The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

I’m a few days late but I finally got around to do it this year! The younger kid helped, too.

The picture of an apple pie, with the sign for "Pi" engraved in the top crust. Pi-Day (3/14 in the wrongly ordered American dating notation) was just a few days ago.

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We still have some pretty spectacular hair-ice here every now and then. That is, until the good fluffy boy completely destroys it.

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Firefly and Serenity were good. Buffy was good. I don’t need reboots or sequels or whatever. What I’d rather have are original and diverse new premises and stories. In the meantime, I’ll be watching old stuff I missed.

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When someone points at problems with the excesses of late-stage capitalism, there’s always some dumbass who replies “well what do you want then? make everything free?!” and half the time it’s somebody you thought was actually educated 😬

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A few weeks ago, the good fluffy boy and I were up in Squamish and we found an off-leash park that apparently doesn’t really “end” anywhere as much as it leads up out in the wild and onto the mountains…

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I should be more like Conan when I read articles about regurgitative AI and other stupid new tech trends.

An excerpt from a Conan The Barbarian story: "Murilo realized that the priest must be centuries ahead of his generation, to perfect such an invention; but Conan put it down to witchcraft and troubled his head no more about it."

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The MacBook Neo is interesting because it’s named like something from, I don’t know, the ASUS marketing department or something. Usually Apple uses common nouns/adjectives for its products: Shuffle, Magic, Pro, Air, Mini, etc.

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“This is Free Trader Beowulf” by Shannon Appelcline is to Traveller what the “Meints Index to Glorantha” is to, well, Glorantha. We need more books like these! It’s so interesting to read about the history of classic #TTRPG games.

The coffee-table-sized "This is Free Trader Beowulf", described as "A System History of Traveller". It talks about the history of the game, the people behind it, the various publications, editions, publishers, and more.
The book includes "collector checklists" which is actually quite useful when you're a collector! :)
This is the kind of content you'll find in there, some interesting stories, some fun pictures, and some very nerdy-looking people with 1970s hair styles.
The book even has maps! Woohoooo!

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A couple weeks ago, the good fluffy boy and I went over to Burnaby mountain! Nice view and crisp, fresh air as always.

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