Allen Varney
@bundleofholding.com
Writer and game designer (PARANOIA XP, Mongoose Publishing 2004). I operate the Bundle of Holding (bundleofholding.com). Currently in Reno, Nevada. allenvarney(at)Gmail.
"Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" is worth your time, especially back-to-back with UBIK, written four years later but cut from the exact same thematic cloth.
November 27, 2025 at 10:52 AM
"Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" is worth your time, especially back-to-back with UBIK, written four years later but cut from the exact same thematic cloth.
(Topic drift) Isaac Asimov's annotated Paradise Lost is interesting for Asimov's avoidance of literary or religious interpretation. It's all just a million footnotes explaining Milton's references.
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Asimov's annotated Paradise lost : Milton, John, 1608-1674 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
761 p. 24 cm
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November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
(Topic drift) Isaac Asimov's annotated Paradise Lost is interesting for Asimov's avoidance of literary or religious interpretation. It's all just a million footnotes explaining Milton's references.
archive.org/details/asim...
archive.org/details/asim...
The full Sentients RPG is part of the Starter Collection in this year's Cornucopia Bundle of Holding:
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Cornucopia 2025
Adventurer! In time for the American Thanksgiving holiday, we present this all-new Cornucopia 2025, our 13th annual feast of top-quality tabletop roleplaying game ebooks. For just US$12.95 you get all...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The full Sentients RPG is part of the Starter Collection in this year's Cornucopia Bundle of Holding:
bundleofholding.com/presents/Cor...
bundleofholding.com/presents/Cor...
NVDA - sales +62% YoY, profits +65% YoY (small beat), up 3.4% after hours:
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Nvidia beats earnings expectations, even as bubble concerns mount | CNN Business
Nvidia posted strong revenue and profits that exceeded Wall Street’s expectations Wednesday. The closely watched result could prompt a sigh of relief across the stock market following growing concerns...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
NVDA - sales +62% YoY, profits +65% YoY (small beat), up 3.4% after hours:
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t...
edition.cnn.com/2025/11/19/t...
(Technically not "Chopsticks" but a related two-finger exercise, "Tati-tati")
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Chopsticks (waltz) - Wikipedia
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November 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
(Technically not "Chopsticks" but a related two-finger exercise, "Tati-tati")
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsti...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopsti...
In the '90s Wired magazine christened this "keyboard dandruff."
November 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
In the '90s Wired magazine christened this "keyboard dandruff."
What became of the "Lincoln Green" idea you were contemplating a decade ago?
November 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
What became of the "Lincoln Green" idea you were contemplating a decade ago?
Over the Edge 2E: bundleofholding.com/presents/202...
Over the Edge 2E Bundle
Adventurer! By popular demand we've resurrected (for a third time!) our January 2014 Over the Edge 2E Bundle featuring the 1997 Second Edition of Over the Edge, the acclaimed Atlas Games tabletop role...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Over the Edge 2E: bundleofholding.com/presents/202...
For those interested, my Bundle of Holding site is running two Over the Edge offers through Wednesday. OTE 3E: bundleofholding.com/presents/OTE3E
Over the Edge 3E Bundle
Adventurer! This all-new Over the Edge 3E Bundle presents the Third Edition (2019) of Over the Edge, the tabletop roleplaying game from Atlas Games of fringe science and hyper-reality. Unleash wild co...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
For those interested, my Bundle of Holding site is running two Over the Edge offers through Wednesday. OTE 3E: bundleofholding.com/presents/OTE3E
Wedding officiant is the worst gig. If you do everything right, no one remembers you were there; if you mess up at all, they'll still talk about it at their golden anniversary.
November 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Wedding officiant is the worst gig. If you do everything right, no one remembers you were there; if you mess up at all, they'll still talk about it at their golden anniversary.
Ibizan mosquito-borne malaria would be a sad way for Bruce Sterling to pass. One would prefer something like an F-6 tornado. In Ibiza.
November 15, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Ibizan mosquito-borne malaria would be a sad way for Bruce Sterling to pass. One would prefer something like an F-6 tornado. In Ibiza.
A worthy article. I talked about the moral vacuum of T:2000 in my 1993 Inter*Action article "Do the Right Thing":
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Allen Varney: Do the Right Thing
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November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
A worthy article. I talked about the moral vacuum of T:2000 in my 1993 Inter*Action article "Do the Right Thing":
www.allenvarney.com/av_morality....
www.allenvarney.com/av_morality....
This search (on the Science magazine page for biochemist Derek Lowe) brings up 53 entries in his long-running series of blog posts, "Things I Won't Work With":
www.science.org/action/doSea...
www.science.org/action/doSea...
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November 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This search (on the Science magazine page for biochemist Derek Lowe) brings up 53 entries in his long-running series of blog posts, "Things I Won't Work With":
www.science.org/action/doSea...
www.science.org/action/doSea...
Outgunned and its support line are in the Bundle of Holding through Monday 01 December:
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Outgunned Bundle
Time for action! This Outgunned Bundle presents Outgunned, the tabletop roleplaying game of cinematic action from Riccardo "Rico" Sirignano and Simone Formicola at Two Little Mice, the Italian designe...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Outgunned and its support line are in the Bundle of Holding through Monday 01 December:
bundleofholding.com/presents/Out...
bundleofholding.com/presents/Out...
And Archie Goodwin becomes his talking dog. Run a focus group to choose the breed.
November 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And Archie Goodwin becomes his talking dog. Run a focus group to choose the breed.
I don't know about "friends" as such, but I did inquire some months back about a Triangle Agency Bundle of Holding offer.
November 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I don't know about "friends" as such, but I did inquire some months back about a Triangle Agency Bundle of Holding offer.
Small correction: Your comics bundle is presented through Humble Bundle, which is different from and unrelated to my Bundle of Holding site.
November 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Small correction: Your comics bundle is presented through Humble Bundle, which is different from and unrelated to my Bundle of Holding site.
Next, talk about Gilgamesh in terms of Fred Allen and Allen's Alley.
November 3, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Next, talk about Gilgamesh in terms of Fred Allen and Allen's Alley.
"Madam Secretary" was a fantasy of good governance, and ultimately a fairy tale of absurdly happy state-sponsored outcomes.
October 26, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"Madam Secretary" was a fantasy of good governance, and ultimately a fairy tale of absurdly happy state-sponsored outcomes.
Twist ending: You've been working for a demon who has concealed terrible commitments in the contracts the wizards executed.
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Twist ending: You've been working for a demon who has concealed terrible commitments in the contracts the wizards executed.