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  43. <div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><p>Reading something the other day triggered a core memory of something that happened when I was a year younger than Benjamin is now.</p>
  44. <p>Two mothers brought their babies (both around two-years-old at the time) to our house and I took it upon myself to “babysit” them while the three mothers caught up in Korean in our living room.</p>
  45. <p>I went to my toy box and dug out all my old toys that could be safe for them and brought them out for them to share. Since they are of the age of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_play" title="Parallel play—Wikipedia">parallel play</a> — though my 4yo self was still many years from knowing what such a term even meant — sharing was not in the offing. Instead, they both gravitated on what I felt was the most uninteresting toy amongst the trove: the ball.</p>
  46. <p>Luckily, I had exactly two of these balls. Because they couldn’t share or toss it between them, I divided one to each. Unfortunately, they didn’t agree with my solution and proceeded to constantly crawl/walk over to the other side of the room to take the other’s ball and cry when their ball was taken.</p>
  47. <p>No amount of combinations and separations short of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgement_of_Solomon" title="Judgement of Solomon—WIkipedia">Solomon</a> was going to fix it. All the while, the moms were laughing at the scene playing in front of them of a frustrated four year-old trying to separate two balls amongst two two-year-olds in a way that didn’t cause one or the other to cry.</p>
  48. <p>…</p>
  49. <p>My experience of that event was so emotional at the time that is an indelible memory now, a half century later. It isn’t really until now that I can be above the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_effect" title="Rashomon effect—Wikipedia">Rashoman effect</a> and see it as karmic retribution for being about the same two years junior to my brother.</p>
  50. <p>Oh, the things I must have done to him!</p>
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  60. <title>The joy of pedaling</title>
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  65. <pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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  76. <div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><p>My son learned to bicycle today.</p>
  77. <p>I didn’t learn until I was six, and he’s just shy of 5 1/4, so I have no reason to have been as disappointed/exasperated as I was.</p>
  78. <p>He’s been able to move around on a cycle since before he could even walk. At a year old, he’d on his balance bicycle in the streets of San Francisco weaving between people at the <a href="https://www.yelp.com/biz/clement-street-farmers-market-san-francisco" title="Clement Street Farmers Market—Yelp">farmer’s market</a>. I became too much the asian parent, and thought he’d be cycling as soon as he was able to mount a bicycle with pedals — the first step to getting into Harvard on a scholarship for cycling <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f600.png" alt="😀" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
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  82. <a class="wp-block-read-more" href="http://terrychay.com/article/the-joy-of-pedaling.shtml" target="_self">Continue reading about learning to bicycle after the jump<span class="screen-reader-text">: The joy of pedaling</span></a>
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  85. <div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><p>But shortly after he turned three, I left the garage door open one night after emptying the trunk and my eMTB was stolen—I’d ride it past the Golden Gate Bridge to <a href="https://presidio.gov/explore/attractions/presidio-tunnel-tops">Tunnel Tops</a> every other weekend with him on a <a href="https://kidsrideshotgun.com">KidsRIdeShotgun</a>. And then a month later, we’d buy a house at the end of the street that climbed up a steep ravine in Oakland.</p>
  86. <p>After that, I’d have to strap his <a href="https://woom.com/en_US/">Woom</a> 2 to the back of the <a href="https://www.aventon.com/products/abound-ebike" title="Aventon Abound">cargo ebicycle</a> and search for a flat place he could practice, and there wasn’t anything truly like that for miles. So I’d settle on some playground and such travails became rare.</p>
  87. <p>This day, in order to delay his bath, he asked to go to <a href="https://www.oaklandca.gov/Community/Parks-Facilities/Recreation-Centers/Montclair-Recreation-Center">Montclair Park</a>. We started near a basketball hoop nestled between a skate ramp and a softball field—the largest flat paved area I could find—as I steadied myself for at least an hour of back-breaking pushing and jogging. The only difference this time was I simply could not remove the pedals since I was too lazy to have brought the pedal wrench. Not that I didn’t try when he asked, but I recently swapped my turn-of-the-century <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leatherman" title="Leatherman—Wikipedia. I got the Wave in 1999 on the advice of a postdoc. It would later become the best-selling multitool of all time.">Leatherman Wave</a> for <a href="https://roxontool.com/products/ks2-elite-noir-limited-edition">a more pocketable multitool which didn’t have pliers</a>.</p>
