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My friends and I have almost wrapped up our first Blood Bowl league. We began with a round robin tournament, playing six rounds of games between the six players in the league. (I think using the power of math we could have figured out a...
I did my first financial deal while attending Purdue University. It was at the beginning of my Junior year, 1980. My roommate received a grant. The state gave him money to pay his college tuition, fees, and living expenses for the...
Everything is the same. Oh, except I just put up my Albums of the Decade interview with Cleric. That changed. Keep safe. If you're new to this metal blog of bones you can also check out the various interview projects I have going on as...
The Best Record of 1989: Day 40
It’s been a while since my last post in the Books category early February, 32 fiction books further by my count. Recently Cory Doctorow pointed to the work of Welsh / Canadian author Jo Walton on the occasion of the publication of her...
The LEGO® Botanicals theme has several frequent typologies, one of which is the classic bouquet that requires an external vase for display. Last year's 10345 Flower Arrangement (see Thomas' review of set 10345) offered an alternative...
This, so much. Something seems to be lost on my peers today: it’s still easy to not use AI. The food we eat, clothes we wear, and every electronic device we touch may embody innumerable injuries to the world, and all this is inescapable....
Namier concluded, the first thing to do was to realize that high-flown speeches and even public documents were largely window dressing. The crucial factors were the personal histories of the players--the families they came from, the...
What's been happeningIt's been another pleasant week. My usual swimming instructor was on a holiday so I had a different instructor. She had a different way of teaching which was nice, was more on the theory of why you should be doing in...
Cool and clearing after yesterday’s storms. A red-bellied woodpecker calls from a dead limb at the top of the tallest black locust, making it sway. Below him on another dead branch, a fledgling is being fed by its mother.
I knew of a team whose leaders had it in their heads that the executive team had no trust in them. It came after a couple of launches that were worked on for a long while were stopped just as they came close to shipping. And when their...
I’ve heard people say, “I don’t use search engines, I just ask AI”. And I get it. It’s easy. If you use Google, the first result is always Googles AI, Gemini, replying. Earlier this week, Apple announced that it would remove support for...
The Playstation 5's time is coming. And by that I don't just mean there will finally be some good PS5 games, hyuck hyuck — though in the nearly six years since the console came out, Sony's overinvestment in live service games sure has...
Was soll ich sagen: Als wir auf dem Gysenberger Weihnachtsmarkt Ende 2024 erfuhren, dass schon bald in der Herner Innenstadt eine Weinbar mit guter Küche eröffnen würde, waren wir gleich Feuer und Flamme. Aber das… Der Beitrag Endlich...
I grew lilies. I have a whole new, and hopefully long-term, plan for the garden, and am looking at an autumn/winter of being outside with implements of destruction. The raspberries have been great, I have some blueberries coming, and it...