All my boardgaming nerd friends are gearing up to go to Whose Turn Is It Anyway?<\/a>\u00a0I’ve just returned from a trip to Indianapolis which is a bit of an odd bird of a city. Their downtown is connected by a skywalk system that they’ve converted into a shopping mall. If this sounds terrifying, that’s because it is. In attempting to find a shortcut to a cocktail lounge we stumbled into it and tried to scamper out like drunken rats only to end up in what I can only assume are the bowels of the city, having to navigate around through a puddle of automobile drippings and rendered human fat. It was unappealing. We were able to find a delightful place for brunch called Milktooth<\/a>\u00a0where the cocktails and food were so delicious we contemplated just staying there for the whole day. Instead we walked around the city a bit and along an old canal. A CANAL OF FAILURE<\/a>, as it turns out. We also had some delightful drinks at LIbertine<\/a>\u00a0and a very enjoyable Sunday afternoon in Broad Ripple. On the way home, we stopped in at Niles, Michigan to see the remnants of the Niles Ice Sculpture Festival: The new SCAA Coffee Taster’s Flavor Wheel: Eye Pollution:<\/strong> Arsenal lost to Chelsea 0-1 after playing with only 10 men for most of the match. I take personal responsibility, as I wore neither my Arsenal top nor supporter scarf while watching the match. (I was unsure I would be able to follow it at all, but then we stumbled into a nice little pub in Broad Ripple and one thing led to another.) So Gunners fans, I apologize. I’ll make it up to you somehow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greetings from a recovering River of Boiling Water\u00a0where\u00a0I am recovering from some weekend travel and thinking that Monday has come FAR TOO EARLY this week. On the Internets: New York started offering free wifi hotspots in old pay phone booths, which instantly turned into another type of hotspot altogether. Stephen Hawking said the only […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghost.geeb.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"giphy\"](\"http:\/\/megaphone.geeb.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/giphy.gif\")
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\nNew York started offering free wifi hotspots in old pay phone booths, which instantly turned into another type of hotspot altogether<\/a>. Stephen Hawking said the only way humanity will survive is if we get the fuck out of here<\/a>. The Manosphere<\/a> was revealed, and it’s as digusting as it sounds. Facebook started supporting Tor<\/a>\u00a0based connections, allowing people to securely post neverending gripes about snowstorms<\/a>.\u00a0Darth Vader onesies are force-choking babies<\/a>. A politician in Hawaii thought using Tinder as a campaign tool would be a good idea,\u00a0\u201cI thought the one-on-one interaction would be great, but it just leads to other things.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 The Doctor is genderfluid<\/a>.
\nEven IKEA thinks you have too much shit<\/a>.<\/p>\nLocally:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nSandman got put on hold for a bit. \u00a0I picked up the ruleset to [amazon text=Fiasco&asin=B015X4YOPE] and have been looking over that. Looks interesting, though it might be hard to find people to play with, it seems very dependent on the personalities of the players.\u00a0[amazon text=The Devil You Know&asin=0446618705] reread has progressed as well.\u00a0.<\/p>\nIn the Earhole:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\nAll but the last episode of Jessica Jones. Definitely getting a little stretchy in episodes 10 and 11, but not the worst. Also watched\u00a0[amazon text=A Million Ways to Die in the West&asin=B00KNOWSN0] because I was tired and wanted something mindless to watch. Check. Also watched a bit of Great British Bake Off, only to learn that they will be showing the 4th season (which I am watching now) as the second season here in the states. This makes no sense.<\/p>\nBoring, Boring Arsenal:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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