http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/ 2026-09-20T19:14:33+00:00 http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/ http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-03-25T04:16:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=2spaceoffset&rev=1774412174&do=diff The 2-Space Offset Problem I have a 1.5L Hydration Progress graph that is basically a grid of check-boxes that I can tick for each 10mL increment I have accomplished for the day, typically by drinking 100mL in one drink, meaning I can tick 10 boxes. The percentage adds up no matter what order you tick the boxes, meaning you can skip around randomly in the graph and the raw number of boxes ticked contributes to the total. I mix up the ways I tick boxes sometimes, and today was a new way. The gri… text/html 2025-12-15T13:14:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=ai_questions_i_asked&rev=1765804485&do=diff LLM/ai Questions I Asked I enjoy chatting with ai text interfaces, both to see find out which turns-of-phrase elicit different answers, but also as a kind of conversation with someone I feel is knowledgeable, even if that knowledge must-needs be taken with a grain of salt. The ai answers will be in all italics, to distinguish from my commentary about it. text/html 2025-12-15T13:14:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=akbpv_engdescr&rev=1765804444&do=diff English Descriptions of AKB48 PVs AKB48 music videos are notoriously difficult to search for in English, because the YouTube titles are never in English or even romanji, so without just looking thru every single AKB48 PV and scanning for image cards that look familiar, they may be difficult to pinpoint quickly. This guide hopes to give an English description of what happens in the PV, to make looking for it much easier, and provides the YT video link. text/html 2026-09-09T04:44:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=bobdevil&rev=1788929067&do=diff Bob Ross Beats The Devil The famous gentle-voiced painter Bob Ross had a way of cleaning a brush he was using, often once or twice an episode, which included a way of percussively striking the bristles against a fixed bar, which he would always instruct anyone following along to text/html 2026-02-19T02:44:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=bowlframename&rev=1771469054&do=diff Bowling Frame Names Without so much as calling it a kind of divination or horoscope, I wanted to turn it into a kind of silly kids-gimmick type game, like an origami fortune-teller game. The basic idea is that each frame is broken up into 10 elements of a fictional character's future and your score out of 10 within that frame, is a rank of what greatness of that element which lies in the future for that character. text/html 2026-09-02T04:49:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=bowlingideas&rev=1788324575&do=diff Bowling Ideas This article has ideas I thought about while practicing and competing in ten-pin non-string bowling: a fortune-cookie type game depending on how well you do in each frame of a game, and a ton of silly terms for specific situations on the lane and pin results that I never heard anyone else make a name for. text/html 2026-07-23T02:47:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=bringmethehead&rev=1784774849&do=diff "Bring Me The Head of Alfredo Garcia" Jokes on ISIHAC ---------- The BBC Radio 4 comedy panel game, “I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue” has a running gag of inserting the phrase, “Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia” at least once into most episodes, shoehorned often into games of wordplay. text/html 2025-12-15T13:12:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=bug_out_checklist&rev=1765804372&do=diff Suitcase Checklist Pretty self-explanatory? Item Quantity Which How Pants xdays away main loose Button-ups xdays away main loose Undershirts xdays away main loose Undies xdays away main loose Sock-pairs xdays away main loose text/html 2025-12-15T13:16:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=but_she_didnt_believe_me&rev=1765804613&do=diff But She Didn't Believe Me * No.1 (dated April 26, 2004) * I had seen the birds on the wire but didn't think much of them until they flew into the air in one giant cloud, came toward me and swiped the keys out of my hand. They began to swirl into a giant pillar which transformed into a giant man made out of feathers. He dangled the keys at me teasingly, but little did he know I had my spring shoes on that day. SPROING! I jumped super high into the air and grabbed the keys back. Upon landing… text/html 2026-08-06T05:20:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=cameosihired&rev=1785993640&do=diff Cameos I Hired Cameo is a service where celebs, from bit part actors to big name hollywood stars, will say a few words themed on your prompt for them, for a fee (who sets it, I am uncertain). Talent also signs up for the service in order to be eligible to do so, and the turnaround time is usually pretty good. I started hiring cameos originally because I wanted to thank a retirement home for caring for my aging grandparents thru their eventual passing, and that good experience began my collectio… text/html 2026-07-25T00:26:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=car_talk_hearsus&rev=1784939214&do=diff 'Best of Car Talk' Hears-Us-Say-It Jokes The NPR show Car Talk is often filled with little incidental jokes at certain times, for instance always introducing the third act of the show as the “third half” and dozens of similar traditional places for jokes to be found. One such place is at the very end of the show in signing off, one of the two hosts will leave off with text/html 