Robert
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Stratagems, gambits and wiles. Blogging at canneddragons.net.
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Sharing a new gaming experience with family. #videogames
Memories In Orbit
I've been playing a new video game called MIO: Memories in Orbit. I have a bit of a soft spot for what they called Metroidvania's (a portmanteau of Metroid and Castlevania), having grown up loving games in the genre. In this game, you "Play MIO, a nimble robot with extraordinary abilities, and unravel the mysteries...
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A post about The Shakers generated quite a bit of discussion this week. social.canneddragons.net/2026/07/30/s...
Shaker Style
I was going through my social media feeds this morning and realized that it was just a bunch of disconnected thoughts with no coherence. I wondered why I even bothered. Then I remembered posting about...
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One of the downsides to switching blogging platforms is that you either import all your old posts (if you can), try to carefully reconstruct them, or lose them entirely. In going from Ghost to WordPress, I’m not sure which one it’s going to be.
I’ve noticed that the same tech journalism publications that routinely bring news of the damaging effects of social media are also the ones that publish absolutely apoplectic pieces anytime there is an attempt to limit children’s access to it.
Orthodox Bees Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. These bees avoid building their honeycombs over icons. Not just any images on the icons, though. In a depiction of Jesus on... https://www.canneddragons.net/2026/08/01/orthodox-bees/
Orthodox Bees
Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. These bees avoid building their honeycombs over icons. Not just any images on the icons, though. In a depiction of Jesus on the cross, they will build over the thief who mocked Jesus as he was dying, but not Jesus or Saint Dimas, the "good thief" who...
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I look around and keep thinking that Rage Against the Machine was over three decades too early.
The secrets of late night Waffle House visits that the tourists don't see.
Waffle House Fever
The World Cup is now over. It was fun to have people around the globe wrapped up in sport instead of the dreary and terrible things going on now thanks to the malevolent actors in charge of our governments. My wife was particularly enamored with seeing football tourists experiencing America for the first time. Their...
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The Inner Cry of A.I. Benjamin Wallace writes for the NYT (gift link) about A.I. companies such as Anthropic hiring philosophers. Beyond all the jokes about philosophy grads actually getting jobs, it's a worthwhile examination... https://www.canneddragons.net/2026/07/28/the-inner-cry-of-ai/
The Inner Cry of A.I.
Benjamin Wallace writes for the NYT (gift link) about A.I. companies such as Anthropic hiring philosophers. Beyond all the jokes about philosophy grads actually getting jobs, it's a worthwhile examination of the place of the discipline within the tech space. What struck me was the concern that some philosophers interviewed had about the well-being of...
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My mom wants us all to read and discuss the Odyssey, book club style. Then she wants us to go see it as a family in IMAX. After that, she wants to book a trip to Greece. This whole plan has become really ambitious.
Another sweet app from @tapbots.com.
Pastebot 3
The new Pastebot 3 Mac app looks enticing. The interactions seem really fluid. The site for the app has some lovely illustrations. The conveyor belt is inspired and the arcade machine rocks. I just wish there was an iOS companion app. I use Paste now and occasionally the cross-platform functionality comes in handy.
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Watched: The Testament of Ann Lee 🍿 with my wife. I found myself moved but my wife has little tolerance for musical pretensions, so her opinion was a bit mixed.
A forgotten band that nevertheless turned in some lovely dreampop performances for tonight's Saturday Night Video.
Dream Shake
Memoryhouse consists of Canadians Evan Abeele and Denise Nouvion. The band had a minor hit with their piano-driven live cover of My Bloody Valentine's "When You Sleep" for Yours Truly in 2011. They capitalized on their success with that cover and the well-regarded EP, The Years, by signing to indie heavyweight Sub Pop Records. When...
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We all know the story of Evangelicals abandoning their values to support Donald Trump, but Jeremy finds a brilliant way to illustrate it.
Sometimes it seems like the tech journos just like to feel like naughty boys with their enshittified Mac-assed dickovers.
The second day of gunmetal gray skies and wet streets. The perfect weather for some Robin Guthrie, Hammock, or anything ethereal.
Brave Strips: https://www.canneddragons.net/brave-strips Brave is apparently selling subscriptions to a stripped-down version of its browser called Brave Origins. I’m really not sure how I feel about that. As Adam Davidson opines in the How-To-Geek piece about the deal, it’s like they’re admitti...
Brave Strips - Canned Dragons
Brave is apparently selling subscriptions to a stripped-down version of its browser called Brave Origins. I’m really not sure how I feel about that. As Adam...
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Hardcore IndieWeb: https://www.canneddragons.net/hardcore-indieweb-f527e32e Jason Kratz runs down the set of solid blogging platforms in this post which serves as a rebuttal to OMG.lol’s Adam Newbold. Newbold believes if you use indie blogging services you are not truly on the indieweb. Even if ...
Hardcore IndieWeb - Canned Dragons
Jason Kratz runs down the set of solid blogging platforms in this post which serves as a rebuttal to OMG.lol’s Adam Newbold. Newbold believes if you use...
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Is "mere Christianity" (not the book) disappearing? www.canneddragons.net/no-more-mere...
No More Mere Christianity? - Canned Dragons
Jake Meador, editor-in-chief of print and web publication Mere Orthodoxy, has noticed the rise in Christian denominational distinctiveness that stands in...
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Watched: Rental Family 🍿 last night. Many moments of trying to hold back tears. I’m happy to say I was fairly successful.
I tried Obsidian plugins for three blogging services. To my surprise, the one with the least features and most limitations was the one for WordPress, which is the most popular of the services I tested.
Tonight's Saturday Night Video represents a new sound from a veteran indie pop band.
Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
The evolution of a sound aloft on a breeze.
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I’m really disappointed in the Hopscotch Festival 2006 lineup, which dropped yesterday. There is only one band I would be interested in seeing (Pearl and the Oysters). The festival seems to have cut back, eliminating one main stage, reducing water stations, less social media, etc.
R.I.P. Dave Kendall from MTV's 120 Minutes.
Dave Kendall, creator and host of MTV’s 120 Minutes, has passed away. The British-born Kendall conceived 120 Minutes after joining MTV as a producer, pitching the network a dedicated program for the punk, post-punk, goth, synth-pop, ska, and other underground sounds largely ignored by corporate rock radio. 120 Minutes debuted on March 10th, 1986, and...
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Jay Peters reports for The Verge about the year-over-year rise in the number of CDs being purchased. The data suggests that “the CD has been recontextualized from a functional audio... https://www.canneddragons.net/2026/07/18/5779/
Jay Peters reports for The Verge about the year-over-year rise in the number of CDs being purchased. The data suggests that “the CD has been recontextualized from a functional audio format into an affordable collectible,” Luminate says. “This behavior underscores that for younger generations, the act of buying physical music is as much about aesthetic...
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Tried out the Pagecord digest email this week and was pretty pleased with the feature. It takes the overthinking and effort out of the newsletter part of regular blogging.
A new jazz EP that's in heavy rotation. www.canneddragons.net/goran-kajfes...
Goran Kajfeš Subtropic Arkestra & Avin Omar - Canned Dragons
One problem with posting your listening habits on a periodically updated Now page is that those habits can literally change overnight. A couple of days ago,...
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