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Month: November 2025

Japanese prayer/shrine/good-luck pencils. Pencils have a natural wood barrel with black printed text below a splashy red circle as describe in the post.
November 26, 2025November 26, 2025Writing Tools

Dazaifu Sangu (?) Prayer/Shrine/Good Luck (?) pencils

Naturally, a web mosey that started with a search to try to identify the exact color of a Staedtler fineliner ended (temporarily) […]

November 16, 2025November 16, 2025Code, Crosswords

Downloading Hyperallergic Crosswords

the scripts I use to download .puz files from the Hyperallergic crosswords archive. I cobbled these together using my randomly acquired, woefully patchy programming skills, an A”I” chatbot, and the amazing xword-dl command-line puzzle downloading tool

November 2, 2025November 2, 2025Funny Finds, Miscellany

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