A PSA . . .
Friday afternoon I received a call from someone who claimed to be with the Fraud Department at my financial institution. They asked if I had just tried to make a purchase in the amount of [redacted] at the [redacted] store located in [redacted]. I had not. They didn't think I...
A Waste Of Time?! I Say Thee Neigh!
If you're looking to spend a few minutes . . . ummm . . . horsing around, I can recommend gradient.horse. This site by Michail Rybakov lets you draw a horse – regardless of artistic ability – and send it into a virtual gradient world. There it will run alongside...
Check Out These Zines!
We are well into Zine Month / Zine Quest / Zinetopia . . . and I have two friends whose projects are close to funding! I'm excited about both of these projects and have personally backed them – and I thought I'd plug them here and hope that some of our lovely...
Munchkin Second Edition By The Numbers
We're catching our breath after the end of our incredibly successful Munchkin Second Edition crowdfunding campaign on BackerKit. As the dust is settling (briefly), we're looking at some of the more-interesting numbers to emerge from this campaign. To wit . . . • $371,613 – That's the grand total. (Obviously...
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...