It was a crazy month for news, but this ain’t it.
Hobby pages are finally up (blog.eamonnmr.com)
Took me a while. I spend too much time documenting stuff on discord and not enough in places I can link. So here’s a bit of a remedy: photos of painted miniatures, organized by force.
The painting tutorial I learned the most from (YouTube.com)
This came up during a discussion of how to dealt with shakey hands while painting. I described a trick I learned a long time ago that reduces brush jitter. This is probably the painting tutorial that I’ve learned the most from. Watched it early in my wargaming career. Funny thing is, I’m just getting around to thinking about unloading my STAW ships. Ah well.
Pitchfork skewers a recent album (pitchfork.com)
Absolutely gruesome.
If Perry was willing to cop the built-in bad press of making a song about women’s lib with an alleged abuser, shouldn’t the song at least be a banger? Instead, it’s unfathomably tepid, irritating at best. In the immortal words of Sister Catherine Rose Holzman, uttered moments before she died: “Katy Perry, please stop.”
The Face Of Connecticut (70.91.221.154)
Yep, bare IP address. I won’t spoil my future review of it by explaining this one. It’s a forty year old geology book but it touches my heart in a unique way.
Bionicle’s original story guy set the record straight (alastairswinnerton.com)
Just though this was interesting. This guy’s contributions seem to sometimes eclipsed by Farshtey and Faber.
My very first Ubuntu bug (bugs.launchpad.net)
I’ve been using Ubuntu off and on since the aughts (I’m pretty sure my first install was Hardy Heron back in ’08) but I don’t believe I’ve ever had occasion to file a bug report before. I was trying to get Sheepshaver running on a fresh OS install, and discovered to my dismay that the padsp binary has disappeared. If anyone knows where it went or where I can find it, leave a comment!
https://predawka.bandcamp.com/album/erynias
erynias (predawka.bandcamp.com)
Excellent melodic Drill’n’Bass record from an artist you probably haven’t heard of before. I sure hadn’t. Reminds me of Fine Primitive Sounds a bit. Great sound design, great melodies, and the timing is impeccable, with no element overstaying its welcome.
Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown (onehundredpages.wordpress.com)
Bit mean, but very funny.
Study Reveals location of starfish’s head (news.stanford.edu)
I was wondering recently if we’d made any progress on Starfish development, and was not disappointed.