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  3. Posted

    1 hour ago, Don Edwards said:

    Real war hammers are fairly small. If you want to know why, try picking up a 5-pound sledge and swinging it nonstop for half an hour...

     

    (Well, that's one reason. Another reason is that if your weapon is slow, in melee combat someone's going to get to you from one side while your weapon is on the other. You need a fairly fast weapon.)

    They are also a rather specialized weapon.  Designed to break the joints of plate armour.

     

  4. Posted

    4 hours ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    I guess we should do a check-in to see how things are working, @mlooney. Are you still a happy geek with your laser printer? Have you had a chance to get something from the "way-too-convenient" market and cook it up in your microwave? Inquiring minds want to know!

    Still a happy geek, and so far I have avoided buying microwave food, using it only for heating "canned" stuff1 and reheating drinks.  Lots of that. 

    1Leftover "meals of wheels" that mother was getting and not eating, plus canned veggies.

     

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  10. Posted

    9 minutes ago, Scotty said:

    Tedd's memory of what his mom looked like might be deep in his subconscious and that he might not even realize that he designed the form in her image.

    The odds that he pulled out of his "deep memory" with out realizing it are fairly high.

  11. Posted

    35 minutes ago, Tom Sewell said:

    Diane's head could be thrust forward a little, so, yes, maybe. But shoulders hitting a wall don't make a THUMP like a head.

    So is Diane mad at Susan now, mad at magic, or both?

    Might have been her butt, which can make a bit of noise.

    As to who she is mad at, I would say "Magic and the world in general".

  16. Posted

    The Mega.nz "MegaSync" client for Linux is normally rather well behaved, however if you make a change to a file, triggering the upload que, but the file gets deleted before the client gets to it, the damn thing will hang -forever- waiting on that file to come back.  Not a file with the same name, it wants that inode.  Normally you can stop the client and restart it, but sometimes you have to use a `kill` command line command on it.

     

  17. Posted

    Right now, I really desperately want a "Lunchable" or two.  With the "way too convenient " story across the street I'll be getting some come midnight, when I get paid.   Might get some milk for my tea while I am at it.  And a bag of pretzels.   And maybe some beef jerky.

    Who am I kidding?  Getting all of the above.

  19. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Don Edwards said:

    The traditional way: be sure to use a teapot and strainer. First steeping, pour water into the pot directly onto the leaves from fairly high up. Immediately dump the liquid down the sink. Refill the pot, a low pour this time, and let it steep until you like the color. You can repeat the latter as long as you get color and flavor you like.

    Noted, given I don't have a tea ball, just a pot with it's own strainer and a sort of weird thing that's hard to describe.

     

  20. Posted

    1 hour ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    @mlooney, I placed another order from the TeaVivre place and got a couple of brick/cake teas as free samples. Specifically, I got 10g samples of 10-Year Aged Raw Pu-erh Brick Tea (2005) and Fuding Shou Mei White Tea Cake (2011). They're small samples, but I still want to get the most out of them. What's the best way to prepare them?

    Don't ask me.  I use loose leaf tea or teabags.

  21. Posted

    1 hour ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    Let us know when it arrives!

    They all arrived while I was out.  Forgot I was going to see my mother in Tulsa, so I didn't get home until 6:30.   Printer set up was dog easy and the microwave works just fine.   I am a happy camper, at least for right now.

    Thanks every one that donated.  I'll try to pay it forward.

     

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  24. Posted

    9 minutes ago, ProfessorTomoe said:

    @mlooney's gift bundle is out for USPS delivery by 8pm this evening. Here's hoping his duplex neighbors don't nab it first.

    Well, with it being USPS, not UPS or FedEx much better chance of getting to the right door.  The other half of the house has a door on my side of the building with a deck, which looks like it should be my door, but it's not.  The post man know which is which, but a UPS/FedEx driver might not.