Matrix extra hand

When Neo gets the package, whose hand is that to the left?

More movie details

Bubblegum Crisis: Memories of Yesterday

S01E01 Tinsel City Rhapsody

S01E02 Born to Kill

S01E03 Blow Up

Jokes

Found these on my phone from 2016...

• Yoda: "To Kanjiclub, tell that, you will."
• What does the former bus driver say after retiring: "Now, I miss the bus."
• Winnie the Poo: "My family said I should write my own biography... Bear and back again."
• When Chuck Norris went to College, his roommate suggested he go hit the books. The College still hasn't rebuilt the library.
• Why did the business move it's headquarters to St. Louis. Because they had heard that Missouri loves company.
• How are things in the driveway business? - Some days are great, some are tarrible.
• How are things in the soda vending machine business? - Well I've grown in pop-ularity.
• How advanced is the technology in the Post Office? Well we're really trying to push the envelope.
• How is life in the ruler-making business? Well we try to put our best foot forward.
• How is life in the stamp-making factory? There's not a problem we can't lick.

Reading/Listening 2019 Q4

October 2019	Corey, James A. A. 2013. Abaddon's Gate
	Corey, James A. A. 2014. Cibola Burn
November 2019	Corey, James A. A. 2015. Nemesis Games
December 2019	Corey, James A. A. 2016. Babylon's Ashes

Reading/Listening 2019 Q3

June 2019	Reynolds, Alastair. 2000. Revelation Space
	Samuel R. Delany. 1966. Babel-17
	Alfred Bester. 1953. The Demolished Man
August 2019	Brian Aldiss. 1958. Non-Stop
Sept 2019	Corey, James A. A. 2012. Caliban's War.

The Expanse, Doors and Corners

I wish the containers had been rendered with "FredEx" logos, as in Fred Johnson.

• Fed ex reddit
• twitter

Harlan Ellison - The Terminator

The outer limits episodes acknowledged in the Terminator

• Article
• The Outer Limits: Soldier (1964)
• The Outer Limits: Demon with a Glass Hand

Lightweight Space Parasite vs. Colonial Marines

Colony Viat Sursum - prefall

I've been considering running a lite-hearted aliens-themed game akin to: I roll to see if I have shoes on.

Base Rules

1. Say what you do and roll a number of d6s.
2. If the sum of your roll is higher than the opposing roll (either another player or the DM), the thing you wanted to happen, happens.
3. The number of the d6s you roll is determined by the level of skill you have.
4. At start, you have only one skill: Do anything 1.
5. If you roll all sixes on your roll, you can get new skill one level higher than the one you used for the action. The skill must be a subset of what happened to you in the action (Say, Athletics 2 if you were climbing a wall, or Teeth of Biting 2 if you were eating a cake).
6. For every roll you fail, you get 1 XP.
7. XP can be used to change a die into a 6 for advancement purposes but not for success purposes.

Comments from rpg.stackexchange.com

• Note: When you gain a new skill from an action (bullet point 5), it won't necessarily have any relationship to the skill you used to perform that action.
• For example: Alice uses Jump 3 to try to jump a wooden fence, but fails and instead just crashes through it. Alice spends XP to get Breaking Things Embarrassingly 4 because it's a subset of what happened to her in the action (even if it has nothing to do with jumping).
• Bullet point 5 is often misread as saying the newer skill must be a specialisation of the previous skill, probably because we're prepared to see skill trees even when they're not there. This game doesn't have skill trees and is fine with weird new skills coming out of the blue.

Ideas for introducing roll-for-shoes

Extended Rules for Space Parasite vs Colonial Marines

1. Effective area of the spell or skill is only up to the square of the level.
2. Players can create their own party by converting bystanders/npcs, but they still start at level 1
3. For example eggs, crawlers, larvae, colonists, androids (even those who prefer the term "Artificial person"
4. Only one action per turn per person. Note that the gm can control several units based on an overall control rating equal to the number of live players.
5. Goal is to take over the colony
6. Damage delivered is equal to the skill level.
7. Damage disables skills (temporary until healed.) The target makes the choice. If damage is insufficient to cancel the skill, it is kept track of.
8. Healing magic/skill/tech delivered is equal to the skill level.
9. Actions that are a combination of effects, says vampirism, do so at a numeric level half the skill level (bloodsucking removes half skill level from target but adds half extra life (healing) to vampire).

Liberator Simulator

Experimenting with Unity this weekend. Ended up with a simple simulator so far... Liberator_x86_64.zip

Gold records

This post make me wonder if the records on Voyager might be something weird. You would think they would check it.

Reading/Listening 2019 Q2

April 2019	Bester, Alfred. 1957.  The stars my destination.
	Serhii Plokhy. 2015 The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
	George RR Martin. 1996. A Song of Ice and Fire
May 2019	Carl Sagan. 1980. Cosmos
June 2019	Bradbury, Ray. 1951. The illustrated Man

Hippogriff study

Expanse AO-66

This reddit article does not seem to know where the AO-66 reference comes from.

But in S1E7 Windmills, the Martians on the MCRN Yangtse report they will have been flagged for inspection per MCR trade regulation AO-66.

BTS

"They used the alternate universe and literary books, such as The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, as a framing device for their albums to help showcase their artistry." - Mariejo S. Ramos

The Expanse: Season Two

1. Solomon Epstein couldn't use the voice recognition on his space yacht, but why couldn't he use voice input on his phone/pad?
   
   
2. Would it be interesting to play a dungeon scenario in some rpg in Dr. Cortazar's Dungeon?
   
   
3. Project Caliban is the designation for the protomolecule project. Caliban is a character from Shakespeare's Tempest.
   
   

The Expanse: Season One

Rewatching the Exapanse in prep for Con of the North: Eclipse Phase ideas

1. What's with the match?

   "Real lemon works best, if you could ever get your hands on one. It's a crucial part of the formula. Neutralizes acidity, adds body, balances pH." - Ade Nygaard, Episode 2 Season 1 of The Expanse.

2. What about lemon?
3. Chicago font in ship listing

4. Craig: We're going to give the vineyard next door half our gray water for eight cases of wine. Gray water into wine, wine into gray water. We're gonna retire to Mars and the Mariner Valley circle of life.

   (ALL CHUCKLING)

   Wait, this wine came from that vineyard?

   Inners are concerned about drinking recycled water. Belters have to drink recycled water to survive.

Gus Gus

Reading/listening 2019 Q1

January 2019	Anderson, Poul. 1970. Tau Zero.
	Peterson, Jordan. 2012. 12 Rules for Life
February 2019	Banks, Iain M. 1990. Use of Weapons
	Tolstoy, Leo. 1895. Master and Man (Хозяин и работник)
	Reynolds, Alastair. 2001. Chasm City
March 2019	Corey, James S. A. 2011. Leviathan Wakes

COTN 2019 Links

• Blakes 7 - RPG
• Blakes 7 - System

Javascript Preference

Still prefer ObjectLiteral notation for javascript/jquery projects.