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[[Other ranks pinstripe uniform with pill box cap, swagger stick and moustache on left talking to smaller gent in suit with hat, walking stick and more luxuriant moustache on right. Outdoor ice skating in background.]]

Uniform: An easy way to picture the size of an acre is that it’s a bit smaller than a football field!

Gent: People always say that like it makes it easier. But it presumes that everyone shares a very particular set of specialized knowledge! See, I don’t watch football! I’ve seen a dozen games in my whole life, and all of them on TV! I don’t have the scale of a football field imprinted in my memory as a unit of measurement!

Uniform: OK, put another way, an acre is just larger than the dish area of the “Mars” Radio Telescope at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California.
Gent: Well why didn’t you just say that to begin with!

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#881; In which a Standard is questioned transcribed by in

[[Other ranks pinstripe uniform with pill box cap, swagger stick and moustache on left talking to smaller gent in suit with hat, walking stick and more luxuriant moustache on right. Outdoor ice skating in background.]]

Uniform: An easy way to picture the size of an acre is that it’s a bit smaller than a football field!

Gent: People always say that like it makes it easier. But it presumes that everyone shares a very particular set of specialized knowledge! See, I don’t watch football! I’ve seen a dozen games in my whole life, and all of them on TV! I don’t have the scale of a football field imprinted in my memory as a unit of measurement!

Uniform: OK, put another way, an acre is just larger than the dish area of the “Mars” Radio Telescope at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California.
Gent: Well why didn’t you just say that to begin with!

{{header: measure up to WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Come ON, you don’t have to tell me WHERE the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is}}

#881; In which a Standard is questioned transcribed by in

[[Other ranks pinstripe uniform with pill box cap, swagger stick and moustache on left talking to smaller gent in suit with hat, walking stick and more luxuriant moustache on right. Outdoor ice skating in background.]]

Uniform: An easy way to picture the size of an acre is that it's a bit smaller than a football field!

Gent: People always say that like it makes it easier. But it presumes that everyone shares a very particular set of specialized knowledge! See, I don't watch football! I've seen a dozen games in my whole life, and all of them on TV! I don't have the scale of a football field imprinted in my memory as a unit of measurement!

Uniform: OK, put another way, an acre is just larger than the dish area of the "Mars" Radio Telescope at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California.
Gent: Well why didn't you just say that to begin with!

{{header: measure up to WONDERMARK.COM}}
{{alt-text: Come ON, you don't have to tell me WHERE the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is}}

Come ON, you don't have to tell me WHERE the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex is

#881; In which a Standard is questioned

  — October 23rd, 2012

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This comic is dedicated to the engineers at JPL! Yesterday I was lucky enough to get to tag along on a tour my wife organized for her fellow crew members from the TV show Robot Chicken. Mars rover driver Scott Maxwell and his colleagues were kind enough to show us all around the facility! Check it out

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New ways to get Bolted!

July 24, 2026 by David Malki !

In addition to buying things directly from me, the normal way, my game Bolted! is also now available on Amazon dot com.

On that famous website, you can also get the Creature-Crafting Magnets Set, which is made of the same artwork from the game, but is just a weird little trinket (not a playable game).

My kiddo made the elaborate version below to show off just how many magnets you get in the set (it’s 150 pieces in all — this isn’t even all of them).

Also now on Amazon is my set of Multi-Purpose Greeting Cards — a full dozen cards with envelopes in a fancy, unbranded, foil-stamped box!

Event alert!

I’ll also be showing off Bolted! at Greenwood Games, an event in Seattle this Saturday:

Greenwood Games is a free, all-ages community game event that invites players to spend the afternoon walking Greenwood Avenue from 65th to 80th, collecting clues, cracking puzzles, and discovering games made right here in Washington.

Think of it as Pride Hop, ArtWalk, and the Gumshoe all rolled into one,  except the whole thing is built around games and puzzles.​

Local game designers will be set up at different places along Greenwood Avenue in Phinney Ridge (near Ballard). My specific spot will be the “Holy Mountain Phinney Ridge Taproom”. All the information about all the different games & venues is on the website!

(If you’re in Seattle generally but not free tomorrow, Bolted! is also stocked at Blue Highway Games in Queen Anne.)

Next week, I’ll be at Gen Con! I personally will be hanging with my buddy Sam Logan at BFE Webcomics, booth #1217… but I have it on good authority that copies of Bolted! will be available at the CRWN Studios booth, #2549.

Visit one booth! Then the other! The order…is up to you.


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