A Lovely Harmless Monster – Blog

• Almost fell in a Well, Actually — August 21, 2026
• Five Card Janken: a poker variant I thought of in a dream — August 18, 2026
• Matabash: an image beautifier and status updater for Mataroa — August 14, 2026
• My first and last day as an "AI artist" — August 10, 2026
• Pascal's Yahtxxee, or why I don't worry about very improbable things — August 9, 2026
• No, "AI" will never become conscious — August 4, 2026
• Fundraiser update, donation incentives — August 1, 2026
• Fundraiser post — July 30, 2026
• Why is bowling scored like that? And how I would fix it — July 27, 2026
• On the fence about Blaugust this year — July 21, 2026
• Fake medicine in the US is even less regulated than supplements — July 18, 2026
• Riddles are bad — July 4, 2026
• How to respond to criticism — July 2, 2026
• When and why did video games become "for children" in the US? — June 30, 2026
• Who invented the pause button? Jerry Lawson did — June 26, 2026
• I made another game — June 20, 2026
• You don't need to include February in the "30 days has September" poem — June 10, 2026
• A questionnaire — May 24, 2026
• I've disabled comments — May 17, 2026
• Debianniversary — April 28, 2026
• Caption contest #987 analysis — April 27, 2026
• A bum rap from the Slop Cop — April 24, 2026
• I recommend frozen apple juice concentrate — April 23, 2026
• Caption contest #986 analysis — April 20, 2026
• Caption contest #985 analysis — April 13, 2026
• Effective altruists and longtermists should be adopting children — April 11, 2026
• Cartoon Caption Contest — March 31, 2026
• My top 24 NES games list is very weird — March 28, 2026
• Game Badges update 170➔175: Doors of Doom, Ever Oasis, RPG Maker 2003, etc — March 16, 2026
• Post-creation blues — March 12, 2026
• My RPG is done! — March 1, 2026
• I can't stop starting new projects — February 13, 2026
• Project progress; compilation culture — February 6, 2026
• Reviewing every track on Visionaire No. 53: Sound (Various Artists, 2007) part 1 — January 30, 2026
• Big new project in the works — January 23, 2026
• New reasons to love CX File Explorer; X-Men film re/watch; a new StumbleUpon sighting? — January 16, 2026
• Reviewing Every Track on "Freaks of Nature" (Various Artists, 1997) — January 9, 2026
• Let's Not Romanticize Cable TV — January 4, 2026
• Game Badges update 165➔170: Hook, Super Metroid, Ys 1, etc — November 10, 2025
• Splitting your JSON with sed and csplit; a correction regarding slugs — October 25, 2025
• Migrating from bearblog to mataroa — October 22, 2025
• How much salt to add to the water when you cook pasta/spaghetti — October 21, 2025
• How to sort of fix a gamepad — October 20, 2025
• A useful batch script; work update — October 18, 2025
• SkuDingBo - Bingo meets Sudoku — October 15, 2025
• 🚧 I have imported my old blog posts 🚧 — October 13, 2025
• Burnout, moving the blog, a new creative project — October 12, 2025
• Three things I recently learned about myself — August 29, 2025
• I would like to stop posting every day but I can't yet — August 28, 2025
• Dear Google: I will never see another one of your ads — August 27, 2025
• August is a busy month — August 26, 2025
• Wow, I've got nothing today — August 25, 2025
• The 10 best rock songs of the last 25 years? — August 24, 2025
• Hillsfar: not good — August 23, 2025
• Small Good Things — August 22, 2025
• Books - finishing the Parker trilogy; Antkind — August 21, 2025
• Today’s post is a rerun from 2005 — August 20, 2025
• I saw Bagfoot; humans are not designed to M; new calendar meta — August 19, 2025
• My fire alarm went off at 05h00 — August 18, 2025
• Anniversary day, mid-Blaugust check-in — August 18, 2025
• Respect to (1) black cats and (2) classic films — August 17, 2025
• The forgotten history of the 45box format — August 16, 2025
• Water cooler tech nobody needed or asked for — August 14, 2025
• Misc. updates - Gauntlet, Parker, Linux, Work — August 13, 2025
• Quick suggestion for people who write account recovery questions — August 12, 2025
