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December 16, 2025: Christmas Shopping From Warehouse 23? It's Not Too Late! (Maybe . . .)
Dec. 16th, 2025 06:33 amdaily_illuminator_feedIf you're the sort who likes to wait for the last minute to do your Christmas shopping, then – depending on when you read this – tomorrow may be that last day . . . if you're ordering from Warehouse 23, that is.
Taking the USPS's and other major shipper's guidelines into account, we now recommend ordering by 9 am CST tomorrow (Wednesday) morning to have the best chance of goodies arriving in time for the Christmas holiday. Orders placed by this time will ship out by EOD Wednesday.
Of course, if you're of the mindset that the holidays are just a state of mind, you can procrastinate longer. In that case, I'll point out that for items to ship in 2025, orders must be received by Monday, December 22nd, at 9 am CST.
Our offices, including Warehouse 23, will be closed for the holidays beginning Wednesday, December 23rd, until Monday, January 5th. The plan at that time is to start shipping orders that were received through the end of the year. We'll then close the warehouse again, not for another vacation, sadly, but for our end-of-year inventory. We'll reopen for shipping the week of January 12th.
– Steven Marsh and Susan Bueno
Warehouse 23 News: The City Never Sleeps Because Of All The Action
There are a million stories in the city, and they're all exciting! GURPS Action 9: The City shows how you can add GURPS City Stats to your GURPS Action campaigns. It also features six sample cities to use with your own action-packed adventures. Download it today from Warehouse 23!
Taking the USPS's and other major shipper's guidelines into account, we now recommend ordering by 9 am CST tomorrow (Wednesday) morning to have the best chance of goodies arriving in time for the Christmas holiday. Orders placed by this time will ship out by EOD Wednesday.
Of course, if you're of the mindset that the holidays are just a state of mind, you can procrastinate longer. In that case, I'll point out that for items to ship in 2025, orders must be received by Monday, December 22nd, at 9 am CST.
Our offices, including Warehouse 23, will be closed for the holidays beginning Wednesday, December 23rd, until Monday, January 5th. The plan at that time is to start shipping orders that were received through the end of the year. We'll then close the warehouse again, not for another vacation, sadly, but for our end-of-year inventory. We'll reopen for shipping the week of January 12th.
– Steven Marsh and Susan Bueno
Warehouse 23 News: The City Never Sleeps Because Of All The Action
There are a million stories in the city, and they're all exciting! GURPS Action 9: The City shows how you can add GURPS City Stats to your GURPS Action campaigns. It also features six sample cities to use with your own action-packed adventures. Download it today from Warehouse 23!
Pool Open!
Dec. 15th, 2025 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithfuzzyred is hosting a pool for the Holiday Poetry Sale. There are no individual poem targets yet, just a general discussion of some favorite areas. If you're shopping for poetry, dive in!
Jeanie Bottle 883
Dec. 16th, 2025 05:00 amjeanniebottle_feed
Girls With Slingshots - GWS Hair of the Dog #796
Dec. 15th, 2025 10:00 pmgws_feed
New comic!
Today's News:
Red velvet's a great flavor to hide any dietary restriction, thank you Laeluu for knowing what's up when coloring this vegan cake.
Holiday Poetry Sale
Dec. 15th, 2025 08:38 pmysabetwordsmithThe Holiday Poetry Sale is now open on LiveJournal. Sponsors, start your engines! It runs Monday, December 15-Friday, December 19. All listed poems are half-price. If you spend $100 or more, you get the quarter-price rate. Watch to see if someone opens a pool; there is usually one for this event.
