I just got a new Slip Roll machine. It’s from Vevor, a company whose motto is something like “Touch Tools, Half Price”. It seems to be fairly accurate. This slip roll was about $200.00 and can handle 16ga steel according to its specs. I rolled some brash sheet…
Continue readingFirst, let me say that writing software is not usually heroic since doing it is usually not a risky endeavor. I’m using “hero” as more of a colloquial term for a person who has a huge success, sometimes against the odds. While working as a lowly programmer at…
Continue readingI played a game last night of Distilled by Dave Beck and Paverson Games. Distilled is a game where players run distilleries making spirits (alcohol, not ghosts). This first play of the game was entertaining, even with two of us making some big mistakes. Making mistakes on the first play of a game…
Continue readingDisclaimer: I wrote this review and then submitted it to ChatGPT to see how it would write the review. This is the ChatGPT text; It’s a little flowery, in my opinion. Pipeline, a captivating creation by Capstone Games, stands proudly on the gaming shelf alongside CO2: Second Chance…
Continue readingI wrote some code to simulate creatures in an environment. It didn’t work because it was not well thought-out. I wanted to jot down some thoughts about it to help me do a better design job on version 2. My creature simulator is a Mac app written in…
Continue readingAge of Comics: The Golden Age is a medium weight board games that lets players “print comics” to gain fans, gain income, fulfill orders (to gain even more fans), and win at being the most successful publishing company at the game table. The game starts with each player…
Continue readingCities: Skylines 2 is about to come out. It has been available for preorder for a while now and I’m excited to get it. But it does have one flaw that most video toys have: The developers are trying to make it a game. I think that the…
Continue readingA few months ago, I bought a new mountain bike. I ordered a Trek X-Caliber 8 from the manufacturer and they sent it to a nearby bike shop for final assembly. Now that I’ve ridden it for over one hundred miles (and maybe as much as 200), it…
Continue readingMy kayaking/hiking/biking trips log page uses Google Maps to show a log of “all” trips I’ve taken on foot, biking, or kayaking. I started the log just for kayaking so it is missing all of my bike rides from the first decade that I lived at Lake Tahoe….
Continue readingI was trying to make a tutorial for the Linkage software to show how to design a vertical sliding garage door. The door is built out of four or five segments with rollers at the intersections. The rollers roll in tracks that are vertical then transition through a…
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