Sam Brown
@baudot.bsky.social
Autumn Sunset.
Downtown St. Louis.
Downtown St. Louis.
November 18, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Autumn Sunset.
Downtown St. Louis.
Downtown St. Louis.
Side Quest Complete: Read Jules Verne in a Paris cafe.
October 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Side Quest Complete: Read Jules Verne in a Paris cafe.
Infinite monkey on infinite typewriters inventing infinite brand names for throwaway Amazon names have produced this perfect gem of a company name:
September 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Infinite monkey on infinite typewriters inventing infinite brand names for throwaway Amazon names have produced this perfect gem of a company name:
Tables set up at the Siege Invitational tournament for Warmachine.
June 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Tables set up at the Siege Invitational tournament for Warmachine.
All 40+ books of Discworld, rebound on a wheel, with a crank to spin the pages.
From the Nerdforge channel.
From the Nerdforge channel.
June 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
All 40+ books of Discworld, rebound on a wheel, with a crank to spin the pages.
From the Nerdforge channel.
From the Nerdforge channel.
The minis game "Infinity" attracts ridiculous levels of creativity, to match the painting expectations.
This truck is a one-off creation, CNC cut out of Fanta boxes, and painted. It has moving parts and lights, some of which are hidden until you swing the doors open.
This truck is a one-off creation, CNC cut out of Fanta boxes, and painted. It has moving parts and lights, some of which are hidden until you swing the doors open.
March 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The minis game "Infinity" attracts ridiculous levels of creativity, to match the painting expectations.
This truck is a one-off creation, CNC cut out of Fanta boxes, and painted. It has moving parts and lights, some of which are hidden until you swing the doors open.
This truck is a one-off creation, CNC cut out of Fanta boxes, and painted. It has moving parts and lights, some of which are hidden until you swing the doors open.
Entirely unrelated, but you should also know that this exists...
February 13, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Entirely unrelated, but you should also know that this exists...
WIshing a Superb Owl Sunday to all who observe the holiday.
February 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
WIshing a Superb Owl Sunday to all who observe the holiday.
When I do use paper notebooks, I use these tiny A6 notebooks that tuck into a suede holder. I think I got a pack of them in Shenzhen when I was living there in the summer of '18?
They're small enough, each one can be a topic, or not get filled, and I just swap them out of the holder as needed.
They're small enough, each one can be a topic, or not get filled, and I just swap them out of the holder as needed.
January 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
When I do use paper notebooks, I use these tiny A6 notebooks that tuck into a suede holder. I think I got a pack of them in Shenzhen when I was living there in the summer of '18?
They're small enough, each one can be a topic, or not get filled, and I just swap them out of the holder as needed.
They're small enough, each one can be a topic, or not get filled, and I just swap them out of the holder as needed.
Everyday winter beauty: Ice crystals colonizing the windshield.
December 22, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Everyday winter beauty: Ice crystals colonizing the windshield.
If your marketing campaign is meant to get people to post this picture, asking "WTF?!"
....then mission accomplished, Duolingo.
....then mission accomplished, Duolingo.
December 7, 2024 at 1:54 AM
If your marketing campaign is meant to get people to post this picture, asking "WTF?!"
....then mission accomplished, Duolingo.
....then mission accomplished, Duolingo.
2) Maria zur Nedden - master painter in fantasy miniatures. She publishes studies comparing brushes, 3D print resins, etc..
December 3, 2024 at 1:07 AM
2) Maria zur Nedden - master painter in fantasy miniatures. She publishes studies comparing brushes, 3D print resins, etc..
Tentative good news: We're currently on track to have the mildest winter surge of COVID since it went worldwide.
Normally, many of the cases for the entire year happen in December and January, peaking around the holidays. But cases barely just started rising.
Source: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
Normally, many of the cases for the entire year happen in December and January, peaking around the holidays. But cases barely just started rising.
Source: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
December 1, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Tentative good news: We're currently on track to have the mildest winter surge of COVID since it went worldwide.
Normally, many of the cases for the entire year happen in December and January, peaking around the holidays. But cases barely just started rising.
Source: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
Normally, many of the cases for the entire year happen in December and January, peaking around the holidays. But cases barely just started rising.
