Fred and Loathing on The Internet

Although the actual subject of this review is the 2024 TV series production of Shogun, I will be mostly talking about the novel it is based upon. Before we get onto my ramblings about Japan and fiction, I’ll give a summary appraisal of the series (I’ve watched up to episode 8 of 10). The show is...

Hey blog readers! We’ve got a colorful update. With outside data! None of my models is sourcing this update. I found a dataset on Kaggle that has the top 100 Spotify songs for 73 countries (across the past 3 months or so) that is updated daily. After a quick introduction to the Kaggle API, I...

A content only update. New comic in /comics. Huzzah!

Let’s get down to brass tacks. Reviews, and the thinly veiled windows into my tastes they are.

On the spooky season theme, we have the 1970s sci-fi Hollywood production of The Omega Man, very prominently starring a glistening...

Cascades of updates these days. I’ve gotten a taste for CSS so I’m doing what I can to make my website look like something somebody would pay for. I don’t necessarily like doing web design, but I do not want to pay anybody to do the job. I suppose I got that from my old man. If he could fix it...

The updates are fast and furious these past few days. They’ve all been mostly templating work, which is the easiest section to test. Well, except for testing to see how they will look on a vertically aligned display, like a phone. When my site’s pages do look good on a phone it is an accident....

That big data overhaul I allude to here and there- mostly in reports of my inaction - has got to happen. It will happen. I’m starting right now. I’m tired of trying to hunt down all the sloppy fixes I made that pop up whenever I try to improve something somewhat unrelated. My logic and data...