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Comic book legend Sal Buscema, age 89 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/sal-buscema-co-creator-of-rom-the-defenders-has-died-aged-89/

Seen on FB...

ICU Nurse Alex Pretti, Age 37 https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/ice-in-minnesota/man-shot-and-killed-by-federal-agents-identified-as-alex-pretti/89-e53a862d-56cc-4b63-bf00-238bdc7cd807

I am all over a nice hardcover edition or set of the six books in the original order!

There were a couple of her Tey ones that I liked overall, I liked her writing style in several of them, and I liked the building up of the faux characters and drawing on real history. What was getting me was the continual coincidences of being right there for murders and killers (as opposed to...

Read Nicola Upson's "The Christmas Clue", a fictional take on the real creators of the board game Cluedo / Clue and its creation. It was a fine novelette if one wants a Christmas themed mystery, but wasn't spectacular. Had to order it through Amazon UK, but being on sale made up for the extra...

Now it's down to just a few inches projected (like we might get in a storm once every five years or so) which we can deal with... unless the rest is frozen rain. Will be interesting to see where this roulette wheel of forecasts stops on Saturday.

In any case, I don't think South Carolina is ready for 20 inches of snow... (or the equivalent freezing rain, or combination thereof).

Hi-Wire Brewing's 10W-40 Mexican Hot Chocolate. Really good with just the right heat.

Me and my sister used to have them a lot. And my son did starting very young and repeatedly. I hope you find something that works! (For us it was eventually getting tubes in. and I don't remember if I ever had any after that (certainly not many) - although back then they commonly took the...

Elsewhere. I really hoped that was the Onion!

Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin at age 86. https://www.waka.com/2026/01/13/civil-rights-pioneer-claudette-colvin-dies-at-86/

I misread that the first time, and it reminded me of a bard in one game that fled the party and spread awful rumors about them to places he knew they were planning to go next.

I'm now wondering how this could be used in conjunction with something like 13th Age's Icon system...

Just saw this about Amazon's Mechanical Turk: https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13428-025-02852-7 If you haven't heard of this MTurk before, a post on using it for surveys is at: https://blog.mturk.com/getting-started-with-surveys-on-mturk-e2eea524c73 A Bluesky thread on the "Why you...

It feels like it's rare to find Phil Harris (Little John and Baloo) playing something where he isn't pretty close to his persona on the Jack Benny Show or Phil Harris & Alice Faye radio shows (well, there is much less alcohol in his Disney roles I guess).