2026-03-07T02:35:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=chaewon_guide_2024&rev=1772850931&do=diff Chaewon Guide 2024 This is a beginner-level guide to the Chaewon discord bot kpop trading card game. I myself am a beginner-level player, and nigh-irritated with existing guides, I decided to make my own mostly as a reminder to myself of what to do (since I play 2 other such kpop trading card games on discord and get them mixed up; they are text/html 2025-12-15T13:00:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=clerihews&rev=1765803612&do=diff Clerihews Clerihews are, loosely, four-liner AABB poems with uneven meter, with a famous person at the end of the first line. These are clerihews I wrote. July 10, 2024 ---------- For National Clerihew Day on July 10, 2024, I wrote five Clerihews Elvis Aaron Presley text/html 2026-09-02T22:41:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=connectionsdid&rev=1788388914&do=diff Connections Past Answers The NYT puzzle Connections is a daily play for me while getting in the proper headspace at the start of the work day, and I've mulled making a list like this for some time. Hopefully it will not move to the deprecated lists page which I will likely also someday make, to which the text/html 2026-08-31T05:39:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=d2_guardian_backstory&rev=1788154772&do=diff My Destiny 2 Guardians' Backstory Destiny 2 is a bulky free-to-play game that has gone for over 10 years actively updating. The basic idea is that you play 1 of 3 Guardians, who were human or human-adjacent people who lived as people somewhere before dying, but a giant floating ball in the sky resurrected you with a floating blabbering intelligent mini robot called Ghost. Each Guardian has their own Ghost, and Ghost will resurrect you if you ever die, to some limitations. If your Ghost dies, th… text/html 2026-09-18T21:37:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=dailyjumbleanswers&rev=1789767422&do=diff "Jumble Daily" Answers This is a list of the answers I figured out to the Jumble Daily, distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. they were not copied from elsewhere; they were answers I personally discovered in the process of playing the game for that day, via the interface presented by the text/html 2026-09-17T02:56:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=dead_sea_blogs&rev=1789613794&do=diff Dead Sea Blogs The Dead Sea Blogs (DSB) is one of my oldest projects for the domain here, thehomeland.org. Almost every iteration of the domain has had some kind of redirect or link to DSB in some capacity but at some point in my late 20s I would experience such a deep level of distraction from it as to even barely recall it existed much less the need to update it, despite it being such a huge part of the domain. text/html 2026-01-24T04:45:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=demonin_counting_emojis&rev=1769229901&do=diff Demonin-Counting Emojis On the discord server run by Demonin, a coder of incremental games (Patreon), there is a channel called #counting (and at least 2 others like it) where participants will emoji-react to certain numbers as they come up. This is a guide to which emojis go to which numbers. text/html 2026-07-07T23:26:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=deprecated&rev=1783466792&do=diff Deprecated Projects This will be a list of all the wiki pages I started, but desire to continue updating them fizzled out. I may eventually move some of them back to the main list once fervor for documenting their subject re-emerges. Easily most of them likely still have particular interest to me, but the process of documenting them is what has fizzled. text/html 2026-08-28T03:28:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=discordcounting&rev=1787887709&do=diff Discord Counting/Chaining Thread Ideas An emerging discord boredom game (as of 2025-ish) has been the creation of a channel or thread, become where users simply count the next number in the series, such as one user saying 1, the next one saying 2, etc, with no time limit, just whenever you see it, even months later as the case may be. text/html 2025-12-15T13:08:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=dynamic_banter_episode_subjects&rev=1765804115&do=diff Dynamic Banter Episode Subjects This is an attempt at an exhaustive list of subjects spoken of on the podcast Dynamic Banter, hosted by Steve Zaragoza and Mike Falzone. Other wikis and documents have been attempted prior, but this one seeks to be exhaustive shy of the point of a full transcript, including all of their sponsors and promo codes. It will be a large undertaking, and will likely be in-progress for the foreseeable. text/html 2025-12-17T01:56:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=fasterthan&rev=1765936597&do=diff Faster Than Idioms List, Revisited Broadly, this is a vast expansion on a post I long regretted not expanding sooner: Master List of Quicker Than/ Faster Than -Jokes from 2014. I asked GPT to generate for me loads of them, and hand-picked a lot of them. A ton of the generated ones made very little sense, and I had to really hone down the style a bunch to get the nuance I was looking for. text/html 2025-12-23T04:08:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=faveimade&rev=1766462906&do=diff Favorite Threads/Etc I Made ---------- Site Type Link & Description Ask Metafilter Thread/Question Silly Phrase Pairs For Vendor Sign-In Sheet Ask Metafilter Thread/Question Music Tracks with Mid-song Full Stops Ask Metafilter Thread/Question Hard Candy Melts Overnight On Orange Peel Ask Metafilter Thread/Question Troubleshootin The Tale: The Temperature Traveler Ask Metafilter Thread/Question Ask Metafilter Thread/Question Transcribe These Cadence Yells