Ashley Peacock “Pragmatic Express” is an interesting imprint for this, but I suppose it tracks – this is a short book that mostly just introduces Mermaid as a concept, as well as going through a couple use-cases of diagramming in general. I did wind up writing some Mermaid diagrams as I was reading through the book, as it lined up well with some documentation I needed to write. I was a little tempted to figure out a way to inject Mermaid into this site when I saw that it has Sankey diag...| Grey Patterson
There were departures from Portland every 20 minutes from 6:00 AM to 7:00 PM, at which point it dropped to every 30 minutes until midnight. Leaving Vancouver, on the other hand, required a bit more planning—departures were every 40 minutes from 6:45 AM to 11:15 PM. Seven days a week, though on Sunday mornings they didn’t start until 7:40 AM.| Grey Patterson
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Ursula K. Le Guin I know this is one of the classic fantasy novels, but I must admit, it just didn’t click for me. Maybe I’m coming to it too late—too many of the things it did have become norms, part of the standard lexicon of fantasy novels. It did have two things about it that stuck with me, though: The protagonist, and most of the characters, aren’t white. It’s sorta snuck in—benefits of being a completely different world, if there isn’t a history of racism being A Thing, th...| Grey Patterson
Brian Clevinger, Mike Olson, and Scott Wegener A quick follow-on to last week’s review – very much an expansion pack to the game, but one that added a lot of detail to the backstory of Majestic. The idea of The System, a deliberately-obtuse bureaucracy meant to ensure that nobody knows enough of what’s going on to effectively leak things, is a nice touch. Pairs extremely well with the existence of ALAN in the comics. A nice follow-up.| Grey Patterson
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Brian Clevinger, Mike Olson, and Scott Wegener Doesn’t quite fit my review concept, as I’d call this more of a reference book than anything else, but having just sat and read through the whole thing, I may as well do a quick write-up! The Fate Core system seems more approachable to me than the classic Dungeons & Dragons thing; I’m hopeful that I’ll have a chance to try this at some point. The Atomic Robo universe feels like an absolutely perfect fit for a game like this, particularly ...| Grey Patterson
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A couple big reviews of big books recently, so I very deliberately went for something small this time. And this was a delightful little read! Wound up going through the whole thing in a single sitting and absolutely loving it. Just the right amount of world-building in what is a very interesting setting; it fed me new bits of background information at just the right speed to keep me hooked. The title had me worried that I was making a mistake, grabbing this as my before-bed reading, that I’...| Grey Patterson
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