T. Kurt Bond's µBlog

2023-10-13 14:20:23-04:00 - Palm Leaf Biodegradable and Compostable Plates and Bowls So, there are plates and bowls made out of pressed palm leaves, that are biodegradable and compostable.

2023-10-10 22:02:22-04:00 - Are C and C++ easier to learn than the Ada programming language?

2023-09-21 10:57:07-04:00 - How I Organize My Virtual Workspaces On My Desktop At Work My primary virtual workspace on my desktop box at work running Fedora with the KDE Plasma desktop: I have to overlap things a lot to fit everything on one screen.

2023-09-02 14:50:17-04:00 - Monks in Swords & Wizardry Complete Revised I got my print copy of the Swords & Wizardry Complete Revised Rulebook from the recent Kickstarter a little while ago, and I was reading it and noticed that they made some of the most…

2023-08-18 19:25:58-04:00 - Dungeon Fantasy: Monster Seeds I was glad to get my physical copy a while ago.

2023-07-10 20:10:31-04:00 - BESM Multiverse and Uresia: Grave of Heavan arrived!

2023-07-09 20:50:59-04:00 - I got STOIC running under CP/M using the RunCPM emulator!

2023-06-27 13:02:39-04:00 - Getting the width of the current monitor in Emacs If you have virtual workspaces on macOS and you use the emacs function display-pixel-width it will give the combined with of ALL the monitors you are using.

2023-06-25 10:56:37-04:00 - Old School Stylish Old School Stylish (OSS) is an interesting zine supplement of 28 pages (counting both covers) for Old School Essentials (OSE).

2023-06-24 13:07:18-04:00 - Reducing Scope Creep One of the reasons I created this blog/capsule (other than the opportunity to work with the Gemini protocol, text format, and Geminispace) was to encourage me to write more often.

2023-06-23 10:47:45-04:00 - Things Better Left Alone and the Adventurer RPG arrived Updated: 2023-06-27 16:22:03-04:00 My copies of “Things Better Left Alone” and the “Adventurer RPG” Player Guide and Dungeon Guide arrived today from Pacesetter Games.

2023-06-22 21:04:20-04:00 - The Lair of the Leopard Empresses Updated: 2023-11-26 11:03:08-05:00 My copy of The Lair of the Leopard Empresses came two days ago, and I have really enjoying reading it.

2023-06-11 22:36:57-04:00 - The Fantasy Trip I recently got to play Melee from Steve Jackson Games online and had fun.

2023-05-23 15:16:25-04:00 - Into the Odd Updated: 2023-06-27 10:48:04-04:00 Into the Odd Remastered by Chris McDowall, published in 2022, is horror dungeon- and hex- crawling with swords, guns, and strange magical artifacts, stripped down to the minimum of

2023-04-14 20:41:48-04:00 - The Chaos Crier, Issue #0 My copies of Black Sword Hack: Ultimate Chaos Edition and The Chaos Crier, Issue #0 arrived.

2023-04-08 18:40:11-04:00 - My physical copy of “Ends of the Earth” arrived Ends of the Earth: A Weird Fantasy Hexcrawl Setting for your Favorite Fantasy RPG by Chris Longhurst is a wonderful zine bursting with ideas.

2023-03-28 11:53:26-04:00 - US Paper Sizes Rant Why don’t we US folks use paper sizes that are sensible, like the ISO 216 standard?

2023-03-21 03:37:27-04:00 - Story Engine RPG The Story Engine RPG popped into my head the other day, for apparently no reason.

2023-03-12 01:54:45-04:00 - Mini Six Middle Sea Game, session 9: A Giant, a Tomb, Mirrors, and Skeletons The PCs leave Korianthor, heading into the Presaris Mountains to find Mount Wasarey and the Tomb of Torgoth, the Sorcerer-Smith, looking for the Hammer

2023-03-07 14:22:03-05:00 - Al-mi'raj - I'd forgotten bunnicorns were in the Fiend Folio...

2023-03-01 23:01:40-05:00 - Now available via gemini!

2023-02-21 10:45:37-05:00 - Finished rereading OVA: the Anime Role-Playing Game Well, I finished rereading OVA: the Anime Role-Playing Game.