Creative Work (part 1 of 1, complete)
Dec. 15th, 2025 09:34 pmdialecticdreamerCreative Work
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1467
[Early December 2016]
:: Judy is rethinking the events of this year, and creates a way to make holiday toppers or ornaments for a wide range of ages and skills, using materials which are often discarded as trash. Part of the Polychrome Heroics universe, set in Mercedes. This story was written for the December 2025 prompt call event, and mirrors the story prompted byreadera called “Strained Resources.” (Here’s the link to part one of that story.) ::
Judy eyed the totes full of gifts for her grandchildren in Mercedes and the surrounding area. Anything meant for those living more than a few hours’ drive away had been mailed on the first Monday of December, which had emptied two of the five large bins.
That enormous supply of gifts was proof of not only the number of grandchildren enriching her life, but of how blessed she and her family had been, even in this terrible year.
It made her feel guilty.
( Read more... )
By Dialecticdreamer/Sarah Williams
Part 1 of 1, complete
Word count (story only): 1467
[Early December 2016]
:: Judy is rethinking the events of this year, and creates a way to make holiday toppers or ornaments for a wide range of ages and skills, using materials which are often discarded as trash. Part of the Polychrome Heroics universe, set in Mercedes. This story was written for the December 2025 prompt call event, and mirrors the story prompted by
readera called “Strained Resources.” (Here’s the link to part one of that story.) ::Judy eyed the totes full of gifts for her grandchildren in Mercedes and the surrounding area. Anything meant for those living more than a few hours’ drive away had been mailed on the first Monday of December, which had emptied two of the five large bins.
That enormous supply of gifts was proof of not only the number of grandchildren enriching her life, but of how blessed she and her family had been, even in this terrible year.
It made her feel guilty.
( Read more... )
Conservation
Dec. 15th, 2025 06:00 pmysabetwordsmithCoffee-driven deforestation is making it harder to grow coffee, watchdog group says
Scientists have shown how deforestation leads to less rainfall in tropical rainforests. That's because the trees there soak up and release moisture, which rises to create clouds and more rain. Cutting down trees disrupts the cycle, reducing rainfall and leading to drought.
Drought, of course, makes it harder to grow coffee.
"When you kill the forest, you're actually also killing the rains, which is exactly what your crop needs to thrive in the long run," Higonnet says. "Even for people who don't much care about climate change and mass extinction, if they drink coffee and care about having coffee in the long run, this should be very scary for them."
( Read more... )
Scientists have shown how deforestation leads to less rainfall in tropical rainforests. That's because the trees there soak up and release moisture, which rises to create clouds and more rain. Cutting down trees disrupts the cycle, reducing rainfall and leading to drought.
Drought, of course, makes it harder to grow coffee.
"When you kill the forest, you're actually also killing the rains, which is exactly what your crop needs to thrive in the long run," Higonnet says. "Even for people who don't much care about climate change and mass extinction, if they drink coffee and care about having coffee in the long run, this should be very scary for them."
( Read more... )
Science
Dec. 15th, 2025 03:26 pmysabetwordsmithHidden dimensions could explain where mass comes from
A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, forming stable structures that generate mass and symmetry breaking on their own. The approach may even explain cosmic expansion and predict a new particle. It hints at a universe built entirely from geometry.
A new theory proposes that the universe’s fundamental forces and particle properties may arise from the geometry of hidden extra dimensions. These dimensions could twist and evolve over time, forming stable structures that generate mass and symmetry breaking on their own. The approach may even explain cosmic expansion and predict a new particle. It hints at a universe built entirely from geometry.
Watched the weather report today.
Dec. 15th, 2025 04:08 pmconulyToday's temperatures: Started below 20, "feels like" in the single digits. But not to worry, within a week we should be in the 50s!
And they just said that, with no commentary, like it's not absolutely bizarre to go from 19F - 56F within a single week in December.
And it's not just the high temperatures that are bizarre, the low ones are too. I can't speak to the decades before 1990, I guess, but NYC weather used to be temperate - we got more snow, but that's because the winter temperatures were in the snow range - close to the freezing point, not so warm it melted, not so cold that it just didn't happen.
And they just said that, with no commentary, like it's not absolutely bizarre to go from 19F - 56F within a single week in December.
