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Now if you want *terror* - "air-gapped Operational Technology network."

"Vendor guarentees graceful failover."

...you can expand if and only if they ask.

Write to an 8th grade reading level. Bottom line up front. As succinctly as possible give the problem, the impact to the organization, the option(s), and the potential consequences of each option. Everything else is in an appendix they will probably never read, or on extra slides/index cards so...

Amusingly enough, by the way, I felt like I was looking at the ghost of teenage you. Kid could have been your sister/niece/daughter.

I do enjoy the glam rock vibe of the few videos I saw.

2025 Viking Fest poster showing a group of men with Viking round shields and a mix of spears and axes charging forward

Luminiscence poster showing projected lights on the ceiling and walls of St. Mary's Basilica.

I can't believe how much Minneapolis/St. Paul fits my brand of weird over Phoenix.

The Viking Fest gives Ren Faire and is apparently kid friendly, and there is a Luminiscence experience in the St. Mary's Basilica that I toured a few months back with an orchestra and light show that looks awesome!

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September 15th:
Skull King 👎 - Like wizards but unnecessarily complex
So Clover ❤️ - Collaborative clue-based word guessing game
The Gang 👍 - Texas Hold 'em but you're trying to collaboratively signal/guess so as to order everyone from worst to best hand
Pictomania 👍 - I suck at drawing, but fun!

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Tiny Towns board game box art

Speaking of game night, between business & new meds, I've been too busy or tired to post the last couple of weeks.

September 8th was Quacks of Quedlinburg ❤️, Wizard 👍, & Tiny Towns 👍

Pulled an amazing comeback in Wizards by making 2 5 trick bids in a row, going from last in round 6/10 to winning.

Also, still trying to wrap my head around how a Gen Alpha teen fully recognizes a typewriter and a rotary phone, but doesn't know what a straight razor or Ouija board are...

Last night's game night I actually got to run out a couple of mine. First up was suburbia where a math major who had never played wiped the floor with us (came in last). Then Mysterium where the ghost was a teen girl & I failed to grok the logic or make my case. Then Hanabi, to go out with a bang. 😁

We didn't used to have autism! Yeah, you just had a lot more elaborate train sets, civil war dioramas, and ships in a bottle...

The Amish don't have autism! No, they just have a way of life that is perfect for autistic people to blend into...

The only -ocracy we have now is idiocracy...

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I just heard the best analogy for the travesty playing out on the Late Night stage... "Saying Jimmy Kimmel's firing is going to be the final straw for Trump and MAGA is like saying 'this is the device that will finally get that pesky roadrunner.'" And it applies to every new scandal or atrocity.

Long ago I learned in math that negating a negative makes it positive. Since the current regime has designated "Antifa" a terrorist organization, that makes the United States anti-anti-fascist. In other terms, -(-fascist) -> fascist. I don't recall signing up to live in the Fourth Reich, folks.

What is this? I wish to know more. Plus, never would have pictured you as a metalhead.

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Maid uniforms are my schtick. Stay in your lane!

I enjoy Terraforming Mars, but I've run into a bunch of people who don't. It got a lot of play whenever @mrmarcus101.bsky.social was in town. Though he had the Kickstarter tokens & board pieces which I think added something to it tactilely. I enjoy the engine building and the premise/subject matter.

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The cognitive dissonance of seeing a Minnesotan with a Confederate flag tattoo... 0_o

Ruin a book by adding Tom Clancy's to the title

Tom Clancy's The Ethical Slut

Made board game night at Tower Games again after missing it for Defcon last week. Tied for 3rd place (out of 4) in Tigris & Euphrates [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/42/tigris-and-euphrates] & missed 1st (of 5) by $6 in Modern Art [https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/40381/modern-art-card-game]

1968. That band is almost old enough to be my dad... I'm guessing the Assistant Vet was late 20's / early 30's?

We'd love to see it, but ANGH. That pathetic, flaccid, snake-oil-selling, casino-crashing, kiddie-diddling, carpetbagging damnyankee has a literal army of people desperate to prop him up & carry him across the finish line just so they aren't proved wrong. That is the secret to all of his successes.

If you see this, post a robot 🤖

Discworld is a setting in which he wrote multiple series. The Color of Magic may be the first book, but it was his first foray & I think buried too deeply in 70's/80's fantasy tropes for a casual reader/non-fantasy fan to enjoy. I highly recommend Wyrd Sisters or Guards! Guards! as entry points.

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A @endeavorance.camp video that hit my IG feed today reminds me of a PSA I saw back in college...

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How did I wind up in a timeline where satirical comedy failed because they couldn't come up with anything more bizarre than reality?

In those situations, I prefer the following meme...

I'm going to get that for my wife for Christmas... she loves Deadpool and puzzels... and that just feels diabolical.

Don't forget "Going Postal" for Moist Von Lipwig.

Nah. She's just looking for that next horizon and wondering what is over it.

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Just wrapped up @bethesda.net's The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered. Much better than I remembered. Played the original back in college, barely got Martin to Cloud Ruler Temple before getting lost in Guild & side quests and burning out before finishing it. Now 1 of only 3 100% games on Steam.