Published by AHE. on 01st October 2026 I taped for an advert about a week ago. I won't go into details for obvious reasons but they wanted me to tape for multiple characters. One character required a second person in the tape, so my endlessly patient partner had to step in for that one, and the second required multiple outdoor locations. You really can't make this up. I hear nothing for a few days. Fairly normal. I don't think much of it. Probably just means I haven't got the job. Monday rolls…

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 37:37 – A feedback episode, reading comments about the show from Adam, Alistair, and Abdullah. Discussing my favourite personal shows that are still going (Into Your Head, The Overnightscape Underground), task management (Getting Things Done™, the spark to get something started), 1980s British retrocomputers (Spectrums, Amstrads, Orics, and Acorns), coffee (my own snobbery, instant coffee, how supermarkets sell it), and what constitutes a mathematics…

I really liked Bremen (from PG:B/M). Connection costs are simplified (cities share borders, and any city bordering it pays the single connection cost + the city cost). Also the map is a bit smaller … you need fewer cities to trigger stage 2 & end game, and the cities cost a bit less (8/14/20). You also remove the nukes and the 7 power plants. I also like the 2nd edition Power Grid rule that the cheapest plant each round has a minimum bid of 1. Always happy to play Power Grid, but this new…

Very, very round. I thought I remembered reading it would come with a control to let you set the roundness of the corners of various elements, because, as mentioned, they are very, very round. But I appear to have misremembered. There is a fix that lets you manual adjust the roundness by creating a user.css file in a chrome folder you make in your profile folder. It’s a bit of a pain, but it works and gives maximum flexibility. I tried it, but produced a few bits of visual weirdness. There is…

Survivor 51 episode 2 showed us a closeup of Brady's circumcised thumb, and somehow the gameplay was even more surprising. Here's my recap!

A 1001 MIDNIGHTS Review by George Kelley & Marcia Muller ADAM HALL – The Quiller Memorandum. Simon & Schuster, US, hardcover, 1965. Reprinted many times. Originally titled The Berlin Memorandum in the British first edition, The Quiller Memorandum [Collins, 1965] introduces “shadow executive” Quiller, who works for an agency known only as “the Bureau,” an organization which handles such super-sensitive espionage tasks that officially it does not exist and takes action only when authorized by the…

If your life were a movie, what would its theme song be? I use the word melancholy fairly often when describing my moods. I don’t see it as a negative thing at all, it’s just how I’ve always been. I’m not overly pessimistic, but definitely not the most optimistic person. The moment I saw this prompt, this is the song that popped into my head. I know it was used at the beginning of the weirdly wonderful movie Vanilla Sky, but surely there was more to my subconscious thinking? Indeed there was. I…

I have another piece out in Asterisk, The Unacknowledgeable Work of Pastors’ Wives. This is a follow up to last year’s piece on church planting and the isomorphism to VC start-up culture. I was also featured in an episode of The Students, talking about how I got my weird research career. The one thing I wish I’d talked about more was how good being in a normal job for 10 years was for me. It let me build runway and develop into the kind of person who could do these weird things and I heartily…

I might’ve broken my personal “rust target directory size” record. ᐅ du -sh . 480G .

This audiobook came up on my Storytel recommendations list. I do like the thriller genre, so this novel is right up my alley. The opening is very interesting, and it made me worried and anxious as well. As a woman who has lived alone for a few years, I fear my house being entered. Whenever I sleep, even when I am 100% sure I locked everything, I still mentally prepare myself in case someone breaks in. I make a mental map of where my knives are, where my phone is, and how loud I should be…

This audiobook came up on my Storytel recommendations list. I do like the thriller genre, so this novel is right up my alley. The opening is very interesting, and it made me worried and anxious as well. As a woman who has lived alone for a few years, I fear my house being entered. Whenever I sleep, even when I am 100% sure I locked everything, I still mentally prepare myself in case someone breaks in. I make a mental map of where my knives are, where my phone is, and how loud I should be…

Many people have a hard time letting go of sunk costs. Not only that: people have a hard time recognizing that something is a sunk cost. Sunk costs are investments we have made in the past, but that we should no longer consider in our decision making going forward. Seth Godin writes in The Knot: A sunk cost is a gift from your former self. Your future self is not obligated to accept that gift. The only way to be creative is to do something new, and the path to something new requires leaving…

As someone who writes often and at length about the relativity of boundaries and the complex interrelation of everything with everything else, I find most black-and-white opinions, most expressions of certainty, and most refusals to listen to differing points of view distasteful. If the way I perceive the world depends on the framings I and others have built in my mind, and if there is no such thing as a right or wrong framing without stating a context, then certainty should be the rarest of…

Golf courses providing wildlife habitat, bird photographer of the year, and a red silk dress that took 14 years to complete are a few of the interesting stories I’ve enjoyed in the past month. I hope you enjoy them, too! What I Found Interesting I know I’ve shared similar stories in the past, but this story takes a different approach: how two golf courses provide habitat for wildlife. First, a golf course along England coastline is being converted to a wetland nature preserve. And birds can’t…

by Cláudio Alves Every year, a good part of my TIFF journey involves seeking the films that will eventually compete for the Best International Film Oscar. After all, here at The Film Experience, we’ve always prided ourselves on giving in-depth coverage to a race many overlook. Sometimes, the films have already been submitted by their nations by the time I arrive. Toronto. Sometimes, the news comes midway through the fest, after I’ve watched a picture and dismissed it despite the fun we had…

