Last night I was looking for some details on Z80 assembly and I decided to look at my blog. (Surely there was somewhere that I had a screenshot of a safe memory location for ORG). As I wandered through my previous learning challenges I noticed a pattern:

• I had a …

With the closing of The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus it appears my backup plan of running away to join the circus is less of a viable option.

This past weekend my computer showed an ominous error:

Jan 1 04:06:16 lister mdadm[8317]: RebuildFinished event detected on md device /dev/md/0, component device mismatches found: 9856 (on raid level 1)

Huh, that doesn't look particularly good. Mismatches between drives tend to lead to bad things …

• Title: "War of Ashes: Fate of Agaptus"
• Game Creators: Sophie Lagacé, Karen Twelves, Mike Olson, Edmund Metheny, and Sean Nittner
• Publisher: Evil Hat Productions
• System: Fate Accelerated

It's taken me way too long to write up a review of War of Ashes: Fate of Agaptus. I've wanted to write the …

> bar = ['width', 'height']
[ 'width', 'height' ]
> bar
[ 'width', 'height' ]  // Nothing up my sleeve
> bar.indexOf['length']
1  // Presto!

In case you haven't guessed what's up here: JavaScript automatically surfaces a value called 'length' in all arrays. So you can get the length of bar by typing bar.length and bar['length' …