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There was a family playing Yahtzee at the b&b we were at last week. the house cat (who was supposed to stay outside, but managed to come in a lot) was very interested in the game. Maybe the law is to keep squirrels safe?
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“First they get you into a harmless game of Yahtzee. Next thing you know you’re scrumping chestnuts just to stay ahead of the interest.”
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This just arrived from Amazon. I can finally start sleeving my board games. As in, sleeve the boxes themselves so they remain in pristine condition.
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Wouldn’t it be easier and safer to just encase the games in solid blocks of epoxy?
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That’s also our data security policy.
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I’m totally prepared for NASA to pull off the biggest April Fools prank of all time
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wire mesh reinforced concrete is safer, because epoxy is transparent to wifi.
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Test your wire netting before using it. I’ve got 4G mobile internet to work inside cages that look as if they ought block it.
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There seem to be a lot of frequencies involved, with wavelengths between about 8 and 40 cm.
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We need to string together all these hints to try to figure out what @JGD actually does for a living.
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Does it really count as a ‘hint’ when he’s stated on these forums that his job title is ‘Principal Software Engineer’?
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Don’t discount amateur faraday cage enthusiasm.
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We don’t kink shame here.
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I seem to remember him also coaching us on how precisely a malicious actor could pinpoint our location based on the photographs we post.
These are skills.
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Sounds like a made-up title—exactly the kind of thing someone would say to throw you off their scent.
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The father of one my college friends worked for the NSA, starting before the NSA’s existence was acknowledged. For a long time, his paycheck came from the department of agriculture. someone had sat down with the list of civil service jobs, and found the most boring sounding one that fit his background. So i anyone asked him, he could tell them he was a corn crop prediction analyst, and not worry they’d ask a follow up question. (No, I don’t know what he actually did, but he had three PhDs in math, two of which were classified. And the first thing he asked me when he met me was “are you related to Ed?”, so I have some guesses…)
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In which case it is a thorough legend, because he’s on LinkedIn and a lot of professional networking sites with his job title and employer listed. Going back a long time, though I don’t have the energy to go through them all to see the evolution of job titles through all the name changes of the company.
Also, I’m afraid to open LinkedIn, because the last time I did, years ago, it started sending me regular emails with all sorts of updates I did not care about.
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Living near DC, I have friends who work at the NSA. It’s quite interesting to play games with them - they are tracking and parsing at a whole different level.
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This technique can backfire when confronted by a roleplayer. All information is potentially campaign research. I’ve had fascinating conversations with agricultural analysts, about the region they were assigned to, asking detailed questions on the trade of grains, produce and livestock, transport, infrastructure and work force mobility, all of which could come up in a roleplaying campaign.
It’s hard to imagine any kind of supposedly analytical job description which wouldn’t suggest some questions I could ask with campaign preparation value.
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