I’ve continued to enjoy my time on Mastodon and have collected the things I boosted and shared during the past week.
I’ve continued to enjoy my time on Mastodon and have collected the things I boosted and shared during the past week.
Wait, What? has been one of the prime ways that I’ve kept up on comics for years and it’s coming to an end as a regularly scheduled podcast. I’ll miss having Graeme and Jeff talking about the comics industry, manga, and pop culture so much. I highly recommend their read throughs of Avengers, Judge Dredd and Fantastic Four.
In the past 25 years my home city of Halifax has had snow for Christmas about once every 3 years. In the 25 years from 1960-1984, it was about 2 in 3. As much as I am not fond of cold and snow, it’s deeply concerning that climate change has so radically changed our weather already. In the next 25 years we might barely see snow at all around Christmas.
In the 50s Galaxy Magazine had holiday covers featuring a Santa with 4 arms encountering even stranger aliens and often interacting with other Santas. The covers were made by Edmund Emshwiller and I marvel at them every year.
Cory Doctorow ran down some highlights from the upcoming Public Domain Day, when Sherlock Holmes fully enters the public domain and “I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice-Cream” can be recorded freely.
I’ve been playing around with Delta Chat, which leverages the ancient email technologies to do instant messaging. Everything happens on the device and email server, without third parties in the middle. If we’ve interacted, feel free to get in touch through it.
I have vivid memories of buying my first vinyl. I was visiting my first girlfriend on Prince Edward Island, where she went to college and we stopped in at a record store. I had been picking up CDs of Siouxsie and the Banshees when I could find them, but was thrilled to find these two. Being immersed in these in my last year of high school felt monumental.
This morning Celestine tried playing Dr. Luigi (Dr. Mario as it appeared on the Wii U). She takes to touch screen games well but struggles with gamepads, so the Wii U has been her gateway to Nintendo games alongside Super Mario Run.
