The Abode of McThag

When I was researching a couple of military campaigns for use in GURPS I was struck by how long it would take to get fire or air support. Mi...

My tank of deal with it energy is a bit low. I have my choice of three events that friends have invited me to and it means choosing between ...

The Florida Sheriff's Association owns the Florida Senate. They don't like us unwashed citizens carrying guns, and therefore nothing...

I love how the internet keeps expanding our knowledge of obscure firearms. Part One: I'll add part two when they post it.

Because I actually hit the FCC "report this caller" web page, a while ago I got a letter and an email from a law firm suing a robo...

The people I was exchanging emails with from Operation Blazing Sword have gone silent. This has happened before. I sometimes suspect that on...

Have you seen the new Jaguar ad? Here it is:  Krusty says it best: All I can think is, "Do you still sell cars?"

It just occurred to me that if SJGames isn't going to do more GURPS and Steve is someone I don't want to have any of my filthy, depl...

I went looking for GURPS 5e rumors and encountered several links to this from just before election day. Steve. Remember when you got raided...

I keep goofing around with GURPS shit and I never get to play. If I am very lucky, I get one or two sessions when FuzzyGeff makes his annua...

According to the Tech Level and Starting Wealth timeline in GURPS: Basic Set (Characters) 4e on p.27 in 2004: TL9 begins in 2025. That moves...

I'm not a prisoner, I'm a free cat! Mist had her follow-up appointment today. Her ear infection is all better! It's confirmed th...

Pretty neat stuff.

Australia has alps. I learned this because a trivia list about Australia mentioned that the Australian Alps get more snow than the Swiss Alp...

Technology does not advance evenly. For example: Afghanistan lacks almost all of the infrastructure we take for granted in the US and their ...

YouTube disagrees with GURPS. It happens. I've watched several videos where cloth and linen armor does better than expected. There's...

Silicon Graybeard pointed out that the goal isn't delegislation, but deregulation. There's a lot of stuff going on that's black ...

You can't make utopia because it cannot be made. Impossible. Socialists don't understand this while they also fail to account for hu...

Deleting entire cabinet agencies might be a worthy goal, but... You need Congress to play ball and the margins don't support that mandat...

The TV aerial is up. It's not, yet, connected to any TV. The coax cable we'd intended to use turns out to be the feed for the Wi-Fi ...

I've been thinking about the Tollense valley battle of late. It really looks like a native TL0 area had some imported TL1 weapons, but ...

We are embarking on putting up a broadcast television aerial. Turns out there's lots still being transmitted over the air and the inlaws...

Mist had a rough morning yesterday.  After a night blasting out both ends, she looked like she'd slipped back to as bad as when we took ...

There was an old BBC show called "Connections" and it was fascinating. They'd tell you how two, seemingly, unrelated items or ...

The Traveller nuclear damper works by weakening the strong nuclear force and causing the nuclei of the warhead to, kinda, fall apart at a mo...

"On a long lonesome highway, East of Omaha," is in Iowa. Probably Iowa Route 92. Though, Bob Seger said it was in Dubuque, that...

Considering that the US government is designed for grid-lock, making it efficient is probably unconstitutional. Something you can say about ...

The sharp eyed might notice that I changed the font at the top of the page and the post titles. I'm whimsical that way. Every time I mak...

Costco is recalling , and destroying, 79,000 pounds of butter because someone forgot to mention that butter might contain milk on the label....

Crispy IV is the result of an older hard drive starting to fail. For me, that brings not importing problems from the older machine by copy-p...