The past few days have been spent staring at the floor. Prepping them with the help of a friend (thanks, M!) and then so much sanding with another friend (thanks, K!). Here’s a portion of the floors before we did anything: What followed was a lot of prep. The previous owners had carpet everywhere which […]
House Stuff We Need
We’re closing on our house on Wednesday! That’s terrifying so I’m combating the thought of draining our savings accounts with planning and packing. We’re looking for a lot of things that are not the sort of things one needs while renting. Do you have any of the following you no longer need? 8 foot ladder […]
Headshots
My wife and I are opening up a few spots over the next month for corporate headshots in or around Ann Arbor, Michigan. Generally speaking this is for those of you who need to update the headshot on your website, your social media profiles, your business cards, or to have a photo on hand for […]
Cleaning NES and SNES Consoles
NES Console 72 Pin with four different choices: Boil, Clean Bend, or Replace Clean You can clean the connector somewhat by putting isopropyl alcohol on a clean cartridge and reinserting it a few times. Clean the cartidge between insertions. Or, dismantle the console and clean the connector itself off of the board. Boiling While this […]
Cleaning NES and SNES Cartridges
Your NES or SNES is likely not broken. The problem is almost always do to a poor connection between the console and the cartridge. Over time either the pins inside of the console, or the pads on the cartridge, get corroded and encased in funk. Get rid of the offending materials so a proper connection […]
Jekyll to Hugo Along with an Updated Deployment Script
I moved my blog from Jekyll to Hugo because I can’t leave well enough alone. Jekyll is wonderful, it’s also slower than it should be for building a site. Not like “go get some coffee” slow, but building felt sluggish. I also needed to reconfigure my workflow for publishing anyway. My earlier workflow involved running […]
The Peripheral
I was talking to a friend a month or so ago about when and why we put books down. Sometimes it’s not grabbing you, or the author seems to be wasting your time, or any number of other reasons, but it happens. I’m a completionist at heart, but steadily learning to stop feeling guilty about […]
Deep Work
A few days ago I went on a self-imposed twitter break. This book showed up the next day and I proceeded to read it in a handful of days because apparently I do have free time, it was just being eaten up in tiny increments of distraction. To say I was primed for Deep Work […]
Canon Lenses for Sale
We’re selling a few canon lenses. All are mechanically and optically sound, but are more or less going unused. Rounding them up here for easy sharing and if we know you in person we’ll cut 10% off. Really though, make an offer: SOLD: Canon EF 20-35 3.5-4.5 – $90 WITHDRAWN Canon EF Macro 100 2.8 […]
Screenshots on the Mac: An Exhuastive Guide That Probably Didn’t Need to Be Written
If you do any amount of work on the web you likely need to share screenshots now and then. Or, more likely, you need to do it five times a day. Apple’s official documentation on screenshots is a bit dry, although relatively complete. There are also a billion and one tutorials about various aspects of […]