We have an issue with staff not reserving meeting rooms. You know the situation, team  High-Strung  did reserve the room, but when they arri...

There is a new dark ages set of wargame rules out called Blood Eagle. While I know that I play a game that represents an immoral, cruel, an...

This posting is mostly here to remind me how to configure the DNS records for a site where the www subdomain's content is hosted by Bl...

In a previous posting I wrote about using "splinters" to represent the kind of deadfall you find in the woods and bogs. I spent mo...

Preparing two more tables tops for May's Great Swamp Wargamers game night. The table tops are 4'×3' hardboard glued and na...

Java 8 is not Java. Java 8 is a good tool. Java's shift towards being a functional language is unstoppable. Java, however, as a principl...

Finally, a sane design for a handheld device! The Kindle Oasis. Hopefully it rotates for lefties and for righties when writing notes on pa...

Sometime ago I found online a discussion about using D6 dice to simulate percentage dice. Unfortunately, I did not keep a link to the discus...

I want to practice Magic the Gathering and so using one of Wizards of the Coast's applications seems like a good way to proceed. Now rem...

When will people figure out that the Internet is composed mostly of the unspoken inner thoughts of the ignorant, confused, bigoted, depresse...

This weekend's workbench was moving the workbench. Well, what I was using was not a workbench but the end of a large table that is also ...

A reminder that Staples prints large format (eg 36"×48"), black and white, engineering drawings at a very reasonable cost. They is...

Posted to confirm my market socialism tendencies.

I am going to say it. I hate the giant spaulders , that bulbous shoulder armor, that so many 40K and Warmachine figures & factions have....

Slack's "Jump to conversation" Cmd-K shortcut is really useful to quickly contact one of our burgeoning staff or channels. Unf...

I needed a quick and dirty worker pool within bash. Easy parallelization with Bash in Linux worked well. In short, create-a-stream-of-bash-...

A friend observed that dogs don't know disappointment. They always try again with joyful expectation.

I have several reporting scripts that send me email overnight. When receiving such an email it is useful to know its origins. Using somethin...

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...