Made a try square based on plans from Rex Kruger. Shockingly, it’s pretty and pretty square! Walnut and cherry from Urbanwood. Aluminum rod for the pins from Home Depot, who looked at me like I was off my rocker for wanting brass rod. Epoxy to hold in the pins. Finished with shellac.
AADL RPG Fest – Sept. 14th 2019 1-5pm
The Ann Arbor District Library is hosting an Role-Playing Game Fest on September 14th at 1-5pm at the downtown branch! I’ll be running a table there as will Andy Rau, my cohost on Roll for Topic, and John Corey, one of recent guests who actually came on to talk about running games at cons. Please […]
Dark Forest Proliferation
I keep on referencing Dark Forests and realizing that people don’t know what I mean, which is fair because the only place I talk about them is in dark forests. The first place I heard about this was from George who brought it up in one of several dark forests that we interact on. Whenever […]
Miter Saws and Circular Saws
A friend asked me whether he needed both a miter saw and a circular saw for a project he’s working on. As we were chatting he told me “this should be a blog post” so here we are. Important Note: when we think of tools I think we should focus on access rather than ownership. […]
On Workantile’s 10th Birthday
A Message on Jan. 31st 2011 “oh, btw: I’m working at the workantile exchange today…seems to be very nice” But Why I showed up to Workantile after a year of working from home. To say I was feeling isolated is an understatement. I’d moved to be closer to my then-girlfriend now-wife who was in the […]
The E-Myth Revisited Quick Review
A few days ago I finished The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. Gerber. Here’s a quick review: If you’ve ever wondered why your boss is the way they are, or why you feel like your job is confusing, or that you’re being pulled […]
Inspiration is Fickle. Do The Work Instead.
Rely on inspiration for creative work at your own peril. In this case, inspiration means one or more of the following: The Idea The Spark The Vision The Muse Inspiration, if it comes, will come in fits and starts and rarely completely. Instead of waiting for it do the following foundational and structural work instead: […]
You Can’t Win But You’re Still A Good Person v2.0
Over on the Scope Creep Studios dev blog I posted about an recent update to our game You Can’t Win But You’re Still a Good Person. We recently pushed an update to remove ads and in-app purchases and made it a dollar instead of free. Read a lot more about our reasoning Or just go […]
The Temptation of Analytics
This post started as a tootstorm Computers excel at logging statistics. The upshot is that it makes it trivial (for certain values of “trivial”) to get numbers about how many people are accessing your projects and products and blog posts. This is, on the whole, considered a good thing; however, I’m not so sure it […]
An Enthusastic Critical Framework
Kyle tweeted the following recently: all text is hyper-text all canon is head canon In response I made a bad joke and then mentioned: I think I subscribe to authorial intent way more than you do. Not like there’s one true canon, but there are some that are interpretations we can and should agree on. […]