from UMaryland text/html 2025-12-15T12:59:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=fiction&rev=1765803545&do=diff Fiction I wrote a bunch of fiction. Here are some or all of them that I could find. * But She Didn't Believe Me * This was a silly series I wrote as an exercise in making up a tall tale, to a cow-orker whose bags I took out to her car near the end of our shift, concocting it mostly between leaving the building and returning only perhaps 30ft distance one way, thru 2 doors one way. I tried to tell her the tall tale upon return, but she didn't believe me when I told them to her. text/html 2025-12-15T13:05:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=fluxx_miccmo_variant&rev=1765803929&do=diff Fluxx: Micco Variant This is a solitaire variation of the Fluxx card game. It involves removing all Action & Rule cards; the object is to complete as many successful goals within one overall shuffle of the deck. There is an implied 'Hand Limit 0'. Basics text/html 2026-08-16T11:42:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=gpt_converters_tools&rev=1786880556&do=diff GPT Converters & Tools These are silly ChatGPT-crafted calculators or text converter tools I asked it to make me. They are entirely self-contained HTML/CSS/JS files that call no blobs/APIs and can be saved as a *.HTM to be used locally without internet. They were not written by me; they were crafted by ChatGPT, but are what came about as a result of requests for such a file, by me. text/html 2026-06-13T03:02:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=grids&rev=1781319730&do=diff Cut/Paste Grids For Whatever Purpose The main idea with these, is to snipping-tool them into MS Paint, save, then print for whatever. Site-User-Pass ---------- . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . text/html 2026-06-03T22:52:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=guessmyword&rev=1780527161&do=diff Guess My Word Stats This was a place where I would keep my personal stats from the simplistic word-guessing game Guess My Word, but after several days of it, it became too much of a hassle to update the stats each time, and I soon lost interest in the game. To regain interest, I opted to discontinue recording the stats =P text/html 2025-12-15T13:05:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=hand_foot_hodges_variant&rev=1765803908&do=diff Hand & Foot: Hodges Variant Hand & Foot is a card game for 1+ players. The Hodges Variant has been played regularly for over 30 years by the Hodges and Moore family combined across Texas and Idaho, with tournaments between families when either visit, and near-weekly between locals in between. The basic concept of the game includes: text/html 2025-12-15T13:06:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=headlines_i_clicked_and_why&rev=1765804005&do=diff Headlines I Clicked And Why In January 2023, in one of the several reboots mentioned in THL History, I tried using a neat little minimalist blogging platform called cohost.org that soon began to focus on an idea to be a linkblog about news headlines that I felt compelled to click on and read about, as a kind of insight into who I am and news that interests uniquely me. text/html 2026-09-10T00:29:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=headlines_i_clicked&rev=1789000164&do=diff Headlines I Clicked 2025: This is a reboot from the prior Headlines I Clicked and Why section, with more of a bloggy/ editorial/ vague summary commentary afterward instead of focusing on why per se. Hopefully this iteration will link the original story more diligently. 2026: I am rebooting it again, with a different premise: to provide links to headlines, to later check to see whether they still exist. I have noticed a lot of news articles are difficult to locate again, and I want to see if … text/html 2026-02-24T02:50:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=howdy_dates&rev=1771901419&do=diff Howdy Dates Howdy Dates are “National (Something) Day” or notable anniversaries, or the start of National (Something) Week/Month/etc, which I have used for outgoing mails to another department at work, as a way to mix up the monotony of them. text/html 2026-08-18T23:09:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=howmuchai&rev=1787094573&do=diff How Much of Main Menu is AI? I have an English BA and writing everything myself is important to me. Everywhere you see highlightable text, I have written it. No description of any article, nor any article, nor any menu, nor link, nor otherwise type-able content is made via LLM/AI output besides the very obviously sectioned/cited area contains such content. text/html 2025-12-15T13:04:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=hyejoo_guide_2024&rev=1765803844&do=diff Hyejoo Guide 2024 Ahoy there! This is a small fan-guide for the Hyejoo discord bot, not to be confused with my similar Juyeon Guide 2024. The official discord & server for Hyejoo is here. Hyejoo is a text-based (mostly) command-line game where you receive random cards featuring beloved Korean/Kpop stars, train them, level them up, combine/ascend them, and/or sell on a public market, among other things. You can have a discord server guild with buildings that gain daily currency and/or bonuses a… text/html 2026-02-27T01:40:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=idwhl&rev=1772156400&do=diff IDWHL Stories Starting in 2016 or so, I got a job as a DSD/pull-up vendor, and began regularly encountering situations in which I was mistaken for a store employee, despite clearly not being one. I asked around here and there, and eventually was recommended I share my stories to a subreddit called IDWHL: I Don't Work Here Lady. It turns out loads of people have had this situation, which a massive