Really enjoyed Armison’s take. He almost portrays Fester as someone who’s gone so far around the bend that he’s looped back around around to sane.

Space Engineers. Little space ship building game, why not.

1500 hours later…

I am disappointed that “getting distracted by squirrels” is not a slice of the middle pie.

Buy quality things that will last a long time.

Paraphrasing Terry Pratchett, the man who buys a good pair of boots will have dry feet for ten years, and the man who buys a pair of cheap shoes every year will spend more and still have wet feet.

The people spending money on parts definitely are.

An expensive motor that breaks, or decides to close on you when you’re looking inside, or…

Nebula is pretty great.

There’s one where a guy gets reincarnated as a vending machine. Actually pretty good. Fun satire.

So what if it was?

I found Rogue One a satisfying conclusion to the independent Andor story.

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Consider, though, the value you received in non-monetary terms. How much would you have had to pay?

How about, if we must have military drones, they should be open source.

The Long Dark. Nothing will change. Death is only a matter of time.

A raid6 array across a collection of separate disks might do it.

Not difficult, or even expensive, to find a working 20 year old machine with a 3.5" FDD. Also I work at a library and we keep a couple of well bagged USB floppy drives around for profs who occasionally need data retrieval. Hasn’t happened in a couple years though. We also have an old Dell for 5.25".

But what about the children?

It bothers me, but not so much as exclusivity does. It does not give Facebook a competitive advantage over its competitors.

You’d think russian assets would work harder not to be dependent on US clouds.

I watch a lot of Bluey…