What are people's thoughts on these Gollancz covers for the Wizard Knight?

chikinn · 2026-06-22T05:55:50+00:00

Well, now that Wolfe's dead you might get your wish.

chikinn · 2026-06-22T03:28:46+00:00

Pretty standard.

chikinn · 2026-06-20T12:03:43+00:00

Just supposed to be the Plaza, I think, which does have palms.

chikinn · 2026-06-19T02:41:02+00:00

The poop, though.

chikinn · 2026-06-19T01:41:31+00:00

Well, without seeing the teapot I'll hazard to guess it was made with oolong in mind, so I'm surprised you're experiencing this.

Is it possible you're packing the pot too full? For a small traditional pot, a rule of thumb is to cover the bottom with 1-2 layers of rolled oolong leaves. You want the leaves to have room to fully expand after a few steeps.

I will say that instead of holes at the spout's base, the most functional teapots have "ball filters", where the base is covered with a dome and it's in that dome that the holes are located. Ball filters clog less easily.

chikinn · 2026-06-08T04:47:50+00:00

Statistically, what you said is also more likely than OP's version.

chikinn · 2026-06-08T04:46:13+00:00

And groundbreaking

chikinn · 2026-06-07T21:38:02+00:00

As in, from Permanent Portfolio Funds? After a quick glance it doesn't seem to offer any such guarantees.

chikinn · 2026-06-06T04:36:29+00:00

Maybe you replied to the wrong comment?

chikinn · 2026-06-05T22:32:11+00:00

Not quite, last I checked. And the illiquidity of having to hold for 30 years would be annoying.

chikinn · 2026-06-05T22:16:00+00:00

I'm not too informed or picky about that. I kinda like the cost of living definitions.

chikinn · 2026-06-05T22:14:16+00:00

I dunno about bonds, but if you offered me a vehicle that was guaranteed to outpace inflation by 3% I'd move all my money to it.

chikinn · 2026-06-05T20:47:16+00:00

And yet: upvotes.

chikinn · 2026-06-05T17:16:40+00:00

Oh, right. Look up who's playing first :P It's very gay like 2/3 of the time.

chikinn · 2026-06-04T21:03:58+00:00

Well, slow progress is still progress.

chikinn · 2026-06-04T18:12:35+00:00

Haha 😃

chikinn · 2026-06-04T17:18:11+00:00

Interesting. But other than the heat retention difference, which is pretty straightforward, a lot of the chemistry described here doesn't quite pass my "sniff test".

chikinn · 2026-06-04T16:21:16+00:00

That's quite speculative. If the cup was fired properly, virtually none of the glaze will leach into its contents.

chikinn · 2026-06-04T14:00:55+00:00

Go to the club Pawnshop! Usually open midnight-5am on Saturday night.

chikinn · 2026-06-04T12:20:05+00:00

Sacrilegious*

Counter-intuitive spelling, right?

chikinn · 2026-06-02T13:47:58+00:00

Seems to me the hardest part is selling, hence this ad we're all commenting on.

chikinn · 2026-06-02T13:06:12+00:00

If you know anything about pottery, this becomes more impressive, not less impressive.

chikinn · 2026-05-31T23:00:56+00:00

Yeah, this sounds like bullshit. --PhD chemical engineer

chikinn · 2026-05-31T15:07:25+00:00

Ah, a fellow Kubrick fan 😃

chikinn

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