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Did you know that the 13 stripes (red and white) represent the original 13 colonies? Bullgrit

Yrag was a Gary Gygax PC. All of Gygax's player characters had many high stats. The stats for Yrag are taken from the adventure module his co-DM (Rob Kuntz) wrote for him - Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure. Heck, you should see Mordenkainen's stats! Bullgrit

To see how this can play out using [all the] AD&D1 rules: AD&D1 Combat Exercise I thought I had posted that on ENWorld, too, but I can't find it around here. Bullgrit

So, um, what am I looking at? Is this based on a game system? I do nothing but watch? Bullgrit

I learned that the curved pieces are called macaroni. I like how they also showed the number of the pieces when they were looking around. My wife still sings, "Everything is Awesome." And I can still get a smile from my kids by saying, "Spaceship!" Bullgrit

I left at 4:00 and made it home by 5:15. I kept to around 20mph even on the 70mph highway. My direction was pretty clear of traffic, but going the other direction, it was a parking lot. Over the whole trip, (about 22 miles), there were many abandoned vehicles, and I saw a few people walking in...

The winter weather -- snow and/or ice -- has come to my area of the South, and it's coming down heavy. Looking out the window of my office building, the roads are being covered with white, and the traffic is thick. Everyone in my company is leaving now, and they're all telling me to get out...

This doesn't have an anti-capitalist message. I don't want to spoil the movie for anyone, because the surprises and links were fun for me to discover while watching. Beware of troll-grenades thrown into discussions just to start fights. Bullgrit

I saw this last night with my wife and three boys ages 9-13. It's cute and funny for kids. I found mildly entertaining. The humor is silly -- like kids love -- and the story is hokey -- like kids love. We still find ourselves quoting lines from the movie, including that song, even the next day...

Watching the Olympics brought this question to mind. Which country has the best national flag? (No need to limit the options to those participating in the Winter Olympics.) I've always liked the British flag. And I like how the Australian flag incorporates the U.K. Union Jack, but with the...

Oh man, I loved Jerry Clower. I'd have to listen to him again to remember if his humor would even be relatable to suburban kids of the 21st century. "Just shoot up here amongst us; one of us needs some relief!" Bullgrit

I watched a Louis CK video the other day because I've seen funny quotes by him around the Internet. Sadly, overall, I didn't find him very funny. Too much of his humor is either based on unreal premises, (for something to be funny, it has to be based on fact/truth -- even Monty Python's humor is...

I don't do it often, and if I do, I announce that's what I'm doing. I don't enjoy contrariness for the sake of argument. (I don't enjoy argument.) Bullgrit

I know. I've seen the Deep Field images -- in fact, my wall calendar over my desk is images of Hubble pics. They're mesmerizing! But I haven't seen any references to anyone doing a wrap-around check. Bullgrit

Wonder if anyone has studied images of the universe for duplicate galaxies on opposite sides of us, to determine if we're seeing wrap-around. Bullgrit

Something that twists my noodle: Shoot a beam of light (like in the camera demonstration above), and you can see the beam from the side (90 degrees off its line of fire) -- that means photons are coming off the beam to the camera lens. I presume photons are being deflected off molecules toward...

A camera that films at the speed of light. A TED Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_9vd4HWlVA The way light reflects off surfaces is very interesting. And mind boggling. Bullgrit

Just heard "Me and Mrs. Jones" by Billy Paul on the radio. This is another of those songs that I loved since I was young, but it wasn't until I was a adult that I understood what it was really about. Have you ever been invloved, in any way, with an extramarital/relationship affair? As a...

This is why I ask these kinds of questions. Because I want to understand how it all works, not because I think I've found a flaw. When I see a "logical flaw" in physics, I figure I just need to have it explained more/better, not that I'm the first person to see the "flaw." And I'm very thankful...

That's a very good point. Bullgrit