Honestly, I'd be alarmed by even a single bee the size of Boston.

But, seriously, that is amazing. The world needs more bees!

Holy cats; I just looked it up and Muncy is #24 all time in WAR among Dodger hitters! (Cey is #6 and Garvey is #9).

One Thing In One Place At A Very Specific Time

We took our 11-month-old daughter to Portugal, and had a great time carrying her around the Algarve in a backpack. In many ways the trip was made better for having her, since the Portuguese we met LOVE babies (or did 20 years ago) and the wee one served as a constant goodwill ambassador.

I managed to sneak the Fibonacci sequence into a fantasy book, along with a smidgen of calculus. I'm more of a discrete math guy myself, so I had to learn the terms for the 3rd and 4th derivatives of position. 🙂

That's very kind!

I have a finished epic fantasy series: The Heroes of Spira. It's got, among other stuff: flawed-but-lovable characters, evil math-priests, an enchanted tower, a 9'-tall oracular toad, an unflappable butler, a snarky cat, and a ghostly spy grandma.

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(But, seriously, being compared to THREE OF MY FAVORITE BOOKS AT ONCE has really made my day!)

Recent comment about one of my books:

"If you love DnD influenced books like Spiderlight, Iconoclasts by Mike Shel or Kings of The Wyld then you will probably love this one. I am surprised it only got 53 ratings on Goodreads since 2017!"

If you knew how little self promo I do, you wouldn't be! 😛

I've heard him nicknamed Derek "Pasta Diving" Jeter. As in "There goes another ground ball pasta diving Jeter."

But he was a legit good hitter for a long time: 62nd in career WAR among position players, ahead of Barry Larkin, Ron Santo, Ryne Sandburg and Roberto Alomar, among others.

I'm going with a Dr. Who episode, but *not* modern.

I was a HUGE Who fanatic in high school. Loved Pertwee, loved T.Baker, loved Davison, meh on C.Baker... and then (for me) the McCoy episode "Delta and the Bannermen" was so bad it turned me off the show until the reboot 18 years later.

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Hey, did you know that in addition to my fantasy novels, I've also written some short stories, several of which have won (smallish) awards?

You can read a story about wishes/fate, one about Santa Claus, and 2 (non-fic) stories about my kids' near-death experiences!

dorianhart.com/shorter-works/

I might respond (without rancor) to a review that has clearly reviewed *something else*, just to alert them that they may have mis-clicked somewhere. ("Hey, I'm a fantasy writer, but this is a review for a lawnmower.")

But on matters of opinion? Ye gods, no.

I’ll put a marker down on “72 hours.”

I am "grocery stores are playing the music of my teens" years old, and I'm not sure how to feel about it.

On the one hand, I'm actually enjoying grocery store music. But on the other hand...

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This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.

1. Realizing you've lost track of time while reading a book, and then you keep reading anyway.

2. Playing board games w/ good friends.

3. When your kid loves a thing you love and is better than you at it.

This is one of those cases where I click the "like" button because I agree with the observation. But boy do I not actually like it!

I once won a contest for the best poem about 3.5e D&D written in the style of Dr. Seuss.

I also nearly killed myself as a 4-year-old by stabbing myself in the neck with a rocking chair. Missed my carotid by 1/8", so I've been told.

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Marc Iavaroni. Though I was a big Sixers fan in the 80's, so he'll never be obscure in my heart!

I’m a big fan of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Final Architecture trilogy. His aliens are as weird, wonderful, and varied as you’d expect if you’ve read his other SF, and as always his prose is top notch.

I know it's very likely that tonight's SotU will be mostly unhinged ranting, grievances, and lies.

But there's a chance it will be > 50% *cleanly* delivered grievances and lies.

In which case, what's the over/under on number of mainstream outlets afterward lauding the president's "change in tone?"

Not shown but implied: character hitting snooze 19 times? (If I were the star of my own movie, that is absolutely how it would go!)

I'm a 56-year-old vanilla-white dude, and I thought the Bad Bunny Super Bowl performance was an absolute delight, beginning to end. I can't even remember the last time I sat and watched an entire halftime show.

(And I was extra happy to learn that couple actually got married as it happened!)

A lamp post along the side of a highway, with a mysterious nozzle-like protrusion near its upper end. The protrusion is circled in red to draw attention to it.

A lamp post along the side of a highway, with a mysterious nozzle-like protrusion near its upper end. The protrusion is circled in red to draw attention to it, along with a pointing arrow and a question mark.

While out driving with with my wife today, we noticed that about one in every 10-20 street lamps on the highway had an odd attachment like a capped nozzle. Do any of my followers know what they are?

Brain: "A ha! I've figured out that person cannot be a criminal."

Finger: [moves to press and evaluate that person as "innocent"]

Brain: "The last word I thought to myself was 'criminal' so I'll select that one."

Finger: [presses "criminal"]

Brain: ...

Brain: ...

Mouth: "Ah, crap."

Love that Sam recently added (or at least called my attention to) more colors and bottom-corner markers. Makes it easier to mark multiple distinct "must-be-opposite" pairs, which (for me) is the most useful thing to keep track of.

Such a clever puzzle design!

...only about 15% of the population voted for him, and I'd guess only a small minority of those would actually check the "Annex Canada" box. The vast majority of us love Canada and Canadians.

Still don't blame you for not wanting to come here though! It's a nightmare.

...and I realize that the MAGA majority saying: "Oh, it's just bluster, Trump being Trump," as opposed to: "That's nuts and terrifying and should make us rethink our support for him" is not exactly comforting.

One last thing: Trump support in the US is VERY regional. Here in Massachusetts...