ROBB! OMG! LOL! Robb Knight joins me on the podcast this week to discuss all things St. Jude fundraising as we head down the final stretch of the campaign. We also discuss the beauty of finishing a notebook, and dig into Robb’s Analog Defaults. Show Notes & Download Links This episode of The Pen Addict is sponsored by: Enigma Stationery: Unique items, top brands and hard-to-find imports. Get $10 off. Factor: Healthy, fully-prepared food delivered to your door. Use code penaddict50off

My favorite place in the world is not a place at all, but the places in between other people’s favorite places. Twenty years ago, I was invited to dinner with the executives of a large outdoor and travel company as the guest of honor; a representative of this new sort of thing called travel blogging. Up until then, I had never had to answer questions about my travelogue hobby, my photography or my underlying travel philosophy in person, but I prepared myself for any questions they might throw…

A company by the name of "New Matter" has revealed their first product dubbed "Sudo" as a dedicated music player with an ahem familiar design. It'll cost $250 and you may place a $50 reservation now. They expect to ship in the fourth quarter of 2027. I have been longing for the return of an iPod Classic in my life. The used market is booming lately with prices being in the $150~ range, and that's before exploring mods that bring the iPod forward with new batteries, storage, Bluetooth, etc. This…

The Simic Combine’s shtick is mad bio-science, and its rank-and-file NPCs are, curiously, not listed in the “NPCs by Guild” section of the Guildmasters’ Guide to Ravnica, chapter 6, but rather in the “Creatures by Guild” section. Still, Simic hybrids are humanoids by type, so they’re NPCs as far as I’m concerned. The weakest of […] The post Simic NPC Tactics appeared first on The Monsters Know What They’re Doing.

Here you will find some stats from Cloudflare and Plausible. There are some differences between Cloudflare and Plausible that go beyond Plausible being enabled later but I don’t know why that’s the case yet. I’ll try to keep some commentary on the past month here as well so if you’re curious do come back each month. So far september was a good month. I wasn’t able to replicate the success of De-Brainrot Vacations (that seemed to struck a nerve we all share), but I’m happy keeping at least 100…

My local park on October 1st One of my goals as set by the CFS occupational therapist is to go to a social space once a week. I’ve picked The Cloak and Dagger on Stirchley High Street as somewhere familar and quiet enough for an afternoon visit (it used to be my regular in its previous incarnation as The Wildcat) but only managed one visit this summer. Realising I was struggling, chum Roo suggested we meet there, forcing me to commit and not back out unless I absolutely had to, and so today I…

Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom and my job is to point it in the right direction. Steve Jobs Today we are looking at the other side of the same coinThere is a category of aviation accident with a name so bloodless it sounds like a filing error - Controlled Flight Into Terrain. The aircraft is airworthy. The engines are making thrust. The crew is qualified, rested, and speaking in the flat professional register of people whose day is going perfectly fine. Every gauge is telling…

Looking out at Millwall Inner Dock, 24 September 2026 A hectic week that, looking back, felt much longer than it was. Autumn is coming, making itself felt on Monday on my walk down to the train station; I kept swapping the hand I was using to carry a bag, burying the other one in a trouser pocket to keep warm. This was a week in which I: Dealt with a very busy Monday, including reflecting on how written communications are so much harder to understand than face-to-face or even audio-only…

on losing parts of yourself you loved

While Lord of the Rings may seem like it’s all about corrupting power and evil forces, it’s also about people rising to meet challenges, step into new roles they never thought they’d take on, and how someone can be more than meets the eye. Which is exactly why author Fiona Moore thought it was the perfect foundation for her newest book, Management Lessons From Lord of the Rings. FIONA MOORE: Many decades ago, long before I became (as I am now) a professor in a business school, I had a job as a…

Stronger people than I can keep up with a movie every day for October, as part of a blog-based Countdown to Halloween, but I can only commit to watching as many horror movies this month as I can. I’ve even got a Shudder subscription and everything! For my official first-movie-in-October entry, I chose to watch Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead. The first Phantasm movie along with its sequel are pretty inexplicable. Both in that it’s near impossible to explain what actually happens in them in any…

In this edition What might network sharing do for competition? Rocket Lab gets investor green light for Iridium deal 40 years of Tuanz Regulator examines shared network dealThe Commerce Commission says it will only give clearance to the proposed radio access network joint venture between 2degrees and One NZ if it passes a series of tests showing it will not ‘substantially lessen competition’.2degrees and One NZ plan to combine their existing radio access network (Ran) assets in a new joint…

The Jazz Couriers (left to right): Ronnie Scott, Bill Eyden, Tubby Hayes, Colin Bates, Terry Shannon In his heyday, Tubby Hayes was universally accepted as the the finest jazz musician Britain had produced. Good enough to perform at the Half Note in New York in 1961 (in front of an opening-night audience including Miles Davis) and to take the place of an indisposed Paul Gonsalves in Duke Ellington’s saxophone section at the Royal Festival Hall in 1964: these were the sort of accolades that…

I have a week’s break before October gets crazy, so I’m using the time to go deep on the Roland 303 sequencer, something I’ve wanted to do for a very long time. I’m doing it via the Cyclone Analogic TT-303, which is a modernized version of this box. If you don’t know what it is, you’ve heard it for sure. It’s a super squeaky, bubbly, bouncy sound that you’ve heard in all kinds of dance music and modern music alike. So of course now I can see how it’s going to change my music forever, and I’ll…

October has arrived, and it brings a bunch of great local shows throughout the month. The first one that I'm excited for, and will actually have my own table at, is the Altered State Comic Con! Being held by Altered State Comics at the Ballwin Event Center (near the golf course), they've got a bunch of great vendors lined up (besides myself) who will have comics, collectibles, original art, and more! The show is completely free to attend, and there will be raffle tickets on sale for snazzy,…

