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Heroic Cultures Bardings (TOR) Beornings (POW) Bree-hobbits (TOR) Dwarves of Durin's Way (TOR) Dwarves of Nogrod and Belegost (TDD) Elves of Lindon (TOR) Elves of Lórien (RTR) Elves of Mirkwood (POW) High Elves of Rivendell (RTR) Hobbits...
I think a lot times calling something capitalism comes off flip, but the sorry reality is that the problems of society today stem directly from capitalistic logic and there is no mystery about it. Referencing a 1800s analysis over and...
I've been using Strava for a couple of years and it's always felt a little bit...not right. I couldn't ever really place my finger on what it was until I tried Ride with GPS. It's the same kind of thing - ride tracking and planning - but...
I've been using Strava for a couple of years and it's always felt a little bit...not right. I couldn't ever really place my finger on what it was until I tried Ride with GPS. It's the same kind of thing - ride tracking and planning - but...
I've been using Strava for a couple of years and it's always felt a little bit...not right. I couldn't ever really place my finger on what it was until I tried Ride with GPS. It's the same kind of thing - ride tracking and planning - but...
Jason Torchinsky, the Autopian: You know what I miss that cars often had up until the ’90s or so, and are almost extinct today? Badges. Not the usual make/model badges, though, we still have plenty of those, I mean the highly-specific...
Back to the Wells, Part 6: The Food of the Gods by Matthew R. Bradley Paul Lehr’s vivid 1967 painting to illustrate H.G. Wells’s The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904) is the least representational of his quintet for my...
# Yesterday, I had what I thought was going to be a difficult conversation at work. Since covid, my employer has gradually been increasing the required time in office for staff. This week they announced that everyone under a certain...
The winds keep rotating, and so one needs to migrate to the right end of the atoll. Especially here. Fakarava has over 30NM of fetch in the wrong conditions. But we had a chance to snorkel the Unesco Nature site Wall of Sharks, and...
Click here to book tickets David Carpenter In the nineteenth century, artificial eyes were sometimes made of lead-based glass, so if the owner were to walk in extreme cold temperatures and then enter a warm room with a blazing fire,...
June was a busy month, with me moving and then doubling down on the Goblin Tarot! Patrons get to see all the cards as I complete them, but I thought y'all would enjoy a peek at a couple of them: Queen of Wands King of Knives Expect to...
It's been 20 years since we did the climb!So many good and bad things happened since thenTo climb Mount Fuji, there are many rules in place these daysSummer is here!
I started weight-lifting in September of 2025 with two goals. I hoped to one day be able to deadlift 100lb. The other goal is a tougher one: I want to be strong, flexible, and have good balance when I am old.When I was little, my dad...
Right, it's been too hot, did anyone notice, it's been just too warm to do much beyond get to work, drag oneself into the shower, and catch up on sleep lost elsewhen! Also, I've had a head-cold since Monday afternoon, I'm only just...
View from Cariboo Dam, pre-run. Cloudy and humid again. I headed out a bit later than usual, under cloudy skies and pretty much no wind at all (which would have actually been nice later in the run). I was somewhat surprised when my 4 km...