2023-02-19 23:56:08-05:00 - Using the Emacs Web Wowser to open URLs in Emacs A couple of the computers I use have limited RAM (4 GiB), and Chrome and Firefox use up a lot of memory.

2023-02-19 22:21:10-05:00 - Mini Six Middle Sea Game, session 8 The PCs made it back to Korianthor, with two of them flying the others over a flooded ravine with a rushing river using an ingenious arrangement of rope to spread the weight of an individual…

2023-02-19 16:25:45-05:00 - Why use Scheme instead of Forth for creating Atom feeds?

2023-02-19 16:09:01-05:00 - Why this µBlog/Site?

2023-02-14 11:45:04-05:00 - Almost got to play in an OVA game So, the BESM 4E game I was playing in came to an unexpected stop, alas.

2023-02-10 13:20:23-05:00 - And now the Atom feeds have the content of the posts in the entries Updated: 2023-02-21 12:55:54-05:00 This way, when you look at an entry in a feed reader, it shows you the content of the blog post, instead of looking empty and

2023-02-10 08:20:39-05:00 - Updated blog and Atom generator to use numeric time zone offsets It turns out that multiple locations use, colloquially, the same time zone abbreviations for different time zones.

2023-02-07 15:28:00-05:00 - Fuzzy Recollections of a Neat Capability of Unroff: file-insertions TKB: So, you know how you sometimes need to output something before the data you need to do it has been read from the input?

2023-02-07 10:20:00-05:00 - Dynamic Powers vs.

2023-02-06 22:16:00-05:00 - How I Edit This Blog Updated: 2023-06-27 10:00:24-04:00 I use GNU Emacs, of course.

2023-02-05 14:19:00-05:00 - Mini Six Middle Sea Game, session 7 At the end of the combat {at the last session} there are 5 Sanguine Sons who are incapacitated and 3 that are paralyzed.

2023-02-01 12:00:00-05:00 - BESM 4E's Dimension Walk Attribute is EXACTLY Shadow Shifting from Zelazny's Amber Chronicles Big Eyes, Small Mouth 4E's Dimension Walk Attribute is EXACTLY Shadow Shifting from Zelazny's Amber Chronicles!

2023-01-30 13:39:00-05:00 - If you get the message "Error: unbound variable: geiser#geiser-eval" when working with CHICKEN Scheme and geiser... ... it means you need to go back and follow the instructions for CHICKEN support, and also update your geiser p…

2023-01-29 23:06:00-05:00 - Mini Six Middle Sea Game, session 6 This was mostly finishing a combat from the last session, since we spent time beforehand spending character points and updating characters.

2023-01-29 14:42:00-05:00 - Owlbear Rodeo 1.0 will be open-sourced This is old news, but according to the Owlbear.Rodeo folks, Owlbear.Rodeo 1.0 will eventually be shut down, but it will also be open-sourced.

2023-01-22 15:34:00-05:00 - Mini Six Middle Sea Game, session 5 TIMEWARP: This entry brought to you by the power of TIME TRAVEL!

2023-01-15 23:03-05:00 - Mini Six Middle Sea Game, session 4 I got to run another session today of the Middle Sea Mini Six game I've been running for the kids, the fourth session, online.

2023-01-10 10:40:00-05:00 - A Banner Image A friend thought I should put a image on my micro site/blog, so I did.

2023-01-07 12:58:00-05:00 - BESM Multiverse: Anime RPG World Expansions I just finished my Backerkit survey for this kickstarter, and I'm looking forward to getting it.

2023-01-01 00:01:00-05:00 - The New Year is Here!

2022-12-31 23:45:00-05:00 - Spending New Year's Eve the Right Way!

2022-12-30 20:22:00-05:00 - New (micro) blog!

2022-12-23 13:50:00-05:00 - Mini Six Middle Sea Game, session 3 TIMEWARP: This entry brought to you by the power of TIME TRAVEL!

2021-06-11 16:23:00-05:00 - Mini Six Middle Sea Game, session 2 The next day they split up to investigate.

2021-06-04 16:15:00-05:00 - Mini Six Middle Sea Game, session 1 TIMEWARP: This entry brought to you by the power of TIME TRAVEL!