Chris Brooks
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Chris Brooks
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Blogger at https://chrisbrooks.org

Golfer, board and war gamer, university instructor, back country adventurer (on my feet and in my van).

Summer in Keuka Lake NY, winter in Napa CA.
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I'm going to try documenting essentially everything I do, and become The Most Organised Man in the World.

I've wanted to do this for a while, but here at JDHQ we tend to focus on a single task. It's just how we work: we go deep on a thing. Well now I have time…

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22.00.0104 Everything Everywhere All at Once
I'm going to try documenting essentially everything I do, and become The Most Organised Man in the World.
johnnydecimal.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
6 miles along San Pablo bay on the Eliot Trail
February 28, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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For every person who has argued for dinosaur Wingspan

(I'm not actually opposed, it's just an excuse to point out that birds ARE dinosaurs)
NOVA | Dino Birds | Season 52 | Episode 3
Fossils reveal how birds survived the killer asteroid and became today’s only living dinosaurs.
www.pbs.org
February 7, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Another utility app gets uninstalled because of a new @raycast.com feature: no longer need Karabiner-Elements to remap Caps-Lock to hyper key. So far I've retired Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, a window manager whose name I forget, and now Karabiner.
February 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Thatz my girl,,, making history to front Nirvana with its surviving members
#VioletGrohl
January 31, 2025 at 7:55 AM
First solo play of Mistborn: the Deckbuilding Game. Tense and very enjoyable, and I think co-op play with two players will be more enjoyable than PvP.
January 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
First play of Mistborn the Deckbuilding Game. Loving it so far.
December 28, 2024 at 11:35 PM
18 at Blue Rock Springs West this morning. Solid public course in Vallejo CA
December 27, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Anyone else feel like this after Christmas dinner?

Taken in Okavango Delta last September
December 26, 2024 at 3:26 AM
Playing the wonderful Dien Bien Phu: The Final Gamble with son. First time playing as the French.
December 24, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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We are so honoured that the AppStore has recognised Balatro+ as a winner for Apple Arcade Game of the Year at the #AppStoreAwards 🎉

Thank you Jokers, from the bottom of my mischievous heart for continuing to play Balatro! 🃏

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December 11, 2024 at 2:18 PM
Started playing Magic 30 years ago this month, after a solid sales pitch from a mall game store clerk in Las Vegas. Learned to play with my two brothers-in-law, sometimes playing with two-month old son Jacob in arm. Reuniting with them next week in Vegas, preparing a pseudo-cube for some draft fun
December 5, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Some thoughts on Comanchería by @gmtgames.bsky.social – when we moved away from Oregon in early 2020 the game went into storage. I was eager to be reunited with the game and give it a go. It sat on my table for about a week as I played through the first scenario. boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/15...
Comanchería: The Rise and Fall of the Comanche Empire
Play as the Comanche empire in this complex card-driven solitaire game.
boardgamegeek.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Finally playing Comanchería
November 23, 2024 at 11:37 PM