Turhan's Bey Company

It is also true of ttrpgs.

As a GURPS writer, I sometimes struggle with this.

A light brown hound sitting on a wooden floor looks longingly up at the camera.

A light brown hound sitting on a wooden floor looks up at the camera and licks his lips with a very long tongue.

Derry is made of love and elbows.

Sooner or later, we must each face our own personal boorish Habsburg emperor.

النَّاسُ بِزَمَانِهِمْ أَشْبَهُ مِنْهُمْ بِآبَائِهِمْ

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"People resemble the times they live in more than they resemble their parents."

an-nāsu bi-zamānihim ashbahu minhum bi-ābāʾihim

@thehappysorceress.bsky.social and I adopted Barry's as our house standard after running across it in Ireland on honeymoon decades ago. So good.

GIGO as a service.

It's a jungle primary, with multiple candidates with the same party affiliation. Several Rs, at least 3 Ds, so votes are not split so much as fragmented. MTG's opponent got ~35% in the last election, so the current leader in this race is slightly overperforming, but in a two-man race, he loses.

Once your hands are repaired, you can use them to smash the state.

My MA thesis was a statistical analysis of coin hoards, examining distance and duration of circulation. Alas, I did not have the chance to point to this by saying "Coins Georg is an outlier and will not be counted."

Coming out of archaeology, my understanding of "technology" makes it difficult for me to communicate with people in the IT industry, in which I am employed.

Some include:

* Fossil pollen and animals which bear the signs of domestication
* Traces of unusual radioisotopes, rare earth concentrations from high tech, and lead
* Substantial engineering projects like mountaintop removal mining and shipping canals
* High orbit debris and objects on the Moon

Cool monk, wearing shades while playing GURPS.

Patiently awaiting the rise of bridgemaxxing where the question "If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would you do it too?" is met with the answer "Yo, this ya boi [influencername] and we here at the Gee! Dubya! Bee! Don't forget to like and subscribe!"

If they'd just read the file they'd see the bit about your mutant healing factor.

Cal carried a letter to the editor from him setting the record straight. "I didn't say it," he pointed out correctly. "THEY said it. I was shocked then and I'm shocked now."

name Ace Backwards. One strip had a panel flashing back to Woodstock and represented Joe swearing at the crowd. But it turns out that McDonald was a long-time Berkeley resident, and a copy of the strip made its way to him almost instantly. A few days later, the Daily

To the extent that I've got a story about any figure in the counterculture of the 60s, it's about him. When I was an undergrad at Berkeley back in the 80s, the campus newspaper, the Daily Californian, ran a comic strip, "Berzerkeley," by a local artist working under the

Country Joe McDonald, Woodstock Star Who Found Counterculture Fame With ‘I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-to-Die Rag,’ Dies at 84 Country Joe McDonald, whose late '60s group Country Joe and the Fish performed counterculture anthems at Woodstock, has died at age 84.

Country Joe McDonald has died.

variety.com/2026/music/o...

He was best known for the "Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag" and associated "give me an F" cheer at Woodstock

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRl6...

FMK: Tony! Toni! Toné!

The Rutles - Living In Hope YouTube video by cheeseandonionsohno

I'm dwelling in regret, but living in hope.

It does!

I'm not saying that if I were writing GURPS HOT SPOTS: THE SILK ROAD today, half of it would be based on this, but I'm not not saying it.

"Spit it out, Georgie. Staging a coup here."

Much Ado About Nothing, though Comedy of Errors has its virtues.

No plans, but seems likely. As I think I've warned @stevenmarsh.bsky.social, a lot of ideas for GURPS works spring out of wherever I happen to be in my reading cycle.

And I have JUST been looking into early modern and imperial mail networks and other systems of communication. Yoink!

To lose one valuable long-standing business can be regarded as a misfortune. To lose two looks like carelessness.

(Just had the anniversary of one of those.)