Martin P.
goobergunch.net
Martin P.
@goobergunch.net
The nicest of the damned.
Why would you publish a hiking guide in 2025 recommending the Zumwalt Meadow Loop, a trail that has been closed since 2019?
November 25, 2025 at 8:57 PM
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Today's hike, which was mostly an excuse to view the overwintering monarch butterflies:
November 23, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Askarov with a big celebration
November 21, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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YOU ARE LIKELY TO BE LICENSED BY A GRUE

arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it.
arstechnica.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I actually did dress up the last time I flew but that's because I was going to a wedding and didn't want to pack extra clothes when I was going to be on the ground in SoCal for less than 24 hours.
Trump's Transportation Secretary on how to improve air travel:

"People dress up like they're going to bed when they fly... We want to push people as we come into a really busy travel season, help people out, be in a good mood, dress up"
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Dear Marvel Comics: I would like this hat.
November 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Key deadlines in the California budget process:

- January 10: Governor's Proposed Budget
- May 14: May Revise
- June 15: Legislature must pass the Budget Act
- June 27: The Lottery
- July 1: Fiscal year begins
prop 13 turned California's state budget watch into an ancient civilization divination exercise. emperor gavin wrote into the oracle bones, and his delphic policy analysts divined the stock market gods are happy. no need for human sacrifices in the Sierras this year
For better — or worse — California's "Fiscal Outlook" is currently indexed to $NVDA
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
"And when has pure mathematics been anything but good clean fun?" —Larry Niven
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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MACKLIN CELEBRINI OT GWG HAT TRICK!
3-2 #THEFUTUREISTEAL
November 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
🦈🎩🦈🎩🦈🎩🦈
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Macklin Celebrini on some great passing from Philipp Kurashev and Will Smith!
1-0 #TheFutureIsTeal
November 19, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Sunday's hike:
November 18, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I recently read those issues and I am genuinely grateful that generic Yellow Peril villain General Fang has no other appearances.

#6 does have the first appearance of the Teen Brigade though!

(Also Bruce was still using the gamma ray projector to switch in and out of Hulk form. Yeah.)
It is insane to me that John Byrne thinks the definitive Hulk is from the almost entirely forgotten Incredible Hulk #5-6, the last two issues of the original solo run.
November 18, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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Francis Heaney’s Holy Tango of Literature.

He answers the (understudied) question of what would happen if poets and playwrights wrote works whose titles were anagrams of their names.

You can read the whole thing free here on his website here:

www.francisheaney.com/holy-tango-o...
November 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I continue to fail to understand the Sharks' fascination with Zack Ostapchuk.
November 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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"Taken together, these qualities leave the impression that Kuang imagines her readers to be bright but easily confused children." www.thebulwark.com/p/cheap-tric...
Cheap Tricks
In R.F. Kuang’s novel ‘Katabasis,’ two philosopher-magicians wander Hell to rescue their thesis supervisor. Jejunity ensues.
www.thebulwark.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Absolutely love having to restart a multiday CD ripping operation because Windows decided to shut down overnight.
November 14, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Askarov Is.
November 12, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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CNN already covered this.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Man we used to know how to put covers on books
November 10, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Yesterday's hike:
November 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
November 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Lots of caveats here but ... the Sharks are somehow tied for a playoff spot?
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 AM