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Tall Tales about David Crockett and other losses
The more things change The more they stay the same. The more things stay the same the more they change… One of the rules of this blog is that I don’t apologize for lapses, though I am not proud of how many entries I have started along these lines. As explanation, and not a complete one, let me offer this: People ask me what’s going on in my life, and I’m not certain how to answer them. My…
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The Zhodani through the Lens of primal space opera
This is for the Fantastimultiverse Project. More on that here. In Traveller, with long-running TTRPG with 2 ll’s we find the Zhodani, an empire headed by human variants who have gone all in on developing their psionic abilities, and then all in on building a society around that. Zhodani base info. Caught up? Good. What I want to import into this in the Lensmen setting, being the universe of EE…
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Density affects gravity more than pronouns.
I didn’t get a chapter done on my novel. I became bogged down in day-job stuff, and research. To whit:  Gravity is not really about mass but about density, which is something I should have known 40 years ago, but am just now wrapping my brain around. Jupiter’s mass is 300x that of Earths, so you think it would have a massive gravity well. Nope. While it does have the most gravity of any Solar…
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Notes for my convenience and your benefit
When you lose a good habit, it becomes progressively harder to get back into it. If you don’t know where I’m headed with this, look at the date of the last entry. But don’t worry. This is not a blog about blogging – or worse – not blogging. These are notes I post for my convenience and perhaps your benefit. I suffer from a surplus of ideas. I do. I think they’re all good, and I’m right about…
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The Integrated Multi-Fantastiverse TTRPG setting – a proposal
I have been noodling for some time abut a TTRPG campaign with a comic-book style space opera setting. I’ve made some notes. It is increasingly clear to the part of my mind that monitors rational priorities that the part of my mind that just does stuff unless actively restrained is going to just do this. Supplements are being left open on tables. Notes are starting to collate. Where I am stuck…
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It takes 3 breaks in a row to change a life and other news
I have heard or read somewhere – that I can longer identify – that it takes three lucky breaks in a row, or three bad breaks in a row to change the direction of a life. This is a broad generalization, and there are a lot of caveats. That same source further asserts that good or bad breaks are equally likely. A break, here, is something that happens completely by chance. We are not talking about…
Spoiling Doctor Who yet again for the last time maybe
There is reason to believe that Doctor Who will ever return to television. Neither Disney nor, more importantly, the BBC has promised any such thing, despite the apparent cliffhanger of the season finale. A cliffhanger, so we’re all clear, was added after the fact when it became clear the Ncuti Gwata would not return as the titular character. No reason has been given for the actor’s departure,…
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How we are thankful the deadline evaporated for removing the cholla
I removed it anyway – and I regret little. But the reason I removed it last weekend evaporated by the end of this weekend, and that was positive development that I am grateful for. Also, young renters, read your damn lease.  All of it. Before you sign it. Take notes if you have to. Before I explain any of that, some announcements: Go Action Fun Time at my house any Sunday (except tomorrow)…
Try not to live in fear of Trump or robots
For those troubled by Trump This is not where I tell you it’s not going to be as bad as you think. It could very likely become even worse than that. I hate this outcome too, for I have never been a fan.  This is about getting through your trauma and anxiety right now. Right now, we do not know what the coming Trump Administration II – The Trumpening will actually be able to do. Some of this is…
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An account of our summer antics
It’s been more than a month, and we have been busy running about in time and space, acquiring ridiculous things and learning on occasion. Chronologically, we lead with the ridiculous thing: This was from the Mad Hatter musical, an ill-fated premier at Herberger last spring that Cheryl was briefly involved with. They left these things behind, and the Herberger staff was happy to help us haul…
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Some notes before we disappear
Soon, we shall disappear for the better part of two weeks, traveling in time and space because we can. Before that, a few random lessons learned: If you post a photo straight to Instagram – it’s gone. The only place to ever see it is that one Instagram post. It’s not like Facebook where you can still save the JPG if you can find it. Instagram encodes it in some sort of HTML that even the mighty…
Long overdue update with no real theme
I didn’t expect to get this done tonight. I expected Cheryl to come home from Spain and disintegrate all productive notion by her long overdue presence. But no. There was a 12 hour flight delay, as the flight she was supposed to be on was cancelled, and that plane left – perhaps with her luggage. We shall see. Meanwhile, I’ve been busy. This is a product you can actually by Right Now on…
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Three small lessons from three small losses
OH! Before we get to that: My plan for fixing the NBA All Star Game: Fans vote on the top offensive stars AND the top defensive stars. No duplications. Then one team is composed of the Offensive starters and the Defensive bench (the O’s) and the other [the X’s] is composed of the Defensive Starters and the Offensive bench. The Defensive stars are obviously motivated to prove they belong. The…
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What habits might develop in thirty days without supervision?
I read or heard from some authoritative source that I do not recall that if you do something consistently for 30 days you can either make or break a habit. Thirty days seems suspiciously convenient, but I have tried this with a few personal habits recently, and it seems to be holding. My wife is six days into what will be about 30 days out at sea. What kind of feral nerd habits might I develop…
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Legacies and Links from wandering Armadillos
This post contains no useful information about the actual animals. We’ve been busy and things have piled up, so I have some announcements, and then some links to dump – er bounce of a reflective surface. I was going to try to build a metaphor around that, but this turned into an Armadillo thing. Anyway: UnObtanium Bazaar will appear at the Two Rivers Renaissance Faire in Yuma next weekend. We…
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The Go Action Fun Time Season 1
Below is the GAFT Season 1 Episode guide, an Excel file you can download and open at your leisure. If you worry about downloading such things, I don’t know what to tell you. This is what WordPress lets me do. Either take the risk or live with not knowing. Here it is: season-1-onlyDownload
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