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It’s been a little over three weeks now. Should we go ahead and apply the updates? Sorry, lot of maintenance over here so my brain has kind of been mush. 😛

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Finished the expedition! It comes with a sweet ship, multi-tool (it’s a sceptre with a combined mining and cloaking unit), and other goodies. 🙂

Hate to say it but I may start a new game yet again and do things properly so I’m not trying to complete everything at the same time. The sprawling mess of quest stuff is beginning to make my inventory a bit unwieldy and I think I can greatly improve things in a much shorter timeframe now that I’ve got a lot more experience in the game. 🙂

One of these days I need to stick with a save!

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Yeah, I’ll be on standby to fix the drivers. I usually wait until it’s automatically installed just in case. 🙂

Yep, the big vendors are pretty good about sharing with Microsoft so things go more smoothly 🙂

Good catch! Also, there are known issues with Ubisoft games so definitely something to keep in mind

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So I’ve found that paprika actually goes well in coffee. Pretty tasty! 🙂

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Looks like Windows 11 24H2 is being pushed out. The changes don’t look too significant. The biggest change is support for AI compute cores. Another notable one is support for WiFi 7. Other than that, it looks like it’s mostly minor tweaks to the UI in addition to other bug fixes under the hood.

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Yuck, yuck, yuck. Boeing is still recovering from that fiasco. They’re now talking about splitting the company up to try and recover much needed funds. And let’s not forget all of the worker strikes!

I think it involves the destruction of Tokyo but, honestly, I didn’t look closely at the box. I figured that, either way, it would be awesome enough for it to be a surprise. 😛 Everyone at the shop thought it was amazing when they saw it, though 😀

Awesome! Doesn’t look like it has a lot of articles but it does feature some of the most pressing 🙂

And NASA released an awesome virtual fireplace the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cgTVTwu4nw

So it looks like MoMA has an online store! They’ve got some pretty cool stuff in there!

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Feeling much better now 🙂 Unfortunately, they just started roofing the other day so that throws another wrinkle into things…. 🙁

My philosophy is that a headache is a minor inconvenience compared to the benefits of extra sleep when needed. If I have to put up with a headache for a few hours to get rid of a bug, then so be it!

Yep, a long drawn out copy of the various things affecting sleep from a biological level is bound to help me doze. Granted, I’d probably stay awake if it was part of a plot of some B-movie. 😛

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Been feeling a bit under the weather the last few days: chills, aches, and just now experienced a cold sweat. Going to bed early yesterday did seem to help to some degree but left me with the headache you get from…going to bed early. 😛

Hopefully this minor bug won’t last long 🙂

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Oh, NMS is currently running this year’s expeditions again, with a new one every two weeks, for the next ten weeks or so

And I picked up a copy of Godzilla-themed Monopoly the other day. Should be a blast!

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Yeah, Wikipedia’s plot summaries are an interesting thing. Sometimes, they’re little more than a short blurb, other times a blow-by-blow account, and then you have the cases where they’re well done. This one looks like the latter. 🙂 Interestingly, while we discussed the book in school, we never actually read it. It’s definitely on the list, though. 🙂

Crime and Punishment had a similar ending. As soon as Rodion realizes he loves Sonya, everything changes and even goes to turn himself in to serve his sentence in the labor camp with Sonya following him to keep him company. Really good book and highly recommended 🙂

They really don’t write books like they used to!

The issue with cattle trucks is part of why lax regulations only make the issues worse. Unless told otherwise, folks don’t usually go above and beyond. Another literary example? Why not! This was discussed extensively in Airframe. I fear it’ll only get worse over here as we’ve been rolling back regulations in general for a good decade or so. And then we have the criticisms of the FDA. We actually use quite a few food products that are banned in the rest of the world, such as bromated flour. Personally, I only buy unbleached flour. There are other cases where bad substances were banned after the fact but claim that the current production was grandfathered in. Bit of a mess. 😛

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Excellent idea. Folks definitely need to be more aware of this stuff. Only was able to view the first few images without a Facebook account but definitely a good idea. It’s been a while since The Jungle came out and it should definitely be remembered today. Still quite a few tweaks to make to the industry 🙂

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So here’s a problem I’ve been running into: most of my current musings are short form. Ten years ago, they were long form with detailed sources and circular arguments like they teach you in school. Over time, I’ve grown to realize that that is a terrible way to make your case and the arguments and sources should be saved for follow-up discussions as, otherwise, you wind up repeating yourself in different words. In scientific journals, this issue is pretty prevalent. They introduce the data and then keep saying how the data proves the same thing over and over again, making the articles a bit of an exhausting read. I generally skim them as a result. So, my question is, is of worth posting my short form musings on the blog or should I leave them as forum posts?

