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Board Games 2024

I feel like I’ve been playing fewer games this year… which still amounts to multiple game nights a month. I’ve cut back on backing of Kickstarter projects, but they keep expanding games I already enjoy like Clank! and Terraforming Mars. A year ago I went through and sold anything in my collection that I wouldn’t immediately agree to playing. The only things now that don’t necessarily belong are a…

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Theories of Nonbinary Heterosexuality

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Let Metro know how to budget

This year’s My Metro Budget activity is now live. It’s one of the most direct ways to let Metro know how you feel about how they allocate funds AND you can win a $50 gift card (it happened to me!). This year they’ve also called out specific actions they’re taking (e.g. Tap-to-Exit) and you can voice whether you’re for or against expansion of those programs. Below I’ll list some of the items I’ve…

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Advent Calendar addendum: Tools

Somehow I completely forgot about the Wera tool advent calendars when writing my advent calendar post. I’ve gotten two of them in the past and they’re excellent. One was from me and the other from my company. I’m only abstaining this year because I only need so many sets of high quality European hand tools ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I was reminded how fun they are by this post that collects multiple tool…

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Buy an Advent Calendar

I have an alert on November 1st every year to buy an advent calendar. Years ago I made my own liquor advent calendar, but last year I got this excellent Exit The Game advent calendar. Exit is a series of escape room style puzzle games you can find sold alongside hobby board games. For the advent calendar, it becomes a daily series of puzzles. Each day the puzzle solution will lead to the next…

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Time to Suck cow clock

I found a holstein clock abandoned next to the local little library (as one does). The condition, pictured below, wasn’t great: the number markings were warped and the mechanism was unresponsive when I added a battery. I’ve got a few holstein knick-knacks around the house because I grew up on a dairy farm so I figured I’d repair the clock and add it to the collection. Continue reading Time to…

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Sharing for the LED stripper poles from PoleFX

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Viture Pro XR Glasses

I left the following as a YouTube comment on the embedded video but I might as well put it here as my personal experience with the Viture Pro XR Glasses: Continue reading Viture Pro XR Glasses

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Most english orthographic reforms fail because they're trying to make the language better when they should be making it worse. In pursuit of that idea, starting in fall 2024 we're adding six new letters to make reading harder.

1. Reverse P

Completing the b-d-p rotational cycle and causing confusing with g and q (the hook on the q is now mandatory).

2. Lower i

Uppercase is a lowercase i and lowercase is an even lower i.

3. Left bracket

For it's hard work over the years, [ is being promoted to the alphabet proper. Lower case is a reverse h. Fuck right bracket.

4. Long M

Just like a regular M but two of the legs keep going. Long M is a vowel in all cases that Y isn't.

5. Reverse X

Like X but in reverse. To tell the difference we're adding these little curls to X, so regular X now looks like this

6. Reverse F

Uppercase is a reverse F, lowercase is an upside down v. Fuck you is why.

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Find Chris Nelson

MISSING PERSONCHRIS NELSON46 YEARS OLDLast seen at Highwire Coffee Roasters on San Pablo Ave. at roughly 10:45 a.m. on Monday, August 19, 2024 wearing a rainbow checked shirt (see picture on right), khaki or dark blue shorts, Vans shoes, and carrying a messenger bag.If you have any information that can help us to find him, please call the Berkeley Police Department at:510-981-5900MISSING SINCE…

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USCSB Designed to Fail: Chemical Release at LyondellBasell

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Summer Comfort (1955)

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JIMMY AND BABY - a 20 minute cartoon by Paul Robertson and Michelle Larney. Watch here!

also on vimeo: https://vimeo.com/938105752

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[sees somebodys nipples through their shirt] just like a translucent game boy advance.....

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"are you wearing the-"

the snoots? yeah i am