This post at Golden Age Comic Book Stories got me thinking about the late great Virgil Finlay. Here’s a smattering of his work. First up is a painting that you can actually buy if you’ve got a spare $11,500 sitting around. I think the title is “Sean Connery takes the brown acid”: Here’s a couple [...]

So the venerable G5 tower of power has been having some disk issues lately. Program hangs, system hangs, general weirdness. Did a little troubleshooting, and it went beyond what disk utility or even Disk Warrior could fix. Finally cracked the case so I could move the drive to a firewire enclosure for more testing, and [...]

Due to a change in Philippine customs policies, the importation of books into the Philippines has come to a halt. Robin Hemley writes the long version of the story at McSweeney’s, and there’s additional coverage here. It seems a customs official asked an importer to pay duty on a shipment of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. [...]