The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

GURPS turned 40 years old a couple days ago! I don’t have a complete GURPS collection, because that would be crazy, but I definitely have way more than anybody should reasonably have. Which sounds great if you ask me.

A picture of my "nerdy RPGs" shelves, with mostly GURPS book, plus a few Harnworld books in the lower-right.

The GURPS collection includes a fairly complete set of 4e books, a quite lengthy collection of 3e/2e books (including a few obscure ones), a partial GURPS Traveller collection, and a complete GURPS Transhuman Space collection.

VanCAF haul! Great little comicbook convention once again. Thank you to all the artists who came.

A funny T-shirt by Sam Logan (go read Sam & Fuzzy!)
One Year at Ellsmere by Faith Erin Hicks (go read The Nameless City!)
Griz Grobus, Habitat, and A Star Called The Sun by Simon Roy (go play Six Ages!)
Camp Fire by Richard Fairgray (no idea what to recommend, it’s the first time I see this guy!)

In addition to being a rhubarb addict and chocolate zealot, I’m also a honey snob. It’s hard to find anything else than shitty liquid or creamed honey that just tastes like sugar. If I can’t taste what flower the honey was made from, I’m sorry but it’s crap.

Three jars of "Jane's Honey Bees", made here in BC. I haven't tasted it yet but different labels for different fields of flowers is, at least, encouraging!

In this case, it's wildflower, cranberry, and clover fields.

While throwing away old CDs, I found a couple of very old cassettes from when I was a kid and didn’t have a CD burner to copy stuff! Here’s my copy of the soundtrack to the cult 1994 movie “The Crow”! Can’t do this shit with MP3 files.

A cassette case with the list of songs from the soundtrack to The Crow, and a shitty drawing (by teenage-me) of the titular character.

The 2026 Ennie Awards nominee list shows how large the hobby has become. Years ago, I would have heard about more than 2/3rd of that list. Now, I’m not sure if anybody who isn’t a TTRPG journalist or something would know that much. This is GOOD by the way.


After throwing out old programming books, I sadly started also throwing away all my old CDs and DVDs. Remember when music came with a beautiful, little artsy booklet with very hard to read lyrics? Good times!


More old programming books to be thrown away! “Why Scrum Works” 🤣😅 But hey, at least I read that book. Unlike half of the managers I worked with who *thought* they were doing Scrum but were really just doing performative bullshit.