There was a surprisingly robust hardcore music scene in the extremely suburban county I grew up in. I was never fully in that world for a lot of reasons; however, I hung out on the periphery and have a fondness for it. Recently I ran across the work by Dave Hofer to digitize the music […]
Pedro Pascal as AADL Branches
My wife found pictures of Pedro Pascal that look like Ann Arbor District Library branches and it’s brilliant and hilarious: And a few extras of the interiors:
A Stand for a Card and a Deck
Made this stand to display a single card from the Inquire Within Oracle Deck. There’s a slot to hold the deck in its box and a slot to hold the card. My wife puts a card out every once in a while and this one hit me hard. I have not been woodworking much lately […]
iPhone audio not working on a 2015 Mazda5
If your iPhone isn’t working with your Mazda5 the fix might be as simple as adding a song to your Music library. On a Mac I needed to do this by plugging the phone into my computer and choosing an album to sync to my phone. Once I did that everything else I cared about […]
Vinyl Record “Now Playing” Shelf
Finally tackled this project to make an record shelf for our currently playing record! We’ve needed one for a while and I couldn’t stomach buying one when I knew it’d be an easy project. Thanks to my wife for being so patient. Shelf is made from a single oak board and finished with paste wax […]
You Can’t Win But You’re Still A Good Person is Now Free on iOS
Hello, good people, last night an update to “You Can’t Win But You’re Still a Good Person”, a game Scope Creep Studios made almost 6 years ago, went live on the iOS App Store! About 30 days ago Apple emailed us to say we had 30 days to update it or they were going to […]
Bug Drop! Ad Findings
After releasing Bug Drop!, my collaborator, Steve, started to get curious about running ads for it using Apple’s ad platform. He decided to give it a shot because it wasn’t that expensive and, hey, if it works that means more people get to experience the game! So he fired up a few ad types. CPM […]
Bug Drop! is Live on iOS
Go buy and download Bug Drop on iOS! We have a special launch price of $2 and it’ll go up to $3 later. Steve Kemsley and I just published our latest game for the iPhone! It’s about a parachuting bug and is called Bug Drop! It’s a lot of fun. If you like platformers and […]
Exterior House Colors
In the summer of 2021 we had the exterior of our house painted by a friend. This post serves mostly as a reference for ourselves about the colors we used. At some point we’re going to redo the roof too to really complete the look. Front of the House Closeup of colors in context Paint […]
Display Case for Science Bee
My wife does craft shows as the Science Bee and she needed a larger display case for her table. This absolute unit is two 2’x4’ pegbaord panels on a hinge: Here it is closed up. You can see the handles on the top that make moving it around much easier: And here it is in […]