  88. <p>Two kids, a little older than Benjamin, were racing each other around the skate ramp on their bikes—both had training wheels strapped to the back. So Benjamin had me push-freewheel him around the park until we eventually gravitated to a different area near the geese poop. He would make circles in the area while pushing with his feet. It reminded me of the space I taught myself to ride and I was exhausted.</p>
  89. <p>At this point, before I settled down and let him struggle alone/figure things out for himself, I gave two pieces of advice. The first was, “There’s a reason why people say, ‘It’s <a href="https://cyclingsavvy.org/2010/12/just-like-riding-a-bike/" title="Just Like Riding a BIke—CyclingSavvy">just like riding a bicycle</a>’— only you can learn it, I can’t do it for you. But once you do, you’ll never forget it. It’s just really hard in the beginning and you just need to practice and work hard.”</p>
  90. <p>(As I was saying the last part, a little asian girl overhead it and emphasized the need to work hard as she pedaled by. Benjamin said she was younger than him, but in a matter-of-fact manner because unnecessary competitions and comparisons are for stupid adults, not for smart children.)</p>
  91. <p>He would give me a play-by-play of his attempts to get back to the capability he had two years ago and I would let him take two five minute breaks involving eating candy with <a href="https://www.capri-sun.com/en/" title="Capri-Sun. The number one kid's drink in the world. The first time I had it was in 1980, a new kid had come from Germany.">Capri-Sun</a> and watching YTKids — two only because I had asked him to grab a couple of pieces of candy from his Halloween haul before heading out, and he had taken me literally.</p>
  92. <p>One moment, I was on my iPhone reading whatever excuse we have for “News” today. The next, I was heads up listening to the scream of pure joy as Benjamin pedaled long lazy circles on his bike as if he had always known how to do this. He stopped to tell me how he was going to tell mommy that he had figured it out, then he was off doing more circles. I ended up chasing him on the cargo bike all the way to the kids playground where he finally fell down because it was sloped on the way there and he had forgotten how to use the handbrake to stop himself in all his excitement.</p>
  93. <p>(In the 1970’s, shortly after we moved into the new house, I asked my dad to remove the training wheels on my bicycle. He moved the cars out of the garage which created a flat space. I made those similar circles in there until I finally had the guts to pedal. Up until now, I was both proud of my resolve to take the training wheels off, while regretful I had waited until I was six. Now, as a parent, I think about the effort my father must have made remove the rusty bolts from the bicycle and clear the garage for me.)</p>
  94. <p>The second piece of advice was, “In order to stay balanced on the bicycle, you have to keep moving.” <a href="https://digital.archives.caltech.edu/collections/Photographs/1.8-1/">A smart man</a> once said that <a href="https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/albert_einstein_737829">life is like that</a>.</p>
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  110. <title>Marshmallow does bedtime</title>
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  115. <pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
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  122. <div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><p>M— is away for the first time since her cousin’s funeral, leaving me to take care of Benjamin. It’s bedtime and I’m laying down with him in bed.</p>
  123. <p>Benjamin (out of the blue): I told a teacher today that my daddy is a marshmallow daddy.</p>
  124. <p>Me: How did they react?</p>
  125. <p>Benjamin: She didn’t know what that was. So I told her that my mommy says, “Daddy is a marshmallow parent.”</p>
  126. <p>Me: Did they think that was funny?</p>
  127. <p>Benjamin (giggling): Yeah! They laughed. Because you <strong>ARE</strong> a marshmallow daddy. Mommy used to say she was “chopped liver,” but now you are chopped liver! <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f600.png" alt="😀" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
  128. <p>…a few moments later…</p>
  129. <p>Benjamin: Can I get up and get another <a href="https://us.pez.com/pages/history">PEZ</a>?</p>
  130. <p>…a few moments (and 2 PEZs) later because M— is not wrong…</p>
  131. <p>Benjamin: Can you make me some s’mores sometime? I heard it can be dangerous to make, but it has you in it.</p>
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  143. <p>Marshmallow daddy has to cook a makeshift spam musubi for Master Benjamin (at least it&#8217;s not chopped liver!)</p>
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  157. <title>“Move over humans, there&#8217;s something leaner…”</title>
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  162. <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
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  168. <div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><p>M— sent me <a href="https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/" title="In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen—Random Thoughts">this article</a> over text message, but I became more enamored in the cover of the cookbook in the preview pic, rather than the content of the parody post.</p>
