Posts tagged "writing"

On AI Disclosure Policies For Games

A reasoned dissent from Epic CEO Tim Sweeney's emphatic take against AI disclosure policies for game developers.

Hallow's Leftovers 〜 Newsletter Leaf Journal CCCV

Leafy Canopy Welcome to the 305th edition of The Newsletter Leaf Journal, the official newsletter of the perennially virid online writing magazine, The New Leaf Journal (“NLJ”) and its short-form w...

Ten Predictions For the 2026 Kyushu Basho

I made predictions leading up to the July and September grand sumo tournaments. Before July’s Nagoya Basho I made picks for wrestlers who would notch 10 wins (I did so-so). For September’s Aki Bash...

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The Psychology of Letting Go

Some time ago I drafted an essay on cutting words from essays, intended for a cheesy writing contest, and never submitted it. I was thinking about this essay, languishing on my hard drive, as I was...

Feeling The Caffeine Wake Up Your Body

I drink caffeine. Like, a lot of caffeine. I have for a long time. Every once in a while I go on a ten-day caffeine fast to prune back my adenosine receptors, and when I start drinking coffee and y...

Mini-Review: A Lower Decks Comic Coda

After starting out strong with Ryan North writing, IDW’s Star Trek: Lower Decks comic series took in a limited series, a comic book gamebook, and a regular series. North would write the first six i...

All 47 Japanese Prefectures Have Produced a Sanyaku Sumo Wrestler

On October 28, 2026, I published Churanoumi Becomes First Sumo Wrestler From Okinawa to Reach Sanyaku. I cited to a news report in Mainichi as my source. While I discussed now-Komusubi Churanoumi a...

The Brink's-Mat Robbery

United Kingdom · 1983 · Heist — Six armed robbers used an insider and petrol threats to raid a Heathrow warehouse, accidentally uncovering and hauling away over three tons of gold bullion.

Revival of The Nihon Review

From late 2008 until 2017, I followed an anime review website called The Nihon Review. It died in 2017, but survived in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. I discussed the site, and offered a b...

Irritable

My irritability has been more rampant lately, which is a classic symptom of going through the antidepressant gauntlet. Every time I try a new one, I swing up. When I get manic, it turns me into, we...

Doctor Who: Seven’s Sonic Seasons, Part 10 – Lost Stories Special!

A little while back we took at the first season of The Lost Stories, Big Finish’s endeavour to take the scripts and concepts of Doctor Who serials which were worked on for television but never quit...

Slavdom Unearthed: Marian Wawrzeniecki’s Neopagan Paintings (1891–1923)

A neopagan visual archive meant to rival the iconic power of the Christian West.

Nuclear Bacon

On August 13, 2026, The Washington Free Beacon reported that Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed had, in 2023, compared bacon to plutonium. Back in college, a friend and I were talking to a yo...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 11-03-26

It is time for a special Election Day edition of the Pook-Emu Bee links. However, I do not have many election-themed links in my backlog after yesterday. I do have to vote, but we’ll deal with that...

Ditch the process maps with work unit routing analysis (WURA)

A guide for using WURA to make comparisons & draw conclusions across various kinds of processes, plus hints for how to incorporate it into your own work.

Tamawashi is an Anime Voice Actor

Yesterday, I wrote about how Tamawashi became the oldest sumo wrestler (41, turning 42 on November 16) to make his return to the top division (see my post). While looking for links to include in my...

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 11-02-26

My Pook-Emu Bee link backlog is growing with my continued failure to publish daily link collections. It is time to turn the tide. Hardware in Sam Altman’s World 1 | OpenAI CEO says it’s ‘quite terr...

Tamawashi (41) Becomes Oldest Sumo Wrestler to Return to Top Division

Tamwashi began the year as the oldest sumo wrestler in the top makuuchi division at 41. Unfortunately, his records of 5-10 in January and March and 2-13 in May saw him tumble from his M5e rank to s...

If I had to rewatch a TV anime 10 times in a row…

I came across the following writing prompt on the Umai Yomu Anime Blog: “If you HAD to rewatch an anime 10 times in a row, which anime would you choose? .” I ordinarily do not like these kinds of q...