# time life (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover time life. Page: Feed: --- ## [Planetocopia is Gone!](https://davidmcgee.xyz/planetocopiaisgone/) _2026-08-21 · davidmcgee · Dave's Freeloading Webpage_ Chris Wayan's Planetocopia is one of my favorite things on the internet. The author made up fictional planets with weird geology. And he tried to give them scientifically plausible climates and biospheres, along with beautifully weird aliens. 1 And he made real globes for them! Who makes real globes for their worldbuilding project? It was also very well-written, to a degree that internet projects… ## [The Homophobic Street Preacher as a Silly Little Guy](https://davidmcgee.xyz/the-homophobic-street-preacher-as-silly-little-guy/) _2026-08-19 · davidmcgee · Dave's Freeloading Webpage_ As walked back from lunch, my friends and I encountered an itinerant preacher. He was a bit more bellicose than is usual, which is saying something. He had a megaphone, and he was using it to proclaim that queer people deserve to be tortured for eternity. Everyone apparently knew this was just, because God's law was written on our hearts. 1 He was holding a large banner. One side displayed the ten… ## [I Seriously Doubt College is the Best time of Your Life](https://davidmcgee.xyz/i-seriously-doubt-college-is-the-best-time-of-your-life/) _2026-08-16 · davidmcgee · Dave's Freeloading Webpage_ I occasionally hear middle-aged people wax nostalgic about how great college was. Often, they say it was the best time of their life. This has always seemed odd to me. I'm sure many people are happiest in university, but I have a hard time believing it's a general trend. College is certainly better than primary or secondary school. Those are bizarre artificial environments which seem engineered to… ## [Analyzed 35+ mermaid movies and here's what I found 🧜‍♀️🐚](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/analyzed-35-mermaid-movies-and-heres) _2026-08-15 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Find out what the most popular mermaid hair color is (and much more)! ## [All the movies I watched in July 🎬🍿](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/all-the-movies-i-watched-in-july) _2026-08-11 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ There are multiple thirst watches in this, and I'm not ashamed. ## [Shadow People are not Mysterious](https://davidmcgee.xyz/shadow-people-are-not-mysterious/) _2026-08-10 · davidmcgee · Dave's Freeloading Webpage_ My last job, I had a coworker who thought it was very mysterious that so many people saw shadow people. A shadow person is a threatening dark figure people occasionally hallucinate, usually during sleep paralysis or after taking too many antihistamines. Now that I think about it, this is not mysterious at all. A shadow person is the simplest possible threatening hallucination. It's basically… ## [Allegory makes the Song of Songs Weird](https://davidmcgee.xyz/allegory-makes-the-song-of-songs-weird/) _2026-08-10 · davidmcgee · Dave's Freeloading Webpage_ In and of itself, the Song of Solomon is not particularly weird. It's a wholesome erotic poem, mostly told as a dialogue between two young lovers. Sure, some of it sounds odd to modern ears. The man sees some analogy between fawns and his girlfriend's breasts, and he apparently thinks this is terribly sexy. But I have faith it made sense at the time. Will your steamy texts make sense in three… ## [Let’s Get Loud vol. 6](https://www.signalstation.com/lets-get-loud-vol-6/) _2026-08-09 · M Van Vleet · signalstation_ Let’s Get Loud vol. 6 – Those Damn Signals – A short mix of noisy electronic music. Only up for a limited time. Tracklist is in the id3 tags. ## [Cooking Tips for the Young Bachelor](https://davidmcgee.xyz/cooking-tips-for-the-young-bachelor/) _2026-08-08 · davidmcgee · Dave's Freeloading Webpage_ There are truths, universally acknowledged, which every young person will soon learn about food. Paper plates save much time washing dishes. Dominoes has gotten much better since you were a child, Pizza Hut has gotten worse. If you make a mediocre batch of homebrew, your friends will still guzzle it up, because they are mentally comparing it to Coors Light and vodka. But, there are many less… ## [The Car I Want (The Car I Deserve?)](https://davidmcgee.xyz/the-car-i-want-the-car-i-deserve/) _2026-08-04 · davidmcgee · Dave's Freeloading Webpage_ I have two fantasies involving cars. On the one hand, I wish I owned a Mercury Colony Park. Historians are unsure which car Christ drove, 1 but I tend to think it was a Mercury Colony Park. From an aesthetic perspective, the Mercury Colony Park simply is the ideal car. Yet, this longing will never be satisfied. Ere I was born, the Mercury Colony Parks grew old and world-weary. So they sailed to… ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/TdaXWYUTudWl) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [LLMs Will Plausibly make people Less Conspiratorial](https://davidmcgee.xyz/llms-will-plausibly-make-people-less-dumb-and-conspiratorial/) _2026-08-03 · davidmcgee · Dave's Freeloading Webpage_ I have known a lot of conspiracy theorists. I spent much of my teens in the American homeschooling subculture, which exposes one to the lunatic fringe of evangelical conservatism. 