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My weekly blog post. Links this week include an elemental chart showing which ones are safe to lick, the Usenet Archives and a repository of 3D scanned images of publically accessible restrooms. You can meet Emerald, the mosaic kitty and I talk about my recent hip surgery. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
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It's the sixth of September already, somehow. Summer finally feels as though it's at an end, with the temperature outside right now a chilly +9C°, and the overcast sky a slate pewter with a biting wind. This is my absolute favourite kind of weather—no worries of sunburn and heatstroke. Of course, this is merely temporary, as we're going to reach a sunny high of +23C° on Wednesday. But for now, the chill is kind.
All the swaying leaves and foliage are still green—I can't help but question if they…
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The first week back at work.
Happenings
So yeah, I started up back at work for the new school year. All the usual stuff to deal with. Updates to government policies to read. Leadership imploring all staff to do better. Chronic pain flares up with the stress. Still, I’m in a different classroom this year and it’s better than expected. My previous classroom had years (like, 10 years) of junk built up in old filing cabinets I never did get around to sorting out, so it was nice to come in to a relat…
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Contains Moderate Peril
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First off, credit where credit is due. I pilfered the idea for this post from Mark Rogers who writes the Newsonaut blog. Apparently it’s a questionnaire that has been doing the rounds across various indie blogs for a while. However, it happens to ask some interesting questions about one’s reading habits. I read a book every month or so and I supplement this by listening to a lot of audiobooks. Yes, I’m aware they’re not the same thing entirely but both offer a means to consume and digest a book.…
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Chasing Dings!
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A comparison between my Warrior and Paladin combos upon finishing the quest for the Fiery Avenger.
Related posts:
EverQuest Legends: Analysis Paralysis
EverQuest Legends: Where’s the lore?
EverQuest Legends: Dogs and cats living together, MASS HYSTERIA!
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Exstasis # Poetry was written so that words might hold a form sufficient until they leapt from the cliff of your lips.
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Eh readers will get bored of clicking on pangram every time. AI as a tool for writing is much more interesting when used by people who would have been interesting if they had the time to write… The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck
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Bookmarked: The Curiously Playable Universe vgr back in action after the annual break. This was great. I hope to see a lot more writing from the world if only as a way to play with more friends
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WHO – An author you would love to have a ‘one to one’ with?
The author who comes to mind is Corey Doctorow. I mostly like his science fiction and I resonate with his essays on modern technology. My main fear is that I would not be able to hold my own, and he would soon be bored. The only well-known author I have spoken to was Timothy Findley, and I do believe he was bored though too polite to say so. I once exchanged emails with Andy Weir, who somehow seemed like just a regular guy.
WHAT – What…
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Nerd Girl Thoughts
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Here’s our stats breakdown for 2026.
According to the signup sheet we had 173 participants this year, although at least one of the Blaugust mentors clocked a handful of folks who did not officially sign up, which means that number is closer to 179.
Out of that first number, 161 bloggers made at least one post during August (that we could find!)
Of the bloggers who signed up 96 people indicated that this was their first time participating in Blaugust!!!
Disclaimer: The Blaugust crew are only huma…
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Noisy Deadlines
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Thomas Rigby suggested I write this “Five Ws of Reading”, which is super fun!
I'll link below to the other posts I came across using these prompts. Let me know if you wrote one! Go to Thomas’ post to get an easy copy/paste of the questions if you like.
WHO – An author you would love to have a ‘one to one’ with?
I would like to have a chat with Isaac Asimov. I would like to discuss with him the “Three Laws of Robotics” and how they would apply to our current state of technology. I would like to k…
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Inventory Full
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I was very circumspect during Blaugust. I didn't post about AI even once. Just a few ironic asides, here and there. It was tough, though. It's just so much more interesting to write about than most of the other options.
Here's the thing: putting to one side for the moment, if you can, all the appalling collateral damage the rush to dominate the AI space is causing - pollution, climate chaos, mass unemployment, wholesale theft of intellectual property, the imminent collapse of the global economy…
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Blaugust 2026 is over. It wrapped up on Monday and here it is Saturday and I am finally summing up.
Blaugust 2026
I used to sum up very quickly after the event. But the gap has grown. Last year I didn’t sum up at all. I was too busy.
So how did Blaugust make me feel this year? Let me lay out a long winded foundation.
When you decide to collect something… beer cans, bottle caps, stamps, pilot’s wings, Hallmark Christmas ornaments, or whatever… the experience tends to go through a few distinct but…
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The title of this post comes from the last line of Joseph Fasano's poem "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper", but to me, it encompasses so much more than that.