uptick in them during the pandemic-affected years. text/html 2026-05-01T02:47:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=jordanjessgostory&rev=1777603644&do=diff Major Story Episodes of Jordan Jesse Go Jordan, Jesse, Go! is possibly my favorite podcast, if not in the top 5, and it is generally about nothing useful or true, but is essentially two relatively fast-talking improv types who have great chemistry and make each other laugh a lot (and share that gift with a guest who is often helpless amid it). Although most episodes have very little to differentiate between one episode to the next aside from which guest is on, occasionally there will be tidbits… text/html 2026-07-30T03:49:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=juyeon_guide_2024&rev=1785383347&do=diff Juyeon Guide 2024 Ahoy there! This is a small begginer/fan-guide for the Juyeon discord bot, not to be confused with my similar Hyejoo_Guide_2024. Juyeon features a text-based (mostly) game where you receive random cards featuring your favorite Korean/Kpop stars, train them, level them up, combine/ascend them, battle, and sell on a public market, among other things. text/html 2025-12-15T13:04:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=kazuha_guide_2025&rev=1765803889&do=diff Kazuha Guide 2025 Ahoy there! This is a small beginner/fan-guide for the Kazuha discord bot, not to be confused with my similar guides for Juyeon, Hyejoo, or Chaewon. Kazuha features a text-based (mostly) game where you receive random /drop'ed cards featuring your favorite Korean/Kpop stars, sell on a public market, give them to your friends, or burn them for currency. text/html 2025-12-15T13:11:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=kidney_stone_food_list&rev=1765804269&do=diff Kidney Stones: Food Allows/Avoids I have had 24 kidney stones as of March 2025, ranging from <1mm to 7mm. Three of them required a ureteroscopy to remove (5mm, 5mm, 7mm) and my longest gap between them after starting to get them (inherited the tendency) was 3 years, by going on this diet. I had one in January 2025 because (I assign blame for) I slipped up on the diet. This diet is generally with regard to text/html 2026-08-20T02:06:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=kpop_bias_list&rev=1787191618&do=diff K-pop Bias List K-pop is popular music from South Korea. A bias is a member who is your personal favorite, for whatever reason you choose. The degree of the bias is how well-informed your decision is. Kneejerk Impulsive, first impressions All-tied text/html 2026-03-17T01:17:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=kpopbdayanniv&rev=1773710261&do=diff K-Pop Birthdays & Anniversaries Here's a list of birthdays of Kpop ppl I want to keep track of. Month Date Artist Group 2026 Age Birth Year January 01 Winter aespa 25 2001 January 03 Seolhyun AOA 31 1995 January 08 Jimin AOA 28 text/html 2026-07-09T04:15:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=kpopmvanniv&rev=1783570526&do=diff K-Pop MV Anniversaries Here's a list of music videos and release dates important/relevant to me. I am an admin for a Taeyeon fan club on FB, and I wanted to make a post each year which highlighted “this mv came out x years ago” for specifically Taeyeon & SNSD, and figured I'd add more as I encountered them. text/html 2026-09-02T03:53:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=krillionstats&rev=1788321191&do=diff Krillion Stats This is a dabble into whether I will be able to maintain a record of my stats/scores for daily-ish Krillion attempts. Krillion.io is a daily trivia game, where you are given categories like “name an animal containing the letter G” of which there are multiple answers, and it will award you a score based on the obscurity of your answer compared to other answers: fewer points for answers most people give, more points for answers people rarely give. text/html 2026-04-03T01:30:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=lateral_with_tom_scott&rev=1775179829&do=diff Lateral With Tom Scott This is a small fan/hobby wiki about the episodes, questions, and panelists from the podcast Lateral hosted by British YouTuber Tom Scott. The basic idea is for one of the four panelists to present a question for the other three to guess or reason out and answer for. Clues are offered in a loosely colder/warmer form as well as with direct hints to prod discussion. All questions are eventually answered, and no score is kept. text/html 2025-12-15T13:14:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=levitical_adherence&rev=1765804462&do=diff Levitical Adherence Challenge As a self-imposed experiment, I wanted to document each chapter of the judeochristian levitical laws, and scrutinize how difficult it would be for me to alter my daily patterns to line up with them, over time. * Rules: text/html 2025-12-15T13:02:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=literary_style_brainstorms&rev=1765803750&do=diff Literary Style Brainstorms Much of fiction, especially those of a prurient interest, tend to be just rote narratives containing flat descriptions and no genuine underlying gimmick or architecture that a style analyst might appreciate. The following are ideas I came up with off the dome about how to appeal to the interest of the style analyst, seeking out literary value within a work that makes it distinct from works resembling it. text/html 2026-08-28T00:32:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=lottery_winnings_dreams&rev=1787877151&do=diff I have long wondered about what I would do with the millions I got from a lottery win, which I do play regularly. Here's a place I can collect all of the ideas of what I would hope to accomplish with that, if my turn at bat ever arrives. * Volunteer Fire