2025 fantasy, 13 episodes, light novel series adaptation: AniDB. Lady Scarlet El Vandimion is cast off by the prince to whom she's been publicly engaged since childhood. Fortunately her skills include a lot of punching. vt May I Ask For One Final Thing?
More gaming with nearby friends.
2023 horror. When her next archaeological dig is postponed indefinitely, Sam moves in with her mother in grandmother's old house. But Mom is acting weird, and the place is even creepier than she remembers…
My ninth Airecon, and the eleventh anniversary. With images; cc-by-sa on everything.
There are many rants about AI. This one is mine.
1987 espionage comedy, dir. Elaine May, Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman: IMDb. The two hopeless lounge singers take the only gig they can get, in Morocco, but find themselves mixed up in a nearby revolution…
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved various sorts of string parsing. (Note that this ends today.)
Since the Americans have just had it again, and we will have it again soon…
2011 fantasy anthology: five stories of the Raksura.
2016 SF, first of what was announced as a trilogy but is now up to five volumes. Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. Then he gets hit by a car. Good thing he'd signed up for cryonics that morning…
2024 fantasy/comedy, 24 episodes: AniDB. Going down the dungeon is a full-time job, but you need to cycle your loot into money for equipment and food. Unless you can live off what you kill. vt Delicious in Dungeon.
I've just replaced a chunk of code I use for work with new versions written in Rust.
I am on the freebie list for the Bundle of Holding.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string parsing and subnet masks. (Note that this ends today.)
I have removed Amazon links from the site.
2023 historical fantasy-romance, third of its loose series. Tiffany Worthington has one job: to marry well and get out of her brother's household. This would be easier if paintings didn't come to life when she looked at them; and indeed if she didn't yearn for something more, while having no examples in her life of what that something more might be.
1994 mystery, fifth in its series. Sheila Malory spends a semester guest-lecturing at a small American university. Of course there are faculty politics, and in particular a hateful pair of brothers. But nobody is expecting one of them to be murdered, still less both… vr Detective In Residence.
1995 science fiction, dir. Kevin Reynolds, Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper: IMDb. The world is covered with water, but there's no shortage of hair product.
I went back to the IWM after some years away, and found myself rather disappointed by the way it's now set up.
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved character duplication and number to word conversion. (Note that this ends today.)