I bought a new toy. I had an RC off-road truck back when I was 19 and I suddenly wanted one now because I saw just how awesome they are these days. This is a big 1/10th scale crawler with locking differentials, oil fill shocks, waterproof electronics, and…
Continue readingThere is a new Microsoft Windows package manager. A package manager is a system of tools that let you install and remove software by simply referring to it by name. The package manager knows where to get the software so you don’t need to. You simply type “winget…
Continue readingThis game is all about rescuing astronauts who are in cryogenic pods before it gets too cold out and they die from the cold. You would think that cryogenic pods would work well in a cold environment but that’s not the case in this game. There is a…
Continue readingI use Open Live Writer to create images for my blog. More specifically, I have some old posts that use the decorative borders on images ad I want to add new images that match that style; using Open Live Writer lets me have that style. I’m starting to…
Continue readingMy blog site has been compromised. I have no idea how someone can access the site and replace WordPress blog files with their own malicious crap. But they do it. it’s not even clear what they get from it because my host disabled malicious files as soon as…
Continue readingIt seems like every time I created a new post, it fails to post and no one ever gets an email about the post. Updating the post works fine which is why I think it’s a problem with the email subscription list. So anyone reading this, you might…
Continue readingI decided to buy an Arduino board and some components to go with it. I have some 10-or-more-year-old servos sitting in a box from when I experimented with them directly connected to a PC so it made sense to plug them into a board plugged into the Arduino…
Continue readingI write software for a living (in case it wasn’t obvious). You can read about my job history in other posts and see that I spent 18 years using C++ in the biotech industry before my current app developer job. In those 18 years, I did sometimes write…
Continue readingLast night, I taught five other people how to play Viticulture. Here are the things that stood out: 6-plays works very well in this game. The only issues were that spaces ran out on the wake-up track and on the board filled up quite a bit. Note that…
Continue readingViticulture by Stonemaier Games is a worker placement game where players plant grapevines, harvest the grapes, make wine, and sell wine. Rules and Gameplay Summary Players in Viticulture first take turns picking a player order during the Spring season; this is their “waking” order. This fairly innovative feature…
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