The Abode of McThag

A Swiss pharmaceutical company is either building a new plant or expanding an existing one here in the US. This is in response to the Chines...

Did you know that every year the earth actually rotates 366.24 times? "But there are only 365 days in a year!" I hear you object. ...

These four officers are fucking heroes.  No doubt about it. Unloading on an autistic kid with a knife while on the other side of a barrier. ...

The entire point of having an NAS is to be able to access and edit my files from any machine on the network. That point is defeated if the f...

I think I messed up the affliction for the skunk. Bad Smell is, I believe, the primary effect of being sprayed by a skunk with blindness and...

A side effect of living in the same town as Iowa State University is rubbing shoulders with both agronomy students and farmers. You pick up ...

I ordered a spare keyboard for DerpyPuter on ebay. It was in China. Tracking says, "returned to shipper." I'm thinking the tar...

The two storms that went over my house last year have had their names retired. That's a first for me. Helene and Milton will not be used...

I said with The Biscayne that I was never doing unreliable AC again. The Beast has unreliable AC. I'm out. I don't have the resour...

  Mist and Shadow have scampered themselves to exhaustion.

H/T Feral Irishman.

The corvith just gets me going on all other kinds of hybrid animals that could be created if a wizard is responsible for things like the owl...

I looked up familiars in the D&D books I have. AD&D and AD&D 2e's find familiar spell summons a real creature and grants pow...

Harvey made meatball subs and, without thinking about it, used the right side of my mouth to chew. That's where the temp-crown is and I...

Statting out the corvith reminded me to read up on how to get a familiar in the 4e rules. It was not near so complicated as I'd feared i...

Corvith ST 4; DX 14; IQ 4; HT 10 Will 10; Per 12; Speed 7; Dodge 10; Move 7 (Ground) SM -3; 8 lb. Traits: Acute Vision 3, Extra Arms (B...

Exalted Skunk -40 Points Attribute Modifiers: ST -4 (No Fine Manipulators, -40%) [-24]; DX +2 (No Fine Manipulators, -40%) [24]. Secondary ...

So, I went looking for what historians believe caused recessions and depression in American history. Even the downturns that coincide with t...

$1,300 for the, nicest, M1911A1 from CMP seems steep when compared to Tisas or Rock Island Armory. It even makes a brand new Colt seem quite...

The circumstances behind the Smoot-Hawley act and the reciprocal retributive tariffs are not even similar. Yes, they are both tariffs, but ...

I am sure he's a nice guy, but I'm fucking over him. When he accused all us American veterans of being brainwashed all y'all sai...

Something I watched more than once in Germany was someone bringing their American car over and overheating it on the autobahn. American cars...

If you're trying to get someone to play GURPS, get them to watch this.  I think it will help.

The AC on The Beast decided to start fading on the way back from Ocala today. Typical symptoms of low freon in a WM car is the AC runs cold...

Got 15k views from Singapore the last couple days. Somehow, I doubt it's actual viewers.

As a blogger who writes total B.S. on occasion, an app that automatically goes to all-caps without spellcheck would be handy.

I'm still on Steve Jackson Games mailing list and I got this today: An Important Message From Our CEO Meredith Placko On April 5th, a 5...

She's up to 5 lb. 7 oz.  Up from the emaciated 1 lb. 6 oz. when we took her in and expected her to up and die on us. Going to be getting...

 Best April 1st video ever.

Spoke to the person at the local VSO that the American Legion hooked me up with. For the first time, ever, the person who is supposed to hel...