• Mp3s are still good — August 11, 2025
• My Sunday shift was okay — August 10, 2025
• Had a relaxing day at work for once; what I've been reading — August 9, 2025
• Dialing 9 for an "outside line" was a UX disaster — August 8, 2025
• Do I like country music? An investigation — August 7, 2025
• Today I learned there’s a band called "Diamond Rio" that predates the Mp3 player — August 6, 2025
• I need to fix my website — August 5, 2025
• Forgot my flash drive today — August 4, 2025
• Can Gauntlet II be soloed? — August 3, 2025
• I read my first crime novel — August 2, 2025
• I think headlamps should be more of a thing — August 1, 2025
• Happy Blaugmas Eve — July 31, 2025
• Overcoming friction, gearing up for #Blaugust — July 25, 2025
• Imgur is dead — July 15, 2025
• Mid-July update, slow reading, 5 more game badges — July 12, 2025
• I've been having Kafka dreams — July 4, 2025
• Really Simple Syndication ain’t so simple — June 30, 2025
• My front in the Robot Wars — June 26, 2025
• Clearing up my name situation — June 24, 2025
• Game Badges update! 155➔160 — June 22, 2025
• Someone finally made a good linux terminal editor. It was Microsoft — June 19, 2025
• Comments are now open — June 17, 2025
• Work is annihilating my soul — June 13, 2025
• Got a lot accomplished this laundry day — June 8, 2025
• Weird things I want — June 3, 2025
• May books - technofeudalism, tuberculosis, polyamory — June 1, 2025
• Brain ups and downs — May 27, 2025
• Debian is my smoothest Linux experience yet — May 22, 2025
• My headphones keep crashing — May 19, 2025
• Why my titles are terrible, and what I intend to do about it — May 15, 2025
• Sunny Merch Now Available! — May 12, 2025
• Ren and Stimpy — May 11, 2025
• Blind spots — May 8, 2025
• Android browsers are weird — May 6, 2025
• Neurodivergence — May 5, 2025
• The L.A. Noire Video Didn’t Hit — May 3, 2025
• Stop Using Relative Timestamps — May 1, 2025
• IP Theater, Congrats to Rabbit, Bloggodynamism — May 1, 2025
• Website, kiki, brain — April 29, 2025
• Kiki URL Rewrites With Managed Hosting — April 26, 2025
• Coding as a craft — April 26, 2025
• A foolish blunder — April 25, 2025
• There's a new action button video — April 21, 2025
• Whirltube — April 19, 2025
• New Work Computer — April 17, 2025
• Linux pause — April 16, 2025
• Stuff I was wrong about — April 15, 2025
• Linux Mint — April 14, 2025
• I hate the person Linux turns me into — April 13, 2025
• I'm doing technology — April 7, 2025
• Overextension extension — April 6, 2025
• Massively overdid it yesterday — April 3, 2025
• Walking the archipelago; or, couch to 1080p — April 1, 2025
• Sunday Links 23 — March 30, 2025
• Sunny finds the World Shelf — March 24, 2025
• Sunday Links 22 — March 23, 2025
• The price of eggs, the value of taste — March 20, 2025
• Every Day Carry — March 18, 2025
• Community, not "engagement" — March 15, 2025
• The Samsung A16 — March 13, 2025
• Sunny and the Kittens Update! — March 12, 2025
• Flow (2024) review and analysis — March 9, 2025
• Sunny — March 7, 2025
• Bye, The Numbers! — March 6, 2025
• Defining Success, Pyramid Schemes, and The Grind — March 5, 2025
• the shadow realm — March 3, 2025
• Sunday Links 21 — March 2, 2025
• Bearblog Better Tags Access — March 1, 2025
• How To Distim Your Doshes — February 28, 2025
• How To Clean Your Glasses — February 27, 2025
• Self-Hosting Again — February 24, 2025
• Appetizers — February 14, 2025
• bear blog question challenge — January 14, 2025
• Happy new year — January 12, 2025
• why didn't dreamwidth work? — January 12, 2025
• the year of the journal wasn't very successful — January 11, 2025
• despair — November 7, 2024
• Badge engineering — October 30, 2024
• A "career" milestone — October 29, 2024
• Game design, game writing, Game Dad, game badges — October 28, 2024
• Recertification Day — October 23, 2024
• Doctor visit, health numbers, the Taco Bell music scene, Johnny Cash slices salami, big cheez — October 18, 2024
• Keyboards and gamepads. Nothing important — October 17, 2024
