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Mysery Cake at the Art Centre
Baffled and a little scared about this cake that appeared in the communal fridge at the art centre Soolagna teaches at last week. Soolagna’s assistant teacher’s name is Maha, my name is David and Soolagna just finished up a joint exhibition of her water colours. (See her pieces here!) Maha has no knowledge of it, none of the staff at the arts centre have any ideas. And a week later it still…
Helping a Stranger with a Strange Problem
I spend Sunday afternoons at a beautiful arts centre while S (my wife) teaches kid's how to make comics. I set my self up at the kitchen table that looks over the river and spend my time reading or tinkering around with computer things and mostly don't interact with anyone. Today was a bit different, later in the afternoon when it was starting to get darker and the rain was really bucketing down I…
Puzzmo is an unmissable part of my daily routine
Possibly the game I've played most this year is Puzzmo the newish (2023) daily puzzle platform by long time indie game designers Zach Gage and Orta Therox. Puzzmo offers a dozen or so games that update daily, stylistically similar to Wordle in that they are bite sized puzzles that aren't too demanding and can be solved in 2-10 minutes. The outlier and my favourite daily puzzle is Cross|word, a NYT…
Diablo 2 Is [Still] Great
Diablo 2 is a hugely popular game, if you played PC games in the early 2000s you almost certainly put some time into it. I first played it shortly after release, September-ish 2000 and the day we bought it I remember reading through the manual in the back of my parents car, we were on the way to see some quite religious relatives and I vividly remember being strongly encouraged to leave the manual…
our eggplant purple toyota spade is the best car we've owned
At the tail end of 2025 S (my wife) and I were in the market for a new car. For cars in our budget we were mostly finding uninspiring and boring ex-fleet options, sure they were practical but we really wanted something we were excited about so we'd actually be motivated to look after it. We widened our search with S's truly inspired search criteria of colour=purple and stumbled across this…