Departments in Texas text/html 2026-08-08T00:21:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=lovan_oakenfold&rev=1786148495&do=diff Van Oakenfold Sometime in the 90s, I began reading The Hobbit. I had a kind of dreamy casual daydream of my own world similar to The Hobbit, except with magic that was far more out in the open than the more suppressed variety in Tolkien's world. I envisioned a huge battle between two parties: a large unnamed beast, and a tiny hero, embroiled in battle that was predicted by ancient texts. I gradually built a world around it, drawing on loads of influences, like text/html 2026-08-05T00:25:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=membib&rev=1785889550&do=diff Memorizing Bible Book Titles "In Order" The particular order the books of the Holy Bible of Judeochristianity are in has been relatively standardized, so I'm using that order to develop a mnemonic sentence structure to help memorize all of the book titles. One of the several churches I attend has had a silly achievement thing with a challenge coin prize, and I set out to complete it myself. text/html 2025-12-15T12:57:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=miccmo_paperback_collection&rev=1765803420&do=diff I am the owner of a large collection of trade paperbacks, and am in the process of putting a stamp into each volume and giving them an inventory number and date entered into the collection. Due to the size and ever-growing nature of them, there is only minimal logic order to their Inventory ID. text/html 2026-06-25T03:54:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=misdirections&rev=1782359676&do=diff Misdirection Humor Below are citations/examples of silly ways of speaking via subject misdirection, to comedic effect, once the misdirection is revealed. Most if not all, will be from comedy media from the UK. Series Episode When What Show Joke text/html 2026-09-15T03:55:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=mostrecent&rev=1789444527&do=diff Wiki Entries I Made Here Most Recently This is a self-reminder of wiki entries I made here, to remind myself to update them. I forget very easily. Month/Year What 2026-0914 NPR Plus Asks 2026-0914 Wait Wait Back Episodes 2026-0909 Subjects Wondered 2026-0908 Reduddyry 2026-0907 Muchiness 2026-0828 Wait Wait Stats 2026-0825 text/html 2026-09-07T15:47:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=muchiness&rev=1788796021&do=diff Muchiness The amount of corresponding traits one subject has with another, is its muchiness. To what degree of muchiness, am I crazy cat lady? Does any given president have a high or a low muchiness of the antichrist? Let's find out, 1, 2-hoo, 3. text/html 2026-05-01T02:36:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=ngc238&rev=1777602965&do=diff NGC-238 This is a collection of information obtained from various sources (and cited), about the galaxy NGC-238. It is a wheel-like galaxy, with two big spokes. If I had the authority to name it, I would call it the THL galaxy, after my site here. text/html 2026-03-30T23:03:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=nonnat_hebrew_fest&rev=1774911835&do=diff Non-Native Hebrew Festival Checklist This will be a quasi-blog, of my experience with celebrating or otherwise observing the major Hebrew festivals as described by the Torah, and not really bothering with considering much of the Mitzvah. At first I will start out basic and rudimentary, and hope to increasingly grow more complex in these observances. text/html 2026-09-18T20:59:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=nonwordsfound&rev=1789765170&do=diff Non-Words Found Although I do take issue with whether there can truly be a genuinely non-word, in the descriptive linguistics sense, that's what I called the article nonetheless ._. This is a list of words I came up with, when trying to re-arrange letters for a word game, to spell a mystery word, but were not acceptable words (in the puzzle) at the time. If I can remember, I'll note the game I was playing at the time. I had made up loads of these before and have them in old notebooks and journ… text/html 2026-08-21T02:34:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=nostalendar&rev=1787279642&do=diff Nostalendar Many years ago, I decided to watch the film The Great Escape each christmas-time as a personal tradition, and in May 2024 or so, I decided I wanted to start-afresh-and-beat The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom each year in May sometime (its launch month). Since then, I have been mulling the idea of having 4-5 things to do each month of the year: perhaps listen to one album fully thru, watch a film or film series, play a video game to completion, etc. This list will likely be d… text/html 2026-09-15T04:53:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=nprplusqueries&rev=1789448024&do=diff Wait Wait NPR+ Questions I have it in my brain, that I would like to appear on an NPR show, which is reserved and features strictly people who use NPR+, an donation incentive feed of certain NPR podcasts (namely, Wait Wait Dont Tell Me) and is distributed only to people who have donated and have access to such a feed, which I do. The rules are far more lax than the actual show call-in restrictions, and to me seems a bit more fun and relaxed, that might be suitable for me to do. text/html 2025-12-15T13:15:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=nyr2025_ntm_albums&rev=1765804548&do=diff New Years Resolution 2025: New-To-Me Albums For each weekend of 2025, I resolve(d) to earnestly listen to albums I'd never heard before. My metric for which albums, was pre-1997 albums that broke the Top 100 best-selling in the United States market. I may have heard hit singles from them, but had never