Thursday 24th September 2026 Over the years I’ve featured various bus route developments in Ebbsfleet Garden Village including DRT and Fastrack changing hands and new routes to serve the expanding residential areas. The latest change introduced from 1st September saw GoBus introduce a new all day fixed timetable bus route numbered CB1 between Ebbsfleet International Station and Bluewater Shopping Centre which has replaced most of what was a hybrid route numbered GC1 – a mix of fixed journeys in…

E. wrote: My Lost Mine of Phandelver group has decided to go cross-country to find the goblin castle (Castle Cragmaw). They have vague directions from a goblin they spoke to, but I think it’s highly unlikely they could find the base just from the goblin pointing. How should I run this? Or should I just let them find it after a bit of travel? I have some wandering monsters, but I’m concerned that if they go looking and find nothing that it will be frustrating and not-fun. When dealing with this…

How I use statusbar: A light config for every terminal, and an extended one where I want more.

Part of discovering so-called forgotten writers and their books is that the discovery is actually more of a recovery. These books already exist and the people who wrote them may have been forgotten by the mystery reading public but often they are actually renowned. Witness Lesley Frost, whose only foray into adult mystery writing is Murder at Large. At the time of the book's publication she was known as a former employee of the Publisher's Association, an airplane factory worker during the…

By this, I mean: every assembly of people tends toward unstructured, meandering conversation about topics unrelated to the purpose of the assembly. Once upon a time, I started an engineering job at a recently-built, well-equipped research building on a large university campus. I expected this to be a serious place where people worked hard. But I soon discovered that people at desks near mine wanted to talk, throughout the workday, about matters unrelated to work. They were friendly and…

I’ve been in the market for a good KVM for years. My tiny home office desk has two computers: A MacBook Air for work, that I use exclusively in clamshell mode while on the desk A Ryzen desktop with FreeBSD and Fedora My dream was to have a single keyboard, mouse, and display, and be able to switch between the two machines without constantly swapping cables. You’d think this would be easy. After all, people like me can remember having Belkin KVMs that did this for our Intel Macs, and even VGA…

My quest to build all the 1980s and 90s Hornby "Made in West Germany" kits continues, with one of the lesser-known models, R486 Town Bank, in The Collector. To be honest, I thought this would be a nice quick kit to build, commensurate with the tight deadline I was working under. As it turned out, it is a bit more involved, thanks to the corner shape. When it comes to the roof, I needed to come up with some techniques (in the article) to hold on to everything while the glue dried. One of the…

Story Session 07 We start off on a hill overlooking The Mossback Raiders village (the evil Trollkin). The party splits up with Yeahm and Scrabble going west to make a distraction while Ghada, Treb, and Miralou headed south towards a tower. Flint heads towards a house and spots Trollkin in there, but fortunately is not spotted. Then he heads to the tower and tries to scale it. He is able to scale the Tower and surprises the Trollkin in there. With just one incredible deft move, he fells the…

Muse Already Lied About What It Reads. Guess Why Amazon Doesn't Trust It Either (ByteHaven) I am super not surprised that Meta’s AI agent lied about what data it has access to. 😑

In celebration of the upcoming 6000th issue of Commando, we're bringing readers a special set of previous landmark issues. Issues 5995-5998 are on sale today, Thursday September 24th. 5995: Traitor From The SkyHigh over Austria, four men swung silently on their parachutes, tense and nervous. Already the operation was going wrong – their Dakota, hit by enemy fighters, was plunging in flames

Diced tomatoes? Sure, Aisle 6, three quarters of the way back, two shelves below the kidney beans. They’re on sale this week. AWESOME! Make your inbox awesome: Photo from: here The post #586 That one old guy in the grocery store who knows exactly where everything is appeared first on 1000 Awesome Things.

TOBE (Taiwan Original Boardgame Expo) will be held in Taipei 25-27 September 2026. By the time you read this, I will be in Taipei, probably setting up booth, and connecting with other designers and publishers around Asia. This is the first time my wife Michelle is joining me at my game booth. She will be my assistant for the three days. If you are in Taipei, come play with me!

Your job is to know yourself. This means you have to find yourself. Finding yourself is the hard part, because it seems like something you have to do alone but it's actually something you need other people for. Finding your people is finding yourself. Sometimes you have to start at the end and work your way back. 🌲 gonna 🌼 go 🌱 touch crash 🌳 grass out 🌷 now Be good to yourself. If you enjoyed this post, click the little up arrow chevron thinger below the tags to help it rank in Bear's Discovery…

Crucial Track for September 23, 2026: “Like a Stone” by Ben Thornewill What’s a song you’ve had on repeat recently? ∞ via Crucial Tracks

Today was pretty nothing. You know it isn't a great day when the most notable thing is getting an email saying you didn't get the job you did two interviews for. Like, I also got chinese food, but that isn't really how I'd talk about today. Whatever, we carry on. Applied to another office job. At least now I actually feel like going on the little vacation we're doing this weekend.

