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And Hilbert's Hotel, while mathematically perfect, doesn't rate high for customer satisfaction - making all the already-checked-in guests move to another room every time a bus arrives...

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Catspaws has gone on for a year and a half now and we still haven't dealt with the cat.

World of Darkness is quite possibly the best game system for ease of inverting. My daughter was in the habit of picking a Flaw and designing a character in such a way that it was an Advantage - and she made up great backstories for them. My shtick was to twist the standard assumptions about various sorts of characters - for a while I played a pantheistic member of the Celestial Chorus, and I was designing a quantum-physics-based Dreamspeaker when for various reasons we dropped out of the LARP group. (Interestingly, the March 2018 issue of Discover magazine has an article about the possible quantum basis of consciousness that fits perfectly with one of the two possible paradigms I came up with for a Quantum Dreamspeaker. And definitely doesn't contradict the other one.) Not that other game systems can't be inverted. In 4E D&D, I figured out that if you want to build a really good, powerful Barbarian, the character class you should pick is Cleric... and I also built a semi-pacifist Wizard. (Semi-pacifist in that there's a geas on him against doing damage to any person with magic. But he does use a staff, and know show to thump heads with it.)

Earlier this evening I heard some crickets that were not quite in synch with each other. The rhythm almost perfectly matched "The Hustle". Have insects evolved Disco?

A-1/43 ADA RSOP Team song 1986-88 "First out, last in"

Because it wouldn't happen on a Sunday. It'll be just another manic Monday.

Watched the opening ceremony. Am I the only one who saw the first bit, where the lightning hits the bell in the center, saw it take on a bluish color with a couple of rows of lights at the top....and thought it looked like the TARDIS?

Bartender! A glass of your best hourglass for everybody!

Crowded.

Google Maps also says it's 715 miles from Naperville To Peculiar, MO.

We have a similar expression in Danish, 'myldretid', or directly translated, 'throng time' or 'crowded time.' What is hilarious is that the Danish verb in question is an old relative of 'to mill' (as in 'milling about'), so I guess it also translates into 'Miller time.'

It is the time of the day where traffic moves the slowest and they call it rush hour. *scratches head*