In June I went to Bristol to do a Still In A Dream event at Strange Brew. Joy and I were wandering around and saw these posters for jungle raves and drum and bass club nights. I thought, 'wow the scene is still more pumping than I had imagined'. But then I looked closer and they were all for events in the 1990s and 2000s - turned out it was some kind of exhibition, the vintage posters stuck on fences around a venue called Lakota, that used to be the hub of the Bristol jungle sceneThe last time…

This will appear in the October 1, 2026, edition of the weekly project instruction announcement email for the Disquiet Junto. I hope this note finds you well. There are still three full months left in the year, or just under by a few hours by the time you receive this, and yet that proximity can make the year feel almost over: when the end is in view. I am not one to rush time, quite the contrary, and as someone with a tendency to listen to slow, enveloping music, the inclination grows stronger…

YouTube channel Design Theory released a BRILLIANT video about the surveillance and tracking activities of Flock cameras. Take a few moments to watch this video. Flock cameras and its associated network is no different than what China has instituted in tandem with their social currency system.

GPT-6 and Claude 5.5 out as rogue AI agents hack systems, Dario calls for industry slowdown, and Nvidia buys Hugging Face in a turbulent two months for AI.

My first book of poetry.By Ada LimónRating: 4.5 / 5.I ordered a used copy of this after being struck by some of Mary Oliver’s poetry and watching a moving documentary about her life. This is my first book of poems. Even though I normally read on a Kobo, I figured I should be feeling the pages and seeing how these are set. I took my time, lingered with some of them, read a whole bunch aloud to my dog. I’m not sure how a person is supposed to read poems, but I enjoyed it and will surely re-read…

I finished the first game in this trilogy back in 2020 and put off the 2nd game because I didn't have a PS5. This year a friend lent me his PS5 for a few months andthere were only 2 games I wanted to play on the system: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (already done) and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Both of these are also available on Steam, but with a PS5 I was able to borrow physical copies and essentially play them for free! Spider-Man went by quick, but Rebirth took forever. In summary, it's a beautiful…

It's been a week since the end of the week I'm reviewing. That stinks! I've been too busy! I wish I could say I've been busy with fun stuff, like building my Halloween show, but no. On Sunday night we went to Palm Springs. The Ace Hotel put on a big promotion and we are easy marks for that shit. It was kind of gloomy weather which is probably why their rates were so discounted, but I sat by the pool and read some Instapaper articles and then had a mai tai at Bootlegger, so I am not complaining.…

C aka Untitled #5 aka Königsforst 5 aka the 15 minute track from Königsforst [1998]Now for a walk in the Black Forest.Because some people have not heard this, here it is.Worth checking out even if you were never that enamoured with techno. Fans of classical, ambient, minimalism and rock's outer reaches or anyone should be able to get into this splendid track as it's transcendent... undeniably great.Where the ancient meets modern, bringing the ye olde to the 90s future.Bringing the bucolic to…

Almost half a million views in September! That's 450,000 views, to be exact. That blows my mind! Many thanks to everyone who continues to visit and support Hawkworld! There is a contact box at the bottom of the left column, so if you have any requests, suggestions, or something that could be displayed better, please feel free to let me know! No promises, but I always try to improve the site! Many thanks again for helping to make Hawkworld a site for all Hawkfans!

On our way! TO MY EMAIL SUBSCRIBERS For your convenience, I make the full content of my posts available in the email you’ve requested to receive, rather than in the form of an excerpt. However, the careful formatting I give to each post never shows up quite right when displayed in email form. For this reason, I highly recommend you look at it on your browser in a desktop computer. Last weekend was our trip to Orlando to celebrate Fern’s 40th birthday. With wonderful weather in the forecast and…

#1. If it drains you, cut it out. Screens, social media, doomscrolling, sales dashboards, anything with a number next to your name… Either it energizes you or it’s out. Time in front of a screen is time away from real interactions and yourself. #2. Stick to your baseline. For over two days, my overthinking didn’t let me sleep. I woke up with my heart racing and breathing fast, just like when you had a bad dream with a love one dying in an accident. I had to go back to exercising, sitting in…

Quoted Toys R Us is leaving Japan after 35 years in the country by Casey Baseel (soranews24.com) For the past nine years, Toys R Us has been part of this category too. Even after the chain closed its last U.S. branch in 2017, Toys R Us Japan kept chugging along. Sadly, though, the company has finally reached its limit, and says that it will be leaving the Japanese market. Back in the 90s and very early 2000s, most of my video games came from Toys ‘R Us. See, for example, my discussion in…

September was another big month for my life, mostly for me offline. Another good month for bicycle riding, seeing more of the trails on Randalls and Wards Islands.The New York area has taught me a few things about islands and one of them is that they're very fungible. On a map, Randalls and Wards Islands look one one island because they're "conjoined". They were conjoined on purpose: they used to be two, with a bridge and everything. But then in 1955 the government announced they wanted to join…

The Blue Boy (1994) is a co-production between the BBC and the American public television station WGBH and was broadcast in the UK as part of the BBC’s Screen Two (1985-1998) anthology drama series but due to it being produced by the BBC, its supernatural dread filled themes and it being set at Christmas, albeit it was first broadcast in the UK on the 2nd of January 1994, it could be seen as an unofficial latter-day counterpart to the BBC’s original A Ghost Story for Christmas annual anthology…

I wanted to try audio books again this month, and I ended up finishing two of them. And I read the two Hench series books by Natalie Zina Walschots because my local bookclub wanted to discuss them as an extra meetup. The main book was The Unraveling by Benjamin Rosenbaum. Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown, Audio 8h29m: This book was recommended in the Bullet Journal community and I was curious about it. It is like a guide to…