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For the past several years I've been eating this kale salad in the summer not because it's my favourite salad and not because I like kale. I eat it because it's easy and it's healthy. I also like the taste of it, which is remarkable...
Despite my reservations about the sanitary conditions of all-you-can-eat buffets, it’s on our family bucket list, a rite of passage my children have yet to experience. My kids have never eaten at an all-you-can-eat buffet. It’s on my...
One of the most iconic publicity photos from David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me shows Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee) sitting on a bed in room 6 at the Red Diamond City Motel. I say it’s “iconic” because it was used extensively for...
I got inspired to reduce my phone use last July. Then, I proceeded to not post any updates about it. It’s July again, and even though I did not write about it, I have made some progress. Here are the things that helped keep my phone...
The spaceport bar on the industrial world of El Zocalo adjoins a zero-gravity arena that hosts regular fights. The players in my Odradek's Drift Traveller game have decided to sponsor a zero-g cage fighter, so I needed rules to resolve...
It’s sales day, and the whole grocery store is crowded. “We have to be patient, right?” a guy said to me. I’m in the butchery section. The guy is frantically walking from one side of the aisle to the other, phone in his hand. “I have...
5-star hikes • 1 to 8 mile options • Moderate | Gain 200 to 1,260 feet • Silverton, OR | Oregon . View from the trail behind the South Falls. As Oregon’s largest state park, Silver Falls State Park is located about 25 miles east of...
Craig Coben for the FT: SpaceX and the myth of independent Wall St research. On my first encounter with Wall Street analysts I also wondered what they were for. Here is Coben’s take: It is possible some retail investors may follow the...
Today was absolutely gorgeous out, and I was able to get so much done outside! I was going to share some of the photos I took, but I need to do my garden tour videos, so I’ll just save it for that. I normally would have taken the videos...
Finally got my copy of R4TG:XC. Some brief thoughts (having only played the Frontier Game as a prototype last year). The difference in card sizes is annoying, but what are you going to do? The new cards are marked anyway without sleeving...
A comprehensive essay on the current state of studies into the fascinating phenomenon of near death experiences (NDE’s). Definitely worth reading if this sort of thing interests you…. What we now know […] is that during a close brush...
the books teeter in piles & still my days are marked by pages read & unread, notes dashed, cascades of footnotes & marginalia, annotations unattended, spines splitting, covers dinged & the damned mad scribbler pencils lines faster than I...
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Vibe coding has added yet another layer of abstraction to programming. There are vibe coders who assume they don't even have to think about code anymore at all—the way web developers don't have to think about assembly or binary. Right?...
As Cleric RESTRICTIONS Cannot wear armour Cannot use weapons Cannot possess personal finances Cannot make attacks HD as Cleric of one level lower ABILITIES Gains 2x XP Begins with spell slots as if one level higher Save Vs Spell +2...