It’s Hayate no Gotoku but less fun. It mostly gave me exactly what I expected in a competent manner and there’s something to be said for that. It did suffer a bit from the problem that the main girl is the least interesting one. Otherwise a solid show, if nothing especially memorable. Storytelling – C – Does what you expect. Voice – D – Feels lacking in personality. Characters – C – They’re fine. Attention Grab – C – I finished. Production – C – Meh. Overall – C Recommendations – Hayate no…

by Gwyn Conaway Upon looking at the photograph below, you might wonder why a fashion columnist is so fascinated by Attica Correctional Facility’s blow-out riot, which occurred on September 9th of this year. Nightly news channels are enthralled by the bloodshed, of course. Families are glued to their televisions and newspapers, consuming the story detail … Continue reading [September 22, 1971] Raise a Fist for Peace. → The post [September 22, 1971] Raise a Fist for Peace. appeared first on…

BATMAN BEYOND SUPER POWERS (McFARLANE) “Batman Beyond – Decades into the future, Gotham City has evolved into Neo-Gotham, a metropolis of tremendous skyscrapers, flying cars, and sleek technology. In that brave new world, a new kind of Batman is required to keep the peace.” Since Kenner’s Super Powers ended in 1986, the line was pretty locked into characters and concepts that already existed at that time, and in fact, just a little before then, what with the necessary timelines for toy…

When I mentioned Hey Ya! in my music memories post the other day, I ended up listening to a whole bunch of covers of it. This is always a fun time. Think of a song, listen to covers. Good covers are such an art form and I really appreciate them. My wife and I have a playlist of our favourites. Some of my favourites! Wrecking Ball by Gordi La Vie en Rose by Lucy Dacus Across the Universe by Fiona Apple Smooth Criminal by Alien Ant Farm I Want to Know What Love Is by Amason The song with the most…

Props to the other bloggers who remember to take enough screenshots. I can go two hours before I realize I haven't captured anything, and when the game gets interesting, like a tough fight, I immediately focus on playing. Here's one where I accidentally discover the bartender is interactive. Maybe this is a lost party indicator? Guest post by Quirkz: I ended the last entry looking at the hint guide, as it was the only source for information about experience and leveling. It's also the only…

Staying in the moment is the only way to have peace. Humans are worriers. We worry about what happened in the past, and we worry about what will happen in the future. We carry guilt from past mistakes, and we plan for future possibilities that may never happen and stress about it in the process. It's a lot. And we do it to ourselves. I've been slowly waking up to this fact. I mean, I know this in theory, but it's hard not to get sucked into this kind of thinking. It's for this reason that I've…

After a spectacular butterfly summer, there has been very little action since the rains and winds of early autumn put a sudden end to the season. Even now, when we're enjoying a little taste of Indian summer (here, at least), there is little flying, apart from the indomitable whites, speckled woods and red admirals. I was certainly not expecting to see any butterflies as I trudged across the Beacon Park playing fields yesterday afternoon, having just dropped the youngest grandson off at…

Wanted? I certainly needed it bad enough to be at the front door of “needed”. Out came the bin of really useful cardboard, hot glue, and craft paints and here we are: It’s truly a sketch, made in card and... Read More ›

From Stay Alive! Berlin 1939-1945, by Ian Buruma (Penguin, 2026), pp. 155-57, 181, 191: If things were bad in Berlin, they were far worse on the eastern front, where many soldiers were freezing to death. The people back home caught glimpses of the Russian campaign on the Wochenschau [weekly newsreels]: horse-drawn carriages and tanks bogged down in knee-high snow; soldiers in white camouflage outfits, rather like hooded bathrobes, skiing or plowing their way through the ruins of Russian…

Deckers owns the UGG brand. It is a repeat SAD Scheme plaintiff. In this case, it sued 30 defendants for infringement, got permission to serve the lawsuit by email, and got default judgments against 18 defendants. One of those defendants, Litfun, subsequently made an appearance in the case and sought to unwind the default judgment for, among other reasons, improper service in light of the Kangol case. In Kangol, the Seventh Circuit said that email service to Chinese defendants isn’t permitted…

You know what I'm still irritated about? Video-game companies giving up their offering of physical media as an option. I know a lot of PlayStation and Xbox users go with digital formats, but even having the choice to use a disc--that you own--is good. Physical games help with making it possible to preserve games, rent titles, resell them, and they give consumers a lot more rights than it seems companies want them to have. Sony has already made its intentions clear and Microsoft is going through…

Beach Naupaka is a hardy plant that can tolerate the saltwater environment on the coast, but it’s flowers are small, and delicate-looking half flowers. Posted for Terri’s Flower Hour. See more responses here.

tag(s): #random-thoughts #useless-facts #español A while ago I read this post by Kev Quirk about how his blog (as is the one he quotes/links to) is written in en-GB. No need to pander to a """global audience""", instead he makes a conscious choice to keep his native voice. Because those mannerism are more than a different turn on a sentence, or a spelling oddity. They are an important part of their culture. The post make me nod initially, and later wonder... The nod part is about Spanish. When…

AI is great for making teams faster. But is it sustainable? What about maintainability, and burnout, and lock-in? This is part 3 of my series on quantifying AI’s impact on software development. In part 1, we looked at why assessing impact is important, and what not to do. In part 2, we looked at how to measure AI’s impact on delivery speed. In this part, we’re looking at how to measure and model the unintended consequences of using AI. Then we’ll wrap up in part 4 (coming September 29th) with…

