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Archive for November, 2009
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009The missing link
Thursday, November 26th, 2009I forgot the link to the D&D treasure generator.
1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons treasure generator now online
Thursday, November 26th, 2009The first (butt-ugly) iteration of an online treasure (and Other Stuff, e.g. spells, random encounters, dungeons, etc) generator is now online!
I hesitate to release it while it’s so ugly, but it all works, and they say “release early, release often”.
If you find yourself with the burning need to generate the treasure hoard for a den of giant rats or a red dragon, and you have a web browser, I gotcha covered!
Oh yeah, the link: http://bobbymartin.name/dnd1e/
1st edition D&D treasure generator
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Old school nerd^2
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009I’ve been doing my nerding out lately building a git repository of python scripts that look up values in tables, and support things like random lookups and tables whose values refer to subtables.
Of course, the point of this was to pull in all the old first edition Dungeons and Dragons tables and generate treasure (including magic and generating the list of spells on each scroll), random encounters, etc.
If you find yourself in desperate need of a way to quickly generate the hoard for an ancient huge white dragon, I’ve got you covered. Or if you have some other batch of tables that you’d like to generate values from, drop me a comment and I’ll ship you my code.
At some point, I may build a little Choose Your Own Adventure style wiki-thing that lets you create CYOA adventures, complete with combat tables and random effects. Then you can send your buddies links to the online adventure you created.
Oh yeah, the link: http://bobbymartin.name/dnd1e/
Before you fly (or even buy tickets)
Thursday, November 12th, 2009Visit Aviation Consumer Protection Home Page from the US Department Of Transportation. You have to click the “most recent report” link, then click the top “PDF Version” link in the Reports Issued in 2009 section.
Your reward for navigating their Byzantine site is tables ranking US air carriers by customer complaints, on-time percentage, etc. If your carrier doesn’t even show up in the list, you’re screwed. (Note that Delta doesn’t show up in ANY of the lists.)
Examples (data from November 2009):
Complaints (per 100,000 Customers)
1. Southwest 0.20
2. Pinnacle 0.22
3. Hawaiian 0.29
4. Alaska 0.32
5. ExpressJet 0.38
6. Skywest 0.56
7. Atlantic Southeast 0.68
8. Frontier 0.76
9. Mesa 0.80
10. JetBlue 0.80
1. Southwest 0.20
2. Pinnacle 0.22
3. Hawaiian 0.29
4. Alaska 0.32
5. ExpressJet 0.38
6. Skywest 0.56
7. Atlantic Southeast 0.68
8. Frontier 0.76
9. Mesa 0.80
10. JetBlue 0.80
Ontime Performance (percent)
1. Hawaiian 94.1
2. Alaska 90.0
3. Southwest 89.1
4. Frontier 89.1
5. JetBlue 88.7
6. Continental 88.4
7. US Airways 87.9
8. United 87.9
9. Skywest 87.5
10. ExpressJet 87.3
1. Hawaiian 94.1
2. Alaska 90.0
3. Southwest 89.1
4. Frontier 89.1
5. JetBlue 88.7
6. Continental 88.4
7. US Airways 87.9
8. United 87.9
9. Skywest 87.5
10. ExpressJet 87.3
Baggage Handling (per 1,000 Customers)
1. AirTran 1.36
2. Frontier 1.74
3. Hawaiian 1.90
4. Continental 2.01
5. US Airways 2.14
6. Northwest 2.18
7. JetBlue 2.26
8. ExpressJet 2.50
9. Southwest 2.76
10. United 3.00
1. AirTran 1.36
2. Frontier 1.74
3. Hawaiian 1.90
4. Continental 2.01
5. US Airways 2.14
6. Northwest 2.18
7. JetBlue 2.26
8. ExpressJet 2.50
9. Southwest 2.76
10. United 3.00