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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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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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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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Christopherhimes.com
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Working throught some organizational stuff in JIRA at work. The level of nested items with Inititatives containing Epics and them containing Stories can be a little difficult to know the state of things. I have some ideas on how to flatten the reporting.
Practiced guitar a couple times.
Should have read through these classes earlier if for no other reason than getting the books ordered. Had to wait to get the reading done and then Thursday happened.
Thursday storms took out a third of…
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Hey There!
It's 66°F, Humidity 87%, Wind 9 mph NE, sunny
It's supposed to be a pretty pleasant weekend weather-wise. This morning is starting off right.
Yesterday was something of a mixed bag. After morning routine I went out for a walk, and took some pictures along the way, which is not my usual MO. I also ran into my friend and former colleague and his wife, who were doing some planting in the new Discovery Trail that was built in June. We chatted a bit, and I completed my walk.
When I got bac…
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Hey There!
It's 8:44 AM EDT, 71°F, Humidity 86%, Wind 5 mph NE, mainly clear
Yesterday was a bit of a return to normalcy. I went through my morning routine as per usual, but decided against a walk. I need to get out today, though, and get back started.
After my morning routine I started off by watching the condensed game. I am really starting to like watching condensed games on MLB.com. If I get more into the habit of this, perhaps I'd have more free time in the evening. To do what, I am not sur…
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Joelchrono's Blog
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August was a very interesting month, given the arrival of Blaugust, the summer vacation and a lot of my gaming progression done during all of it. I have recently realized how little I have to say about the month itself here when I keep saying a bunch of stuff for my weeknotes. For a while I’ve seen some people saying I should stick to either monthly or weekly stuff, and perhaps they have a point.
At the same time, I like this format quite a bit, so let’s get to the media I enjoyed during the las…
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Byte Vortex
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I won't do a rehash of the previous article that I wrote back in February of 2026. It was a very lengthy process and since its birth, I've updated some things. If you want to go read that, please do that now before continuing further in this post or you will be lost as hell.
With a lot of projects, testing, updating, re-testing, and improvements are bound to happen. This project is no different and 6 months later, it's time for an update post.
What did I add:
A new way to keep the token regenera…
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On every year’s day 1, I make a list of the things I’ve really enjoyed last year, including books, comics, movies, television, documentaries, reality shows, albums, agricultural products, useful items, delicious food, software, websites… you can find it here: yearly best.
Because this article is too late for Blaugust, I’ve listed them all together, haha.
Many of the works in it are from Japan, Europe(I read mostly Poland, France, UK, Portugal), USA, thanks to China’s subtitling groups and publis…
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Divergent Rays
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My weekly blog post. Links this week include the story of the brotherhood keeping mustard pure, a reverse Minesweeper game that involves planting sunflowers and an article about an exhibition of some weird and wild knitted things. I show off awesome dinosaur corn holders, talk about upcoming surgery, the 2025 Edward Gorey Envelope Art Contest and link to the Tiny Site Awards where voting is happening now. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
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For todays The DS106 Daily Create
Cliffe Fort, May 2016
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Aeish World Neocities
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If you are looking for new podcasts to listen to, or are curious to try one out... please browse my extensive catalogue. I have so, so many options.
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ComradeNerdy Blog
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As I mentioned, more new games that I couldn’t fit in my Friday segment spilled to Saturday stream. Just two games though, so not a big post here
Breathedge 2
Got early review access from the publisher, so trying it before it releases next week. With first game I had a complicated relationship – I started playing when it first release in Early Access with just the first chapter available and while humour was a bit hit or miss, I still enjoyed it. Later they released chapter two update and you ne…
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Push The Roll
I started listening to the Push the Roll Podcast with Ross Bryant. If you have any knowledge of the TTRPG Actual Play space, you know who Ross Bryant is, but if not, he’s an improviser who appears on Dropout.tv now and then. He’s unofficially known as The Greatest Role-Player In The World. Or something like that.
Anyway he started a kind of horror anthology podcast where he assembles a group of mid-tier TTRPG player staples and a special guest to play a Call of Cthulu one-shot wher…
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Inventory Full
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Joar of MMO Casual has a post up about tracking gaming hours. As I was saying only the other day, it's not a thing I've ever done, or not with any precision or intent, at least. I've always been happy enough with a rough estimate.
It used to be very easy, back when I was working something close to full time. I could add up evenings and weekends and come to something pretty close. Playing mostly one MMORPG at any given time made it easier to keep track, too.
