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What a hectic month, September went by so fast!! Here’s some things I did and posted~ Here’s how you can keep up on these newsletters (they’ll always be free) RSS | Mailing List | Patreon Public September Art I try my darndest to post something fun for free every Friday on tumblr, mastodon, pillowfort, bluesky and jpawlik.com/blog with sketches and thumbnails up early for Patrons and VIP members! Webcomic Updates …

As you can see from my monthly wrap-up post, September saw plenty of J-Lit on the blog, and it looks very much as if that trend will continue in October. There are a number of Japanese books I’m planning to get to this month, beginning today with a new release that’s something a little different. If you’re looking for a cutesy story (and cats…), I’m afraid you’re out of luck, …

Send a Guinness to the bathroom and let me know when we're on. Toasters N Moose (Estelle Piper, Tom Shaw) are a pop duo from 1970s, reunited to tour the cafes, launderettes, open mic nights and sidewalks of California. An extreme low-budget mockumentary that borrows a lot from Christopher Guest, but does find its own deep and weird groove. The couple bounce between whatever venue their manager can scrounge for …

update: Edmund Undead in comments points out this extension to the sample chain

For today’s article we have another video interview for you folks, this time with Ronak Singhal from Intel where we talk about Granite Rapids AP. Before we get into the video and the transcript, I would just like to give a massive thank you to all of you who have subscribed to the Chips and Cheese YouTube Channel. We now have over 1,000 subscribers which is mind blowing to me. …

Recent news stories in comics, media, and general life that caught my eye.

September is now almost gone and we’re diving deeper and deeper into the autumn. Despite a few problems here and there, I think it was quite a nice month, and it’s important to always try seeing things for their positive side, despite that now always being very easy. 🍄 Life At the beginning of the month, I went to Groningen for the first time. Groningen is the capital of one …

Mirrors & Reflections in Videogames Current version - 209 entries (!) Full list here: http://shorturl.at/kovSY Full-sized picture: https://shorturl.at/ZNZHd Suggestions are still welcome. Thank you!

By David Tuller, DrPH Dr Peter Rowe is a professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and director of the Chronic Fatigue Clinic at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center. As an expert on orthostatic intolerance, a common component of ME/CFS, Long Covid and related illnesses, he has recently authored “Living Well with … Trial By Error: Interview with Dr Peter Rowe of Johns Hopkins about “Living with …

Running 1,000km in a year isn’t even that much. As you can see, I was finding it easier when I was running at the gym as well as outside. I’m posting this today to remind me that most of the goals worth pursuing in life are somewhat arbitrary and nearly always self-determined.

Fleischer's Last Stand (I Stan for Fleischer)The final film by Richard Fleischer, Million Dollar Mystery [1987], places the emphasis on "mystery." To elaborate: a passage from the film's Wiki page: "Million Dollar Mystery (also known as Money Mania) is a 1987 American film released with a promotional tie-in for Glad-Lock brand [garbage/rubbish] bags. This was the final feature-length film directed by Richard Fleischer and shot by Jack Cardiff. [...] During …

1. Google says it’s made a quantum computing breakthrough that reduces errors - Google researchers have made a breakthrough in quantum error correction, which could pave the way for useful quantum computers. The main challenge in quantum computing has been the high error rate of the hardware, which prevents them from executing long and useful algorithms. The new research demonstrates that it is possible to add components to reduce these …

In between my day job as an M&A attorney and my social responsibilities (which are legion), I have been slowly organizing the new workshop. Recently, this has included updating the tool wall that goes with my hanging wall cabinet. The tool wall itself hangs from the same french cleats the main wall cabinet hangs off, […]

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labutat (NYRB, 2020) A book that is both fiction and non-fiction, both wave and particle, both history and imagination, and somehow, something else entirely. Great mathematicians and physicists walk the pages—Haber, Heisenberg, Bohr, Grothendieck, Schrödinger, and more. Their lives are marked by great achievements, fame and shame, agony and lucidity, and a great many deaths—their own, of course, but also countless …

There is a long running debate in F1 about the impact that drivers and cars have on winning. If drivers have their way, the wins are because of them and the losses are the car’s fault. But over the years, lots and lots of people have studied this issue, and it seems like winning is about 80% car and 20% everything else (driver, team, pit crew, team principal). There is …