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Category Archives: Personal
Tabletop RPGs on the Internet
So over the last few months, I’ve been using VoIP to join in tabletop RPG sessions with friends around the world. With players in Bahrain, Thailand, NYC and San Diego, we’ve been running play sessions nearly every alternate Thursday for … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Personal, The Internet
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Mining my childhood
Looking back on my ancient past, there were a lot of alternatives I could have taken. For example at several points in my childhood I was quite serious about going into puppetry, going into animated film, going into cartooning, and … Continue reading
Posted in Personal
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Thinking about getting myself a toy!
So back in May, after serving her well for 10 years, the power supply on my mother’s venerable Dell Optiplex (Which was a very well made machine in my opinion.) finally died. So I told her, we could go hunting … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Support, Personal
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Boring status message
So I’m revising this entry on the bus home from work. Thank you 3G! And the next hour or so, I roll some dice with Toby, John and the New York Crew on Skype. People in Thailand, the Persian Gulf, … Continue reading
Posted in Games, Personal
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Back in the World Wide Web
So, after two years, I’ve nearly cut all ties to Facebook. I say “nearly” because I haven’t deactivated my account and do plan to check it occasionally to see what my friends there are doing. What I mean is that … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, The Internet
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Back online!
Ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, I present to you the return of the mighty, mighty Farlops Industries. The ponderous and sluggish engines of thought have been stilled for more than two years now but, no more! Let’s see … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Webmastering
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MLK Day Again!
Today, I worked. But I saw something interesting today. A lot of people didn’t come to work. I base this on the mostly empty park and ride lots my bus zoomed past into Lynnwood. This wasn’t the pattern only just … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, The Future
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What Does a Wormhole Look Like?
In science fiction movies, games and television, I’ve seen lots of attempts to depict spatial wormholes and “portals to other universes.” In nearly every case they get the geometry wrong. It doesn’t look like this nor does it look like … Continue reading
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There is no forbidden knowledge
So I read today that scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have received death threats. The LHC death threats are example of ignorance out of control. The risk from the LHC is minimal. How do we know that for certain? … Continue reading
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My History with Gizmo Wristwatches
When I was in college back in the middle Eighties, I had a Casio calculator watch. This was the expensive apotheosis of nerdery back then. In the Eighties Japan was kicking everyone’s ass in consumer electronics. At the time microchips … Continue reading
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