And it's not just the high temperatures that are bizarre, the low ones are too. I can't speak to the decades before 1990, I guess, but NYC weather used to be temperate - we got more snow, but that's because the winter temperatures were in the snow range - close to the freezing point, not so warm it melted, not so cold that it just didn't happen.
Birdfeeding
Dec. 15th, 2025 01:42 pmysabetwordsmithToday is sunny and cold, but less frigid than yesterday. It got down to 8 below last night.
I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches. I put out a new block of peanut suet.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 12/15/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
I've seen a female cardinal.
EDIT 12/15/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
EDIT 12/15/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
I've seen a male cardinal.
EDIT 12/15/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
I've seen one female and two male cardinals, plus two mourning doves.
As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.
I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches. I put out a new block of peanut suet.
I put out water for the birds.
EDIT 12/15/25 -- I did a bit of work around the patio.
I've seen a female cardinal.
EDIT 12/15/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
EDIT 12/15/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
I've seen a male cardinal.
EDIT 12/15/25 -- I did more work around the patio.
I've seen one female and two male cardinals, plus two mourning doves.
As it is getting dark, I am done for the night.
CodeSOD: Duplicate Reports
Dec. 15th, 2025 06:30 amthe_daily_wtf_feedToday's anonymous submitter sends us a short snippet. They found this because they were going through code committed by an expensive third-party contractor, trying to track down a bug: every report in the database kept getting duplicated for some reason.
This code has been in production for over a decade, bugs and all:
if (reportStatuses.indexOf(newStatus > -1))
{
// add report to database
}
This is server-side JavaScript running in NodeJS. The mistake here is easy to make, it's a simple transposition error. But it's also easy to catch. Any sort of testing at all would find it.
The specific problem, if you haven't spotted it, is where the comparison operator happens: we're passing newStatus > -1 into indexOf as a parameter: this is a boolean value. Now, neither true nor false are in the reportStatuses array, so indexOf returns -1. But -1 is a truthy value, so the condition evaluates to true, adding the report to the database, even if it's already there.
Our submitter writes:
How has no one noticed this? How is the company still in business? How does the world not come down crashing around us more every day?
How is the world not crashing down? Have you looked outside, recently? Tis the season to quote Clark Griswold:
Worse? How could things get any worse? Take a look around here, Ellen. We're at the threshold of hell.
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Grrl Power #1417 – Some peers are more equal than others
Dec. 15th, 2025 11:00 amgrrlpowercomic_feed
Cora means Max could take on everyone physically, but a like any good adventuring parties, quite a few of them have indirect powers, or things like crowd control debufs, or can turn into mist, or just cast crazy ritual magic with all kinds of oddball effects. Even so, Max’s speed could probably mitigate most all of that. Cora wasn’t doing a deep tactical analysis, just trying to get everyone to understand why she has confidence in her scheme.
I’m sure I’ve heard the name Destra somewhere, but I can’t pluck it from the pinkish-gray folds I keep most of my stuff in. It’s probably an evil My Little Pony or a Rule 34 G.I. Joe’s Destro in an adult gender-swapped comic I definitely accidentally stumbled across a decade ago. You know how the internet is, always throwing those Rule 34 adult comics at you. I guess I don’t have to specify “adult” if it’s Rule 34. Anyway, Destra is the big demon chick. I’m sure most of you would have guessed that. Celestabelle is obviously the angel girl with the guitar, and Destra doesn’t really sound like a Valkyrie’s name. I guess the blue demon chick could have been Destra, but Destra is a brawler’s name. Blue looks more like a, uh… I don’t know, alchemist? Or maybe someone with a bunch of wands strapped to the small of her back. Javelina could be the Valkyrie, if it was pronounced with a hard “J,” but in this case it’s pronounced as an “H.” I guess her half-orc side is Hispanic. Or, some other nationality tied to a language that pronounces J’s as H’s. Like who the heck knows what Undercommon sounds like? I always assumed it involved a lot of consonants and that “hock a loogie” sound that some Middle-Eastern languages have. I guess that would also be a consonant? But maybe Undercommon is a romance language that sounds closer to Castillian Spanish than someone cursing in German cause they just slammed a door on their thumb.
