Recent content by Cadence

I wonder if it was a bit more about learning (or at least honesty) before much of the country decided to make college tuition a lot more expensive in exchange for massive state funded scholarships that required a B average to keep. Now instead of that disastrous semester making you have to work...

CNET and Inside Higher Ed don't think so... https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/companion-einstein-ai-tool/ https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/just-visiting/2026/02/23/student-ai-use-demand-side-problem

On the plus side we use Blackboard... Einstein - AI Homework Agent And I confess to thinking it might be a bit interesting if it is hacked by someone nefarious who blackmails all the users for bitcoins with the threat of being turned in for academic integrity violations and being expelled /...

Rereading Stout's sixth Wolfe book "Some Buried Caeser" and came across this quote I had forgotten: "Nowadays an Erinys wears a coat and trousers and drinks beer and works for pay, but the function is unaltered and should still be performed, if at all, mercilessly. I am going to find out who...

Away from the gaming table... Successful yard work with the chainsaw today (finally started feeling comfortable with it a couple times back - although I might be the only one in the neighborhood who uses the chaps and visored helmet with one). Anyway 6 privets down vs. 0 humans down seems...

Trying to pull out "perfect" as opposed to favorite or most rewatched or... The only two I gave a 10 to on IMDB back when I used that would be: Mary Poppins (the animatronic Robin keeps it only practically perfect, but what is better than practically perfect?) Wizard of Oz And I don't have...

I went to go look up some Rex Stout quotes on writing that would be relevant to the above and probably just need to look them up in his biography at home. Found a reference to a Van Doren interview book, our library has it held in deep storage and so I put in a request. And then I stumbled...

It turns out that BritBox Premier has a bunch of nature documentaries. So last night I couldn't decide what mystery to put on and we both kind of wanted to zone out, so we got to hear Attenborough muse about naked mole rats and narwhals and a few other species (two per episode on his Natural...

Binged the two seasons of "Queens of Mystery" (2019-2021 Acorn). Juliet Stevenson is spectacular as the narrator and makes me wonder what other shows would be like with them. It has the smoothest change in casting I've seen anywhere for one of the main characters (my previous choice would...

Just finished it last night and agree with your first impression. It had the typical Dresden that I could sometimes do without, but mostly that was near the end when I already had momentum going to keep me reading. I kind of want an alternate reality version where he does the obvious things...

If the book used the special to A5E or other 5e variant rules by default I probably wouldn't buy many - I mostly play 5e24. But having a sizeable number of things for these other systems too would be just fine. ----- By default Cleric would be the one that will likely tempt me no matter what...

More old cop shows... Watched the first two episodes of the "Murdoch Mysteries" (from 2008-present, set in 1890s-early 1900s Canada). WIth things like Tesla in it, I really wanted to like it, but the acting and scripts just didn't do it for me. I might jump in later and see if that changes...

My standard order is "pink in the middle". To which they sometimes ask something like "is that medium rare or medium?", to which I reply "I have no idea, which is it here?".

How not to do Easter eggs...