Category: Writing
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Objective Provide a data model for quantities (a value plus a unit of measure) that is similar to a glossary entry. By defining a quantity once, it can be referenced repeatedly as needed. Content can explicitly reference the quantity and alternative units of measure. Commonly, this would be instances where SI and US customary units…
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I vividly recall the smell of a book of memeographs. The tables, the tables, so complex and compelling. I remember that the games were raw, unpolished. I remember how the publications were so simple in execution but carried a palpable weight of Importance. How to solve these mazes?! I knew that I was just reading…
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Today A given quantum of information is sourced in a root language, which could be a single language organization-wide or multiple languages. Structured markup languages provide metadata and semantics irrespective of eventual output formats. Concept Continue the abstraction of information in 2 by eliminating 1 above as well: content is divorced from format and language.…
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Memorial Day always puts me into an emotional conflict. When does respect for honorable and dutiful sacrifice begin to sanction the ill wills and greed that required it? Do we have any more righteous wars left in us? Did we ever? I find myself thinking that, just like Valentine’s Day, this is another shitty holiday.…
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What if the NPCs that gamers so wantonly destroy got organized…? I was a wreck, a shambles… nerves shot, I tell ya! Without the kind ministry of the NSPCNPC, I couldn’t even tell you this horror story without a belly full of the hard stuff and a half yard of linen for snottin’ on. Me…
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The Veelab Species Overview The Veelab species is an alien culture which evolved on a jovian planet’s largest moon—a frigid, barren planetoid with nearly no atmosphere and a primarily metal crust. Scraping themselves up from the primordial ooze of their dim-witted ancestry, the Veelab learned to shape their bodies—and the bodies of their vanquished cousins—to…
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Greetings, curious readers. This installment of “The Unseen Eye” is a special release. Since my seminal exposé on Senator Grofwitz’s ties to local Mafioso, the question on the minds of all readers of The Washington Post has been, I imagine with due modesty, “who is the Unseen Eye?” Well this article is going to answer…
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Dictated by Sören Dukovni in the Copenhagen Chantry Library, 1843 The Tremere have asked that I transcribe my History for the Chantry records. I suppose that they do not trust my Oath of Fealty. I presume that they intend to conduct some sort of tests on this text to confirm its veracity. Whatever. I have…