“We cannot get out. We cannot get out… We cannot get out. The end comes, and then drums, drums in the deep… they are coming."

I'm reading Fellowship of the Ring out loud with my son for bedtimes, and it's very clear the Ring isn't a wacky toy around when Gandalf says not to use it and Frodo and company are sneaking down back roads of the Shire to avoid wraiths that sniff him out. So Chapter 3 or 4, basically.

We need 3000-5000 wode pirates for a fechtschrift to someone who really deserves it!

Scott Summers knows that even a momentary slip can lead to harming those he loves - and the unfortunate nickname Scott Falls (British: Scott Autumns).

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Is the April Fool's joke that you love to say such a beautiful truth?

IVF of Frankenstein

His name is Mot and he's a Bolian.

All the better,

A William Morris vending machine

Some things are nice 💙

We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.

I've been following the story of Cookie's Bustle since about 2022, when Classics of Game videos featuring the quirky adventure game were taken down. It's gratifying to see the Video Game History Foundation take on the copyright troll who took down that content. gamehistory.org/cookies-bust...

Scaling Macroscopic Astronomy Recording Tool (SMART) phone.

I had this as a kid, and I still don't know how to enter Murderworld. If you told me it was an art game about not getting into Murderworld, I would believe it.

""Ο Eddie!' said she, 'how did you burst your gaiters?' "Poe seemed to have fallen into a semi-torpid state as soon as he saw his mother. ... "I related the cause of the mishap, and she drew me into the kitchen. ""Will you speak to Mr. - -' (the reviewer), she said, 'about Eddie's last poem?' "If he will only take the poem, Eddie can have a pair of shoes. He has it-I carried it last week, and Eddie says it is his best. You will speak to him about it, won't you?' From Ingram, Edgar Allen Poe, His Life, Letters, and Opinions (1891): https://www.google.com/books/edition/Edgar_Allan_Poe/x8dEAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=eddie

In a couple of 19th century stories about his wife, his wife's mom calls him "Eddie."

(I love food in poems.)

Amy Beeder: ". . . but you’re hungry. Come in. Sit. Taste.
There’s breast of swan for shame.
Try a quail tart for rage,
macaw on poached orchids for boredom."

Me: Maybe I should come back later.

Amy: "There’s really nothing you can’t order:
goat’s feet, orange groves, prophets & smoke ..."

"What makes you able to see the connections between things, like, not just the tools we use but the people who use them, and the ... the effects on the group? What makes someone able to not just solve problems but - they are able to sketch out the problem and point out what's missing?"

Statistician: "Let's do the replay. We see there, yes, taking the turn that tightly has resulted in crashes 30% of the time."

Poet: *circles the tumbling skier and plays at double speed* "Ba-da-ba-da-ba-be bop bop bodda bope."

Statistician: "Uh, what?"

Poet: "Sweet sweet sweet sweet sweet tea."

If you told me this was close footage of a gas planet called Stewed Cabbage, I might believe it.

Literally a cognate to cony!

Consider Phlebas is close-ish - a shape shifting agent hired by a militarist warmonger empire tries to pull off the recovery of an invaluable enemy asset. The empire is on track to lose the war it's in, and what he's trying to do gets harder and harder.

Screenshot I took of Scully from The X-files capturing the moment when screen light is reflected in her glasses covering up her eyes. She looks very cool.

anime scully ♡

1. Computing for Math Majors
2. Medieval Women Writers
3. Revolutionary War
4. Jewish Civilization I
5. Greek Mythology

Vampire: The Ball

Finally, a place in the world where it is always peanut butter and jelly time.

The closest I can think of that trope being true is letting kids who got to school early go to the school library. That *might* have been a thing, but I was always a bus rider and only had time to go to class.

Title "Mastering Bowling" in red text, and under, Earl Anthony (in similar glasses to Johnny Silverhand) has just released a bowling ball, left arm raised, his eye tracking the blue ball between him and the camera.

Johnny Silverhand betraying his iconoclastic love for the glasses of pro bowler Earl Anthony, the Doomsday Stroking Machine.

1970s: A man named Nolan is looking to recreate the power and majesty of The (Magnavox) Odyssey, produces Pong. 2026: Possibly the best Nolan-produced followup to an Odyssey since Pong.

Whoever writes some Final Fantasy VIII fanfiction, they're alright.

One take from a former Larian artist, following my interview with Swen Vincke this morning: