It was my character name in my first MMO, the English beta for MapleStory back over 20 years ago, and I’ve been using it ever since. I picked it since it was close to Mithril, from Lord of the Rings.

Well, fish doesn’t really have a scientific meaning… https://youtu.be/uhwcEvMJz1Y

Our development branch is “working”, then we have specific dated snapshots where we run our datasets through our programs.

Mass Effect Andromeda. I loved the original trilogy, even the third one, and I was hopeful that they’d live up to what they were promising. Instead, we got a garbage game that completely tossed the idea of exploring a new galaxy. I tried to play it 3 different times, just to give it a chance, and I couldn’t go through with it.

I’d say part of the problem for Andromeda was that everyone else got there first in terms of colonization; the player isn’t exploring a new location, untouched by colonists, they’re going to an established settlement and exploring around that instead.

Oh, it’s a great book. Or at least, I liked it a lot. The library mulching was opposed by most of the characters.

This reminds me of the book Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge. In it, a company uses a mulcher to grind down all the books and shelves in a library, then uses scans of the scraps to reassemble the books in digital form for an AR version of the library.

Current hourly forecast says we’re gonna get thunderstorms around 5 here, but the rain will start at 3.

Raw spinach is great, I can just eat handfuls of that all day. Cooked spinach is gross, both in flavor and texture.

He’s playing shuffleboard, I think.

Cause only the good die young.

I thought trains were the most efficient way to ship goods, though I’ll concede that trains are notoriously bad at crossing oceans.

Calibre Companion, on android. For years it was the best way to sync books between my calibre install on my computer and my phone, even after the developer abandoned it. Then a while back, the dev released a single update that broke the app’s integration with reader apps, then disappeared again. I rolled that back extremely quickly, by grabbing an older version from my old phone.

Sluggy Freelance is a classic; it’s one of the oldest, longest running ones out there.

So you start at the beginning, with Horus Rising. And the first four books are chronological, so that’s easy! But things get interesting when you get to book 5!

Eh, I don’t think it’s specifically related to this story. But I do agree that it’s concerning that they were totally fine with it before the election.

The conservative Christians i know are already pulling back from him, but only in a “he’s a bad person but he’s helping us on some issues”, which is quite different from what they were saying before the election.

I’m a big fan of my Lifestraw pitcher! It’s got a great filter.

At the very least, my steam copy on windows 10 worked just fine a week ago on my yearly playthrough.

The Veldt. Also, All Summer In A Day.