The Stochastic Game

I’ve got my issues with Mark Carney but I can’t deny that he fucking stepped up with this very good speech in Davos (also transcribed here in text if you prefer that, including the first bit in French translated in English). That sounds like Canada to me.

New alchemy just dropped: “Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold”

This is an interesting little primer on what a digital camera does behind the scenes to get you a good-looking photo.

Crowdfunding for 7th Sea 3rd edition is coming up soon! Let’s see if this one can fix all the fans’ complaints about the 2nd edition’s system (which was OK to me but I had never played 1st edition… I should try it one day!)

Nice, Sean Punch and Steve Jackson Games released the “GURPS Basic Set, Fourth Edition Revised FAQ”. I haven’t followed the news about this revised edition closely so that’s welcome. Book comes out in March!

Wikipedia says that “hair ice” is somewhat uncommon, but I see it all the time around here during the winter… I suppose we’ve got all the ingredients for it in British Columbia!

Ah yes, a “paywall”. Or what we used to call “buying a magazine”.

Crisp and moody morning around the lake today!

Me: modern OSes are out of control, getting increasingly bloated with every update, cramming shit on my computer, and now I’m running out of drive space!

Also me: oh hey maybe I should uninstall these five games that take up 40Gb each and that I haven’t played in years!

Humanity has conquered the oceans, space, and particles, but what have we managed to come up with to store our used-but-not-dirty-yet clothes at home? A chair. That’s the best we could do. We put clothes on a chair.