Relatedly, as an admin of c/books, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention a book here.

If you enjoyed the TV show The Good Place, and humorous books about moral philosophy, Mike Schur (the showrunner) covers this in How to be Perfect.

I’m sure a more integrated and stylistically integrated version is quite a bit more desirable to some so the extra cost covers that.

I’m excited for you. I want to hear how it goes.

I don’t know how relevant it will be, but this was from Bondtech when they announced the founders kit.

There was discussion about this on “the other site*” when the founder’s kits were released. The basic answer ended up being something like “since the nozzles heads are dumb, you’re still getting the same amount of smart (more expensive) components so there isn’t a lot of cost to save”.

*- I still lurk a few communities, but don’t interact. Fuck Spez.

They address that in the FAQ at the bottom. It’s coming, the smaller one was just ready 1st (or they tried to split the traffic spike to the site too possibly).

Same, am I still going to buy one after others have been the guinea pigs to work out bugs? Yes, but that’s still a chunk of change.

I think I saw that the add-on nozzles end up being on the cheaper end though. Not sure what my plans are for those yet.

Mid-late ‘70s, ‘76 if I have to pick one year.

Definitely related, but I don’t know if anybody else noticed.

Erich von Däniken just passed away the other day. I miss the days I could appreciate a good conspiracy theory. Living through Covid destroyed any enjoyment I got from that.

Why would they name him Achilles if they knew his ankles were a weakness. It’s well known how vulnerable the Achilles Tendon is to injury. It’s like giving the enemy a huge hint where to attack.

So dumb!

A tall skinny 4

If you really hate yourself, you could swap it out with plain Greek yogurt. It wouldn’t be good, but you could do it.

The other half of the package is for decoration on the top. You break the cookies in half and try to put them in a decorative manner.

An actual recipe I grew up having in Minnesota and still occasionally make for events.

Cookie Salad

Pot-Luck, Salads Difficulty: Easy

Ingredients:

• 2 (3.4 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
• 2 cups buttermilk
• 12 oz whipped topping, thawed
• 2 (11 ounce) cans mandarin oranges, drained
• 1/2 (11 1/2 ounce) package fudge stripe cookies

Directions:

• In a large bowl, mix together the pudding mix and the buttermilk.
• Fold in the whipped topping.
• Mix in the mandarin oranges and optional pineapple chunks.
• Crush cookies and mix in.
• Chill until ready to serve.
• Decorate with any remaining cookies.

Notes: French Vanilla pudding is especially good Some like to add 1 ( 20 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained as well

Sometimes jokes where the punchline are based around absurdity will simplify or ignore the nuance of reality for the sake of a joke.

I’ll give you a heads up that site has some “interesting“ stuff if you start at the top level, but the A-to-Z listing and individual games pages seem to be pretty solid and are well formatted.

That is an awesome die.

Dice-play.com is a really good resource. We play a lot of farkle (older scoring, not the commercial version), and Yahtzee, but lately we’ve been playing Ship, Captain, Crew; Knockout; and Centennial with the kids.

Nice! What game?

It occurs to me as well that the “completeness” of this amused me too.

• 1 tin
• 1 ~$5 package of dice
• 1 print
• 1 pencil from IKEA, your local golf course or wherever
• 1 pocketmod printout of games sized to fit the tin (a work in progress)

No spare parts, it’s all complete.