This week’s Big News for Gamers is that Wizards of the Coast is releasing a new edition of Dungeons & Dragons in 2024. That isn’t an entirely accurate statement, as the design team is adamant that this is less of a “new edition” and more of a refinement, but even in this first release there […]
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I have wanted to tell stories since I was a little kid. I might even still have a comic book I wrote and (terribly) illustrated about a literal rock star astronaut. My sister and I did a few strips of a heavily Calvin and Hobbes inspired comic called Space Chief. I remember running around in […]
The video is grainy and has a low frame rate, resulting in jerky, poorly tracked motions, but the action is easy to follow as GG slithers down to the foot of her bed, slides out past the roll bars, and shuffles towards the bathroom door. We would be proud of her for moving so quickly […]
I turned 37 today and I’ve mostly managed to not panic. Mostly. I took today off from my chess coaching work to relax a bit and allow myself time to do something I haven’t done regularly for almost three years: Write. It felt great. I lay in bed for about an hour longer than I […]
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Breaking the Battery Bank
I’ve been studying going solar for energy savings and disaster prep… and even with recent improvements in battery capacity things are looking rough. We use about 100KWH a day… Sometimes a lot less, but sometimes a lot more. Yeah, that’s a lot, but our in-law suite alone is almost the size of my old house. […]
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Dogwood Flower
One of a series of photos I took to experiment with a new macro lens from Moment. I was rather displeased with the zoom and wide angle lenses, but the macro offering was very good and enabled me to get several shots that would have been tricky to impossible with the built in macro mode […]
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A Bad Night
It was a bad night. I slept in the living room and woke every hour to give Papap the morphine and antihallucinogens which were the only thing keeping the night terrors at bay as his body finally shut down. He passed the next afternoon.
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Marshy Point Lone Tree
Rising from a field in marshlands of eastern Maryland, this dying tree stood alone against the cold springtime sky. I find myself drawn more and more towards black and white photography. Not exclusively, but I do prefer it. The starkness of these branches against the sky stands out all the more in this version of […]
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FEED ME
The local birds built a lot of nests this spring, including these Robins who built in a pine tree in our front yard. We wanted to take the pines down, so I kept a careful eye on all of the nests to make sure that we didn’t cut the trees until the birds had finished […]
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Tumbling Lobby
Walking the streets of Chicago early in the morning, we stopped for coffee at a small independent roaster. Two cups of Americano later, I snapped this shot of the building lobby. The choice to tilt it came late. Between the use of rough timber construction and the angle at which I had to stand in […]