• Home remedies, relatable cartoon cats, staying hydrated, the great Canadian hate-read — October 16, 2024
• Teeth — October 15, 2024
• It's been a week — October 11, 2024
• 500 grams of refined blog butter — October 10, 2024
• Feeling the funk, good fidget jewelry, Worms is back?! The Mario Party—eSports spectrum — October 9, 2024
• Therapy day, S&G2 proof-of-concept, bad UI decisions in Masto 4.3, interesting links — October 8, 2024
• Weekend nurse, Slime & Goo 2 brainstorming, why CYOA isn't for me — October 7, 2024
• Therapy day, grindset fakes exposed, a Super Mario radio drama, no cake for me please — October 4, 2024
• Thoughts on the demise of cohost, from an observer — October 3, 2024
• Mushrooms and libraries good, capitalism and big publishers bad. Library apps questionable? — October 2, 2024
• Puzzle game weekend — September 30, 2024
• Why are hats? home shrine advantage, it's been a week, markup cock-up — September 27, 2024
• Gotta scam em all — September 26, 2024
• On special inserts, Christian media, medicine quest — September 25, 2024
• I've got a brain problem situation on my hands — September 24, 2024
• Achieving the proper balance, my top 8 apps, the joy of picross — September 23, 2024
• Doing it for the cheeves — July 17, 2024
• Another world within a dream — July 14, 2024
• A true comedy story (from my life) — July 5, 2024
• blog hibernation / year of the journal — January 20, 2024
• i like crosswords now — November 18, 2023
• i'm in the november issue of indiepocalypse — November 4, 2023
• nudes — October 22, 2023
• wonder boy: not a classic — October 13, 2023
• blogs: good for text — October 12, 2023
• revenge sleep procrastination — September 9, 2023
• super logical decision theory — August 17, 2023
• mid-year book report — July 4, 2023
• a smol spelling reform — June 15, 2023
• food paranoia — June 13, 2023
• the three pillars — June 11, 2023
• my favorite LP — June 11, 2023
• tag happy — June 9, 2023
• have you seen this frog? — June 8, 2023
• more Pickles puns please — June 7, 2023
• The bluelander guide to enjoying coffee — June 6, 2023
• happy palindrome day to those who celebrate — March 2, 2023
• skeuography 01 — February 28, 2023
• jaguar homebrew: why — February 19, 2023
• Q & A & S(uggestion) — February 17, 2023
• a few of my favorite things — February 15, 2023
• i can name that tune after much soul-searching — February 11, 2023
• fire sale — February 10, 2023
• i social'd too much today — February 8, 2023
• some bullshit from my brain — February 7, 2023
• nothing concrete can stay, donkeyboy — February 6, 2023
• the merzbox is much less impressive than i imagined — February 4, 2023
• i'm getting glasses again — February 1, 2023
• worker initiative — January 31, 2023
• metaphor — January 30, 2023
• simile — January 29, 2023
• drug logistics (a sad one) — January 28, 2023
• presenting: the beatles — January 27, 2023
• critter with a newsletter — January 26, 2023
• diplomacy monopoly — January 25, 2023
• current sleepy status — January 24, 2023
• greetz — January 23, 2023
• my dream computer — January 22, 2023
• wishlist — January 21, 2023
• linux reinstall night (no text) — January 20, 2023
• franklin, tennessee — January 19, 2023
• i don't have time to finish typing the last few letters of this ti — January 18, 2023
• knocked out a few Hello Kitty World achievements tonight — January 17, 2023
• current battery status — January 16, 2023
• ancipdate — January 15, 2023
• you must enable DRM to view this post — January 14, 2023
• btw i use arch (comma retro) — January 13, 2023
• rest day — January 12, 2023
• we need a textodon — January 11, 2023
• egg strats — January 10, 2023
• handshake meme — January 9, 2023
• complaint — January 8, 2023
• train your brain in however many things per whenever — January 7, 2023
• i like bad video games — January 6, 2023
• old news and reruns — January 5, 2023
• ancipitation — January 4, 2023
• Ancipital documentation project — January 3, 2023
• audiolog 07 — January 2, 2023
• bright futures for walruses — January 1, 2023