On Survivor 51's premiere, PERMANENT UNCERTAINTY made me LOL, but it was a great episode, tugging at my nostalgic heartstrings and giving us poo-poo hitting the fan and Drunk Reddit swim teacher.

Outside The Met – New York, New York I was happy that I successfully created another photo in front of the museum that I like with the Leica M246. In fact, I like this one better than the picture I featured a couple of days ago. Conceptually, both photos are very similar. I wanted to focus on the people on the stairs and frame them within the archway. I also made sure The Met sign was visible but slightly softened in the background. Why do I like this picture better? A few reasons. While it’s…

For the first time ever, Team USA claimed the gold-medal spot on the podium at the 2026 FIPS-Mouche World Fly Fishing Championships. The win for the group of American fly fishers marked the end of a dynasty of sorts — up until last week, Team France was the three-time defending champion. For the cherry on top of the team win, North Carolina angler Michael Bradley took home the individual gold at the Sept. 13-18 tournament based in Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Jason Dean: "I knew this stuff would beToo intense for her." Heather Chandler:"In-tense. Grow Up." Drakkar Intense is not a flanker of Drakkar Noir. I repeat: Drakkar Intense is NOT a flanker of Drakkar Noir. It is better thought of as a pseudo-modernization of the original Drakkar from 1972. "Pseudo" because, well, read on. I've never actually smelled the original Drakkar, so no flexing

My AI stack and harness (LifeOS) just downshifted a couple of times, on two different axes.A unified state notification system I've created a module called Vigil that has every LifeOS subsystem send periodic updates on what it's doing, what it's finished, etc. to a central Vigil database.A separate Vigil process that runs every 10 minutes then reads from the database and looks for stuff I should be told about. Keep in mind this is across the ENTIRE ecosystem, so:News and OSINT stuff I should be…

Back in 2022, I gave the CyberPower UT650EG a try. At the end, I mentioned: What I’m concerned about is the battery. The specifications say that the battery is not user replaceable. I hope that this is simply something the legal team thought of to avoid any liability when dealing with users who messed this process up. 4 years later, the UT650EG battery does not seem to hold a charge, so it’s time to replace it, for real. At the same time I also decided to do the same for an UT850EG that I got…

Today, Faircamp 2.0.0 was released. If you’re an independent musician and want to own your own web presence, Faircamp is an incredible way to do it, and 2.0 in particular adds a lot of cool stuff, particularly a desktop application which makes it much easier to set up and maintain your site. I don’t use Faircamp personally (since I already have my own tools for running my site) but it is an incredible piece of software that probably covers all of your needs and then some.Also, with Faircamp you…

Late last night, I had an important breakthrough in the next important feature of my publishing software. It's around user onboarding and setup. Very important, and it worked for the first time. All the pieces got created in all the right places. Still need to write tests and general cleanup but seamless onboarding is on the horizon.

A GameBoy Color emulator is now available, found under Games!

I bought a standup bass back in June! I set up a Facebook Marketplace alert for them, and it actually worked; a good option came up. It feels like Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace are the only options for local sales online, and it’s been that way for a long time. And Craigslist sucks? It used to be this site super fancy people would point to and say see, design doesn’t actually matter that much. Sure, ok, fine. Well, Craigslist still looks like shit, and it’s riddled with scams. I can’t…

Fog rolls in at sunset, at Avenue I in South Redondo Beach. サウス・レドンド 日没時、サウス・レドンド・ビーチのアベニューIに霧が流れ込む。

Hi all. This one of those rare housekeeping posts in which I talk about the goings-on of running this site. Apologies, but I will be quick!First up — and most importantly — I’ve created two ways where readers like you can support Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games: Patreon and Kofi. If you’re familiar with those websites, that may be all you really need to know, but I’ll explain them below.The new Patreon is for me, Drew Mackie, in general, and all creative efforts I will be embarking upon…

Previously: Boardgames tag Our friend from the US was back again for a few weeks recently, which means our normally remote gaming group got together a few times in person to play some boardgames, these are the ones we played. The Lord of the Rings Trick-Taking Game (Fellowship and Two Towers) The full title for these is super clunky. BGG: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring – Trick-Taking Game, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Trick-Taking Game This was interesting, it's'…

Forgotten Island, DreamWorks latest animated feature, operates at peak creative levels, offering a parade of vividly colored, fantastical creatures that pop off the screen, often with boosts of comic energy. Beginning in the Philippines in the 1990s, the story -- written and directed by Joel Crawford and Januel P. Mercado (Puss in Boots: The Last Wish) -- introduces two schoolgirls: rebellious Jo (H.E.R.) and studious Raissa (Liza Soberano). Mischief-prone best friends, Jo and Raissa constantly…

[This is a guest post by Tapio Schneider. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] [This will be cross-posted on the CliMA blog.] The apparent proof of finite-time blow-up of the forced Navier-Stokes equation, announced by OpenAI on September 8, has brought into focus a debate about the role of AI in mathematics. The proof was produced with a system of some 10,000 AI agents that explored many approaches in parallel; it was then formalized and…