The Dog Solitude Jukebox
As promised, here's the sci-fi follow up to my fantasy RPG music post from early January. This time I'll share some of the music I listen to when making plans for characters and campaigns with a high tech level. One of my favorite bands of all time is the Japanese...
Really, No AI In Your Browser!
I was pleasantly surprised by our own hidden missives here, having learned from Steve about how the option to disable AI in Firefox is coming soon. I'd actually found a similar path for myself via a project called Just the Browser. On a desktop, it'll let you disable AI (and a...
Working On The Stakeholder Report
This annual report is something I've been doing for more than a decade now. Here's the last one, and links to earlier years are at the bottom. I'm getting started on the one for 2025. It's not going to be easy. Or fun! So very many things happened, and not...
I Note That Two Of Those 155 Million Are Mine
The Verge reports that the Nintendo Switch is the best-selling gaming console from Nintendo, with its 155-million units sold being enough to blast past the Nintendo DS. The Switch is in the number-two slot overall, behind the PlayStation 2 (since everyone knows that the future from now on is being...
Munchkin Second Edition Crowdfund Ends Today!
I'm not going to bury the lede here: The in-the-moment crowdfunding campaign of Munchkin Second Edition is ending soon on BackerKit. It's currently scheduled to wrap up sometime on Wednesday, but I believe BackerKit has a special process – the Backer Train – where the campaign keeps on going so...
Are We Entering The Age Of The Digital Symposium?
I recently found "Fighting Fire with Fire" to be an interesting read - it's tempting to push our workloads onto the various powerful and easily accessible AI chatbots out there, especially for students. What's a teacher to do? Build a digital Symposium, that's what. The article gives quite a...
Uh-Oh, It's Magnets . . . When I'm With USB
Here's a life hack I've used for a few years, and especially ramped up in the past couple of months since more of my gear has upgraded to USB-C: magnetic USB dongles. If you've ever messed with old-school MagSafe connectors on Apple laptops, the concept is familiar. The magnetic-dongles kit consists...
I Think More Infographics Should Do This
I'm not sure if you all will find this as amusing as I do, but check out the first 70 seconds or so of the Wikipedia file Alcohol prohibtion US since 1880.webm, with the sound on. I haven't stopped thinking about it since I saw it, and am inspired to...