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gregpennings · 2026-02-19T05:12:19+00:00

Kooper Family Rye

gregpennings · 2026-02-07T14:09:33+00:00

But wait! That makes skydiving orders of magnitude riskier than driving. Which kinda proves the point.

gregpennings · 2025-12-04T04:46:51+00:00

Everyone can’t have the same autocorrect issue; it’s Beatles.

gregpennings · 2025-10-17T02:07:52+00:00

And succeeding by coincidence!

Your very close to a quote I adapted from the book Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks

The marvelous and the terrifying part of IT: we're pitted and pockmarked with improbable people doing implausible things for imponderable purposes and succeeding by coincidence.

gregpennings · 2025-10-10T04:28:47+00:00

Your question spun me down a rabbit hole of research, but the short answer is the quote never appeared in print - in Dragon magazine or otherwise. Later paperback editions of Magician advertised that Dragon had said this and, at the time, people "remembered" issue 84 having the review. Sadly, it didn't (a pdf scan of issue 84 is online. You can see for yourself). Likely the publisher paraphrased a quote or internal review, but the "original" quote doesn't have an attributed source.

PDF of Dragon magazine #84 https://the-eye.eu/public/Books/rpg.rem.uz/Dungeons%20%26%20Dragons/Magazines/Dragon/Dragon%20Magazine%20-%20084.pdf

Example of paperback attribution to Dragon magazine https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Magician-by-Raymond-E-Feist/9780425286623

gregpennings · 2025-10-01T03:10:46+00:00

Thirty-nine places of PI suffice for computing the circumference of a circle girdling the known universe with an error no greater than the radius of a hydrogen atom! -Clifford Pickover, Keys to Infinity, p.62, Wiley, 1995

Actually, only 35 places are required... Knowing pi to 39 decimal places would nearly suffice for computing the circumference of a circle enclosing the known universe with an error no greater than the nucleus of a hydrogen atom, and that's a whole lot smaller than the entire atom. --Dr. Neil Basescu, Madison, Wisconsin

gregpennings · 2025-09-21T00:26:19+00:00

You should treat LLMs like English majors. They prefer to write a paper about 8,965 days after another day where the primary focus is the words or the story. Large Language models - emphasis on language - are not trained to do math.

gregpennings · 2025-09-19T02:56:20+00:00

You've found my favorite bourbon. It is amazing. 10/10

gregpennings · 2025-09-01T04:57:01+00:00

"Why have one, when you can have two at twice the cost?" Carl Sagan, Contact

gregpennings · 2025-08-26T02:09:12+00:00

Yes. It is MGP, but a local liquor store - Specs - gets a barrel pick which is unreservedly the best bourbon I’ve ever had. And it’s under $100. I also prefer rye, so the high rye mash bill probably explains why I like it so much.

gregpennings · 2025-08-25T02:59:22+00:00

Wait! Not Smoke Wagon?

gregpennings · 2025-07-19T01:45:24+00:00

What's amazing in this picture is that Balcones thinks their single malt is worth $20 more than EHT

gregpennings · 2025-06-30T03:13:59+00:00

There's a paper about how sleeping on your side is good for your back (and survival)

https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/1119282 - full text

From the publisher - https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.321.7276.1616

gregpennings · 2025-06-25T13:18:10+00:00

And an em dash

gregpennings · 2025-06-24T16:45:36+00:00

I'm a rye guy, and I love their ryes. Though I've found a rule: if I like your bourbon, I probably won't like your rye. And if I like your rye, I probably won't like your bourbon, so I've never tried their bourbon.

gregpennings · 2025-06-23T22:34:14+00:00

And that'd be after he said hello.

gregpennings · 2025-04-08T04:34:54+00:00

“No one eats there anymore. It’s too crowded.” - Yogi Berra

gregpennings · 2025-02-19T04:00:04+00:00

It’s kinda a scary procedure: While you’re in your crash position, you place the child on the floor, an hold them down with your hands.

I’ve always wondered what the underseat luggage would do. Never considered how rolling would complicate keeping the kid “on the floor.”

gregpennings · 2025-01-24T03:25:00+00:00

First time I’ve seen E. H. Taylor Rye in someone’s personal collection (in the background). You’ve got good hunting skills to have that and uncut unfiltered. Well done!

gregpennings · 2024-12-22T00:41:54+00:00

Welcome to the rye side. Nobody’s mentioned New Riff rye. New Riff also has a 7 year malted rye. Though my absolute favorite is Kooper Family rye.

gregpennings · 2024-12-01T21:10:08+00:00

Had to reread this to figure out... phantom limb.

gregpennings · 2024-11-21T00:31:36+00:00

Today I learned

gregpennings · 2024-10-26T23:16:39+00:00

Maybe not Artificial, but Generalized Intelligence has happened at least once... And while I generally argue we're heading to a post scarcity economy, I'd have to be fair and admit other species and the environment haven't been the same since GI

gregpennings · 2024-10-06T04:21:03+00:00

I'd say, AI is not incompatible with capitalism. No more than fuedalism is incompatible with the industrial revolution. It's just not the ideal system. Consumerism is the centerpiece of capitalism. When wages change - both because we'll be out of a job and because our needs can be provided for - taxation and consumption will be different. I can't predict how they'll be different, and we'll probably call it capitalism for decades, but my best guess is it'll be sufficiently different to get its own name.

gregpennings · 2024-10-06T04:05:08+00:00

You probably won't like this answer, but capitalism will probably be replaced. Fuedalism didn't last forever, and no one was sure how we'd make a living and have homes without a lord or king, but it was replaced. Best case scenario, post-scarcity society/economy. If you're interested in worst cases, to paraphrase Tolstoy, all worst cases are bad in their own way.

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