Frankly, assuming a network is anything other than filled with hostile actors is a mistake.
there are lots of attack surfaces between your computer and the first hop in the ISPs network. you’d never know if they set up a packet capture on the wired side of the wifi router, for instance. or if the traffic going to the ISP is also sent to the NSA.
Encrypt all your traffic.
the message that the automatic paging system at ork sends has changed, and it’s getting truncated. the message is
“Message from (person): Attention please, (Person) has requested your assistance with (task title). Thank you.” It’s getting truncated to “Message from (person): Attention please, (person) has requested your ass…”
Those will be the nominees, but I suspect Wyrmspan will be the winner.
I thought the dozens of “Best game of each block of 100 in the BGG rankings” Geeklists/blogposts were bad… now I’m starting to get pings on my BGG subscriptions for the worst game on each page.
Do people subscribe to games they dislike? Are these people expecting to get open dialog in support of their dislike? What possible interactions are these people actually expecting to receive other than disagreement?
Possibly robust discussions over what works and what doesn’t and why they think its the worst game.
OR
They’re idiots who just like to do things down
Reading a 1977 Ruth Rendell book for Book Club and I had to explain to everyone else what a “buying a box of Black Magic” was.
(It’s a box of chocolates that no-one under 30 or outside the UK will ever have seen).
Shows how often I eat chocolates that I didn’t know they were no longer available.
Looks like they’re still available and on sale in Tesco. Branded Nestlé these days.
Yeah, Nestlé took over Rowntrees way back in the late 1980s/early 1990s.
Oooh, I haven’t seen them in ages, I just thought they’d gone.
You don’t see adverts for them either, but then we used to have Milk Tray adverts and I haven’t seen one of those in years.
They did a competition to find a new “Milk Tray Man” something like 10 years ago and my “friends” wouldn’t stop bombarding my FB about it, just because I once wore a black turtleneck as a costume for a game.
“Steve Jobs just delivered a box of chocolates to my house!”
“Why was he dressed like a Swedish architect?”
They were available and advertised in Canada too.
Off to walk in Wales this weekend. I can’t wait.
These past 2-3 weeks have been an absolute nightmare and to just get away, walk by the sea (we’re - very slowly - doing the Coastal Path) and have a few beers while camping in a beautiful area is just the headspace I need.
If you’re near Swansea on Sunday morning you can come and watch our son jump out of a plane
My twin brother sent me a birthday card with the caption, “Amazingly I remembered your birthday!”
The irony of it arriving a day late. 
Was your card to him delivered on time?
Happy birthday, presumably a bit late.
Yeah, I’m a bit more organised than him so sent it well in advance.
