Posts and screams from the Somnolians.
So I've been working through the modern fantasy canon, mostly by hitting up used book sales and buying armfuls of mass market paperbacks. My shelf's now overloaded mostly with well-loved copies of the Dragonriders of Pern, ASOIAF, and Shannara, which means I need to start digesting the collection I spent tens of dollars on. Eragon was one of those books I picked up from a book sale, opting to give…
For my birthday last year , I dipped into a batch of network TV ads aired two days before I was born, on June 1, 1999, and picked out ten favorites to show you in particular. I really enjoyed it, and I only grow an extra number once a year, so let's make it a tradition. I have another batch of off-air commercial highlights from that day courtesy of OptimumPx , just as before, but whereas those…
Been a while since we've done one of these, huh? I've started soliciting them from the group again after the shuttering of our Icecast station meant no one could explore what music we're into that way (not that it wasn't massively out of date anyway). Nevertheless! The group has picked a song each that they're digging at the moment and given me a little blurb about it. We'll see if we can keep it…
One of these days, I'll write a review for a recent, relevant book, and it might finally get half as many clicks as me shitting on RF Kuang (I'm so sorry, Rebecca). I'd actually been sitting on plans to review The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi for a good year now. Trouble is, the more books and series I read like Book of The New Sun and Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings , the more my grading…
You know, when I wrote that initial post on PageMill , I wasn't expecting to find a new rabbit hole to go down every time I explore the CD-ROM. It's just happened that way! There's so much included on it, so many weird, forgotten relics of the 90s, software you can't find elsewhere, graphics from companies long gone, that I keep wanting to write about. For today's rabbit hole, I only ask you, my…
Just over a week ago, I wrote a blogpost about Adobe PageMill . The kinda tool that could only ever have existed in the mid-to-late-90s, PageMill was a boxed CD-ROM Web page builder, and I find it neat. Being an Adobe product, you can imagine it came loaded up with some Adobe extras (install Acrobat, dammit!), but some of those extras have sent me down an additional rabbit hole. Specifically, it…
I've built tons of websites over the past eight years, all by hand, clacking out HTML and CSS into Notepad++ or BBEdit and then assembling it with AutoSite, usually. Despite playing with WYSIWYG editors throughout my life, I've just never liked them. Eventually, I just get frustrated enough with their lack of control, wonky markup, and strange workflows that I start writing markup by hand again…
It’s been a month and a half since I graduated college, and just about a month since I last wrote on the blog. It’s been, well, January. Regardless, I feel it’s worthwhile recapping what I’ve been up to this month. Continue reading
What a year, eh? I m going to fall back on my favourite strategy of ignoring real life for a while and talk about my current fixation. On Christmas, Cammy put out marfGH: Volume 1 (yes, I m plugging here, too!). Just Continue reading
Oh… 2025!! Yeah, 2025, right?! What do you mean there s more after this?! It was certainly a strange year for me. Marks when I turned 20 years old (Oh God, I m gonna be 21 in 3 weeks and 1 day?!) Continue reading