I finished priming and painting the faces and arms of the 6mm Vikings and Anglo-Saxons. I like priming with black gesso as it is very matte ...

I have several of sci-fi artist Simon Stålenhag's prints. I just discovered that he has a new book,  Tales from the Loop , of them out n...

A marked resemblance to this author.

Weekend workbench saw painting of a dozen 60mm × 20mm  blue and red  bases for use in learning To the Strongest while I prepare the actual ...

One of the Wednesday Gamers visited Alcatraz recently and saw the giant model of the island and its buildings. The model was built by Jimm...

Taylor Mali's "Totally like whatever, you know" Melissa Lozada-Oliva's "Like Totally Whatever"

I am having a very hard time settling down and anteing up for a space combat miniatures game. After a great deal of exploration and consider...

Listen to Wikipedia is wonderful and a good example of an ambient display. Reminds me of listening to the music of the stars in Carl Sagan...

A year or so ago I bought the d0x3d! board game. The theme is network security and the players are hackers cooperating to retrieve stolen i...

Anyone know of a laser cutting service in South Kingstown or vicinity? AS220 Labs has a low cost service (4 hours / $25), but I normally on...

Macintosh users once talked about the "Microsoft Tax." This was the additional hardware you needed to buy in order to effectively ...

Tom Hoffman's How bad are things (in schools)? posting (and the one it draws from ) is related to the complexity of childhood's pro...

The planning and execution of 9/11 took several years to complete. Oklahoma City took 2 years. These guys' plan seemed to be based on d...

I have never liked 1and1.com, but I had a good package deal from their early days and so continued to use them for small web sites and appli...

I would like to start a miniatures wargaming club in South Kingstown, RI. I am interested in many periods with battles or skirmishes fought ...

There has been a lot of criticism of Tim Cook's 60 Minutes comment that the US lacks the vocational skills to host the scale of manufac...

I wrote Suggestions on best practices for school web sites 6 years ago and it is still pertinent.

Grumble. Why do people spend so much time and energy on making documents or presentations look good when they are not competent to do so? Ju...

I spent a day upgrading my MacBook Pro from Mavericks, OS X 10.9, to El Capitan, OS X 10.11, and then downgrading it back to Mavericks. I ne...

A quick reminder to myself about bundling a Java tool into an OS X application. Directory structure JConsole.app JConsole.app/Contents...