Thanks to Charlie Horse 47 and Killdumpster for their sponsorship of this post, via the magic of Patreon. ***Image by Tumisufrom PixabayIf speech is free, this is a feature that, like Elsa the lioness, was born free.Personally, I always preferred Clarence the cross-eyed lion and Flipper the friendly dolphin but that's a whole other topic.But, speaking of topics, that's just what we're here for tonight, as it's one of those evenings in which you - not I - get to decide just what we must…

A friend's business is struggling. He worked very hard to build the business. When the business was doing well, he bought nice cars, investment properties and goes on expensive holiday. I was a bit jealous of him and that also inspired me to start my own business. I learned from his staff that when the business was doing well, my friend begins to enjoy the good life. He does not go back to the office as regularly. The deals that he won are a fraction of what he used to make. Most of his time is…

As part of my fellowship at Harvard, I’ve been thinking hard about artificial intelligence (AI). Start with the physics of the problem: AI is what lawyers call an unavoidably unsafe product. No matter how carefully we build it, it is going to cause harm, and some of those harms will be unforeseeable. That is not a bug we can engineer away. It is an intrinsic property of the thing, the same way it is a property of pharmaceuticals, vaccines, knives, and power tools. We already have plenty of laws…

A command to quickly delete all data.

Hello, loves! I have two items in my queue and I don’t think I can address them in parallel. What shall I do? Contains brief LLM-AI slur. May contain footnotes. I enjoy programming in the classic form, where you do it with your own brain and fingers, not using some assemblage of oligarchy-serving book-burning job-stealing planet-destroying computer programs that can’t even enjoy what they’re doing. In those days we kept an opcode cue card in our pocket protector. It was the style at the time1.…

HWC: Asia Pacific — Minor UpdatesThe cadence of these virtual meetups have been chugging along quite well IMO. I’ve had the joy of hosting larger groups but also more intimate ones; oftentimes with new faces mixed in with “regulars”. There’s still a lot of room for improvement, on my part as a moderator, for example: Being able to guide the conversation back to topic without being too sudden Promoting discussion with open ended questions instead of specific ones Have “standby material” if and…

This article was originally a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. I’ve been playing ‘Medieval Dynasty’, a great game set in the middle ages, but there’s of course always something to complain about, you know me. The trailer: So, the story is quite simple, it’s (roughly) 1000AD (I think) and you’re a young man escaping war and starting from scratch.You’re supposed to start a little…

To her, his job began and ended with supplying rich, empty people with poor, desperate victims. She only looked at the negative side of his job--never saw the good side, the kindness and help it let him give....the dust addicts who wanted and needed another chance; the working people who had sunk all their earnings into paying for the memory crystals; the victims of disease whose bodies were no more than mockeries of the human form; none of them would have had any hope of reconstruction if it…

When I was in high school, I participated in a math contest held by my tutor. Whoever scored over 80% would be able to go on stage at a ceremony and collect a medal. The tutors printed the results on a piece of paper. I found my name and was in disbelief. I scored 79.5%. Quintessential math laws dictated my tutors round me up, so I had managed to qualify as scoring 80%. My tutors congratulated me. There was another twist. The student’s entry listed below mine scored 79.4%. They were rounded…

Re: privacy concerns with Live Rewind / Siri Recap:A “don’t capture me” setting for iOS could anonymously signal nearby Apple devices, which would verify you’re actually within capture range and automatically disable those features around you. That verification could even use a short, inaudible acoustic handshake between the devices to confirm they’re sharing the same physical space.

Something about the current season of Ted Lasso feels off. I guess they’re trying to make the characters feel more nuanced, but I quite liked where everyone had ended up by the end of the last season. It almost feels like there wasn’t much reason to pull them out of retirement for yet another one, huh?

I used to have a three screen setup on my desk. At some point, I removed the third screen because I felt weirdly overwhelmed. There was always something to see, to keep track of, to click on, to watch or to adjust while I played or chatted. I wanted more focus on fewer things. Removing the screen really helped me because it restricted what I see at once, but now, maybe two (?) years later, I notice I am running into a similar issue again with just two screens. The way I have been using my…

A few weeks ago when I was preparing a yarn and ink palette I realized that I didn’t have any mint or sage green in my ink stash. I’ve got bright grassing greens, kelly greens, greeny teals and forest greens. But nothing muted or minty. I immediately went to JetPens and remedied that; I purchased a bottle of Sailor Manyo Ayame ($24 for 50mL). Ayame is a dual shading ink. It starts as a muted darker green (more of the sage) and then shades into violet and pink tones. I can also see bits of a…

2026/09/22: My meat order was delayed, so I bought just 2kg to make enough food to last until it arrives, so It's Dog Food Day! (and it's going to be again soon)

We're slap bang in the middle of 'Cask Ale Week' which this year runs from 17 to 27 September (I know, ten days, what were they thinking etc.) and as usual I find myself struggling to really see the point of it.I could trot out the usual trite-but-true sound bite, and explain that, for me, every week is cask ale week, but why even bother? It seems almost glaringly obvious that most people would either fall into this category anyway or not give a fuck about cask beer. And, that being the case, I…