Sidebar: I've actually not worked full…
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The Friendly Necromancer
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At first glance the patch notes for version five of Poetry Slammers don't seem all that large, but the pipeline for creating a new campaign circuit was deepening quite a bit. Whenever I added a new circuit, the following had to be created:
A campaign strip with three new venues
Separated building icons for each new venue
One themed exterior background
One themed interior background
15 new puzzles (five for each venue)
A new judge character
A new speaking animation set for the judge
A new slammer…
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JAG’s Workshop
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Back in 2019, Kirk Hamilton explored Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” for his Strong Songs podcast:
It takes an extremely strong song to top the charts three separate times in three separate decades, but “I Will Always Love You” is just such a song. Written and recorded (twice) by Dolly Parton and then re-recorded in show-stopping fashion by Whitney Houston, the ballad has morphed from a fond farewell to a former mentor, to a theatrical goodbye to a lover, to a soaring ode to the very not…
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Divergent Rays
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My weekly blog post. Links this week include a map of all the deaths that have occurred in the Grand Canyon, a source for audio-only files of TV shows and movies and a prototype for a game where you walk through an ASCII city. I've got some info regarding a cool upcoming science talk and a flash sale for a cross stitch site that's selling their whole catalog for extremely cheap. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.
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給博客添加純文本版本
看了 wiwi 的 偷偷加入的功能 (另見 Zine#54) 我也給博客的文章添加了純文本版本，你可以在每篇文章的底部找到純文本版本的連結，也可以將頁面 URL 的 .html 換成 .txt 訪問純文本版本 (如果換成 .org 就能看到文章的原始文件)。最近看到 Wiwi.Blog 純文字版，我也跟著做了一個 純文本版本的索引頁。
純文本的好处是極簡，基本上就是文字，沒有其它干擾元素，其次是體積小，在網絡不好時也能較快的加載 (不過網絡條件不好，和服務器建立連結也需要時間，能節省的是頁面需要的流量)。
製作純文本版本，只要將原始文件想辦法轉成 txt 版本就好了 (現在只是轉換成了 HTML)，然後給所有的 txt 文件做一個索引頁 (建議掛載在 /txt 這個路徑下)，基本上就够用了。
我的博客是用 org-publish 和 denote 構建的，接下來我會分享我是如何通過它們給博客添加純文本版本的，包擴：
將原始 org 文件轉換出一個 txt 版本
給每個頁面添加對應的純文本版本連結
製作索引頁
相關代碼可以在 init-org-publish.el…
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Lucky Instar
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August 21, 2026
I'm back with you today on another episode of "small brown mammal I've never heard of".
infinite small mammals are found in the tropics. source.
required listening for today: Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne.
Chevrotains are small mammals in the order Artiodactyla and the family Tragulidae, and are also called mouse deer. They are the smallest hooved animals that exist. Kind of funny that there are also deer mice, which are a group of mice species.
Mouse deer are restricted to Africa…
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Resonant Arc
Resonant Arc create the gaming podcast/YouTube series State Of The Arc. While they do episodes on various topics, the main focus of the series is long-form book-club style analysis of video game stories. They play through a game over several episodes and talk about the game’s narrative, characters, themes, and storytelling devices as the game unfolds.
The two hosts Mike and Casen each bring an interesting perspective. Mike is a writer himself, and also has a history of struggles wit…
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The Maker Dad
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If you've made a list, or you're thinking about making one, for getting your maker business off the ground, tonight's episode is for you. I went through my own personal checklist on stream, the one I'm actually using to get things started, and I want to share it with you. Not because it's the "correct" way to do it. There isn't really a correct way. But there are some steps that have to happen before others, and figuring out that order matters more than I expected.
Step One: The Business Name
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Contains Moderate Peril
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The initial podcast boom, which began circa 2005, started as an audio only medium. One of the reasons podcasting became so popular, especially among the fan community, was that you could get away with relatively low production standards. Anyone who had access to a basic microphone and a PC, could produce a show and upload it to iTunes, which was the primary platform at the time. Listeners were forgiving back then. Twenty years later and podcasting has been on a tempestuous journey. It started wi…
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The Friendly Necromancer
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Well, I stayed home from work today because I felt sick. I wasn't sure what I had, but I was pretty sure I picked up whatever-it-was from my boss last Thursday. He was hacking and sniffling, and my desk is near his. Friday I went and had a COVID shot, not because I was afraid of getting COVID, but because my oncologist suggested that I do so because there was a study saying cancer patients going through immunotherapy increased the effectiveness of the immunotherapy by getting one. Long story sho…
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Gamers Esoteric
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Intensity
Some might say my game has an intensity when it comes to situations in expeditions. I don't know for sure, since my playtesters haven't actually come across an expedition where they were faced with some sort of strained choice. There were a few close calls, one being a Digosfrag and the other a Porcelain Seer. One group killed the Digosfrag outright, while the other convinced it that they weren't a viable host. As for the Porcelain Seer, it never escalated far enough to trigger that fi…