Month: July 2024

I have feelings. Big feelings. 937 ccs of feelings.

All basic book:
Hurin: Barbarian
The Noldor: Paladin (some multiclassing later)
Turin: Fighter
Eos: Rogue
The Valar: Bard+

Alice has two potential boyfriends, Bob and Charlie.

Bob is handsome and rich, but puts work ahead of relationships.

Charlie is handsome, not quite as rich, and eats people.

Alice is torn. Which boy is right for her?

I used to read when I wanted escapism. Now I read motorcycle classifieds.

There is no mention of insurance in LotR, but by historical norms, a major seafaring nation like either Gondor or Numenor would have had insurance industries.

Gondor would have Dark Lord coverage. Dragon deductables. Barrow-wight burglary and theft policies.

“There’s a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, and smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons, and old movies. I could easily do that. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.”

Anthony Bourdain.

It’s not weed, cartoons, and old movies for me, but I get that. Yet Bourdain did not come to a good end. That worries me.

The mini-icon on Colorado’s Find My Legislator webpage looks exactly like a poop emoji.

Coincidence? Perhaps.

It’s not really a W engine unless it has two crankshafts. The Bentley W12 was really an asterisk with two feet lopped off.

It was an asymmetic radial 12.