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Some minor complications with fatty tissue from the femur and blood gas. Extra oxygen and some time took care of it.Not much change on the responsiveness front; but he's pretty heavily sedated.New...
View ArticleI I II I'm Coming Off Sedation
Excellent news!Update: Herk was off sedation most of the day, got pretty active this afternoon, squeezing my hand, smiling to things I was saying, moving his legs and opening his eye. He has a fever...
View ArticleTrayvon Lives!
Our beloved black Maytag has been restored to functionality.The starter relay design seems to be a planned obsolescence item. A metal plated ceramic disc between two contacts. Well it had finally...
View ArticleDouble Update On The Brother
I think we're firmly out of the "is he going to live" woods now. We've stepped into the "how normal will he be now" forest.Herk slept nicely and had been off sedation for the last hour to check his...
View ArticleDouble Quote
"One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic." Either Stalin or Goebbels depending on the accuracy of Bing."Of all the young black shooting victims in this country, you can name 1....
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Old Traveller Ships
Erin has posted a neat modification of the old Empress Marava Far Trader.Link to her design.Mongoose Games is the successor to the original LBB Traveller from GDW.Erin's ship under the present rules is...
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His shoulder is a non operate-able injury that will heal on its own in about 6 weeks. Other than pain the injury itself would not prohibit the use of his arm in the long run. So just have to wait and...
View ArticleShip Design
Trying to duplicate Erin's design was the first time, ever, I'd attempted to use the GURPS: Traveller modular ship design system.It's not laid out as I would have liked, but it will suffice.I think I...
View ArticleArbitrage
The 5 tons weight per 5 tons volume assumption seems pretty light until you consider that interstellar hauling of bulk materiel is probably not economical.Why in God's Black Sky would you ever haul 730...
View ArticleNot What I Wanted To Hear
Sis-In-Law reports:"Recovery from surgery was fine last night, he is stable. Lungs and heart sound fine, if he was aware enough he could come off the ventilator but not the case so far. Neuro just took...
View ArticleDisappointing
Someone who had never played OG LBB Traveller might never notice while playing GURPS: Traveller.The Tigress has been hamstrung!She's a massive 500,000 dTon space Pac Man.In LBB Supplement 9: Jump 4,...
View ArticleLesson Learned
Something else I learned from the tribulations of George Zimmerman.It is once again OK to blame the victim!No more sympathy for rape victims because they should have stayed in the truck shouldn't have...
View ArticleYou Know What...
Fuck 'em!The pensioners from Detroit who are poised to get, if they're lucky, 10% of the pensions they were promised?You bastards are lucky you aren't up on extortion charges. Because extortion is...
View ArticleThings Are Bad
Real bad.You can tell when the most intelligent thing you've read about a racially divisive issue today comes from Charles Barkley.Charles "I'm Not A Role Model" Barkley!
View ArticleBetter Than Yesterday
SiL Writes:Stable last night. When I got here this morning he opened his eye to look at me. Told him I loved him and he turned and puckered up for a kiss! He is in there just taking time to come out....
View ArticleKinunir
Using the GURPS: Traveller Starships rules I have recreated the Kinunir Class Colonial Cruiser.It's not really a cruiser... It's more of a destroyer escort.It's got 8x2 405 MJ lasers, 2x1 1.4 GJ...
View ArticleShhhhhhhhhhhhhh
SiL:Herk is on minimal ventilator support today, they are trying to wean him off but he is still not alert enough yet. There will be minimal visitors, visits to be kept short and to immediate family...
View ArticleYesterday
Yesterday was mostly consumed with making a set of service ramps for The Precious.This is just about the only thing I actively hate about my Corvette. It's so very low that you can't get any standard...
View ArticleCrash Bro Daily Update
Sister in Law de la McThag sends:He is on even less ventilator support than yesterday but is getting tired so will probably go back on in a little bit. He is still only receiving oral pain meds to help...
View ArticleObvious
If a Empress Marava with J2 and 52.22 dTons of cargo space costing MCr 37.66 is economically viable enough that they're common...Then a Subsidized Merchant with a J2, 117.32 dTons of cargo space...
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