really given the album itself a chance. Some time around November 2024, I went thru those years and chose one or two albums per year from bands I had some recollection of by band name alone, but … text/html 2025-12-15T12:58:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=nyr2026_chuckconnorfilms&rev=1765803510&do=diff Bucket List: Watching Chuck Connors' Filmography Originally a New Years Resolution for 2026, I decided to adjust the goal as part of the overall THL Bucket List: attempt to watch each movie in The Rifleman actor Chuck Connor's filmography as listed by Wikipedia, and describe what role he played and miscellaneous details as desired. In typing out all the titles ahead of time, I noticed that some of them might be horror movies or contain elements I need to avoid, so a pass is granted on those. text/html 2026-04-21T16:38:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=panic_exfil&rev=1776789495&do=diff Panic Attack Exfil Guide Hi, self. This is yourself talking, back when we were thinking more clearly. This is a guide I made for you, because you're in the middle of a panic attack, or a cycle of worry compounding on itself downward, or some other nausea-induced or kidney-stone beleaguered or even pushing into suicide territory. text/html 2026-08-18T03:40:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=physmedsauce&rev=1787024457&do=diff Physical Media Sources This is a simple list of when, where, and for how much (if known) I got various physical copies of media like books and discs. HSJ = Junk shop on Harrison Street with no name LBAP = Lamar Baptist Lil Free Library GWSP = Goodwill SW Pkwy; prices are text/html 2026-06-08T23:48:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=powerfulsites&rev=1780962534&do=diff "Powerful Websites You Should Know" List Matty McTech (YT, FB, IG, Tktk, X) has built an impressive following showing short-form vertical video media viewers intriguing sites to visit for years, often with lots of silly comment-bait elements of his videos mixed in, such as pronouncing Fujifilm text/html 2026-03-30T22:20:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=predictions&rev=1774909246&do=diff Predictions of Future Events Assuming the world isn't destroyed by our own rotten decision making, Jesus hasn't returned yet, or some other cataclysmic event has not prevented these, here are my predictions of events which will occur, and what date they were made. text/html 2026-05-10T00:00:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=prioritytotk&rev=1778371241&do=diff Zelda TOTK Priority Ranks Ever since The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom's launch on May 12, 2023, I have completed the game (to the point of reaching the game credits, not to 100% in terms of Koroks, etc) at least once per year, and each year get better and better at it. This year (2026) I decided to outline my rank of priorities to accomplish, and the specific videos/links I used in order to complete it, to reduce searches for the following years. text/html 2026-08-19T03:25:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=quarterstats&rev=1787109903&do=diff Quarter Roll Stats I collect certain kinds of quarters. It started out as a collection of specifically just the W mint mark ones released in (year), but eventually became a collection of the final four decades of the 1900s, and this is a stat tracker how how many I found in each $10 roll of quarters. Stats will be taken only of text/html 2026-09-19T02:04:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=redivvyry&rev=1789783454&do=diff Redivvyry Minimalist link blog, which takes inspiration from Waxy Links, Wimp.com, and Fark.com. Tik-Tok, Reels, regular links of interest, YouTube, etc. No politics, sensuality, or religious per se. Date From What 2026-0918 YouTube "Amazing Japanese Recycling Process! Plastic, Metal Scrap, Fluorescent Lamps, Glass & Trucks" 2026-0911 AP News How Each US State Educates K-12 About 9/11 2026-0911 text/html 2026-09-09T04:28:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=reduddyry&rev=1788928096&do=diff Reduddyry My parents are unrepentant maga, and as one of the very few political portions of this wiki, I wanted to keep a list of all the links my dad sent me over DM. He DMs me a TON of videos, many of them heavily maga-influnced, but a bunch of them on the much sillier side. They will be mostly FB vertical videos, and I'll try to remove any share-ID tacked on to the text/html 2026-07-31T04:07:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=redwheel_idwhl_specifics&rev=1785470865&do=diff RedWheel IDWHL Video Specifics One of my favorite background noise content sources is the YouTuber “RedWheel” who reads off “I Don't Work Here Lady” subreddit threads aloud. Occasionally I will want to refer back to one as it applies to a situation, but the titles of the videos aren't helpful to find the particular reads. This hopes to remedy that. text/html 2025-12-31T02:45:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=rootlanding&rev=1767149101&do=diff thehomeland.org Hi! Somehow you found my hobby domain. Maybe you were looking for the Dead Sea Blogs of yesteryear, which are being restructured at the moment. The site is being rebooted mainly as a Dokuwiki now, as you can see. The primary function of the site is now called text/html 2026-03-14T18:52:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=sabbath&rev=1773514324&do=diff Keeping The Sabbath Holy As a personal experiment to see whether I could, and to what exhaustive degree I could, I decided to research all of the restrictions I could find for honoring the Sabbath, from the perspective of strictly “old testament” text/html 2026-03-06T03:59:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=shortstoryreview&rev=1772769586&do=diff