  169. <p>I instantly recognized the thing in the corner of the cover as being the microwave my parents bought in 1978-1979: <a href="https://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/wonderful-things-amana-radarange-touchmatic-microwave-oven/" title="Wonderful Things: Amana Radarange Touchmatic Microwave Oven—Science Museum">the Amana Radarange Touchmatic</a>, placing this book in the early 1980’s at the latest (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0376025034?tag=terrychay-20" title="Sunset Microwave Cook Book (Basic How-To's, 184 Recipes)—Amazon">it was published in 1978</a>).</p>
  170. <p>Great nostalgia!</p>
  171. <p>We quickly found the limits of the microwaves of the era as soon as we tried to cook eggs or bacon in them. Too bad there isn’t an equivalent problem in AI. Or,  rather, actually there is a ton of them but somehow we ignore equivalent of <a href="https://www.allrecipes.com/article/how-to-prevent-eggs-from-exploding-in-the-microwave/" title="TikTok Taught Me: How to prevent eggs from exploding in the microwave—AllRecipes">exploding</a>, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/why-reheating-leftover-eggs-almost-184017381.html" title="Why Reheating Leftover Eggs Is Almost Always A Bad Idea—Chowhound">foul-smelling</a> eggs while allowing people to gaslight us into thinking that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizzlean" title="Sizzlean—Wikipedia">Sizzlean</a> tastes the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/80s/comments/169vnbv/anyone_else_miss_sizzlean_no_me_neither/" title="Anyone else miss Sizzlean? No? Me neither—r/80s @ reddit">same as bacon</a>.</p>
  172. <p>For the 1-2 millenials/gen-zers who read my blog and don’t get the title, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSs1y_0A9VE" title="1985 Sizzlean “Move over Bacon” TV Commercial—Youtube">this might help</a>. Ask a “boomer” (really GenXer) what Sizzlean tastes like… or not. I can say definitively, no amount of avocado toast can cover up the PTSD I have of that chewy mess of fat-bubbled tumors which came out the same no matter how we cooked it —though often in the microwave because with “50% less fat”, you could get away with “nuking” them. In fact, at home my mom referred to it as “microwave bacon” and not sizzlean. If Instagram or TikTok existed back then, I’m sure influencers would have made bank from Beatrice /ConAgra advertising that clever hack by doctoring up some heavily-cut video that would make the stuff appear edible. (TBH, that might be a good limit-test prompt of genAI: “make sizzlean appear appetizing to someone who has actually eaten it before.”)</p>
  173. <p>Pro tip: If you want to be more hipster than hipster, next time you want someone to scoot over, say, “Move over bacon, there’s something leaner/meatier!” followed by a palms-down magical gesture that would impress even Hermione. I would do it, but at my age, the irony will be lost and it’s going to look like I’m just a boomer grandpa speaking in tongues.</p>
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  183. <title>Expeditions 1-32</title>
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  187. <dc:creator><![CDATA[tychay]]></dc:creator>
  188. <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 16:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
  189. <category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
  190. <category><![CDATA[society and culture]]></category>
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  194. <description><![CDATA[Someone at work mentioned this.]]></description>
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  196. <p>Someone at work mentioned <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Obscur:_Expedition_33" title="Clair Obscur: Expedition 33—Wikipedia. A platformer RPG that was recently released">this</a>.</p>
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  204. <div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><p>I can totally see what’s going on here.</p>
  205. <p>My dad used to say that what my brother lacked, that I had, was “common sense.” Generative AI wasn’t around then, or he’d have had a better reference point to what the absolute zero is of common sense.</p>
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  219. <title>It’ll always be “Chiji’s” to me (and my son?)</title>
  220. <link>http://terrychay.com/article/itll-always-be-chijis-to-me-and-my-son.shtml</link>
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  223. <dc:creator><![CDATA[tychay]]></dc:creator>
  224. <pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 17:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
  225. <category><![CDATA[about my family]]></category>
  226. <category><![CDATA[business and economics]]></category>
  227. <category><![CDATA[food and wine]]></category>
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  232. <div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><p>This morning Benjamin told us there was no eye in chiji.  It took a while before we realized he meant the letter ”I” and not an “eye — ”no, the i with a dot in it!” After some more forensic analysis, it became obvious he has confused the letter “L” with the letter “I” and had heard me calling “<a href="https://www.chilis.com">Chili’s</a>” “Chiji’s.”</p>
