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There are so few mystery comics out there — not thrillers, not blood-soaked serial killer books — and one of the all-time best is The Maze Agency. I gave a brief history of the series …

Posted on May 12, 2024 by Paul Beakley I’ve been slowly working through a big stack of really great looking little zine-sized games that all arrived at once. Finally got to play my buddy Keith …

This Friday from 7 to 9 a.m., the City of Boston will host its annual Bike to Work Festival on City Hall Plaza. A Boston’s Bike to Work Day billboard in Downtown Crossing, featuring StreetsblogMASS …

As you may know, I post about RV modification topics every Monday (“Modification Mondays”). I have a long list of potential topics, some smaller than others, so I thought I’d post some of the shorter …

It’s the ides of May, almost. What’s this? I’m writing mostly at a “drafts blog” these days. I publish occasional roundups, with excerpts of that writing here. This post will be a roundup of March …

DWD reports on April figures. This allows for the following picture of Wisconsin macro aggregates. Figure 1: Wisconsin Nonfarm Payroll Employment (dark blue), Philadelphia Fed early benchmark measure of NFP (pink), Civilian Employment (tan), real …

[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]On March 26, 2024 (just a few weeks ago, if you're watching this as it comes out), a large container ship struck one of …

One of the best series of credit card commercials was the now-classic Capital One “What’s in your wallet?”, which reimagined the user as either an observer of or participant in family-friendly Viking raids. That always …

Previously we covered early chatbots, bots talking gibberish, and self-taught number crunchers. But what we got so far is still boring. AI was promised to overthrow the world order and not just classify arrays of …

Walked along the harbour to the office this morning and came across some swimmers. It might look warm and sunny but that water is cold. Going by the zodiac boat that was watching over them, …

One stereotypical nerd gadget I’ve never seen the point of, that I always assumed was the nerd equivalent of hand-woven gold hi fi cables, was the mechanical keyboard. I assumed they were, as the phrase …

Reading Time: 36 minutes SUMMER HAS COME TO LONDON! Or, more accurately, it is not currently raining and that is good enough for me. I would imagine that you’re all excitedly preparing your spangly pants …

Weblog Posting Month seems to be actually working out! I’ve published 15 posts to this site in May so far. That’s 16 consecutive days of posting, seeing as the TikTok ban post went out on …