• should auld gorillas be uncaught and never left confined — December 31, 2022
• PDF sucks — December 30, 2022
• the doldrums are over but winter's tendrils still grow against my ribs — December 29, 2022
• i think france should ask for the statue of liberty back — December 28, 2022
• violence against shapes, violence against culture — December 27, 2022
• hey mint, whatcha readin? — December 26, 2022
• new red shoes, several golden rings and a stocking fulla chili dogs — December 25, 2022
• cold comfort — December 24, 2022
• captain, it's windsday — December 23, 2022
• what was the deal with "Goof Troop"? — December 22, 2022
• UI gore: Token Transit — December 21, 2022
• the time for getting back on track is now — December 20, 2022
• no whammies — December 7, 2022
• i'm making a new game — December 5, 2022
• fuck CSX, actually — December 1, 2022
• latin quisquiliarum — November 29, 2022
• no signal — November 25, 2022
• quick meta analysis — November 24, 2022
• yes hello! — November 23, 2022
• thanksgiving break — November 22, 2022
• anxiety — November 21, 2022
• how today will become tomorrow's yesterday — November 20, 2022
• current mood: — November 19, 2022
• precious meddling — November 18, 2022
• the [elephant noise] discourse — November 17, 2022
• a week of sidequesting — November 16, 2022
• not pizza — November 13, 2022
• convalescence — November 9, 2022
• physical health update (negative) — November 8, 2022
• i tested positive — November 7, 2022
• sunday links 20 — November 6, 2022
• plague talk — November 5, 2022
• we're naked and alone, and the grave is the loneliest place — November 4, 2022
• how did "how did this get made" get made? — November 3, 2022
• surviving and dungeon diving — November 2, 2022
• thank you — November 1, 2022
• sponsorship / donation drive — October 31, 2022
• fudging the tetrahedra — October 30, 2022
• the ur-slime — October 29, 2022
• more uses for chess sets — October 28, 2022
• fermat's last paradox — October 27, 2022
• animal antix — October 26, 2022
• critter comix — October 25, 2022
• rest day — October 24, 2022
• audiolog 06 — October 23, 2022
• project day — October 22, 2022
• byzantine medicine quest blues — October 21, 2022
• audiolog 05 — October 20, 2022
• new game: moon miner 2085 — October 19, 2022
• widget tallying — October 18, 2022
• peaky beak — October 17, 2022
• computer chronicles — October 16, 2022
• i broke my computer in an exciting new way — October 15, 2022
• sugarcubes — October 14, 2022
• correspondence — October 13, 2022
• shop talk — October 12, 2022
• snappy comebacks — October 11, 2022
• comfy questions — October 10, 2022
• on being re-sensitized — October 9, 2022
• 🦝 🔛 🛏️ 🕙 💔 🚫 🖋️ 🙏 😴 — October 8, 2022
• audiolog 04 — October 7, 2022
• analytics update — October 6, 2022
• over analyzing — October 5, 2022
• i gotta stop waiting until 23:30 to write these — October 4, 2022
• Dinner and drinks — October 2, 2022
• 202210021425 — October 2, 2022
• the funny pages — October 1, 2022
• you're listening to WRBR, rickety bridge radio 76.2 — September 30, 2022
• deleted scenes — September 29, 2022
• youtube sweeps week — September 27, 2022
• season's greetings — September 26, 2022
• i am indisposed — September 25, 2022
• notography — September 24, 2022
• quick media update — September 23, 2022
• forgiveness narrative expectations can hurt victims — September 22, 2022
• audiolog 03 — September 21, 2022
• i recommend crying — September 20, 2022
• pasta garbioli — September 19, 2022
• squeaky wheels and broken seals — September 18, 2022
• okay, i'm burnt out — September 17, 2022
• wouldn't you know it, it's another sleep emergency — September 16, 2022
• audiolog 02 — September 15, 2022
• writin' about talkin' — September 14, 2022
• audiolog — September 13, 2022
• Notability: The Game — September 12, 2022
• sunday links 19: nightmares edition — September 11, 2022
• m· reviews: malls — September 10, 2022
• Dream log: Children of Wax — September 9, 2022
• critical cartoon critter clog cascade — September 8, 2022
• this one gets a little sad, sorry — September 7, 2022
