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Tue Jan 7 06:00:01 EST 2020
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Slept from eleven to six-thirty.
Woke briefly around three.
Mostly cloudy early in the morning then becoming mostly sunny.
Scattered snow showers in the afternoon.
Highs in the lower 40s.
Southwest winds up to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of snow 30 percent.
Work
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- Review VPN stuff with Scott
Done.
- Prep for Entrata contract call
Done.
Fifteen-minute walk at lunch.
Home
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- Work on Tilecast a bit
Done.
- Go to bed early
Ugh, I had to let out a belt loop this morning.
Time for a diet.
When Ed and I played Blood Red Skies over the weekend, I remarked that we should be able to field Godzilla.
Surprisingly, there doesn't seem to be a popular choice for kaiju wargamming.
How would I want one to play?
GAAA!!!
Giant Atomic Animal Attack
One side is human city defense, the other side plays a giant monster.
The giant monster always has a redoubt, whether that's the sea, an underground cave, or a moon base.
Play would always be in one of two phases: monster attack or regrouping.
During the regrouping phase, the monster retreats to its redoubt and slowly regenerates.
During the regrouping phase, the humans can build new defenses and units.
The monster regenerates more the longer it waits to attack, but the longer it waits the more build points the humans get.
During the attack phase, the monster doesn't regenerate and the humans can't build.
The monster player chooses when to regroup, and the humans must follow along, unless they've developed enough to be able to attack the monster's redoubt.
So, the human player has some kind of build tree, where early development requirements (infantry, tanks, maybe scientific discoveries) must be met before they can build more advanced weapons (rocket ship, atomic submarine, etc.).
Perhaps also the drawing of some sort of event cars (oil refinery explosion, comet strike, a second monster appears, etc.).
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1408/gammarauders
https://www.collectiondx.com/toy_review/fortress_fangs
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21967830
https://www.slac.stanford.edu/~rkj/crazytime.txt
> Why is Wednesday, November 17, 1858 the base time for OpenVMS (VAX VMS)?
> November 17, 1858 is the base of the Modified Julian Day system.
> The original Julian Day (JD) is used by astronomers and expressed in
days since noon January 1, 4713 B.C. This measure of time was
introduced by Joseph Scaliger in the 16th century. It is named in
honor of his father, Julius Caesar Scaliger (note that this Julian Day
is different from the Julian calendar named for the Roman Emperor
Julius Caesar!).
> Why 4713 BC? Scaliger traced three time cycles and found that they
were all in the first year of their cyle in 4713 B.C. The three
cycles are 15, 19, and 28 years long. By multiplying these three
numbers (15 * 19 * 28 = 7980), he was able to represent any date from
4713 B.C. through 3267 A.D. The starting year was before any
historical event known to him. In fact, the Jewish calendar marks the
start of the world as 3761 B.C. Today his numbering scheme is still
used by astronomers to avoid the difficulties of converting the months
of different calendars in use during different eras.
> So why 1858? The Julian Day 2,400,000 just happens to be November 17,
1858. The Modified Julian Day uses the following formula:
> MJD = JD - 2,400,000.5
Read a few pages of The Mothman Prophecies.
Watched some anime.
Servings: grains 3/6, fruit 2/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 1/2, meat 2/3, nuts 1/0.5
Breakfast: coffee, egg, tomato, banana
Lunch: popcorn, yogurt, apple, banana, avocado
Afternoon snack: coffee
Dinner: hummus, tabbouleh, rice, chicken, fries
135/82
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