This certainly doesn’t hold for everything as is evidenced by the ones I have up already but I’ve been having trouble replicating those pieces of beauty, even though one of them I literally wrote a couple of months ago.

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Alright, picked up BeamNG.drive as it was on sale. The physics are good. Really good. And the UI is a lot more intuitive than in Rigs. As expected from being the same team, there are a lot of things that are similar. The controls are also pretty fluid. Not yet sure how well the AI controlled cars work out but we’ll get there 🙂

Passed on Euro Truck Sim 2 for now as I had a hard time finding ways to turn it into a car sim

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Finally got around to watching Mad Max. First thing I noticed was that Anarchie Road was freshly paved. The ending was inconclusive: did the last bad guy take the bait and saw off his own leg to escape of not? Not sure it really lived up to its cult status. It was almost there but was missing just enough not to reach it, in my opinion. Granted, it was campy enough and had enough acting oddities to bring about a few chuckles, it was just missing something

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I like how the popular culture section lives on in See Also but without the descriptions. The section doesn’t really detract too much from the articles as one can easily skip it and, often, the references are pretty interesting. I think they’re doing too much to make things more concise and, as a result, making it a bit less useful. To be fair, some of the articles were getting out of hand such as the Wile E Coyote and Acme articles. Especially the latter: people were adding every reference to Acme, even companies that predated the fictional corporation, so they had to do a bit of a purge. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was one of the inspirations behind the xkcd strip. Love xkcd still. Been reading it for close to twenty years now 😛

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Tried a hand at the MSN games Spades, the first thing was the old login is deprecated, now it’s either anonymous or only the MS account to login through FirebaseApp.
Fun, except the game screen won’t maximise in the browser and there’s a bug in the sound volume slider. The chat icons take a bit of getting used to as well.

Didn’t know MSN had a dedicated game zone. Looks like it hasn’t been maintained very well. Some of those look like web clients for the desktop versions that weren’t ported very well. Maybe they were the original versions that were brought over to a standalone program later and then forgotten about?

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Sadly, we don’t have any native plant nurseries near me so I’m probably just going to go to a nursery and pick something out.

Got plenty of that in fields around here. It’s pretty prolific! Have to be careful, though. The bugs love it!

I may have seen it somewhere recently. Not sure where but I’ll keep an eye out. I know we’ve got plenty of sweet basil, of course. Mom’s got a couple of those. I think I may have seen it at the hardware store a few months back? Can’t say for certain but I’ll be going there in a few days and will keep a look out!

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Cool!

Santa would definitely need to find something else to give out to the naughty people. Perhaps pumice instead? 😛

Yep, redirect the ones I can. Had to do that with a school I formerly went to. They messed up something in the email system and they kept spamming me with student newsletters even though I was no longer in their system as an active student. I kept forwarding them to their IT department but never got a response. Took two years for them to stop 🙁

“Never trust anybody taller than you.”

Good advice! 😀

So I saw a keychain yesterday of the Monopoly guy wearing a prison jumpsuit. He finally got caught!

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We have some of those trash cans downtown! Don’t know if they have light strips, though. It’s been a while since I’ve been there when it’s dark 😛

Some of the heat generated may be able to be offset by the use of a water sink to absorb the excess energy. Maybe use it to help irrigate the surrounding area? Desert greening could be considered bad, though. The warm water could even be used for other tasks, too.

I really do like the solar plants! We used to have a solar bug in a jar that was pretty cool.

There’s been a lot more development with spray on panels, too. For instance, Mercedes is experimenting with using it to help power cars: https://www.motortrend.com/news/mercedes-benz-solar-paint-tech-demo/

Got a bit of a cold front the other day. Finally! So glad to have the heat gone 🙂

I hate how I had told various online stores not to email me and they respect that until Black Friday sales hit. Then they start spamming me with offers. I had already told them to unsubscribe me!

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Yeah, we’ll need to get a new thread going at some point. It’s not possible to copy over posts from mobile on Teams as you can’t highlight individual text there. Basic feature so I don’t know why they made it that way. Lately, my dreams have been pretty disturbing and not ones I really want to think too much about but, yep, we can get it back up and running 🙂

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Yeah, they never did really take off in the stores. Now, you have to find them at online specialty shops (even Amazon only has a few) such as this one. My new Blu-Ray player supports SACD for whatever reason so I may pick one up at some point and give the format a whirl. See if it’s all it’s cracked up to be 🙂

I still have my GameCube even though the Wii is backwards compatible. Haven’t even used it since I got the Wii in 2008 😛

Ouch. That happened to my grandmother’s shed. Carpenter ants got in and ate the floor out and we didn’t find out until I was cleaning it out. We did spray but, alas, it was too late and collapsed the next year.

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