• breath of fire one, two — September 6, 2022
• breath of fire one — September 5, 2022
• sunday links 18: bronze oldies — September 4, 2022
• Quest for the Radiant Cake *starring Slime & Goo!* 0.20 — September 3, 2022
• just a little garblet — September 2, 2022
• mental health day+ (literal) — September 1, 2022
• having a sleep emergency — August 31, 2022
• wanna feel old? — August 30, 2022
• practical statistics — August 29, 2022
• sunday links 17: hold out yr hands and take these links i've been given — August 28, 2022
• my computer won't boot — August 27, 2022
• ingredience — August 26, 2022
• markdown test — August 25, 2022
• the animal algorithm — August 25, 2022
• expectation #6 — August 24, 2022
• four things — August 23, 2022
• nevada — August 22, 2022
• expectations — August 21, 2022
• this sucks — August 20, 2022
• the well's still dry — August 19, 2022
• recovery day — August 18, 2022
• battleship puzzles — August 17, 2022
• novelty halloween t-shirt clinic — August 16, 2022
• get to know me better — August 15, 2022
• sunday links 16 — August 14, 2022
• video game log — August 13, 2022
• the scale — August 12, 2022
• it's a three-trashpost kind of thursday — August 11, 2022
• read the room — August 10, 2022
• prompt fic: Frost Fiend Dreams — August 9, 2022
• critique corner — August 8, 2022
• mental health break — August 7, 2022
• tales from the wiki — August 6, 2022
• discourse, dancing and dribbling — August 5, 2022
• be weird. don't explain or apologize — August 4, 2022
• the trimps experiment — August 3, 2022
• today i made a bunch of posts on fedi instead of saving them for the blog — August 2, 2022
• in which i publicly fail to understand how shoes work — August 1, 2022
• sunday links 15: serfs on fire acceptable — July 31, 2022
• i've been tagged! how fun — July 30, 2022
• Legally Mandated Blog Post — July 29, 2022
• around the web — July 28, 2022
• in which i publicly fail to understand how music works — July 27, 2022
• blogging 101 — July 26, 2022
• just another normal day — July 25, 2022
• sunday links 14: i'd follow that freak through a portal to hell, and his country agrees — July 24, 2022
• video games. oh no — July 23, 2022
• photodump phriday — July 22, 2022
• 12+5 = seventeen puzzles — July 21, 2022
• ranking animal body part metaphors — July 20, 2022
• i've got an idea for a start-up — July 19, 2022
• 90 minutes to midnight — July 18, 2022
• sunday links 13: my uncle Drew from the youtube just don't know where he should go; gonna get his tickets ready and try again tomorrow — July 17, 2022
• fridge, friends, and fun — July 16, 2022
• promptly practicing prose — July 15, 2022
• personal log, stardate... uh, july 14th — July 14, 2022
• I think I'm done with "AI" — July 13, 2022
• everything, despite my desperate pleas for a moment of respite, continues to keep happening — July 12, 2022
• when play isn't fun — July 11, 2022
• sunday links 12: PUZZLEMANIA — July 10, 2022
• four *more* slime puzzles — July 9, 2022
• unboxing video idea — July 8, 2022
• four new slime puzzles — July 7, 2022
• I Wish There Was A Magazine For Dogs — July 6, 2022
• Soupernauts — July 5, 2022
• i made a towlr (sort of) — July 4, 2022
• sunday links 11: getting it wrong about cake and romance — July 3, 2022
• feeding frenzy — July 2, 2022
• positive nihilism — July 2, 2022
• the power of juries — July 1, 2022
• there's a new host on the block — June 30, 2022
• sucks to your aspar — June 29, 2022
• no thoughts head empty — June 28, 2022
• everyone's free to wear carbon fiber wings — June 27, 2022
• sunday links 10: drop drop five slimes in the CD-ROM — June 26, 2022
• movie night in hell — June 25, 2022
• 202206241715 — June 24, 2022
• The Riff That Conjures Snakes — June 23, 2022
• ; the movies — June 22, 2022
• When Pizza's On The Ceiling, Golly, Ain't That Something? I'm Taking Five Photos Of That — June 21, 2022
• we wanted to go to the store together — June 20, 2022
• sunday links 09: the following signal was recorded equally on both channels, but is out of phase — June 19, 2022