  233. <p>A couple months ago, while exploring the various malls of Oakland, we stopped by <a href="https://www.applebees.com/en" title="Applebee’s Grill + Bar">Applebee’s</a> and had a disappointing meal: the service and food quality were terrible, and the prices — even after living in the City for the 15+ years —weren’t going to make up for it.</p>
  234. <p>A couple weeks ago, I showed M— <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECY7txi92dc" title="Chili’s CEO Breaks Down the Changes That Turned the Restaurant Around — WSJ @ Youtube">this video on Kevin Hochman’s Chili’s turnaround</a>, and we’ve been looking for an opportunity to check out those changes.</p>
  235. <p>Yesterday, after a hike near Mt. Diablo, due to the right combination of appetite and proximity, we finally got that opportunity.</p>
  236. <p>When we got there, I was immediately struck by the logo no longer being spelled “Chiji’s” which is apparently how it ear-wormed its way into my four-year-old’s head. (The <a href="https://1000logos.net/chilis-logo/" title="Chili’s Logo—1000 Logos">logo changeover happened 14 years ago</a> which gives you an idea of how frequently I’ve patronized the casual sit-down dining market in the years I lived in San Francisco.)</p>
  237. <p>We split an order of the <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/discover/triple-dipper-chillis-meme">Triple Dipper because of the memes</a> and M— also introduced me to the <a href="https://www.lecremedelacrumb.com/chilis-queso-slow-cooker-version/" title="Slow Cooker Queso Dip (Chili’s Copycat)—Chreme de la crumb">queso dip</a> with nachos because that and margaritas were what she would have with her girlfriend after work back when they were both just starting out in their careers and were poor. (M— has been <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/bars/article/San-Francisco-iconic-Tommys-Margarita-history-16257891.php" title="The story of how SF's iconic Tommy's Margarita was created by accident—SF Gate">spoiled by SF non-blended margaritas in the city</a> so now the iconic Chili’s margaritas — made the way they like it in the ‘burbs and to hit the lower price point — are now way too sweet.) For us, even after hiking in the sun for a few hours, even that abbreviated meal was rich enough that we both skipped dinner and got our fix in for a while. (M— had to explain to Benjamin what “too rich” means in that context.)</p>
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  248. <div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><p>M— mentioned this morning that Brian Niccol (now CEO of Starbucks) and Kevin Hochman worked together at Proctor &amp; Gamble. Their turnarounds (Taco Bell, Chipotle, Starbucks and Yum Brand, Chili’s) bear a similarity that is in marked contrast to other leaders in the space, as well as CEOs in general. But that discussion is probably for another time. You can “do your own research” as the red-caps are fond of saying.</p>
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  258. <title>The bear market is turning me into a bad person</title>
  259. <link>http://terrychay.com/article/the-bear-market-is-turning-me-into-a-bad-person.shtml</link>
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  262. <dc:creator><![CDATA[tychay]]></dc:creator>
  263. <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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  273. <div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><p>I ran across <a href="https://apple.news/A5MV6nIcFQq-Wvw60wp6Bww" title="Why Trump wants to see Wall Street suffer in this selloff: Berezin—Business Insider">this article reinterpreting strategist Peter Berezin’s comments regarding the market</a>.</p>
  274. <p>Instead of the predictions, or him being right, or the definitely-going-to-be-misinterpreted suggestions on how to mitigate it, I was struck by how level-headed and egoless Peter Berezin seems to be. Here are some examples:</p>
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  276. <li>A couple months before the peak he predicted US stocks would fall because of a trade-war caused recession (the recession hasn’t happened officially yet, but the rest is true). His reaction is that he could be just as easily be proven wrong tomorrow about something he analyzes.</li>
  277. <li>As the market was peaking just after he made his prediction, instead of saying he was confident he was going to be proven right, he said, “You always have to question your assumptions. If you don’t, you’re not really doing your job properly.”</li>
  278. <li>As to why the consensus was wrong, he had two observations: people had been wrong the other way in 2017 and they were giving Trump the (now mistaken) benefit of the doubt, and that as a strategist for a research firm, it isn’t a career-ender to make an incorrect bearish prediction that it would have been when he was an economist for a bank.</li>
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  280. <p>Even his predictions going forward have a light, humble touch:</p>
  281. <ul>
  282. <li>He is only targeting 12% more drawdown from the high. This would effectively be just a return to historical averages. Soft-landing territory. If there is an actual crash, it’d be much worse.</li>
