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I’m a little surprised at how many of these I did at least touch, at some point… But even among those, very few I ever finished.

This past weekend was the Fantasy Flight Games Arkham Nights event for 2019…

This was my 3rd year helping out there, and it’s one of my favorite events I participate in all year… Several nights of helping players learn and play the Lovecraft themed Arkham Files games: Arkham Horror LCG, Arkham Horror, Elder Sign, etc. This year I was helping run larger event specific games, which was a joy across the board.

Seeing the designers/developers getting to interact with fans is awesome, and nearly everyone involved is so happy to be there… Love it.

Somehow in years of playing the Arkham Files games I’ve never tried Mansions until tonight... I’m glad I finally did though. The “app enhanced” tabletop experience seems to be very hit or miss, but FFG really has it nailed with this genre... Narration, AI for monsters, puzzles which would be all but impossible without it... Mansions is a richer experience for it.

WHEN a Greek sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck of a cargo ship off the tiny island of Antikythera in 1900, it was the statues lying on the seabed that made the greatest impression on him. He returned to the surface, removed his helmet, and gabbled that he had found a heap of dead, naked women. The ship's cargo of luxury goods also included jewellery, pottery, fine furniture, wine and bronzes dating back to the first century BC. But the most important finds proved to be a few green, corroded lumps—the last remnants of an elaborate mechanical device.

 

The Antikythera mechanism, as it is now known, was originally housed in a wooden box about the size of a shoebox, with dials on the outside and a complex assembly of bronze gear wheels within. X-ray photographs of the fragments, in which around 30 separate gears can be distinguished, led the late Derek Price, a science historian at Yale University, to conclude that the device was an astronomical computer capable of predicting the positions of the sun and moon in the zodiac on any given date. A new analysis, though, suggests that the device was cleverer than Price thought, and reinforces the evidence for his theory of an ancient Greek tradition of complex mechanical technology.

The Antikythera mechanism | The clockwork computer | Economist.com

Also:  Wikipedia Page

I think I have all the ifttt plumbing working to get cross-posting from here to Facebook, in hopes that the content I share will make it to friends and family who aren’t interested in doing RSS yet… I plan to continue using twitter for now, although their allowance of lord dampnut’s abuses make dropping that tempting too…

Update: It’s nearly unbelievable how hard Facebook makes it to push updates in… Which is, of course, evidence of why it needs to go. 

I’ve been working on building the tooling around a friendly, widely available Wordpress/Tumblr workflow to get away from Facebook… And the thing I’ve found is that outside of macOS, blogging apparently sucks.

Windows doesn’t seem to have a single client on-par with the long-developed and truly amazing MarsEdit, paid or otherwise… And what seems to be the best, or at least most well regarded, native client hasn’t seen consistent development or updates in years. The Mac I use daily is a work computer, so I would like to make sure I have backup processes in place to keep shares flowing if I don’t have a macOS machine available.

Facebook is making the choice to facilitate fake news for campaign ads, even when claims are demonstrably fake… Making them complicit with conservatives.

This is leading me to try to make a return to blogging on my own to regain control of my messaging and how it’s shared.

Consider this a beginning.