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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I met some good friends during my days of online multiplayer. I’m still glad those days are behind me. I’m pretty much exclusively a single player gamer now. When I do need to scratch the multiplayer itch I play boardgames with friends.

    Not saying this approach is for everyone! But some single player games and some in person gaming may be nice to mix in. Anyway, whatever you choose to do, I hope you have some good experiences in the near future!





  • Rowan Atkinson’s been in a lot of other stuff, for example Blackadder (multiple series). He’s also played Mr Bean in lots of movies.

    A childhood favourite of mine, The Witches, featured Rowan Atkinson as the hotel manager. Apparently during filming (which took place in a real hotel, not a sound stage) Rowan was in his room when the crew noticed water pouring out from under his door. They opened the door and found him sleeping in bed with the water running! The sets outside were flooded and a bunch of equipment was damaged by water!


  • Oh yeah. They used the name Jake Armitage for the main character in Shadowrun for the SNES. I love that game! I’ve never actually played the TTRPG.

    Closest I’ve gotten was the Sega Genesis version. It’s a totally different game from the SNES game and much more faithful to the TTRPG, albeit with far less dialogue and character development which I noticed.

    I believe Armitage was a mononym in the book. It’s been a really long time since I read Neuromancer. I should ask my friend since he said he was going to read it a year ago.





  • The biggest reason our food is not healthy is that it’s been bred for durability in shipping and long shelf life rather than flavour and nutrient content. Tomatoes are the poster child of this phenomenon. Compare backyard-grown heirloom varieties to store bought tomatoes and the difference is night and day!

    There’s actually a pretty high correlation between flavour and nutrient content. This makes sense when you consider the purpose of taste and smell in the first place: to help us discern healthy food from poor food, to gauge ripeness, and to help us avoid poisonous or rotten food.

    Of course highly processed food such as Doritos abuse this feature by targeting only the specific compounds responsible for great taste and leaving out everything else. This is why they’re so bad for you: highly tasty and addictive yet nutritionally empty apart from calories.


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    I’m not sure why it should be considered unfair for a player with a winning position to allow his opponent to escape with a draw by stalemate due to the winning player’s carelessness.

    The position where you have a king, queen, and bishop versus a king is totally winning and all it takes is patience and careful moves to win. The only way the lone king is getting a stalemate is due to carelessness on the part of his opponent.


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    The legitimacy was described above. The game is designed so that you can’t stop focusing even when you’re in a winning position. Players over the centuries have admired cleverness in the face of overwhelming odds. That’s what it means to turn a losing position into a draw.

    For real life war analogies, think of the king escaping through a secret tunnel while his castle is under siege and all his soldiers dying.





  • Last year I grew tomatoes and hot peppers as well as some herbs and a few sweet peas. The peas and tomatoes were truly incredible. The peppers were quite good but didn’t really eclipse store bought jalapeños in quantity or size (they were very small but tasty).

    I’m still in the planning phases of my 2025 garden. I want to try growing some beans and squash as well as more varieties of tomatoes and peppers. I also want to grow a lot more of those peas because they were the best peas I’d ever tasted!

    I have a couple of rosemary plants growing inside my grow tent right now. I may try growing some small lettuces in some of the many terra cotta pots I have. Also want to grow a lot more varieties of herbs (I have all the seeds).