  283. <li>He explains in a common-sense way how Trump thinks which explains how the market got here as well as why it’s unlikely to reverse course.</li>
  284. <li>He points out that the traditional mitigations or reactions (“buying the dip” and “hiding in bonds”) are unlikely to work like they have in the past.</li>
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  286. <p>After showing this to M—, she mentioned that <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/warren-buffett-net-worth-grown-despite-trump-tariffs-market-sell-off.html" title="Warren Buffett’s net worth is up so far in 2025—the rest of world’s top 15 wealthiest people have all lost money—CNBC">Warren Buffet is the only one of the richest people in the world who made money this year</a>.</p>
  287. <p>As the Oracle of Omaha has a similar disposition as Mr Berezin, I can assume even Warren Buffet is thinking he’s likely be in the red by the time the year is out, maybe not as bad as the others. For, as he famously said, “<a href="https://buffett.cnbc.com/video/1994/04/25/buffett-you-dont-find-out-whos-been-swimming-naked-until-the-tide-goes-out.html" title="You don't find out who'se been swimming naked until the tide goes out—Warrent Buffett Archive @ CNBC">You don’t find out who’s been swimming naked until the tide goes out.</a>”</p>
  288. <p>(I must confess, I might have some schadenfreude if or when those margin calls happen. In the meantime, I need to work on becoming a better person like these two.)</p>
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  299. <link>http://terrychay.com/article/my-first-dice-were-the-wrong-color.shtml</link>
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  302. <dc:creator><![CDATA[tychay]]></dc:creator>
  303. <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
  304. <category><![CDATA[board gaming]]></category>
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  307. <category><![CDATA[Gamma World]]></category>
  308. <category><![CDATA[J Eric Holmes]]></category>
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  313. <div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><p>At work, I mentioned my first dice I ever had were the “wrong color” because the Basic D&amp;D set I had, had a chit card, instead of dice. I cut up the card and put them in Silo cups labeled with the die roll.</p>
  314. <p>This got me down a rabbit hole on why they were they were called Holmes dice, why they were the wrong color, and the deal with chits. I found out that it was called Holmes because <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Eric_Holmes" title="John Eric Holmes—Wikipedia">J Eric Holmes</a> was tasked with slimming down OD&amp;D rules for this set and my copy included chits because of <a href="https://zenopusarchives.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-ward-on-why-of-chits.html" title="Young Jim Ward and the Dice Monster—Zenopus Archives">this article explaining why</a>.</p>
  315. <p>(Note that there were two errors in the article, even though it is recounted by Jim Ward himself. First, I’m pretty sure the print runs back then were about 10,000 copies in size, not 100,000. Second, he’s off by one year as this occurred in 1979-1980, not after 1980. I’m sure of the second, because I received my Basic D&amp;D set for Christmas in 1979 and it didn’t have “dice and a crayon.”)</p>
  316. <p>So, even though I have most of my first dice set (wrong color, different manufacturer, missing 6-sider since it didn’t come with it), I decided to get <a href="https://fanrolldice.com/product/dd-50th-anniversary-holmes-retro-replica-modern-inspired/" title="D&amp;D 50th Anniversary Holmes Retro Replica &amp; Modern Inspired Set—Fanroll">a replica Holmes set that I saw on sale on Amazon</a> which came out last year for the 50th anniversary (of D&amp;D).</p>
  317. <p>While I understood that the replica would have much better plastic than the nylon (or whatever) in the original set, I was actually disappointed in the set because of two deal-killers in my mind. First, the 20-sider die is numbered 1-20 instead of 0-9 twice. The 4-sided die had the numbers on the top facing outward instead of on the edges facing inward.</p>
  318. <p>Oh well, as luck would have it, I’m cleaning up my garage which is full of my stuff from my old storage unit and I ran across my <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_World" title="Gamma World—Wikipedia">Gamma World</a> box set which has a set of Holmes dice in it. There was an extra 20-sider in there but it was missing the 4-sider. Gamma World is odd because later TSR box sets used a percentile system (Boot Hill, Top Secret, and Gang Busters) and game with 2 10 siders in different colors (Later D&amp;D’s came with monocular dice and a crayon.) This is because Gamma World is based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis_Alpha" title="Metamorphosis Alpha—Wikipedia">Metamorphosis Alpha</a>, the first SciFi RPG. It’s possible I lost the 4-sider, but more likely — because I don’t remember owning a yellow 4-sider, only a red one — TSR didn’t include a 4-sider in order to include an extra 20-sider for percentile rolls.</p>
  319. <p>In any case, since I’m not going to use these dice anyway, I decided to take the “modern inspired” set out and store them separately and put the 4 actual Holmes dice I do own in there.</p>
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  329.  
