In the News (2026.09.20)
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In the News (2026.09.20)

Let's see what has been recently interesting on the internet shall we? New Old Games at Gamestop This is a bit older but apparently Gamestop, as part of some sort of "Retro initiative" is selling games for old systems. Physical games, for the NES, Dreamcast, Gameboy, etc. I mean, like half are a partnership probably with Limited Run games, but it's kind of neat. It does seem kind of funny that so little gets made for old systems still, but also not. Physical carts like this are expensive to make. And it's for a system that you can't even easily…
Weekly Wrap Up (2026.09.19)
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Weekly Wrap Up (2026.09.19)

Super slow this week, I guess it's that time of year or something. Or probably just, they can't all be bangers. Or something... So let's talk a bit about the garden. For basically the first time since moving here, almost ten years ago now, I am actually getting stuff from the garden. Granted, I didn't do the garden at first so it's been more like, 6 years. I have moved it around several places and added some protection and I have managed to deter the animals enough that I get the food and not them. Though they still get some…
Godzilla Egg Toys – Godzilla and Mothra
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Godzilla Egg Toys – Godzilla and Mothra

I feel like Godzilla and Eggs is kind of a weird crossover, but Godzilla is also one of those characters that gets a lot of random merch because its a pretty popular franchise. Especially among merch buying types. I have found these at Ross, but I remember seeing them before online and thinking they seemed neat in a weird way. There are four toys in the line, Godzilla, Mechagodzilla, King Ghidorah, and Mothra. I only have Godzilla and Mothra, but if I find the other two, I would pick them up. They are not super expensive at "non Ross" pricing,…
Twenty Five Some Odd Years of Linux Use
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Twenty Five Some Odd Years of Linux Use

Boy, I comment sometimes that I have "used Linux for ages". And I was looking at some past journal entries and found some from 2001 where I was complaining about Linux. I am not positive, but it may have been from my first time using it, or trying to. I mostly was just bitching about how Windows was better and Linux sucks. It's kind of funny how far I have come there, I run Linux probably more than Windows. If Fortnite ranin Linux I probably wouldn't run Windows at all. It seems like a dumb reason but games have been…
In the News (2026.09.13)
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In the News (2026.09.13)

Hopefully I remember it, but I had a good name for this but forgot it before I wrote it down. That's why I make these notes so I can better remember things. Anyway, I have decided to try something new here, maybe it will become a regular thing. Essentially the idea is to sort of talk about recent-ish random news stuff that I want to talk about. It doesn't even have to be from "last week" or "the upcoming week". Weekly Wrap Up on Saturday is looking back, these posts, will be a bit looking ahead. I don't plan for…
Weekly Wrap Up (2026.09.12)
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Weekly Wrap Up (2026.09.12)

No fun work trips this week, no exciting extra activities, just a fairly run of the mill week of the same old normal stuff. (Proceeds to post a long ass post) Except for the part where we had a bunch of dudes show and and tear the roof off and replace it at the house. Which I wasn't really around for because I had work. Not that I would have been doing much, the guy who gave us the quite said he has had entire jobs where he doesn't even meet with the people having the work done. Toys Ross…
Beast Box – BB-08 IceQube
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Beast Box – BB-08 IceQube

I figure it might be a fun contrast with last week's look at Beast Box Lovegun, with a much much simpler Beast Box item, the IceQube. This was the second of these Beast Box toys I picked up, quite a while ago. It's technically not just one figure, but four of them. Four little robot Penguins. It's one of my favorite things in my collection, because penguins are one of, if not my favorite, animals. They are just, goofy little cold birds. This set pretty much does everything you would expect penguins to do, stand around, lift their heads, flap…