One of my favorite T-shirts. https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/23763923-utc-or-gtfo

(I am not affiliated in any way with this shop)

Magic carpet 2, the Netherworlds is one I played a ton and think of from time to time. I wonder what I modern remake would be like.

It’s the first game I remember playing with deformable terrain.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Country_Cairn

I had a math teacher in college who, on the first day of class, told an anecdote about her first boss. This boss told her on her first day that “sick of work” was a perfectly valid reason for calling in sick. That’s something that has stuck with me and I share that sentiment with new reports.

Absolutely. Anansi boys is my personal favorite of his, but I think highly of all his books.

I’d second all three.

Neil Gaiman is absolutely one of my favorite authors and from what I’ve seen, a pretty great human being as well.

I loved Orson Scott Card’s books when I was younger, even the later Ender books. Unfortunately he’s also a pretty terrible person much like Rowling.

One of my favorite managers once told me while I was struggling with a severe case of imposter syndrome “if you’re faking it well enough that others can’t tell, you might not be faking it as much as you think.”

This one? https://youtu.be/_loUDS4c3Cs?si=oaF9L2yCBFuy35KB

It’s a great watch on the subject.

“Austin Powers, his loins ready.”

I had a physics teacher in college who explained it like this.

Imagine we see by throwing tennis balls. You know the shape of something (and he gestured at a giant whale skeleton in the lecture hall) by Knowing where the tennis ball bounces off of the shape. If we throw a lot of them, we can “observe” the shape of an object.

Now imagine the object we want to observe is another tennis ball. With the skeleton, the tennis ball, even meant of them, hitting it and bouncing off won’t effect it. But if we want to use our tennis ball sight to observe a tennis ball, it’s going to knock the tennis ball away, thus we’ve significantly effected it.

The only way to “observe” a photon is to use something that will have a significant effect on it.

This was some 15+ years ago, so I might be misremembering the details slightly, but that was more or less the gist of it.

Yup… I straight up had to tell a report that if I caught wind of them doing anything even close to work related, I’d have IT shut off their access until their leave was over.

Fuckin do it, be free

So good. I graduated from AG longer ago than I care to admit and that is definitely a tradition.

Condolences on the BBQ desert.

Thank you! It’s a mixture of salt, white pepper, black pepper, garlic, and some parsley / oregano.

Being able to raise and lower is great. The grill is one at one of the local parks. Most of the perks around here have at least one which you can reserve.

As for what I’m cooking on, it’s actually both! I used about 2 bundles of red oak, then a bunch of a good natural oak charcoal that I really like to help fill it out. I had more of both in reserve, but it ended up being just the right amount for what I needed.

And I’m sure it misses you as well.

I live about 20 minutes north of Santa Maria, it’s practically part of my religion.

Crazy, I just finished serving up a big Santa Maria style BBQ and was just coming to post some pictures from it.

Huh, TIL something new. I had no idea those had made there way too console, and yeah, I imagine they’d play terribly on a console.

If you’re thinking of the dark alliance games, BG3 isn’t related to those at all. It’s the spiritual successor to Baldurs Gate II: Shadows of Amn which was only ever released on PC. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldur’s_Gate_II:_Shadows_of_Amn.