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I know already that there is at least one RPG player with NASA (and in the astronaut corps, in fact). Hope he had a hand in this.

Hm. Didn't realize that 'black pudding' was a RL phenomenon; as a benighted USer I had only heard of it as the old D&D cleanup crew monster. One Christmas back in the early 1970s my brother was given a beanbag chair with a dark brown upholstery. He squinted at it in the pre-dawn gloom and said, "It's a black pudding."

Also from our neighborhood is a famous football guy who served a number of terms in the House, Steve Largent.

Still lots of cap room to be generated for a bunch of teams.

Basic circuit puzzles

"Abdominal" covers so many different things, there's very little information on which one can base speculations.

Prisoners of History, by Keith Lowe (St Martins Press, 2020) An examination of 25 selected monuments for WW2 phenomena, ranging from things ranging from the specific to much broader memorials. Locations span Asia and Europe, with two in the United States (the Marine Corps memorial in D.C., and the mural in the UN Security Council Chamber). Monuments tell stories about the cultures that build them, perhaps even more so than they tell about the events they memorialize, and those stories are usually complex, have very deep emotional and political loading, and often strong controversy both international and internal -- controversy that some cultures choose to ignore or suppress. Highly informative, though I suspect that the political and social contexts described in the book are broader and deeper than the book lays out. Superficially, I wish it had better illustrations.

If you rot15 (not 13) "Bazza", you get "Qpoop".

United Liberty Paper, from Grand Theft Auto IV You got another Q?

Skagit Valley Tulip Festival starts on April 1.

Q: What do you mean that wasn't done by chloromoron? A: Besides, the dunce was wearing ox hide, not suede.

True gaming story: Long ago (roughly 2005, IIRC) our group was playing a Buffy the Vampire Slayer campaign and i proposed building a device based exactly on this sort of thing. A binocular watch camera, one arm of which included a mirror, while the other was pure refractive optics. Since it would have stopped the GM's so-called plot in its tracks, he stonewalled it, even after I pointed to available off-the-shelf optics and gave URL pointers to astronomy image analysis software that would be able to do the almost-real-time image comparisons for detection of vampires.

Death Tribble spends his summer holidays in Weed, California, picking dandelions.

Proxima Centauri b Just one: me nth-order probability vortex induced via quantum bogodynamics

Evil's food: cake, as prepared in Anjer, Java, early in the morning of Monday, August 27, 1883

Wildcard: theme music, E Minor 5/9 Minor/5, from Triumvirat's debut album, Mediterranean Tales.

Color: Black Bolt

McGuffin: a chrono-synclastic infundibulum, from Kurt Vonnegut's Sirens of Titan

From a fanblog, arguably the best news to come this entire offseason for Seattle:

Fat Freddy's Cat with a Thermal Detonator

I go for the "other creepy-crawly" aspect. Leech