Moe Lane's Blog, page 847
September 11, 2020
Live concert featuring Stary Olsa starting at 11:30 AM Eastern time.
…That’s pretty much the post. Folk Fest in Minsk: link here, because it’s being weird about embedding. Also:
“Folk Fest tip jar:
www.donationalerts.com/r/nasdzien or
PayPal Tradycyja.by@gmail.com.
Donations will cover technical costs (sound, light, staff). If we collect more, part of them will go to musicians.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR_yU...
Quote of the Day, THAT’S A DAMN LIE edition.
Shot:
He’s just a good ol’ boy. Never meanin’ no harm. https://t.co/5WMC842izq
— Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) September 11, 2020
Traditional homemade moonshine is known for being inferior to liquor manufactured by federal standards, but it compensates by being more potent. It is also occasionally toxic, due to short cuts taken by the creators.
Three libels in two sentences. Impressive, in its way. But still, indeed, damnable lies.
The House Fire: Essentials for Ben and Aurora GoFundMe.
[UPDATE: I’m pinning this for a day or two to the top of the blog. Regular posting continues.]
Ben Fleuter did the artwork for my upcoming Fermi Resolution RPG worldbook; he and his wife lost everything in the wildfires yesterday. There is a GoFundMe set up. Please help.
September 10, 2020
Sorry, folks: wasn’t feeling it today.
This week is just going to be bad for getting anything except the most necessary work done. Hopefully it’ll stabilize, once the county gets used to high intensity remote learning. But in the meantime I keep having to half-guess what work my kids still need to do, and it’s annoying as all get-out.
Moe Lane
PS: Oh, yeah, I have rants. But I’m retired from all that.
The ISLE OF SIPTAH Conan Exiles expansion.
ISLE OF SIPTAH looks… it looks like an alternate game, honestly.
I wonder if this means the CONAN EXILES level cap is gonna get nuked, too. And there’s at least one major mod out there which may have to get totally revamped. That’s gonna affect a lot of private servers… sorry, but this is interesting to me, at least. I’m playing the game again and idly building my modest river-valley city, so finding out that all my mods may be breaking soon is kind of interesting.
On the other hand: war rhinos.
09/10/2020 Snippet, THE THING IN MY HIP FLASK.
Miskatonic!
Patreon!There is a particular room in the University library where people are not permitted… well, it is easier to say what people are permitted to do. Mostly, it seems to be ‘stand over there and look at the books.” The posted list of restrictions was formidable, in its way; no pens, no paper, absolutely no flash photography — and the latest addition to the rules was ‘no laptops,’ in faded ink. I was mildly amused by the list, as I unconcernedly took pictures of various pages with my phone: why not ban lithographs, daguerreotypes, and the subtle menace of the camera obscura while they were at it?
Then again, I was not in the Special Reading Room to read the truly odd books, the ones that even engineers like myself had heard furtive rumors about; I was looking at a credibly worm-eaten medieval alchemical text, written in indifferent Latin. Indeed, the author’s command of it was worse than mine, and I only had three years of it in high school. Which is… entertaining, yes? You would expect it to be the other way around. At any rate, David had assured me that this proto-chemical (hah) formulary had a process that might salvage our batch.\
Why did I believe him? That is an excellent question.
Tweet-thread of the Day, This Is A Land Of Zoom-Wolves Now edition.
It’s been dull here. Elsewhere…
The 2nd grade teacher's screen froze. The kids all told her that happened. No one could hear her. And then she disappeared and mass chaos has broken out.
— Stephanie Lucianovic she/her
September 9, 2020
‘The Trees They Do Grow High.’
The Trees They Do Grow High, Martin Carthy
The wildfires out west are getting really bad.
The sky in some parts of the Pacific coast went past ‘grim’ and are now ‘science fiction horror movie.’ The American Red Cross will let you donate directly to wildfire relief, but if you have an alternate charity in mind, don’t mind me. Also: tack on some prayers tonight. Every little bit helps.
