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For today's Random Word, i asked my gaming group.  Mr. Randall was the first to pipe up with the word "murmaider,"  the title of a song from the band Dethklok from Metalocalypse animated show aired on Adult Swim.                                                                  (album cover courtesy of Amazon.com) Listen to Murmaider by Dethklok here How I can talk about this word and things associated with it to the subjects of tabletop gaming, fishing, and 3d printing will be tricky, so here we go. From a tabletop gaming perspective, the word murmaider is a play on words of the words 'mermaid' and 'murder.'   Mermaids are a taurian race (half man half beast) of ocean dwelling fish people, with the upper torso of a human(oid) and the lower portion, normally depicted from...

  3D Printing 2022 Struggles So I've Had Some Struggles... ...Most of them have been minor mechanical issues - tramming the bed, clogged nozzles, and the like.   Others have been more... mental struggles... that are harder to overcome.   Yes, 3D printing is a fun hobby.  It's a blast to be able to print anything that I can find on Thingiverse or Yeggi or other sites and print them.  I made a cool 3D printed Halloween Costume.  I have printed a variety of gifts for family and friends.  I've created 3D printed 40k and D&D terrain. ...but at what cost... I know the 3D printing world has become more and more cost efficient over the years.  To replace most of my parts is less than $20 and a couple more in shipping from either Amazon or EBay.  Filament runs ~$25 a roll. ... but at what cost to me mentally... I've put a lot of time and effort into these two machines.  When they are working, life is good.  When they are n...

  Tonight was a fun little adventure.  I made a "mess" on my table with all of my fishing lure parts, past lure projects, and future lure projects.  Now that it's all cleaned up, repacked into flat plastic sorters and stored in a reused Amazon box, my table is now clean and the Mrs. won't be too aggravated ... unless I dropped a bead or hook i'm not aware of and she stepped on it. I'd like to do a blog post to recap the video and consolidate some of my ideas in an effort to formulate more lure making content in the (hopefully near) future. A link to the video in question  here! First, my camera skills with my phone are atrocious.  I have some smaller off-brand GoPro cameras with mounting equipment and such.  In hindsight, I should have used that equipment instead of my Galaxy 9 smartphone.  (It still works, the OS still updates, don't judge).   I also needs to work on my verbose, but this was an impromptu video, so cut me some slack. Mov...

 Happy Thursday.  I recently had a conversation with a friend regarding 3D printed lures.  We discussed various aspects of it, namely cost to create versus cost to purchase.  This seems like a good topic this week for Allow or No Allow. I'm all for it personally.  I've been fishing since I was about 9 years old.... so 30+ years now and I've seen a lot and talked with a lot of people throughout the US and beyond.  If people want to fish, they are going to fish and find a way to fish. Plain and simple. Ancient fishing methods were all DIY in my opinion.  I imagine a bunch of dudes, on a boat or standing on a fallen tree over a river, throwing anything they can in the water to either trap, entice, or otherwise catch fish, crustaceans, shellfish, etc.  After a quick google search and finding this link  History of Fishing - From Ancient Fishing Methods , I'm not too far off in my assumptions.   In my opinion, Angling was one of the first...