'Everything you ever wanted' has launched.
If you would like a copy, it's available in some select online books stores like Booktopia $20 or (gah!) Amazon or you can send AUD$7 to dan@invisiblespiders.com on Paypal and I'll send you the epub file.
In the US it's available at Walmart $13 (jeez that's so cheap)
UK and Europe? Blackwells has it but the price can jump around depending on where you're ordering from. The ISBN is 9781764297608.
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5 May 2026
Turned 50 and had a real nice party. Looking forward to the next thing that I end up doing.
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Scorpion - Final
May 2026 That's it! I'm out. This stupid show got too effing stupid for me. I'm shutting it down pre-S2 ending. Just the worst writing.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl
May 2026 Feels like it's pitching itself to tweens. Dumb humour. Dumb plot. The writing is okay. It's easy to read, but I don't feel... enriched.
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Scorpion - S2
April 2026 This is a show about super-geniuses written by morons. Having any knowledge of the scientific world makes this an exercise in frustration.
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The Wild Robot
April 2026 The pacing in this film is kind of baffling. Be prepared for a story that's quite... bitzy. I feel like the screenplay needed to divert from the book a little more.
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29 March 2026
You can click on a Media Item logo to see a list of those items. Man it's nice having a website to mess around on.
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15 March 2026
The main site has been broken and rebirthed. No more infinite scroll. No more utility classes. I'm relearning vanilla CSS and forming big ideas.
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Scorpion
March 2026 Cheesy savant adventures. Very silly and pleasant to watch
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Novocaine
March 2026 Jack Quaid is a charisma bomb. Watching his geeky action star save the day is very charming.
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Animal Well
March 2026 Joyous little puzzle platformer. Reminiscent of the old Dizzy games.
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Simpleton - Kerrin Connolly
March 2026 Joyous sticky pop. Very fond of it.
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The Lonely Island and Seth Myers
March 2026 Chaotic and friendly. Interesting comedy dissection.
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Bigfeets
March 2026 Feels like listening to friends.
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20 February 2026
Seems that the ChatGPT spiders and ignoring my robots.txt file because, well of course they are. Thieves and scoundrels. Devoid of ethics. It didn't used to be this way. And then some business jerk realised he could send thousands of emails at the same time. What is the BBS scene like these days?
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18 February 2026
I have not slept well and everything feels impossible forever. It's not of course. Soon everything will be in reach and it shall just be a question of which fruit to pluck. Until then... tea.
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School Spirits - S3
February 2026 I can feel this story going sideways. Too many new lore drops.
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X-Com 2
February 2026 It's fun but it makes me anxious. And that makes me not want to play it. I need to get comfy with it so am trying to nudge myself to load it up.
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Murderbot - Network Effect
February 2026 An absolute pleasure to read a full novel. Really has time to breathe.
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Draw Steel - Heroes
February 2026 A dense rulebook for a TTRPG. Exciting to invest time into.
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TMNT 2019
February 2026 The TMNT origin story through the lens of Michael Bay. It's no better nor worse than what you'd expect it to be.
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Fugitive Telemetry
February 2026 A Murderbot detective story? Loved it!
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Absolum
February 2026 Roguelite side scrolling beat-em-up. It has its hooks in. Enjoying the pace so far. Hopefully it doesn't end up frustrating me.
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31 January 2026
I hate the negative discourse against the new Star Trek show. All these neuro-divergent jerks struggling with a 'who moved my cheese' issue. LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS!!
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26 January 2026
I had to delete Hades 2 off my computer. I played Hades 1 until the epilogue and not long after gave up in frustration. Then many months later I started from the beginning again as a save haven from thinking about my house flooding. Every day after cleaning up mud and dealing with horror and stress I could slip into Hades for an hour, or four. I played that game for a thousand hours. Maxed out everything there was to max out. Then Hades 2 came along and I poured another 800 hours into that game. There's been barely a day go past in three years where I haven't picked it up. But it's time to get some perspective. Last night was the first night I didn't have the songs running through my mind on a loop. I'm free. For now.
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A 90s Christmas
January 2026 Uncharismatic cast and a high concept idea that never reaches its heights.
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Myst VR
January 2026 Really fun to revisit. Easier than I remember. Maybe because I could easily see everything and look for buttons without a problem.
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Hades 2
January 2026 Still playing the heck out of this game.
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A City on Mars
January 2026 Weirdly dry pop science by a great cartoonist. A struggle to finish but perhaps because I'm out of practice with non-fiction.
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Riven VR
January 2026 A favourite game of mine with brand new puzzles to solve in this version. Can't complain.
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Starfleet Academy
January 2026 Really pretty fun and surprising.
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23 December 2025
I have a metric in my life that I think about a lot. I don't track it but it exists in a measurable state. It's the TTFL or the 'Time to first laugh'. It's the amount of time between greeting my wife and the first time I make her laugh. Sometimes it's within seconds. Sometimes it must take several hours. There are a lot of measurements that are dull or frustrating in life. It's nice to know there are some really positive ones as well.
