Polaris is absolutely NOT the brightest star in the sky. Not even close.
How to actually find it: Find the big dipper (I know you know what it looks like). Take the two stars at the front end of the “cup” part. Draw a line through them “up” and out of the cup until you hit a star. That’s it.
A friend of mine lived in downtown Boston during the pandemic. Like, across the street from the Garden. His building lost a TON of tenents when people fled the city since they could now work remotely. He was going to move as well, but then the building offered to reduce his rent by $700/month if he stayed. So he did.
If you like Mysterium, I highly recommend the successor game Obscurio. Its pretty much the same gimmick of art interpretation, but works way better for groups.
Instead of the “ghost” having to keep track of and pick art for each person, the “investigators” are making a group decision so you only need to pick one set of clue art. This means the ghost’s turn is way faster (doesn’t explode with higher player count) and there’s actually group interaction instead of each person in their own world, staring at art no one else cares about.
The way it’s set up also means the ghost can start working on choosing the art for the next round while the group is debating, not having to wait to see if they are correct or not, so it’s way more streamlined. All together just a snappier, more engaging version of Mysterium.
I used to work for municipal government in a major American city. The database for the entire city downloaded query results to your desktop formatted as Excel 95. Still does.
At one point I had to install special R packages because someone retired and I was tasked with taking over the worksheet they had been maintaining forever and the usual R packages to read data from Excel can’t parse Excel 5.0.
There was also someone in the office who still used a typewriter on the regular.
Yup, I had someone print off Excel sheets, manually highlight and write in corrections, and them bring the pages over to my desk to have me fix them in the file.
I also once had the city reject a report I submitted because the width of the columns in the Excel file were different from the previous year and they wanted to print it all off on one page.
Guess I finally have a use for my archive of random internet shit (sh.itjust.works)
I have so much…
I love it when I have to scream at a computer (lemmy.world)
My free time is mine alone (startrek.website)
Apartment rents are on the verge of declining due to massive new supply (www.cnbc.com)
10 Best Murder Mystery Board Games to Play - IGN (www.ign.com)
I never really played any murder mystery games but enjoy watching documentaries about such topics. What are your recommendations?
I LOVE MANUAL TRANSMISSION (sh.itjust.works)
*Exhales dramatically* (lemm.ee)
HUP! (slrpnk.net)