• transreality and parafiction — June 18, 2022
• cautionary tales of storms — June 17, 2022
• Don't Grease Hedgehogs With WD-40 And More Advice For The Small Business Owner — June 16, 2022
• neural networks?! i sure *hope* it does! — June 15, 2022
• when i ended my relationship with stuff — June 14, 2022
• any sufficiently advanced technology — June 13, 2022
• sunday links 08: a long frost, a slow burn — June 12, 2022
• the last time i called someone "sir" — June 11, 2022
• sponsorship drive — June 10, 2022
• You can fly too, little fishy; up and atom! — June 9, 2022
• developing story — June 8, 2022
• The Horse Armor Retraction — June 7, 2022
• museums are landlords of art — June 6, 2022
• sunday links 07: towels and glue, here in heaven with you — June 5, 2022
• send the curry cart at once — June 4, 2022
• I should be allowed to think — June 4, 2022
• what's a little status update between friends? — June 3, 2022
• sell me your strongest potions — June 2, 2022
• start your day the hyphy way — June 1, 2022
• Niagara Falls Dries Up! Plankton Disappear! Carbon Emissons Blamed! A Cursory Look Within! — May 31, 2022
• heartthrob 101 [image-heavy] — May 30, 2022
• sunday links 06: even from the edge of mimiga island, i gaze into the abyss — May 29, 2022
• Linux app "a basket of bullshit", declares Soap Pope — May 28, 2022
• death to the auteur — May 27, 2022
• struggling — May 26, 2022
• You approach the microwave. It's a mimic! It fires a nuclear hotdog at you. You take 21 damage — May 25, 2022
• minor important feed update — May 24, 2022
• webmentions & reply buttons; what's the right amount of interactivity? — May 23, 2022
• sunday links 05: please don't let your memes be dreams. i can make your wish come true. as long as you like numbers, as long as you like blue — May 22, 2022
• vampire league bowling — May 21, 2022
• the judas iscariot of handing a dude his ass — May 20, 2022
• Molten taffy jackpot winner hospitalized after botched photo op; "AHHHH!!!", reports eyewitness — May 19, 2022
• Always Bet on Dwayne — May 18, 2022
• america's only blog — May 17, 2022
• the blood moon foretold this deceit — May 16, 2022
• i've got hacker credentials (and i sorta know how to use them?) — May 16, 2022
• sunday links 04: hack man fever — May 15, 2022
• gratuitous cat content — May 14, 2022
• Yeah, I get my colors from wikipedia. Sosumi. You want a slice of me, Dracula?! — May 13, 2022
• a little breaky for me — May 12, 2022
• rabbit holes and rabbit trails — May 11, 2022
• sunday links 03: the future can't be real, i barely know how long a moment is — May 8, 2022
• meta:title — May 7, 2022
• okay fine, smartphones can be cyberpunk — May 6, 2022
• I am thou, thou art I... Thou hast forged a new connection with thine arse — May 5, 2022
• i think i'm interested in stuff wrong — May 4, 2022
• pride & persecution — May 3, 2022
• mobile data banditry — May 2, 2022
• sunday links 02: lie flat, tune in, float down the corridors and get bread — May 1, 2022
• mawkish — April 30, 2022
• We've detected a glitch in the facetrix. Output is wordle salad. Please check cereal connection and try again — April 29, 2022
• Dream log: Mr. Schwarzenegger's Old TVs — April 28, 2022
• Happy hello to all recovering glass-touchers. Hug a jelly and help yourself to the zussenips — April 27, 2022
• Garbage Digest: Wilhelm's Wordle Makes My Heart Go Tokimeki 😱 — April 26, 2022
• an american adjective — April 25, 2022
• sunday links 01: retro future pepsi robotic funk judgment — April 24, 2022
• meta analysis — April 23, 2022
• edit wars — April 22, 2022
• goodbye, 2015 — April 21, 2022
• flotsam 01: Tokimeki Jones bankrupt; all fanfic assets seized, reports Obama — April 20, 2022
• shitty blogs are back (and this time they're scribble.nu again) — April 19, 2022
• are we done with "movie stars"? — April 17, 2022
• a sad poem :( — April 17, 2022
• community (not the show) — April 16, 2022
• reality distortion fields, dumb and very dumb — April 16, 2022
• bearblog is cool — April 16, 2022