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19 December 2025
There's a new film coming out called The Sheep Detectives. It's based on a book called Three Bags Full. I only know about it because I ended up chatting away to the author when I met her on a day trip in Portugal. Her name is Leonie and I got her talking all about how delightful it was to get have a well selling book. She was a total sweetheart.
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School Spirits
December 2025 YA murder mystery is surprisingly compelling.
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Ghosts au
December 2025 Gave it a few eps but it's not much better than the US version.
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Sunless Sky
December 2025 Charming successor to 'Seas'. Feels better to play and less punishing overall.
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Mean Girls
December 2025 Finally watched this. Laughed out loud many times. Gosh the movies were great back then.
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Matlock
December 2025 Kathy Bates is great but the writing is... shaky.
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Watson
December 2025 Bizarre reimagining of Sherlock Holmes lore. Inorganic writing. Feels like someone dumb trying their damnedest to write clever characters.
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26 November 2025
I cleaned my deck recently. Used a product that drained all the tannins from the wood. Those tannins moved from the wood into my feet. Now it looks like I have henna footprints painted on my soles.
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6 November 2025
I finished Hades 2 yesterday. The new updated ending. Every scrap of content. Every badge collected. Nothing more to. I've been looking forward to this game since mid 2022. Now it's all over and I'm feeling like a cork being pulled out to sea.
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Ghost au
November 2025 Feels a bit more coarse then the original.
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Strange New Worlds - S3
November 2025 Handful of good episodes make this worth staying with.
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Star Trek - TOS
November 2025 I'm surprised by how thoughtful this is. Kirk is much more measured than the zeitgeist gives him credit for.
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20 October 2025
I used a weeding flame thrower to resurface my old plastic cutting boards. Worked a treat but for the fact that now they are completely warped and useless for cutting things on.
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6 October 2025
It's the big day. I've launched my novel. It's been six years since I started it and it's been buzzing around my head for decade before that. I like the notion that there's a book inside everyone. It feels so satisfying to drag it kicking and screaming out of me. I hope you like. Even more-so I hope you buy it.
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3 October 2025
I'm having my teeth aligned. Having a plastic tray in my mouth at all times is a weird scenario. Something else to look forward to in eight months is this thing coming out.
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High Potential
October 2025 Standard 'super genius helping cops' show. Above average and pleasant.
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Hades 2
October 2025 Lots of fun to start from the beginning of V1. Highly anticipated story is disappointing.
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Murderbot 1-3
October 2025 Easy to read. Pleasant. Comforting.
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Rick and Morty - S?
October 2025 Most recent one. Can't really remember it. Fine I guess.
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Elio
October 2025 A really solid piece of Pixar fare after a decade of mostly trash.
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Not Dead Yet
October 2025 Average supernatural comedy. It's fine I guess.
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Moana 2
September 2025 Soulless, poorly written garbage cashing in on the name. Up there with classics like 'Aladdin and the King of Thieves'. Avoid!
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10 things I hate about you
September 2025 Nice to revisit this problematic delight.
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4 August 2025
I overheard a girl at some markets. She sounded shocked and it became clear she'd just got off the phone after being offered a place in a theatre show. It was such a wonderful moment to be privy to. She processed the news and shared it and her shock turned into glee and within half a minute she was jumping up and down.
I felt so excited for her.
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The Gorge
August 2025 It starts out with a lot of intrigue but moves along at a frenetic pace. Once the big mystery is uncovered it's basically like watching someone play a video game.
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Dragon's Trap
August 2025 Played it again, this time on Switch. What a fantastic game. The slide-stab mechanic in this game is so perfect.
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Luck
August 2025 Mediocre. In universe logic is too fragile.
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Fountain of Youth
August 2025 Charmless, D-grade rip-off of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
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Cult of the Lamb
August 2025 Struggled to get into it. Wasn't a big fan of the campsite building mechanic. Might try again another time.
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Doctor Who - Nguti S2
August 2025 A handful of watchable episodes. So much better than the last five years.
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Only Murders in the Building - S4
August 2025 Starting to show the seams but still fun to watch.
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Supraworld
August 2025 More great puzzles. Looking forward to V1.0 in a year or two.
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The Rogue Prince of Persia
August 2025 Really fun rogue-like. Cannot recommend enough.
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30 July 2025
There is a strange tension in working in a holiday home. I'm in an idyllic location but I have to spend most of my day in front of an awkwardly set up workstation. There's a guilt pushing me to get outside and make the most of my location and a counter-guilt reminding me that I'm not on holiday.
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Shrinking - S2
July 2025 Absolutely self indulgent tripe. Ended up hate watching it.
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Invasion
July 2025 Starts slow which is nice. Stays slow which is more-so annoying.
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Haak
July 2025 Very solid metroidvania.
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27 June 2025
Final part of the flood restoration is kicking off. The house is getting raised and it's bringing more emotions with it than I expected.
