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I call upon my fellow RPG bloggers to produce Orpheus themed texts during the time of July 17th to July 24th. During this time I hope to see several posts inspired by the great poet and prophet.Some Post Inspirations:Orpheus and...
This is a response1 to a post by Jerichards titled Where did my creativity go? Their post resonated with me because it is something I ask myself often. Not just where did my creativity go, but what happened for it to go away? Like...
To be read in conjunction with the astrophiz podcast #237https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz-ep237-july-sky-guide-ian-musgrave Eastern horizon on the morning of Saturday, July 4 as seen from Adelaide at 5:54 ACST (90 minutes...
My parents allowed me to solo in our small day sailer (a Sunfish) when I was 11 years old. I enjoyed the freedom of the water. My adventures on Lake Michigan went well. There were a few exceptions. One involved a friend of mine, Howard...
I longed to tap dance as a child after becoming enthralled by the movie musicals of the 1930s, 40s and 50s starring great dancers like Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, Ginger Rogers, Rita Hayworth and many more. It was an urge I couldn’t...
This week I’ve been thinking about career paths, about how to quantify and measure things and social capital. Oh and the humidity has been rising fast. Re-established my gym routine, this time equipped with a new (and cheaper) app for...
The last post about the Nothing Phone not buffering its button presses reminded me of something. Here’s IBM Selectric, a 1961 typewriter: Past decades get compressed into a singular point in time, so we might all think of Selectric as...
The most fundamental question a man asks himself, often. Can he remain alone for his entire life without being destroyed by it? On the surface, that question begs another: why would anyone want to stay alone for life at all? When you're...
After I published my map of defence spending a friend suggested that it would be interesting to see how things had changed since the end of the Cold War in 1990/91. I knew that the data I had covered a longer time period so I asked...
In HOT Updates in Postgres we covered page pruning clean up HOT chains, an elegant shortcut where PostgreSQL reclaims dead tuple space during ordinary reads. All that without waiting for any background process. But pruning is exactly...
Last night, I finally released the 4.0 rewrite of the rssCloud Server. I’m very paranoid about breakage, so technically there was a version 3.0 that came out in May, but it was a necessary step to shore up the old codebase before the big...
Here is a new episode of: I love pushing block puzzles games but I suck at it. Today’s menu is: doors, locks, and rooms within rooms within rooms. In this game, there is one treasure to reach, a few doors and a key. But depending on...
And make sure you check out the end of this article where we drop some sneak previews of upcoming posts and break down this week's analytics! DAILY SUMS Daily Sums is a game here on the The Bryant Review that provides a new puzzle every...
Cooler this week, thank goodness. My brain mostly resumed normal operation and spent an uneventful few days trapped inside my body which was itself trapped inside an office. Three gyms. I’m still only, like, half a kilo down from a month...
Hello, loves! With a reasonable design, reasonable changes are generally reasonably easy. So keep the design reasonable. Anyone in the dungeon game business knows that the “right light thing” is ray-tracing, so that your torch only casts...