1 I encountered some vanilla conspiracies which hardly register as weird to me anymore. The 2020 election was apparently stolen, vaccines gave all of us the autism. 2 Jet fuel, I was oft assured, cannot melt steel beams.… ## [So Someone You Know Is Having the Worst Time of Their Life…](https://www.signalstation.com/so-someone-you-know-is-having-the-worst-time-of-their-life/) _2026-08-01 · M Van Vleet · signalstation_ The woman I was married to for almost 30 years passed away suddenly. As I’m writing this, it was just weeks ago. I am having the worst time of my life and I don’t think anyone else should experience this without some help and advice. If I can give any advice from my experience that… Continue reading So Someone You Know Is Having the Worst Time of Their Life… ## [The Signal: EP209](https://www.signalstation.com/the-signal-ep209/) _2026-07-31 · M Van Vleet · signalstation_ The Signal: EP209 – Exactly 45 minutes of sounds. A miracle, all things considered. A return to form after our longest pause ever, fueled in part by crushing grief and an attempt to crawl our way back to normalcy. We’ve got a Native American cover version, mournful electronica and vaporwave, German jazz weirdness, drum &… Continue reading The Signal: EP209 ## [Peach Cider: A Swing and a Miss](https://davidmcgee.xyz/peach-cider-a-swing-and-a-miss/) _2026-07-27 · davidmcgee · Dave's Freeloading Webpage_ I recently brewed some hard peach cider (I think peach and apple taste good together). I used three quarts of sweet cider and one quart of peach juice, used wine yeast because I didn't feel like buying a dedicated cider yeast. Forgot to record the starting gravity, but it was in the 5-7% range, about where you expect ciders to be. I bottled it yesterday. It's not terrible, but it's not great… ## [Papillon, 2007](https://www.signalstation.com/4178-2/) _2026-07-27 · M Van Vleet · signalstation_ In May of 2007, Amanda and I went to a French restaurant named Papillon for our anniversary. I wrote about the experience on Yelp, but didn’t include everything. Here’s the rest from an email I sent a friend: Amanda and I went out for a two year wedding anniversary dinner last night to a French restaurant… Continue reading Papillon, 2007 ## [That one time I traveled all the way to Oklahoma for the Edith Head costume exhibit](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/that-one-time-i-traveled-all-the) _2026-07-26 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Here's everything I learned! ## [Not All Bad Content is Slop](https://davidmcgee.xyz/not-all-bad-content-is-slop/) _2026-07-24 · davidmcgee · Dave's Freeloading Webpage_ Awhile ago, I heard someone describe a bad Newgrounds animation as slop. This seemed wrong to me at the time, but I had trouble articulating why. I think I can now. Slop is not merely bad content, nor is it merely low-effort content. Non-professional singing is often bad, and it is typically quite low-effort, but it is certainly not slop. Neither is a child's drawing. A let's play can be quite… ## [The Unread Personal Blog as a Vital Disability Accommodation](https://davidmcgee.xyz/the-unread-personal-blog-as-a-vital-disability-accommodation/) _2026-07-17 · davidmcgee · Dave's Freeloading Webpage_ Special interests are the most easily depathologized facet of autism, but they can still make one's life more difficult than it needs to be. Recently, a friend's reputation suffered because he spent four hours nonconsensually telling his coworkers about anime. I could regale you with many similar stories from my life, but that would unearth many cringeworthy memories. And I can't do that on a… ## [Most Christians have never Accepted your Theology](https://davidmcgee.xyz/most-christians-have-never-accepted-your-theology/) _2026-07-15 · davidmcgee · Dave's Freeloading Webpage_ In theological discussions, people will often say "most Christians accepted such and such a theological position" or "most Christians read this part of the Bible such and such a way." But this is rarely true. Throughout history, the vast majority of Christians have been illiterate, and thus had no chance to read the Bible. Of course, most of them heard plenty of it in church, but who knows how… ## [The Block Game I Want (The One I Deserve?)](https://davidmcgee.xyz/the-block-game-i-want-the-one-i-deserve/) _2026-07-15 · davidmcgee · Dave's Freeloading Webpage_ When I was a kid, sandboxy block games were all the rage. But, you basically had to choose between Minecraft and Shitty Knockoffs of Minecraft. 