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Searching for Carcosa (John Kingsbury, Alarums and Excursions 157, Sept 1988)

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I think now that queens dead they should have her stuffed and put on display in Cairo for the next 150 years.

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The irony of doing deforestation in a land that already has nearly no forests, only to place some giant bird-killing things there in the name of “green energy.” Don’t let me even get started about how much harmful manufacturing processes need to take place to make wind turbines.

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Blue Planet: A Day at the Beach

A character company takes an eccentric CEO and his corporate team out to a remote island for a weekend of team-building exercises. Little do they know that the island is more occupied than they think and other dangers abound. This session was run by Blue Planet creator Jeff Barber!  Tom as Dancer Caleb as Mr. Lattimer Ross as Fish

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Caedmon Records was a US spoken word label founded in 1952. It performed a service absolutely no one else was doing for decades, particularly special for sci-fi fans hearing excerpts from classic books read by the original authors and celebrities

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My dad raises grass-fed beef cattle and I help him sell it, mainly by maintaining an online presence. For a while, I kept having the most ridiculous conversations with people who I assume were marketing students. I didn't want to be rude so I'd try to let them down gently but this one guy just kept insisting that with his magical marketing skills he could grow our business.

What he could not seem to comprehend is that we could not grow our business, at least not without significant time and monetary investment. Cows take two years from pregnancy to the size that you can sell. If we buy adult cows, our margins become razor thin or even negative. Even if we somehow could acquire some cows, our barn and hay fields are already near maximum capacity. Renting another field would be relatively easy, building a bigger barn not so much.

Cows are living animals, they aren't widgets that can be produced infinitely. Besides that, many businesses inherently cannot grow, because if they do they'll become something else. The delicious bakery down the street cannot produce much more than they do, if they began mass marketing and production they'd eventually be selling the equivalent of Twinkies. We grow grass-fed, organic beef, if we expanded how long would that last? Eventually we'd become the very factor farms that we hate. Some things can only ever be made on a small scale and they are usually the best things.

But also, what are they teaching them at marketing school and how is it so disconnected from reality?

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Behind-the-scenes of animating LEGO bricks

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Lego Ice Cream Cone Hermit Crab by moptoptrev, on Flickr

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creatures & guys

from the croy hours, flanders, c. 1500-1520

source: Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 1858

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Experimenting with colors

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Space Marines, tactical ground combat game for sci-fi miniatures by A Mark Ratner -- This is the 1980 2nd edition by Fantasy Games Unlimited with Jeff Dee's cover art. FanTac Games first published these rules in 1977.

In the past few days Games Workshop has sent another round of cease and desist letters to 3D sculptors, many of whom were making full scale 40K costume parts. They are of course within their rights to make those claims over specific designs and names, but I'm always reminded how aggressively they used to go after anyone using the words "space marines," claiming to have invented the concept and the name.