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The latest in Mister Stormy's Monday Selection (Occasional Series - Acts of Random Archive Rummaging) is Dig Me recorded at Arny's Shack, Dorset, on May 1983. Click for detailed information & download. An edited extract is available on YouTube...

Session 271 was played on 11/3/24Morgana, wizard (Rob)Borumar, Triton Thief (Josh)Blotto, Goblin Fighter (Lanse)Nick, Fighter 7 (Me)Koltic, Cleric 7 (NPC)Aroon, Fighter 5 (NPC)Jameth, Fighter 5 (NPC)Lor’Koth, Dwarf 5 (NPC)The party wraps back around to the southwest corner of the sewers. Along the way they’re confronted with a trio of slime dwarves sloshing their way in the muck. Nick and Borumar are hit by them. Blotto pees on them. The fight …

A 3D comic accents great storytelling in unexpected ways. It's not just a gimmick! The post 3D Comics Highlight Strong Storytelling appeared first on PIPELINE COMICS.

Team Ratings for Round 11 The basic method is described on my Department home page. Here are the team ratings prior to this week’s games, along with the ratings at the start of the season. Current Rating Rating at Season Start Difference Stade Toulousain 11.05 8.76 2.30 Bordeaux Begles 5.76 3.96 1.80 Stade Rochelais 4.93 4.85 0.10 Toulon 4.58 5.32 -0.70 Racing 92 2.00 2.75 -0.80 Castres Olympique 1.25 -0.09 …

The Gorilla's DaughterThomas P. KelleyToronto: News Stand Library, 1950160 pages Note: The Gorilla's Daughter is the most sought-after Canadian paperback. It is also the most notorious, though I would argue this has everything to do with the cover. Because copies are so scarce, and access so limited, I'll be relaying the story of the gorilla's daughter from beginning to end. There will be spoilers. Criticism will be kept to a …

This Air Fryer Tofu recipe makes for tasty jagged seasoned chunks that—no joke—taste like chicken nuggets! The texture and flavor combination is absolutely addictive! I know we just did a whole roundup on the individual and irreplaceable virtues of tofu…but for much of my life before age 18 and arguably much of my life after ... View Post

Talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) has surely mushroomed in the past two years since a small San Francisco company made ChatGPT available. Other chatbots (e.g., Alexa from Amazon; Gemini from Google, Siri from Apple) are now available. Moreover, a more measured response is slowly emerging about what chatbots can and cannot do. Being able to laugh about the onslaught of chatbots and how teachers, students, and professionals have come to …

Original airdate: November 24, 2024 The premise: Visiting a strange circus, Lisa encounters the Illustrated Man, who regales her with three unique tales as depicted by his many, many tattoos. The reaction: The spirit of Halloween lives on at The Simpsons and it’s practically Thanksgiving! I imagine the staff had hoped this would air prior to the Treehouse of Horror, as did previous double-dipper spooky specials like “Halloween of Horror” …

CD – Unsounds Phill Niblock passed away in January 2024 at the age of ninety. It was a tremendous loss for all fans of audio art and experimental music. The minimalist composer had been active since the mid-sixties, and lived intensely through various musical epochs carrying us all into an expressively richer and more hybrid world. An evolution of the compositional approach which – similarly to some of his sounds …

This week, we are looking at a map of the area south of Petten in the province of Holland (now North-Holland) in 1730. The water board commissioned the map from Jan Spruytenburgh and Hendrik de Leth. The map tells the history of the landscape, and reclaiming the land to create polders. On the left side, we see the smaller polders surrounding by dikes, created in the medieval period. On the …

Two more adventure locations on the Judas Sea in Krevborna! The first one, Fathom's Reach, was invented as a location the characters visited in my previous Krevborna campaign. Flotsam, on the other hand, was inspired by the (criminally underused) Saragoss from the Ravenloft setting and the floating city of Armada from China Mieville's novel The Scar.Fathom’s ReachThough its presence is unknown to most, Fathom’s Reach is an accursed city lurking …

Will our writing all converge to a generic AI style? Let's take a quick detour into LaTeX. Back in the late '80s, before LaTeX was the standard, there was TeX—a system with no default formatting, which meant everyone had their own unique style for papers. Then LaTeX arrived, and suddenly all our papers looked polished and professional. But the catch was, LaTeX only got you about 80% of the way …

By Luisa De la Concha Montes We all spend too much time on our phones – there is no doubt about it. So, how can phone addiction be explored, in 2024, without relying on redundant tropes? Phone, a play written and directed by Sam Taylor explores our overreliance on digital media through the distant, yet loving relationship between four siblings: Helen, Issy, Harvey and Luke. They find themselves in a …

Here are some useful tricks for getting the most out of random encounter tables. Roll Twice Roll twice on a random encounter table and mix the results together. Maybe the characters find two groups fighting each other. Maybe they find one who just wiped out another. Maybe the two groups are allies. Mixing two groups together adds significant and meaningful complications to what otherwise might be a single boring encounter. …

This blogpost is about The Albanese morphism for hyperelliptic varieties. If you just want mathematics and not some of the backstory, you can click the link to immediately get to the preprint. Background Back in March 2023, Andreas Demleitner and Pedro Núñez gave seminar talks at the University of Luxembourg, with the talk by Andreas being on hyperelliptic varieties (the talk by Pedro, whilst interesting, has no relevance to this …