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Back in June I posted a couple of real-time updates about how our truck’s front frame broke after a fuel stop, leaving the truck sitting at a service road intersection, with our coach dragging the bumper and tow base plate. This blog is...
Today marks the 110th anniversary of Jack Vance's birth. Back in May, I covered his Dying Earth books for my Witches of Appendix N. Today I want to look at the RPGs of the Dying Earth. There are essentially two published ones, Pelgrane...
The people who run oldgame.cz (English link) emailed me and outright asked if we’d link to them. Imagine that, an honest request without any exchange of money involved! Someone just offering to give me something to post about today. It’s...
Alnashetri cerropoliciensisSlip back 90 million years and wander the sun-baked floodplains of Patagonia, where the giants get all the glory—but it’s the tiny, fleet-footed oddballs that hold the real secrets.Meet Alnashetri...
Working on getting a job, more mysteries and sci-fi, more Traitors, some music, and some Persona. This weekly digest may end up short again due to more job stuff showing up at the last minute to occupy my time. I am writing this on...
Earlier this year, I shared how excited I was for a direct service between Amsterdam and Hamburg by GoVolta. This rail link could have also provided a hop to Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia, especially as it lined up with GoVolta’s...
In our previous post, we compared the assembly of cruise ship cabins to the Docker ecosystem: Docker Images are the pre-made cabins: complete snapshots that include application code, dependencies, tools, and settings. They work as...
I found a fairly fast way to convert strings representing Base 10 numbers to strings that represent Bijective Base 10 numbers. That’s a string-to-string conversion, no integer type is involved. What happens if you have an integer type...
Here is Dan Kaufman arguing, among other things, that "AI enthusiasts reject the social dimension of philosophy." Some first reactions: I'm sympathetic to Kaufman's view that many philosophers vastly overrate the truth-finding aspect of...
Yesterday, after a few meetings and such, we embarked on an end-of-Minnesota double-header — the Fair and a Saints game! Beatrix was with us for the Fair but ended up bagging out on the Saints to pack, which was likely wise.I've never...
Originally Published March 24th, 2004 REVIEWING THE NOVELS I think a very strong argument can be made that George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire is the finest work of epic fantasy since J.R.R. Tolkien first defined the genre with...
I’m helping to train AI on what is and isn’t AI writing, for free, in the hope that they might give me more of the same for beer money. I put it through AI.
Last weekend we had our annual allotment show. I always enter a few things. This year I had high hopes for my giant marrow and my lovely sweet peas. I’ve been watching and watering both for a few weeks. The sweet peas grow up some string...
Recall/warranty notices for a vehicle you own are never good. As the owner of one of the affected vehicles mentioned here, I’m glad to know Honda is taking the matter seriously, but reading some of the comments on that thread, I’m now...
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