An oldie, but a goodie. Jeff Bigler's tact filter theory

Leo and I were talking about our first-world troubles of 1) not having a permanent miniatures painting station and 2) the that the temporary...

You can have NetBeans use OS X's standard open dialog instead of the poor Swing alternative. To do this, update your "netbeans.conf...

My iPhone 5 has lint between the camera lens and the external housing. I had the same problem with my iPhone 3G. Is this a common problem fo...

I am about to convert a female fantasy figure into a dark age warrior. I have clipped off the fantasy weapon, modified a hand to hold a swo...

I have been playing with "dip" again to quickly apply shading to my minis. The Army Painter Dark Tone is, essentially, a black s...

I am clearly the last person to ask about English language usage, but I am very interested in its edge cases. I subscribe to the http://engl...

I have all these local, really high tech hardware, software, & networks on my desk and the only easy way for me to copy a URL from iPhon...

The "Wednesday Gamers" will be playing SAGA starting next week. (Even if our minis are only primed!). To help prepare the gamers I...

Long Now Foundation's Seminars Really great set of 1-1:30 hour lectures on many topics but mostly about long term thinking and experien...

When walking Milo yesterday he and I passed several boys (16 ish) playing tennis. They were your usual generic white suburban kids talking...

We live in the time of "dark euphoria." "The Web had users. The Stacks have livestock." Other deep insights. And, if you...

I finally have a comfortable system for mounting my miniatures while painting them. I have tried mounting with sticky gums, but this leave a...

This portable worktable and instructions on building it are awesome. I don't need it, but want to build it anyway. More at  Maker ...

I needed to have Java 1.6 run on OS X 1.9, Mavericks. I had written about this before in Installing Java 6 on OS X Mavericks , but I was not...

I have some 15,000 photos that are unorganized. In part, this is because of the rapid changes in both camera and computers used. Thankfully,...

Watching 1) calligraphic theater and 2) paint dry. Street typography from Tom Williams on Vimeo .

This week's South County Independent newspaper has an article on the school district's 1:1 initiative. Unfortunately, there is a gr...

James Burke's TV series Connections made a significant impression on me when I was a teenager and has continued into my adulthood. My w...

What if by the fall of 2015 South Kingstown, RI and the high school (in particular) had a high bandwidth & low latency cell data service...