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11 June 2025
It's cold in Brisbane. That special kind of cold where you leave the front door open to let the warmth of the day in. That cold where you consider wrapping yourself in the electric throw but it's just to much effort. The kind of cold where you put your t-shirt on in the morning and it's freezing cold and takes some small amount of time to warm to your body temperature. The sub-tropics are hell.
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Galactic Glitch
June 2025 Pleasant little rogue-like though I'm struggling to go back to it.
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Dredge
June 2025 Nice little cosy game. Worth a week of my time.
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Time Bandits - Remake
June 2025 Has its moments but isn't really anything special.
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Murderbot
June 2025 I'm loving this show. Not sure why. It's nothing special but it scratches an itch for me. I wish I could binge the whole thing.
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Stick
June 2025 Love a good golf story. Or even a mediocre one.
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Shrinking
June 2025 It's decent.
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Lower Decks
June 2025 Finally this series has clicked with me. I'm enjoying it a lot more now that I've separated it from what I think make Star Trek so important.
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Lost in Random: The Infinite Die
June 2025 Thrilling little roguelite that feels Burtonesque.
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12 May 2025
I did indoor skydiving. I went from being a standard human not unlike the billions that have come before me who looked in envy at the birds, to being one of a tiny, tiny fraction who stepped through a door and lifted into the air. As enjoyable as it was it did feel a bit anti-climactic.
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6 May 2025
I heard a tapping sound getting louder while I was driving. A car behind me was having trouble with its bumper. I carefully moved aside and it screamed up the side of me and I saw sparks flying everywhere!! The front left wheel was hanging off sideways and this was my first indication that perhaps this driver wasn't trying to slow down. He changed lanes into incoming traffic, then the cops flew past me. The car finally gave up the ghost right there and the cops swarmed the vehicle. Five cars came out of nowhere. I carefully crawled past the scene whilst stabbing at where I thought the 'lock doors' button was. Instead my car mirrors waved back and forth like the car was a demented elephant. It was the coolest thing I've ever seen and I can say that I was in a police chase. The pursued were in front of me and the pursuers were behind so I was "in" that car chase.
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Mythic Quest
May 2025 Started a bit clunky but I've settled in and am enjoying.
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Dig and Delve
May 2025 A browser game about digging up ores and getting faster drills. A fun way to while away an hour.
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Silo - S2
May 2025 Good, if a little slow and harrowing.
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Horizon Forbidden West
April 2025 Damn it feels good to drop back into this world.
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Severance - S2
April 2025 Very satisfying end to the season. Feels like something special.
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I'm beginning to worry about this black box of doom
April 2025 Best work yet by Jason Pargin. Thoughtful and touching.
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25 March 2025
I wrote a book. I'm just trying to gauge interest now as I prepare for a first run of copies. If you like the sound of that then get along to the front page of the website and click the button in the banner.
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11 March 2025
Cyclone is over. I've gone from a person whose default state of "It can't happen to me" has changed to "It could happen to me again". I'm not thrilled with this adjustment to my perception.
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2 March 2025
There is a tropical cyclone bearing down on my neck of the woods so I need to prepare myself for several flood warnings arriving on my phone. It involves having a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach ALL THE TIME!
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Saint's Row the Third
March 2025 For a game that involves a guy skydiving through a jumbo jet it sure is dull.
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Pantheon
March 2025 This has started out really strong. I'm very excited about it.
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F.I.S.T.
March 2025 This metroidvania was... fine. It was frustrating having to memorise the attack combos like it was Street Fighter or something.
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Prince of Persia - Lost Crown
March 2025 Really solid Metroidvania. Great fun.
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The woman in the house across the street from the girl in the window
February 2025 Is supposed to be a parody but doesn't land the jokes. Instead it's just a terrible terrible waste of time.
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Super Mario Wonder
February 2025 I was excited for it but it's just Super Mario. Same game I've played a dozen times but with better visuals.
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Asura
February 2025 Japanese family drama. Oddly charming. Nice change of pace from the Hollywood slop I've filled up on.
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If I Hadn't Met You
February 2025 Some well acted ideas with some truly woeful writing. A multiverse story that relies on its characters being idiots is an exercise in frustration.
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Hades 2 - Warsong
February 2025 Fun update. Makes me excited for Version 1.0
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31 January 2025
I've added a little mental game to my mornings where I'm using my new palindrome tool to write a palindrome where I post it to Bluesky. I'm still using Mastodon for my primary social media but it's nice to have something to put up there.
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1 January 2025
Had a good year. A great year! Not a single personal catastrophe to deal with. (My bar was very low)
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Deadpool and Wolverine
January 2025 It's pretty average. Not a patch on 'Deadpool ever after'
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Voyager - S7
January 2025 Really satisfying show. Wish there was an epilogue. Janeway is my favourite captain.
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Echoes of Wisdom
January 2025 Zelda Zelda game. It's a bit slow and clumsy but has plenty of satisfying puzzle elements.
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The Umbrella Academy -S4
January 2025 This was pitiful and nonsensical. It makes me feel dumb for having enjoyed the first season. Like a prank has been played on me that wasted nearly 36 hours of my precious time on Earth.