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Hey, Bear. The deployment is scheduled and will happen soon. So I had about 17teen days to rest after 28 days of the previous deployment, which was total hell. Well, it could have been more tbh, considering we have quite a few people...
Fortunately, not all of these casualties have been fatalities. The VA will no doubt resist treating those that are just maimings as "service-related" — rather unusually, with substantial justification. The fatality involves the...
How many things can one do in a round, and how does it change the feel of the game? I am playing OD&D this week, running through Thracia with the amazing d4 hp magic-user, and I love being able to attack twice from range (if I don’t...
Enola Holmes 3 (2026) • View trailerFour stars (out of five); rated PG-13, for violence and dramatic intensityAvailable via: NetflixBy Derrick BangThis series continues to delight on all levels. Director Philip Barantini, new to the...
I’m endlessly confounded (as a user) and fascinated (as a designer) when it comes the shortcut conventions in Google’s professional web apps. They seem… bad, but bad in a strange, inexplicable, enthralling way. Previously, we encountered...
Still Surfing #5¶ Notes, links, and other things I'd like to share. Could do it through my micro-blog, but that's a bit a nicer format, isn't it? 🎧 Hidden Brain – The Cowboy Philosopher¶ A podcast I enjoyed for so many reasons! It's...
It’s been a little over two months since I wrote about wanting to go a little more analogue with parts of my workflow. I bought pens. I bought a notebook. Now what? Have they been collecting dust in a drawer somewhere or have I actually...
Link: Trump dismantled a federal climate website. These women rebuilt it., by Jenae Barnes at The 19thThis shouldn’t have been necessary, but is still wonderful to see. Climate.gov had been the go-to resource for climate data, but it...
It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is … Continue reading →
This past weekend I got to run Tom Mecredy's He Ain't Gonna Jump No More for a group of friends. HAGJNM is "tournament module" (or "capsule game") in which players control paratrooper squads during D-day. Players have 21 hours to...
Back in Nottingham.Home of Castle Rock, stone lions guarding the old council house, a higher proportion than usual of folks in heavy metal t-shirts, and plenty of houses on the market vacated by ex-Premier League managers.On the agenda...
More links from about the internet - for still more, check out the huge set from the previous list found here or the weekly r/OSR blogroll or check the RPG Blog Carnival. Bloggie-nominated. Originally inspired by weaver.skepti.ch,...
you make a million decisions in the course of your life, and you'll forget most of them. as i set out to write this, at 4am, it feels very important. that's why i've made the decision to write it. it feels important because it is 4am,...
From The Russo-Ukraine War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy (W. W. Norton, 2023), Kindle pp. 118-119: On March 18, 2014, Vladimir Putin delivered one of the most consequential speeches of his career. Addressing a joint session of...
I love my ereader. It's lightweight, fits in a pocket, and lets me read on a more comfortable (non-AI-slop) platform than my phone, laptop, or 3ds. It's neither perfect nor the same as a book, but it does the job. I run KOReader on a...