Collected Short Story Summaries I own several printed short story collections as part of the broader Miccmo Collection, mostly of the oldschool mass-media paperback variety. Below is a list of those publications, the contents therein, and my summaries of those stories. text/html 2026-05-29T02:53:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=silly-quick_office_lunge_set&rev=1780023235&do=diff Silly-Quick Office Lunge Set GPT recommended: * 10 reverse lunges each leg (step backwards, slow/light knee tap to floor, stand back up, like this). * 10 split squats each leg (one step forward, bob up and down lunges without touching knee to floor, like this). text/html 2026-06-06T03:34:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=sonysocials&rev=1780716859&do=diff Sony Social Media Accounts This is an attempt at exhaustively listing all of Sony's social media accounts, so that comments can be made below them to voice concerns across many or all of their marketing teams awareness, inspired by this Aztecross video (starting around 6:42) of a former Sony social media manager, advising the Destiny 2 community on how to get noticed. text/html 2026-02-06T05:41:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=squishybebbis&rev=1770356492&do=diff Squishy Bebbis Journal This is a handwritten journal I have kept over the years, beginning December 9, 2021, documenting a universe I created to help me cope with being unable to feasibly buy all of the stuffies of the world, and to cope with the idea that some stuffies will end up in landfills or otherwise such dire situations from which they cannot escape and may never be squished in that form again by any potential stuffy-snuggling person. text/html 2026-08-25T23:24:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=start&rev=1787700281&do=diff THL Core Dead Sea Blogs the main draw this domain has had for the longest period, a silly link-and-journal blog about this-and-that Redivvyry Minimalist link blog, rebooting the old divvyry, which takes inspo from web1.0 favorites Waxy Links, Wimp.com, and Fark.com =) text/html 2026-09-09T23:04:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=subjectswondered&rev=1788995092&do=diff Subjects Wondered This is a fairly non-sequitur list of subjects I wondered about and went down varying depths of rabbit holes to learn about or suffice to answer. Sources are not cited; these are mainly for me to read back for myself, with an explanation that settled the depth of my interest. text/html 2026-08-22T04:20:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=tap_divvyry&rev=1787372410&do=diff the ablestmage press / divvyry On or about October 30, 2006 I began a freebie account on Wordpress, to experiment with publishing editorial content and running a content-driven site apart from my usual dead sea blogs, and to more familiarize myself with that style of publishing. It worked out pretty well. Several of my posts went wild with hits and generated loads of conversations in comments, particularly of content which explained a pop culture confusion. As of writing (2025-1219), it has gar… text/html 2026-08-06T04:53:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=techdiffprizes&rev=1785992008&do=diff The Technical Difficulties' Prizes The Technical Difficulties is a YouTube channel of four British gents with great discussion chemistry, and at the end of their shows it has become traditional to award a prize, typically a fictional convoluted pun. Other shows of theirs, also containing such silly prizes, can be found on other earlier channels such as text/html 2025-12-30T03:26:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=thl_history&rev=1767065204&do=diff The history of thehomeland.org ---------- The username “thehomeland” is based on the concept of having too big of a project to feasibly complete, and having to scale back to a more achievable goal, and possibly not even finishing that. I am thehomeland. text/html 2026-06-09T02:00:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=thl_observances_calendar&rev=1780970439&do=diff THL Observances Calendar This is a list of observances relevant to, invented by, or patterns of dates noticed by, THL. It's broken up into rigid dates, and circumstantial dates. Rigid dates are always November 11 regardless of the day of the week. text/html 2025-12-15T12:58:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=thlbucketlist&rev=1765803493&do=diff THL Bucket List A “bucket list” is a list of goals or tasks one would like to personally accomplish prior to the eventual inability to accomplish them. Since some of mine are extensive, I'll likely list most of them as separate wiki pages. What spurned the idea to make the list, was reviewing paperwork relating to a then-upcoming surgery requesting documentation of medical power of attourney and such. text/html 2026-05-17T21:41:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=tiktokwho&rev=1779054090&do=diff TikTok Accts I Follow & Why/About The following are accts on the vertical-video social media service Tiktok, with a description of why or what their acct is about, so I can go back to find them and interact with them in case I lose them in the mix. I currently follow over 1000 accts, so trying to remember who was who and why, is something easily forgotten for the vast majority. text/html 2026-05-08T03:10:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=tjwparso&rev=1778209832&do=diff TJW Parso TNG Breakdown This is a list of all the Star Trek: The Next Generation YouTube video clips I have found so far, which episode they come from, titles, etc. Season 1 ---------- Seas/Ep Real Title YT Video Title Yoink S01 E06 Where No One Has Gone Before text/html 