“One of the effects of the rapid spread of higher education has been to equip people to criticise and question almost everything. Some of them seem to have stopped there instead of going on to the next stage which is to arrive at new beliefs or to reaffirm old ones.”
— Margaret Thatcher, 1968No complaints on PrePAN, and I’ve done a lot of cleanup, bug-fixing, and documentation, along with creating an ugly-but-useful new example. Testing the various features together has shaken out several bugs and identified some missing API features that I’ve added.
I figure I’ll poke at it some more over the weekend, then create a 1.02 tarball and officially release it on CPAN.
Clearly Nissin is missing the opportunity for a new round of tanuki soba commercials…
There are actually more of these. With a final twist.
I spoke too soon. In the words of Londo Mollari, “there are more of you!”.
The penguin is in the picture so you know what it looks like when you’re waddling around the house in your wearable kotatsu. This is one of the rare Thanko products that actually looks like a good idea, if it works (and doesn’t, y’know, catch on fire, as many cheap electric blankets are prone to doing these days).
Got texts this morning from hometown family members, reporting all-is-well from the Dayton-area ‘tornado outbreak’.

If I had to pick a favorite shipgirl, and perhaps I just did, it would be Belfast from Azur Lane, a light cruiser with big guns. And a maid costume.
And she’s almost never, ever safe for work.