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Another simple recipe, but this time… PICTURE!!! (I’m going to try to start including these. If I remember, yada yada.)
This was breakfast today. The basic recipe is easy. One medium potato, grated. A tablespoon of flour and a half-teaspoon of salt, stirred in. Add a lightly beaten egg and [...]
The Franken amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill:
AMENDMENT NO. 2588
(Purpose: To prohibit the use of funds for any Federal contract with Halliburton Company, KBR, Inc., any of their subsidiaries or affiliates, or any other contracting party if such contractor or a subcontractor at any tier under such contract requires that employees or [...]
A primary disagreement with deadlines in Iraq and Afghanistan has been that it encourages the ‘bad guys’.
“All they have to do,” goes the argument, “is conduct minimal to zero ops and concentrate on recruitment and replenishment. They can wait till the good guys are gone then hit hard.”
I have to ask what they think [...]
Here’s a bit of whimsy that I never see anyone else do, and yet…
[edited. edits in [brackets showing additions and deletions].
First: the simplest home-made playdough I know is 2 cups of flour, one cup of salt, and 1 1/4 cup of water. If you want a slightly more plastic dough replace part [...]
I’m seeing some extraordinary claims based on the report that the University of East Anglia’s (UEA) climate research center may have fudged their data, and that it cannot be checked because they’ve lost (or destroyed) their original data. To be specific, the claims are that this nullifies ALL anthropegenic global warming (AGW) data and [...]
It is inevitable in our current culture that Thanksgiving will produce leftovers for the majority of us. Most of us, in fact, will end up with left-over turkey well after we have finished off everything else.
Now leftover sandwiches are one of my favorites but they pall over time. Not only that, but I [...]
In MMOs, and particularly fantasy MMOs, it’s become a given that the holy trinity will exist. You know: tank; healer; dps.
It gets a lot of ridicule from players, particularly those who fight PVP, as ‘everyone knows’ that real players ignore tanks and kill healers, then dps.
There are a several causes of the problem, if [...]
Another “If’n I designed an MMO” post.
Yesterday, I said exhaustion should affect damage. After checking my notes, no – or at least not for gaming.
The current model for MMOs is basically that you operate at 100% for all damage levels above “Dead”. Believe it or not that’s basically a valid model for HEROES, [...]
This is an ‘if I were an MMO developer’ post discussing some elements of integration of magic. You have been warned.
This is a continuation of the concept of “every skill is potentially available to a beginner.” Constraints are time to learn (aka development points from leveling or any other mechanism) and intervening pre-requisites [...]
I couldn’t help myself, I broke down and found the download and read it. Then I went and looked for what else was around.
For those not in the know, the computers of the “Hadley CRU” (so called by Anthony Watts, a major voice among climate change skeptics; properly the Climatic Research Unit of the [...]
