was yesterday's public release, but of course I've spent the past few weeks concentrating on Infidel. A couple of days I came across the most egregious bug I've yet seen in an Infocom game. This bug is extremely difficult to detect by playing the game. I must the first person to notice it, just because I'm the first person to play the game with (the equivalent of) a memory-level debugger. So why do I call it an egregious bug? Most people would call it a "trivial" bug, since it almost…

Hello friends, big day on my little blog! If you’re reading this post you’re reading my blog via a brand new blog engine. I call it “Flourish.” If all goes well you won’t really notice a change. I tried to get the Atom feed right so posts don’t show up as new, but if they do be assured it’s a one-time thing. Much love to Rael Dornfest and his Blosxom blog engine. I’ve been running that for 25 years. I may be the last person left who was running it, or at least the 2004 Perl CGI. Flourish is a…

The first recording today starts with the end of Copycats. There’s a trail for Ultimate Summer programmes. Then it’s Deadly 60 – Australia. Steve Backshall takes a microlight to look at the Australian landscape. He looks at the Cane Toad, a hugely invasive species which were deliberately introduced to kill insects which were eating the sugar cane crops, and it was discovered that they were useless at that, but they ate everything else, and they are also poisonous, so they’re not eaten by other…

I really love Sophie’s newsletter You Are Doing A Good Enough Job, which was both the inspiration for Kaijuville and its original launch vehicle. I love Erin’s newsletter The Old Shoebox; I aspire to the kind of enthusiasm and joy she brings to her deep dives there. I read every issue of Escape The Algorithm, and while I wish they were more frequent, I also like the way Elan Ullendorff publishes it only when moved to do so. Conversely, I depend on the clockwork cadence of reading Numlock News…

Neat CSS trick: Use anchor to track the size changes in a textarea (or whatever) and transition instead of instantly update 🤘🏻 See on Codepen

Thus far this past week, we have attempted to trace the intellectual origins of Ronald Coase’s counter-intuitive idea of reciprocal harms to his undergraduate years at the London School of Economics (see here and here), but as I asked at the end of my previous post, what if the English economist had developed his model of reciprocal harms after his undergraduate years at the LSE? More specifically, another possible catalyst of Coase’s reciprocal-harm axiom is Chicago economist Frank H. Knight…

Checking out the Renoir silents with my faithful playlist of weird jazz. Cute riverboat girl Catherine “Nana” Hessling loses her dad to a random fall overboard and becomes the ward of her abusive uncle. Things aren’t gonna get any better from here, if the film title is to be believed. She meets a charismatic poacher named Weasel who provokes the locals into burning his house down, the girl left crying while Weasel skips town with her dog. But the girl doesn’t deserve all this torment by 1920’s…

Every documentation site has an AI agent and a human reader nowadays, where AI agents are dominating the number of requests sent to the server to fetch a docs page. Agents fetch pages with HTTP clients and either use tools like web fetch to read the context of HTML or if provided, the markdown content of that page. When a URL is missing or is referenced in a wrong way, these two readers need different responses. For humans, you would use a 404 page with a link to homepage or a better and a…

I’ve read The Breakout Principle by Herbert Benson and William Proctor as part of my exploration of the concept of creative incubation. The subtitle of this book is “How to activate the natural trigger that maximises creativity, athletic performance, productivity and personal well-being”. Notes The main claim is that certain physical activities can interrupt current mental patterns and encourage new insights and greater productivity. We can learn to trigger this state. The authors argue that…

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Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 17th April 2026 Dutch anarchist black metal project Drang have just released their debut album back in April, and were kind enough to get in touch to let me have a listen to it. I always like to make sure I review work by small bands who contact me directly, no matter what its like and how long it takes, but I immediately took to Drang’s sound on a cursory first listen. ‘De Doorbraak’ is out now self released digitally and also through Fiadh Productions on…

Earlier this week I asked a question on Mastodon: “Who are the Jane Goodalls and David Attenboroughs of software?” Goodall was a primatologist best known for decades of research on chimpanzees, and Attenborough has been making nature documentaries longer than I’ve been alive. Both are well-known to the general public (at least in the English speaking world) and have been powerful forces for good. Which means that the answer to my question is, “We don’t have any.” If you ask someone who isn’t in…