Since I started Gamer+ I have been running the Oxwall social network software. Unfortunately the most recent version of Oxwall was written in 2016 which in internet years means it's an antique.
Not only that it's not working well and I barely got some of the pages working at all after the new sql server update.
So ...
I am going to archive the existing Gamer+ site. All posts, photos, etc. will be available to read but there will be no new members or new posts on the Oxwall vesrion of Gamer+.
I am going to install a new Gamer+ social network site using the federated software, friendica. If you are already on mastodon, peertube, funkwhale, or other federated services you will be able to follow and share with Gamer+ users.
And/or you can start an account at the new Gamer+ and continue posting to Gamer+ just ike you have in the past.
Change is hard but change is good. And this sounds right to me. I'm looking forward to it.
Mouse Plural
If we have houses
Why not mouses
If we have mice
Why not hice
I have done extensive research using an ancient computer program called the Wayback Machine.
The truth is there is no such thing as mouse singular. There is never one mouse, they come in families.
If a group is a nest
What about the rest?
The rest are in another nest.
What we have on the ship is what used to be referred to as a house mouse. Ship mouse doesn't rhyme but it will have to do.
The problem I foresee is their breeding. Mice begin breeding when they are 30 days old. Then they have litters. And then back to breeding. In thirty days all the mice in the litter are breeding.
Computer scientists call this an exponential explosion. Look at the graph of an expoential explosion. It's frightening.
If mice go unchecked on the ship, exponentially exploding and eating and eating, we will soon leave post scarcity behind and we'll all be eating mice.
The Wayback Machine mentioned an ancient predator called cats that were used to keep the mice population under control.
I'm not sure what a cat is but apparently humans like cats more than mice. Cats also have litters of kittens so it's competing exponential explosions.
A clowder of cats
makes kindles of kittens
and they're so cute!
I saw pictures on the Wayback Machine and mice are really cute too.
For some reason there are thousands of pictures of cats for every picture of a mouse.
So maybe they won?
We better find out where we can get cats sometime in the next 30 days.
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Jupiter's Ghost is free culture collaborative science fiction.
https://intergalactic.computer/
We are celebrating the New Year with a Bebop Beatniks retrospective album, all originals performed live, from 2016 through 2019.
Here's the link to free download and streaming at archive.org.
https://archive.org/details/bebop-beatniks-church
Or if your prefer Youtube Music.
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mf1d0SMAHV60JyGIA-a-i5L0GsFUWfM-Y
I talk about the new album and my song, "Gotta Lotta" on From The Archives Of Something Blue. Here's a link to the podcast on the Something Blue website.
https://sbblues.com/2022/12/31/dj-hairy-larry-presents-bebop-beatniks-playing-gotta-lotta/
Don't miss Something Blue this Saturday, January 7, to hear some more jazz released in 2022 by Joshua Redman, Mary Halvorson, and Wadada Leo Smith.
Something Blue is broadcast on KASU, 91.9 FM and streaming on the internet at kasu.org, every Saturday at 10:00 PM Central.
It got cold in November. And then it got cold again in December. As far as Vivian and I are concerned we've had enough of that for one winter.
We had a great Christmas with most of our family here on Christmas Eve and then a big family Christmas with all of our kids and grandkids on New Years Day.
It don't get no better than that.
Stay in touch. Let me know about your projects and your news.
Thanks,
Hairy Larry
https://mastodon.social/@hairylarry
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com
The last Inspired Unreality of the year is on Saturday, December 3, at 11:00 AM Central. We will be discussing Fantasy and Science Fiction. We've got opinions and we hope you do too. I just finished "Harrow The Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir and now I'm in the middle of "This Is How You Lose the Time War" by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone. We are making viewing arrangements for the new "Willow" series. We're all big "Willow" fans, here.
Inspired Unreality open game chat is held in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. There's more info and a link here.
https://gamerplus.org/index
FollowMeAndDie posted a video and a blog.
"In my latest blog post I discuss the Saint Mark Turnip Festival invented by my players."
https://gamerplus.org/newsfeed/4962
"My Latest YouTube Video: Mastodon For New Users - Twitter Refugees is live on YouTube."
https://gamerplus.org/newsfeed/4961
I post my Mastodon link at the bottom of every Gamer+ news.
My daughter Megan has been giving me advice on new Fantasy and Science Fiction novels. She says, "Readers are the best people because they see the world through many sets of eyes. They know both that their experiences are not unique and that no one sees the world in quite the same way as them."
https://gamerplus.org/newsfeed/4965
And I posted the video of Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians live at Blues Fest, 2022.
https://youtu.be/YO-_K4y9WIY
Enjoy!
Please forward this email to your gaming friends and share this link.
https://gamerplus.org/blogs/post/995
Thanks,
Hairy Larry
https://gamerplus.org/user/hairylarry
https://mastodon.social/@hairylarry
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com
Join us for Inspired Unreality open game chat on Saturday, November 19, at 11:00 AM Central. All gaming is on topic and the opening topic will be Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Inspired Unreality is held in the gamerplus chatrooms at Tenkar's Tavern on Discord. There's more info and a link here.
https://gamerplus.org/index
Follow Me And Die posted about his twitch stream called How To Mastodon For Twitter Users - Keep in Touch with fellow TTRPG folks with the possible demise of Twitter.
https://gamerplus.org/newsfeed/4945
You may have noted my Mastodon link in the signoff of these emails. I've been communicating in the fediverse for years. Mastodon is open source software run all over the world by businesses and hobbyists. I think it's about to achieve critical mass whether Twitter survives or not.
The fediverse is decentralized so you kind of have to shift gears in your head. Other apps besides Mastodon can communicate with Mastodon users, for example you can share your Peertube videos to Mastodon accounts and the replies somehow end up on your Peertube account.
Very interesting.
I posted 15 brilliant color fantasy illustrations from "The Russian Story Book" drawn by Frank C. Pape. Published in 1916 the illustrations are public domain.
https://gamerplus.org/photo/useralbum/hairylarry/136
Here's a joke I posted in the Newsfeed.
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A priest, a pastor and a rabbit entered a clinic to donate blood. The nurse asked the rabbit: “what’s your blood type?”
“I’m probably a type O”, said the rabbit.
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I get plenty of those.
Please forward this email to your gaming friends and share this link.
https://gamerplus.org/blogs/post/994
Thanks,
Hairy Larry
https://gamerplus.org/user/hairylarry
https://mastodon.social/@hairylarry
hairylarry@deltaboogie.com