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So stop keeping F.A.T.A.L. alive, peop- aw, dammit.

Red or green?

Often I try to get into a career that has a chance of giving me the skills I want. Sometimes that goes very sideways, and I get my favorite characters that way...

And, of course, the recent Conclave ().

There is already (almost) a board game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/196/kremlin

To be flat bleeping honest, you're a gambler. If you can't think of money spent on a kickstarter as gone, it's healthier for you not to spend at all.

That is not dead which may eternal lie And with strange aeons even Death may die.

Finally off that bleeping starship!

I mean, if it's DHL you were always lucky if it ever arrived in the first place...

My high school's chemistry class was taught by the football coach - but he was a damn good chemistry teacher. (I guess he was a good football coach too. I never paid attention.) (Wasn't a poorly funded school, either.)

Think I paid like twice that for my backgammon dice (I do not play backgammon). Money well spent.

Looks like a torch to me. Not sure its meaning.

Reaching satellites - and even the ISS - is a very doable thing for ham operators today. Power is not the biggest issue; compensating for Doppler shift and tracking are.

For what it's worth, I've seen people who knew the elder Bob who say he would be appalled by his son's and grandson's feeds.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/companies-cut-ties-with-judges-guild-after-owners-racist-posts.670222/

The isometric maps for the Deepnight Endeavour are so awful, our referee took a week off to make Cartesian maps. And I'm still not sure how they link up together. Zero stars, worst starship I've ever hunted bugs on.

And the Virginia Edition puts the juveniles fairly early. So I've finished dessert and now I have to eat a lot of broccoli.

Right now I'm reading Heinlein. All of Heinlein. At least I Will Fear No Evil was the first volume, to get that suction out of the way quick. But I'm currently on Sixth Column, a.k.a. Being Less Racist Than John W. Campbell is Such a Low Bar, Isn't It?

For the next few years of my life, I expect to mostly read books written by people who are dead [1]. This is looking like a better and better idea all the time. [1] As part of Operation Reduce Backlog.

Sometimes I buy used because it's hard to find what I'm looking for new. Sometimes I buy used because the item is out of print. And sometimes I buy used out of pure spite.