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I miss productivity, I hate the unskippable logos, I’m not a big fan of Steam, and it runs my laptop red hot, but wow is this game something.

Lunar: Silver Star Story

iPhone port of the classic SegaCD RPG. Still a wonderfully fun game.

Twitter users! Did you know I twit? Follow @EpithetADay for your daily epithet, courtesy of Matt Rasmussen.

The science podcast about monsters–delving deep into folklore, history, sociology, skepticism and more.

I swear, this is just research…

I would say the top five Spacehog songs are, in order:

The Meantime
I Want to Live
Beautiful Girl
Mungo City
Zeros

1914-1981. Struggling to understand Robert Aickman’s third-way psychological horror. Three used books on their way.

The blog is back online. Older posts will return as soon as I find a way to rescue them from my broken copy of Blosxom…

Twits

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At some point, most classical music start to sound to me like the "Bippity Boppity Boo Suite."

Does everyone else on Twitter get spam notifications about Lebron James? Including people like me who don't give a sh** about sports?

No one: …
Me: What song would work for a marching band and as a lullaby?

Can we just knock this sh** off with Americans pretending to have a British football club preference?

"…the released keepers give vent to their joyous feelings by lustily singing the refrain of a certain familiar song from which, in this benighted spot, one might reasonably have hoped to escape." F.G. Kitton, 1892 https://www.marquis-kyle.com.au/visittoeddystone.htm

Matt Rasmussen

The Space Toast Page, blogging since 1999

Civilization VI

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