For people have always yearned for an easier way—to fudge the numbers, or to outright cheat. At times, there's a valid strategy here. Many things in life are not worth putting 100% of your effort into, and knowing when to go all gas no brakes is sacred wisdom. There are people who work hard their entire lives and have nothing to s…
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📚 Book 19 of 2026 - Finished (8/19): The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout (4/5⭐)
I've been really careful about the books I choose to read lately since I'm still not in the right mental space to read anything too heavy. I'm not quite sure how I came upon this book, but I was wary that it might be another one added to my DNF list this year. Thankfully, that was not the case.
The Things We Never Say has got to be one of the most melancholic books I've read recently. There was just so much F…
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A stressful week with a new Kindaichi novel, more Traitors, more P5 Tactica, some Fate/GO, and a jigsaw puzzle.
This was supposed to be something of a rest week, but it has mostly been spent stressing about jobs. I got a job offer for a test proctoring position with Pearson (as in, the publisher), but didn't like the vibes in the interview. I signed the contract anyway because I didn't have anything else and it would have expired in 48 hours.
Then I heard back from a manager of two Canada Post l…
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I keep forgetting to post this list! Funny too, because I was struggling in the last week of (bl)august to find something to share!
So I’ve already read two of the books on my list. Feel accomplished :D
The orange coloured ones are in progress.
Robert Jackson Bennett - A Drop of Corruption ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ashlyn Kane & Morgan James - Love it or list it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Janice Hallett - The Killer Question
Robert Jackson Bennett - A Trade of Blood
Sarah Beth Durst - A Sea of Charms
Travis Baldree - Bookshops…
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I tried to come back as soon as possible to blogging. A little about what I am currently reading.
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Joelchrono's Blog
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My parents are great, but they are also of a different generation, and despite the amount of people around their age that I’ve met online that somehow align with many of my hobbies, everyone is different, and well, that’s the case for them.
Something I admire about my mom is how she still learns, she studies a lot and gets into online courses of all kinds. Unfortunately, she also is prone to being scammed by Facebook ads or misinformation spread through videos and posts there. I have managed to…
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vanderwal.net Off the Top
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The medium for thinking and consumption is something I continually consider. I don’t consume audiobooks, they don’t work for me and I have too many foundational problems with them. But, I do enjoy podcasts, but that is a naturally spoken medium. For consumption of fiction and most non-fiction I have a strong preference for print (physical and/or electronic). Non-fiction text gives the opportunity for illustrations that help augment and anchor the meaning. Video can work for many concepts if they…
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I'm sorting out my books, part one hundred and sixty-five.
Thanks to Folkmoss for mentioning Readest. I really like it! Highlighting anything takes at least a dozen attempts but other than that: great. It looks good and it syncs. That's all I need.
It's not syncing to my Kindle though. Last year I jailbroke my Kindle, but not very well. It's doing stuff but not all the stuff it should be doing. In theory I should be able to sync everything.
I've got over five hundred and fifty ebooks, organised…
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Writer, farmer, and activist Wendell Berry died yesterday, aged 92. He told the stories of his people in quiet prose and reflective, if sometimes combative, poetry. I have read a few of his novels, but it is his poetry that speaks to me most strongly. He is my favorite poet as I resonate with his … Continue reading Sigh →
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August came in at 2 hours and 24 minutes.
That number is wrong and I want to say so before anybody gets attached to it.
Here's what the tracker gave me. 1 hour in WoW. 56 minutes in Guild Wars 2. And then 28 minutes filed under something, somewhere, doing who knows what. I have no idea. It's a rounding error with a mystery attached.
The real number is more like 10 to 15 hours, and almost all of the missing time happened in Vancouver.
We went up for Junior Pan Pacs. Jake was traveling with Team U…
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Between Antonella and I we have a pretty decent book collection. Like with vinyl, VHS tapes, laserdiscs, and DVDs, I also have a book buying problem. I love my physical media. While at the beach this summer reading Philip K. Dick’s UBIK the book literally fell apart on me. The glue onn the spine had dried up and the folios inside started to detach. It’s kind of appropriate this should happen to UBIK because the novel is all about the deterioration of things—the way in which objects just don’t br…
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I haven’t done one of these in forever, so it’s time to get back on the wagon.
Blaugust 2026
Complete bust. I wrote 3 posts in 31 days. That’s actually more than I thought, but it wasn’t great. I haven’t done well blogging this year at all, so it’s not that much of a surprise. Maybe I can rectify that in the last half of the year. For those of you who participated in Blaugust 2026, hope you had a good time.
The App Ecosystm
I’ve continued to create new apps that help with parts of my life and wo…