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Slept from ten to seven.
Woke briefly around one.
Clear.
Lows around 50.
North winds up to 10 mph.
Gusts up to 20 mph late in the evening.
# Work
* 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Gartner next gen AI trends
* 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM CTO vendor team call
* 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Standards weekly check in
* 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM ArcGIS Pro overview and install
* 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM DMND1568 ARM demo, PAMS
# Home
* [x] 09:00 AM grocery delivery
* [x] exercise for ten minutes
* [ ] car oil change
* [ ] schedule dentist appointment
* [ ] schedule optometrist appointment
Started reading Dorthy L. Sayers' Clouds of Witness.
IntelliJ key repeat with Vim plugin:
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$ defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
```
Cicadas singing.
Rode the exercise bike for ten minutes after work.
https://kottke.org/24/07/supreme-court-rules-that-presidents-have-absolute-immunity-for-core-constitutional-powers
> The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.
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> Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today.
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> Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.
http://boggswood.blogspot.com/2024/07/is-making-of-original-dungeons-and.html
> The Making of Original Dungeons and Dragons is not a scholarly work, but it is a work for the scholarly minded, both amateur and professional, to pour through and ponder over.
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> True, the book exposes no cracks in the usual Pater Families image of Gary Gygax and also true Arneson is presented in accord with the usual grubby-handed lout trope. It is best to keep in mind the long-standing "Papa Gygax" and gollum-like Arneson narratives are well suited to the story Hasbro wants to tell about the past of its popular property. There should be no surprise that The Making of Original Dungeons and Dragons doesn't challenge these tropes in what is essentially a coffee table book, not meant to ask probing questions.
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> For example, a brief letter from Arneson to Scott Rich published in Great Plains Game Player's Newsletter #9 is mentioned but unfortunately not included. In this 2 paragraph letter Areneson covers only two things - Dungeon stocking and Hit Point generation - that he had wanted done differently in D&D and failed to convey to Gygax convincingly, but the commentary overdraws the un-shown letter as an example of Arneson lacking any interest in supporting D&D - an odd conclusion given that he was running public demos of the game shortly after publication. The loutish Arneson trope perhaps comes through more strongly in the noticeably unbalanced treatment found in the section on Supplement II Blackmoor. The commentary strings together hearsay from persons notably unkindly disposed toward the man with the singular rebuttal that one of these assertions *might* be "uncharitable". The commentary also raises the expectation that of a copy marked by Gygax with notations will inform who the true author was. The choice to present this particular marked version in this 50th anniversary book is itself interesting (and appreciated, frankly), but in looking at the actual text we see only a few sections in the first 13 pages are so marked, and the new information to be gleaned there, is that apparently both Rob and Terry Kuntz contributed some of the monsters, seemingly some of those we formerly presumed were Steve Marsh's.
> The Making of Original Dungeons and Dragons 1970 - 1977 guides the reader to also investigate The First Fantasy Campaign booklet published by Judges Guild in 1977. Of course I agree, but would insist that anyone purchasing The Making of Original Dungeons and Dragons should also acquire Blackmoor Foundations as a necessary companion book. Having both will give one a much more complete and rounded understanding of the early days of the game. I might also humbly suggest, less insistently, The Lost Dungeons of Tonisborg.
Servings: grains 6/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 3/4, dairy 3/2, meat 3/3, nuts 0/0.5
Breakfast: left-over sliders
Brunch: coffee
Lunch: banana, carrots
Afternoon snack: tomato
Dinner: pasta, salad
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