“Aardman Is Selling Its Original Movie Puppets This Month”: the prices are petty high, so only look at the auction website if you (A) have a whole lot of money to spare or (B) are ready to be sad.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
The UN has voted for phasing out the Mercator projection in favour of the Equal-Earth projection. The resolution passed 164 to 1 with 6 abstentions. I’ll let you guess which country voted against.
The good fluffy boy had fun in the 30-foot pool at Lynn Canyon yesterday morning.
It makes sense that a wastewater treatment plant has become a total shit-show.
My wife: <starts a movie we ripped from a DVD>
Our kid: “Why is the picture quality not very good?”
The park rangers at Lynn Canyon are desperately trying to prevent people from stupidly hurting themselves… every year the signs and fences seem to be slightly tweaked and adjusted.
I took the good fluffy boy to Lynn Canyon early this morning, he was very very happy.
From the delightful “Old School FRP” blog, an ad from Lou Zocchi’s Gamescience announcing D10s numbered in increments of ten “to eliminate once and for all arguments over which die is read first for percentages”. I’m surprised this only appeared in 1990!
The Canadian Chronicles are coming soon… three tales of horror for Call of Cthulhu, made and set in Canada 🇨🇦 and releasing at KamCon! The scenarios are written by Francis Acquarone, Patrick Chandler, and myself.
This upcoming CppCon 2026 panel looks very interesting: the designers of C++, C#, and Python (my 3 most-used programming languages) together on stage, talking about language design. I hope it will be recorded and posted online not too long after.