  330. <div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><p>You can see somewhere after failing to crayon-in the 6-sider I resorted to inking in the numbers. Good times!</p>
  331. <p>In case you were wondering, you would roll the d20 along with a d6. If you rolled a 4-6 you would add 10 to your d20 roll. I colored in half of my extra d20 in my gamma world set which helped me identify it for percentile rolls as well as make it so I didn’t need to roll a d6.</p>
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  345. <title>#4yearolds</title>
  346. <link>http://terrychay.com/article/4yearolds.shtml</link>
  347. <comments>http://terrychay.com/article/4yearolds.shtml#respond</comments>
  349. <dc:creator><![CDATA[tychay]]></dc:creator>
  350. <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 18:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
  351. <category><![CDATA[about my family]]></category>
  352. <category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
  353. <category><![CDATA[4yearolds]]></category>
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  356. <description><![CDATA[]]></description>
  357. <content:encoded><![CDATA[
  358. <div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><p>From another parent:</p>
  359. <blockquote>
  360. <p>But now he just launches into diatribes about how we’re so mean and we don’t let him do anything and we’re hateful people because we didn’t let him keep watching <a href="https://www.bluey.tv" title="Welcome to the home of Bluey">Bluey</a> after the agreed upon number was watched <a rel="tag" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="http://terrychay.com/tag/4yearolds">#4yearolds</a></p>
  361. </blockquote>
  362. <p>Yesterday, Benjamin, in tears, was yelling at me that mommy definitely <strong>MEANT</strong> to hit him with her purse, it was no accident, and she’s totally a meany for doing so.</p>
  363. <p>But then, one hour later, I saw them on the couch together as he directed M— what they should build in their Minecraft world on the Switch.</p>
  364. <p>For the last few months, most every night before bed, I ask Benjamin what his “successes” were that day. It’s a fun little ritual that devolves mostly into a time where he watches the text-to-speech write some pretty weird stuff in <a href="http://dayoneapp.com" title="DayOne: Your jounral for life.">DayOne</a> that I have to manually correct later. (He then demands that I text it to mommy and have Siri read back that text to us.)</p>
  365. <p>Yesterday, M— put him to bed and I got this text from her:</p>
  366. <blockquote>
  367. <p>His successes:
  368. “I didn’t tell daddy my successes because they were all about you.</p>
  369. <ol>
  370. <li>we got to play Minecraft</li>
  371. <li>we saw <a href="https://minecraft.wiki/w/Enderman" title="Enderman—Minecraft Wiki">enderman</a>!</li>
  372. <li>we saw <a href="https://minecraft.wiki/w/Creeper" title="Creeper—Minecraft wiki">creepers</a>”</li>
  373. </ol>
  374. </blockquote>
  375. <p>Surprisingly, no mention on how mommy is the worst. <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f600.png" alt="😀" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
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  385. <title>Nothing beats personal experience</title>
  386. <link>http://terrychay.com/article/nothing-beats-personal-experience.shtml</link>
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  389. <dc:creator><![CDATA[tychay]]></dc:creator>
  390. <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
  391. <category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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  396. <div class="wp-block-jetpack-markdown"><p>I was sent <a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/fake-gamer-was-elon-musk-cheating-at-path-of-exile-2.html" title="Gamers Suspect Elon Musk Is a Charlatan—Vulture @ New York Magazine">this article</a> yesterday.</p>
  397. <p>This reminded me of <a href="https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/109572674700288958" title="Rod Hilton@Mastodon">this gem from a few years ago </a>:</p>
  398. <blockquote>
  399. <p>He talked about electric cars. I don’t know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.</p>
  400. <p>Then he talked about rockets. I don’t know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.</p>
  401. <p>Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software &amp; Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard anyone say, so when people say he’s a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.</p>
  402. </blockquote>
  403. <p>(I’m around Elon Musk’s age and was also studied physics. Unlike him, I actually was in graduate school studying theoretical Condensed Matter of fluids away from equilibrium (turbulence), known colloquially as “Rocket Science.” Working in the internet as a developer so early, I ended up with a number of acquaintances who were part of that “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia" title="PayPal Mafia—Wikipedia">PayPal Mafia</a>.”)</p>
  404. <p>All I have to say is, “Welcome to the party, gamers.” <img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/16.0.1/72x72/1f600.png" alt="😀" class="wp-smiley" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;" /></p>
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