The WertzoneNewsSAGA creators speak out after unplanned hiatusTRANSFORMERS fuels sales of the ENERGON UNIVERSE comics to over 7.5 million copiesGAME OF THRONES movie greenlitTRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE surges into profitability forty years after its original releaseDAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN to end after its third seasonBBC planning a 2028-29 return for DOCTOR WHOBlizzard decides to release new titles in all of its major seriesIKEA launches SKYRIM mod featuring Matt Berry as a talking Kallax…

To log into the Teams website on my Mac: Use Passwords to log into Okta. Use Okta Verify + Touch ID for MFA. Log into Teams with Okta. Install Microsoft Authenticator on my phone because Okta’s SSO isn’t enough for MS. Log into my work account in Microsoft Authenticator. (Bonus: typing an Okta password into some random app’s webview gives me the warm fuzzies!) Bounce to Okta Verify + Face ID on my phone for MFA. Scan the QR code on my Mac with my phone. Enter the 2 digit code shown on my Mac to…

By David Tuller, DrPH As I mentioned last week, George Monbiot, the British investigative journalist and longtime contributor to The Guardian, published a corker of a column about the mistreatment and abuse of people with ME/CFS, including those with Long COVID. Previous Monbiot essays on the issue—in March, 2024, and October, 2024–were equally blunt about […]

And here I was (or there we were) pooh-poohing the cutesy Dots dots from the DevDay intro. The architects were hiding the real thing in plain sight, seems to me. ;-) [ day in progress... ]

Are you ready for a BIG monthly recap? Because it doesn’t get any bigger than this. My dear readers, I visited my 100th country. Botswana. I’ve been working toward this travel goal for many years, and I’m so thrilled to have finally made it happen. I spent 34 days in Africa — my longest trip to the continent yet. And with such a busy tour planned for September, I knew I’d have no time to get my August recap up, so now I’m pairing the two months together. From an Italian island to the Czech…

Reddit announced yesterday the end of RSS support: Because RSS is now a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse, we'll stop supporting RSS feeds on November 13, 2026 while preserving moderation workflows that depend on it through supported alternatives. For common mod alerts, we recommend Devvit apps like Discord Relay. If your mod team relies on RSS, review your setup and migrate workflows before November 13 to ensure your needs are uninterrupted. If you use RSS for feeds…

Note that this post discusses rape, rape culture and the recent news about Cornell University. I don’t write about dark shit like I used to. I think in recent years, when rape and sexual assault has come up in the headlines, I’ve been less inclined to write about it than I am to just share […] The post Cornell appeared first on Girl on the Net.

Thursday, October 1, 2026 - 10:41 The Lesbian Historic Motif Project The most significant thing that hits me as I read DeVun's history of the (European) attitude toward intersexuality is how little has changed. There is still a prevailing attitude that everyone must be shoehorned into either "clearly male" or "clearly female" and that the opinions and preferences of the person involved are of little moment. (One change is that in the pre-modern period, it appears that questions over…

Welcome to my Patreon recaps of Modelland by Tyra Banks. The Patrons and I read this book in 2023, so if some references in this post feel out dated, that’s because Trout Nation is secretly a time machine and you’ve been transported back to better world than this. It’s time. It’s T-DOD. Thousands of girls stampeded to the square all at once. Heels clacked. Dresses swished. Hairdos wobbled. The T-DOD theme song boomed a pulsating beat. I’m assuming that the T-DOD theme song is the America’s Next…

In other obvious Naughty Dog news, it seems like the team is back in the Uncharted saddle. Alex Co at MP1st has the report, which VGC claims to "partially" corroborate.1 Here is Co: "According to sources familiar with the situation, Naughty Dog is working on a new Uncharted game...Also of note, this is an all-new Uncharted game, and not a remake of any kind...Directing this new Uncharted project is Shaun Escayg..." Apologies for all the ellipses, but I am skipping some Uncharted 4: A Thief's…

Today's post is the start of a new series about something a little different: a dive into Daiso's The Game Series, a hyper-budget collection of CD-ROM games. Daiso is one of Japan's largest chains of ¥100 shops. They sell a little bit of everything: housewares, kitchenwares, small grocery items... and, for a time, video games. For a good chunk of the 2000s, Daiso had its own line of CD-ROM games for Windows that it sold on its shelves the same way it sold its other own-brand goods. Other stores…

I’ve taken up with wearing reflective gear while out for my pre-sunrise walk. There’s some folks that seem a bit groggy when they’re driving to work. Even though I have a flashlight that I keep pointed at the ground when I’m walking, I’ve still had a couple of close calls. There is another gentleman that walks around in the wee morning hours and he tends to wear very dark clothing. He’s also usually muttering German, but that’s neither here nor there. He carries a very high powered flashlight,…

I'm not certain where this list originated, other than it being "The New York Times". A friend on a Discord server shared an image containing this list, and that generated some discussion. All of us found it contentious, thinking some of the inclusions are odd (among them, Superbad), and the exclusions are puzzling (there seems to be an anti-sequel bias). Here's the list! I assume that the numbers are the NY Times' ranking and it's not an arbitrary list. As with any movie ranking, it's…

Oh boy it's October, you know what that means? You guessed it, time to do some thing every day of the month based on a prompt! Will you gain anything from it? Maybe? Will anyone look at it for more than 1 second before swiping away? No! Will it take up more time than you expected and will have to drop out after a week because you have an actual life and work schedule? YEP! I remember when, like, Inktober was a fun thing everyone did. Back when your Instagram/Tumblr feed was just pictures of…