…covering tomorrow's machines
This is literally the capsule review I saw in the February 1997 issue of InQuest magazine that got me to buy a copy of The Settlers of Catan. The magazine was part of my Magic: The Gathering hobby and since I didn’t have a lot of people to play with, I spent much of my […]
Here’s an update to the LED Adidas track jacket project. While the animated pixel sleeves of the jackets were very cool, they’d often suffer breaks in the data line right at the elbow. You can see above in the video I’ve actually programmatically masked out the bottoms of the sleeves since they’re all a bit […]
I was reminded of this mixtape today mashing together Major Lazer and La Roux. It somehow has not been lost to time (DMCA’d). The continuous mix above is probably the best way to listen to it. You can also find it as individual tracks on Youtube.
I feel like I’ve been playing fewer games this year… which still amounts to multiple game nights a month. I’ve cut back on backing of Kickstarter projects, but they keep expanding games I already enjoy like Clank! and Terraforming Mars. A year ago I went through and sold anything in my collection that I wouldn’t […]
This year’s My Metro Budget activity is now live. It’s one of the most direct ways to let Metro know how you feel about how they allocate funds AND you can win a $50 gift card (it happened to me!). This year they’ve also called out specific actions they’re taking (e.g. Tap-to-Exit) and you can […]
Somehow I completely forgot about the Wera tool advent calendars when writing my advent calendar post. I’ve gotten two of them in the past and they’re excellent. One was from me and the other from my company. I’m only abstaining this year because I only need so many sets of high quality European hand tools […]
I have an alert on November 1st every year to buy an advent calendar. Years ago I made my own liquor advent calendar, but last year I got this excellent Exit The Game advent calendar. Exit is a series of escape room style puzzle games you can find sold alongside hobby board games. For the […]
I found a holstein clock abandoned next to the local little library (as one does). The condition, pictured below, wasn’t great: the number markings were warped and the mechanism was unresponsive when I added a battery. I’ve got a few holstein knick-knacks around the house because I grew up on a dairy farm so I […]
I left the following as a YouTube comment on the embedded video but I might as well put it here as my personal experience with the Viture Pro XR Glasses: I ordered them when the early embargoed reviews were landing. My work commute is changing to an hour each way on the train and I […]
Through a series of unfortunate events (not really, it was just a defective cable), I had to learn what the pinout for this particular set of headphones is along with some other frustrating knowledge. And now I curse you with it. The headphones have a detachable cable and a detachable mic. It comes with two […]