2026-08-19T02:52:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=todotodo&rev=1787107952&do=diff To-Do To-Do List A list of ideas to make on this wiki. Possible Title Be it be like it would, what it do TJW Parso TNG Breakdown A list of all the TJW Parso YouTube videos related to TNG, and what title, which episode, etc. Handwritten Journal Topic List Table of all my handwritten journal entries, by date, with what topics mentioned in each text/html 2026-05-11T00:08:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=totkamiibo&rev=1778458085&do=diff TOTK Amiibo Card Stats This is a list of all the items I got from my 35-pack of amiibo cards. I documented them all on the first try; thereafter I documented only notable ones, such as fabrics, horses, special weapons, and armors. Date Card Game text/html 2026-08-08T02:18:22+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=vanglore&rev=1786155502&do=diff Vanguard Lord Dump This is a temporary stash place for concepts in the Vanguard Oakenfold story. The Bright Room ---------- The bright room (working name) is a limbo-land type place surrounded in light, much like the construct in the Matrix, or the afterlife white zone in Harry Potter when he dies and sees Voldemort as a tiny huddling troll. The bright room consists of endless beds, in endless rows and endless columns, with glass ceilings to see all of them. Around every one-or-more beds i… text/html 2026-09-15T02:08:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=waitwaitbackeps&rev=1789438080&do=diff Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Back Episodes This is mostly just a placeholder page, for a project I am attempting, to back up all of the Wait Wait Don't Tell Me show episodes which are publicly available via the NPR site. 2006 1-31-2006 2-28-2006 3-31-2006 4-30-2006 5-31-2006 6-30-2006 7-31-2006 8-31-2006 9-30-2006 10-31-2006 11-30-2006 12-31-2006 2007 text/html 2026-05-10T12:18:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=waitwaitbillvoice&rev=1778415509&do=diff Bill Curtis' Voice Intro Lines On the NPR show Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me, announcer Bill Kurtis opens each show introducing him self, and then saying something about himself, like “the voice so smooth” followed by a clever remark. This is a collection of those lines. Not all of the actual show dates are listed, because sometimes there is a guest announcer who is not Bill; these are just Bill's lines. Also, just reading the text of these lines don't do the performance proper justice. The actual … text/html 2026-08-29T02:10:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=waitwaitstats&rev=1787969426&do=diff Wait Wait Don't Tell Me: Stats This article was originally just Wait Wait Bill Kurtis Voice Lines but since Bill Kurtis retired, I wanted to track another kind of subject for the radio show (Wait Wait Don't Tell Me on NPR). Sillier News Stories Featured ---------- The most significant aspect of the show is being a quiz about that week's news with different kinds of rounds throughout. Some of the news stories they quiz about, however, are much sillier than the others. I wanted to build a lis… text/html 2026-02-13T02:42:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=weekcountingproblem&rev=1770950527&do=diff The Week Counting Problem On a discord I frequent, there are many channels and threads devoted to kinds of counting. One channel is simply adding 1, like normal counting. There are counting by 5s, 10s, 100s, 1000s. There is a section where the community can add sillier counting (or chaining) methods, and threads have been created which simply alternate 6 and 7, just saying text/html 2025-12-15T12:56:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=wimshurt_upgrading&rev=1765803399&do=diff Wimshurst Upgrading ---------- I don't remember how long ago, but at least 20 years ago, I bought a Wimshurst Electrostatic Generator from Edmund Scientific for $99+s/h, and it has long been one of my most prized possessions, but I have always wanted to upgrade it to a larger device. If first became fascinated by it after reading articles on the early 2000-era internet about a device called the Testatika and wanting to experiment to build one of my own. This page is some of my notes about ways… text/html 2026-08-20T23:17:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=wordlegridold&rev=1787267848&do=diff Wordle Grids (Old Style) This page is a kind of reference to how I used to document my Wordle results. This page will not be updated with new results, but merely preserves the old kind of design I used and ultimately gave up on because it was too complex to code as-so. The current (and regularly updated) grid list is where these were, at text/html 2026-09-02T03:59:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=wordlegrids&rev=1788321582&do=diff Wordle Grids I have been musing about the possibility of making one of these, and how I might go about it, for a few weeks. So far, in my experience (with the exception of the Daily Jumble, being diligent to document my results has ended up with a prompt disinterest in playing it anymore, knowing I would need to craft the results part of the wiki later, but I think I like Wordle too much for that to happen. text/html 2026-04-03T03:10:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://thehomeland.org/mainmenu/doku.php?id=wplacecolly&rev=1775185809&do=diff Wplace Points of Interest This is a small collection of places I found on the map-doodling service called Wplace. You can doodle in pixel format over areas of a map, for the entire world. Windows 95-ish Desktop - An online pal of mine took several weeks to fill in a full oldschool windows desktop, with many era-specific icons like ICQ (my suggestion) and DOOM. Began on 2025-0921, completed 2026-0403.