1 A few of them were fairly high quality and creative. But, generally, " Minecraft clone" meant "derivative slop." So far as I can tell, this is no longer the case. If you want to play " Minecraft but it's good at being a survival game," you can play… ## [Non-custodial Crypto Payments & Escrow (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/X229bphQDv0I) _2026-07-15 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto with trustless escrow, instant confirmations, and no KYC ## [All the movies I watched in June 🎬🍿](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/all-the-movies-i-watched-in-june) _2026-07-09 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Period dramas + Robert Mitchum reigns supreme this month ## [In defense of Mary Bennet's red dress](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-mary-bennets-red-dress) _2026-07-02 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Pairing crimson with spring green is a choice, but it's Mary's choice ❤️💚 ## [The Hardest Update](https://www.signalstation.com/the-hardest-update/) _2026-06-26 · M Van Vleet · signalstation_ For years now, I’ve been maintaining a mailing list of friends and family to whom I send a monthly update. Just a little thing, created in the wake of deleting our Facebook account, which otherwise allowed people to passively keep up with what we were doing. We needed to let them know directly, instead. This… Continue reading The Hardest Update ## [7 horror movies to add to your summerween watchlist 🎃👻](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/7-horror-movies-to-add-to-your-summerween) _2026-06-24 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ For when you want to be both scared and sweaty at the same time. ## [The Worst Time of My Life: Total Dear Diary](https://www.signalstation.com/the-worst-time-of-my-life-total-dear-diary/) _2026-06-22 · M Van Vleet · signalstation_ My better half is gone. This was always my favorite photo of her. She was my favorite person. ## [All the movies I watched in May 🎬🍿](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/all-the-movies-i-watched-in-may) _2026-06-02 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ "As if under a spell or hypnotized... she couldn't escape." ## [So, you want to start collecting Criterions?](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/so-you-want-to-start-collecting-criterions) _2026-05-21 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Consider this your ultimate beginner's guide 🎬💿✨ ## [Why I built wrkflw](https://blog.gokuls.in/posts/why-i-built-wrkflw.html) _2026-05-18 · bahdotsh · bah_ I got tired of pushing 'fix ci' commits, and somehow that turned into a local GitHub Actions runner. ## [Sabrina Carpenter's MET Gala outfit is every cinephile's dream](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/sabrina-carpenters-met-gala-outfit) _2026-05-06 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Plus why her film reference ties into the theme 📽️ ## [All the movies I watched in April🎬🍿](https://gimmepuffsleeves.substack.com/p/all-the-movies-i-watched-in-april) _2026-05-03 · Cathy · East Coast Video Club_ Just me (unsuccessfully) trying to fill a Dr. Abbott shaped gap in my heart ## [Know before it drops (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/b0kjUEgHV5ec) _2026-05-03 · **Sponsored**_ Follow a show, artist, genre or rocket and get notified before release ## [The Signal: EP208](https://www.signalstation.com/the-signal-ep208/) _2026-03-05 · M Van Vleet · signalstation_ The Signal: EP208 – Exactly 45 minutes of tunes, coming along a little slow, but getting there, getting there in the end. This time out we’ve got bouncy pop music from the land of video games, alt rock from the oughts, egg punk, French Canadian experimental rock, reggae, modal instrumentals from Egypt, dub music and… Continue reading The Signal: EP208 ## [Safety First, Safety Second, Coolness Third](https://www.signalstation.com/safety-first-safety-second-coolness-third/) _2026-01-23 · M Van Vleet · signalstation_ I have been lucky enough to run RPGs for tables of strangers at various convention events, including running some with strong horror themes. If you’re going to play with themes that can genuinely ruin someone’s mood, it’s important to make sure everyone at the table feels safe before we start terrorizing their characters. And that… Continue reading Safety First, Safety Second, Coolness Third ## [The Signal: EP207](https://www.signalstation.com/the-signal-ep207/) _2025-12-25 · M Van Vleet · signalstation_ The Signal: EP207 – Exactly 45 minutes of tune for snoozy heads and dreamers! This time out we’ve got choral glitches, dubby blues and Vietnamese pop, funk, Bollywood-inspired butt-shaking music, and more! Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the… Continue reading The Signal: EP207 ## [The Signal: EP206](https://www.signalstation.com/the-signal-ep206/) _2025-11-04 · M Van Vleet · signalstation_ The Signal: EP206 – Exactly 45 minutes of tunes for the modern era, jam-packed with the sort of tunes that would make a Neanderthal kiss a mammoth or make a conquistador weep for his mama. (You see why we only target the modern era now.) We’ve got senses-shattering club bangers, a throw-back mash-up, soul, 90s… Continue reading The Signal: EP206