Source: covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
The ruble is collapsing, again.
After almost a year of stable exchange rates, the Russian Central Bank has reduced the intensity of its most draconian measures to prop up the currency.
10 Year Price Graph of the ruble vs. the dollar, from xe.com
Labels are my own.
After almost a year of stable exchange rates, the Russian Central Bank has reduced the intensity of its most draconian measures to prop up the currency.
10 Year Price Graph of the ruble vs. the dollar, from xe.com
Labels are my own.
November 30, 2024 at 5:58 PM
The ruble is collapsing, again.
After almost a year of stable exchange rates, the Russian Central Bank has reduced the intensity of its most draconian measures to prop up the currency.
10 Year Price Graph of the ruble vs. the dollar, from xe.com
Labels are my own.
After almost a year of stable exchange rates, the Russian Central Bank has reduced the intensity of its most draconian measures to prop up the currency.
10 Year Price Graph of the ruble vs. the dollar, from xe.com
Labels are my own.
Reminder: The % off you see with a price is meaningless. Amazon lets vendors bump a price for a couple days, months before Black Friday, just so they can claim a product is (in this example) 39% off. Brick and mortar stores pull the same trick, raising prices before a sale to claim steep discounts.
November 29, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Reminder: The % off you see with a price is meaningless. Amazon lets vendors bump a price for a couple days, months before Black Friday, just so they can claim a product is (in this example) 39% off. Brick and mortar stores pull the same trick, raising prices before a sale to claim steep discounts.
Autumn touches the gardens.
November 19, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Autumn touches the gardens.
Thanks for keeping the drive home amusing, Missouri.
November 18, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Thanks for keeping the drive home amusing, Missouri.
Another of this year's buzzy new board games:
SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Pretty discs that spin around the sun. Keep exploring until you discover aliens. Each alien adds a mini game, and you won't know which one you're playing until they're revealed.
SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Pretty discs that spin around the sun. Keep exploring until you discover aliens. Each alien adds a mini game, and you won't know which one you're playing until they're revealed.
November 17, 2024 at 12:14 AM
Another of this year's buzzy new board games:
SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Pretty discs that spin around the sun. Keep exploring until you discover aliens. Each alien adds a mini game, and you won't know which one you're playing until they're revealed.
SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Pretty discs that spin around the sun. Keep exploring until you discover aliens. Each alien adds a mini game, and you won't know which one you're playing until they're revealed.
Current favorite new game from BoardGameGeek Con 2024:
Daitoshi.
You're building a city. In the woods. The nature spirits are going to get mad at you. You're going to deal with it, and even make friends.
A medium-heavy eurogame with top hats.
Daitoshi.
You're building a city. In the woods. The nature spirits are going to get mad at you. You're going to deal with it, and even make friends.
A medium-heavy eurogame with top hats.
November 15, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Current favorite new game from BoardGameGeek Con 2024:
Daitoshi.
You're building a city. In the woods. The nature spirits are going to get mad at you. You're going to deal with it, and even make friends.
A medium-heavy eurogame with top hats.
Daitoshi.
You're building a city. In the woods. The nature spirits are going to get mad at you. You're going to deal with it, and even make friends.
A medium-heavy eurogame with top hats.
Economical luxuries: Excellent coffee.
Starting each morning with the routine of brewing a cup of something I can slowly savor has become a part of my day I wouldn't give up.
20 grams of excellent beans and a filter? ~80¢.
The hardware: 2¢/day, if you keep it 10 years.
Starting each morning with the routine of brewing a cup of something I can slowly savor has become a part of my day I wouldn't give up.
20 grams of excellent beans and a filter? ~80¢.
The hardware: 2¢/day, if you keep it 10 years.
November 14, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Economical luxuries: Excellent coffee.
Starting each morning with the routine of brewing a cup of something I can slowly savor has become a part of my day I wouldn't give up.
20 grams of excellent beans and a filter? ~80¢.
The hardware: 2¢/day, if you keep it 10 years.
Starting each morning with the routine of brewing a cup of something I can slowly savor has become a part of my day I wouldn't give up.
20 grams of excellent beans and a filter? ~80¢.
The hardware: 2¢/day, if you keep it 10 years.