Probably everyone in that room thinks they could eek out a victory against everyone else, maybe assuming favorable conditions. That doesn’t mean they don’t recognize Gaxgy as probably the biggest threat physically, and are over him reminding everyone about it. Modesty is his dump skill.
Javelina lacks that particular adventurer confidence, even though she’s smart and a curiously powerful mage. She’s one of those adventurers because she repeatedly finds herself in the position of being able to help, but is far from an adrenaline junkie.
Kobold Sydney vote incentive! Is finally done!
So… you know, check it out. Oh, and as usual, Patreon has a scales only version.
Double res version will be posted over at Patreon. Feel free to contribute as much as you like.
Two buses canceled in a row
Dec. 15th, 2025 02:54 amconulyand I had to take a car, which I can not afford. At least the corner store hadn’t shut down and the cashier let me wait inside. Either he’s very friendly and chatty or he’s flirting with me, but the important thing is I still have all my toes.
Monday Update 12-15-25
Dec. 15th, 2025 12:03 amysabetwordsmithThese are some posts from the later part of last week in case you missed them:
Recipe: "Butternut Squash Soup with Apples and Onions"
Food
Birdfeeding
Safety
Today's Cooking
Science
Birdfeeding
Economics
Philosophical Questions: Humans
Water
Birdfeeding
Early Humans
Follow Friday 12-12-25: Labyrinth
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Today's Cooking
Sustainability
Family Skills
History
Poem: "Koinophobia"
Poem: "Nementia"
Politics
Birdfeeding
Good News
Trauma has 46 comments. Affordable Housing has 77 comments. Robotics has 118 comments.
The 2025 Holiday Poetry Sale will run Monday, December 15 through Friday 19. This is a good place to spend holiday money or buy a gift for a fellow bookworm. \o/
Winterfaire 2025 is now open! List a Booth for anything you sell that would make good holiday gifts, or comment with what you're shopping for to crowdsource ideas. There are links to two similar shopping events online. if you know others, please pass the word.
"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv. It needs $72 to be complete. Shiv and his classmates discuss magical weather, magical geography, natural resources, plants and animals, history, and other aspects of worldbuilding.
The weather has been cold and snowy here. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, at least one female and four male cardinals, several mourning doves, and a wren.
Recipe: "Butternut Squash Soup with Apples and Onions"
Food
Birdfeeding
Safety
Today's Cooking
Science
Birdfeeding
Economics
Philosophical Questions: Humans
Water
Birdfeeding
Early Humans
Follow Friday 12-12-25: Labyrinth
Today's Adventures
Birdfeeding
Today's Cooking
Sustainability
Family Skills
History
Poem: "Koinophobia"
Poem: "Nementia"
Politics
Birdfeeding
Good News
Trauma has 46 comments. Affordable Housing has 77 comments. Robotics has 118 comments.
The 2025 Holiday Poetry Sale will run Monday, December 15 through Friday 19. This is a good place to spend holiday money or buy a gift for a fellow bookworm. \o/
Winterfaire 2025 is now open! List a Booth for anything you sell that would make good holiday gifts, or comment with what you're shopping for to crowdsource ideas. There are links to two similar shopping events online. if you know others, please pass the word.
"An Inkling of Things to Come" belongs to Polychrome: Shiv. It needs $72 to be complete. Shiv and his classmates discuss magical weather, magical geography, natural resources, plants and animals, history, and other aspects of worldbuilding.
The weather has been cold and snowy here. Seen at the birdfeeders this week: a large mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, at least one female and four male cardinals, several mourning doves, and a wren.