Reading Time: 1 minute Get a handle on all your data with today’s Daily Deal, the Complete Big Data Master Class Bundle. This bundle of courses covers how to use programs like Plotly, Matplotlib, Bokeh, Seaborn, NumPy, Pandas, Hadoop and MapReduceCheck to do all kinds of functions with your data ranging from simply cleaning it […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Kill [Redacted] is a little out of my usual reading range. It has a real-world darkness that I tend to try to avoid in my fiction, but its premise intrigued me, as did its moral ambiguities. This is a novel about terrorism. The wife of the novel’s central character, Michael, has been […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Original image by Jeff Roberts, O’Neill Marketing. Convention season is in full swing in the Convention Connection for Week 11 2019. In addition to all of this week’s events, news broke this week that ReedPOP—organizers of a number of conventions and fan festivals like New York Comic Con, C2E2, Emerald City […]
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Reading Time: 1 minute A new full-length trailer for Avengers: Endgame has dropped, and it’s pretty incredible. I could’ve maybe used a little less of the Schindler’s List-esque grayscale with red, but it’s still something I’m sure I’ll be watching a whole lot of times today. Click through to read all of “The First Full-Length […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes This Week’s Word Is “Feminism.” Completing my round up of great books to celebrate International Women’s Day (March 8th), I have another DK title, The Feminism Book. Feminism is possibly the least understood word in the English language. One that is hurled around as both superlative and pejorative. Something to be celebrated, […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Here in Atlanta, Georgia, there are twelve of us who are playing in a Frostgrave campaign. Frostgrave is a skirmish wargame—low cost of entry (Core Rulebook is only $16 on Amazon), only 10 miniatures needed, a couple of D20 dice, and you’re ready to play. The game takes place in the […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes March is Women’s History Month, and while it’s never a bad time to read about inspiring women, I wanted to devote one of my Stack Overflow columns this month to stories about women. Wilma’s Way Home: The Life of Wilma Mankiller by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Linda Kukuk Wilma Mankiller was […]
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Reading Time: 1 minute Say what you will, but we know perfection when we see it. After finishing Netflix’s Umbrella Academy, Jake & Mitch ask the life-altering question: When approaching comic-inspired movies and TV, are we better off not knowing anything about the source material? So yeah, UA is that good. And lots of stuff […]
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Reading Time: 1 minute Last week, I traveled to Portland, Oregon for Bricks Cascade. The LEGO convention, now in its eighth year, drew over 8000 public attendees to look at over 800 unique creations from 383 designers. While I’ll have my interview up with LEGO senior designer Stuart Harris up in a few days, I […]
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Reading Time: 17 minutes I hear there’s a movie that some people are excited about. So let’s talk about Captain Marvel, AKA Carol Danvers, with “How to Collect,” a column where I research and report the best way to collect a comic, saving you the hassle and leaving you with just the good parts. Carol […]
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Reading Time: 1 minute Today is International Women’s Day, and the team behind She-Ra and the Princesses of Power have a message for you! My family has been watching the show on Netflix, and we’ve really enjoyed it: it has a racially diverse, mostly female cast, and great messages about friendship and strength, plus a shining […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutes Note: There are no spoilers in this article beyond what has already been shown or referenced in trailers, ads, and merchandise. Nothing mentioned herein will spoil a major plot point. 1. How good is it? Captain Marvel is good; not great, but good enough. It’s really a classic superhero origin story, […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Image courtesy of Sesame Worksho For nearly 50 years, Sesame Street has engaged the minds of children through a television program designed specifically for a young audience. Generations of children have grown up watching Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, Grover, Big Bird, the Count, and Oscar the Grouch while learning about […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutes This Week’s Word Is “Women.” International Women’s Day is this Friday, and to mark it Word Wednesday is devoting three posts to books celebrating Women and Womanhood. Last week, I looked at So Here I Am, a book of great speeches given by women. This week, I am moving on to DK’s […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Original image: Wikimedia Creative Commons. Toys and games rule in the Convention Connection for Week 9 2019, including this week’s spotlight convention—ToyCon 2019 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event takes place from Friday, March 1 through Sunday, March 3. The event features a number of celebrity guests including actors Erik Estrada […]
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Reading Time: 8 minutes I’m not so great at timing my Stack Overflow columns with anniversaries, partly because my review stacks are a weird mix of not-yet-published and published-a-while-ago. So this set of books comes at the tail end of Black History Month—but it’s not like there’s any reason not to read the books on this […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Fountain pens are fun for everyone, even lefties Back when I was an college student, I burned through notebooks quickly, and I was a frequent visitor at my local stationery store. And, for better or worse, like many engineers I am an optimizer at heart. So, while I loved my Pilot […]
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Fighting With My Family, the new biopic about professional wrestling, opens in theaters this weekend. Should you take the kids or hire a sitter? Read on to find out. 1. What is it about? This based-on-true-events movie follows the rise of professional wrestler Paige, who, at the age of 21 became […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Original image: Wikimedia Creative Commons. Comics & Geek Culture Conventions The focus convention for Convention Connection during week eight of 2019 is the Great Lakes Comic Convention this Friday, February 22 and Saturday, February 23 in Warren, Michigan. This year’s event features a number of special guests, including a 5-year anniversary […]
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Reading Time: 1 minute Check out the amazing new toys and more from #Toyfair2019. In these videos, @typolad shows off toys, games, and collectables for every geek of every genre! Click through to read all of “Toyfair 2019 Video Round-Up: Action Figures, Board Games, Books, Collectables, and More!” at GeekDad.If you value […]
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