Rebooting
I thought I’d reboot this site. These days, with Instapaper being central to how I read articles on the web, I am increasingly grateful any time I am able to just get the words and the pictures and...
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Iron Giant Bleach Stencil
I didn’t align the second stencil quite right, but I’m still pretty psyched with how this came out:I took this great Iron Giant design by Kyle Wayne Benson, made a stencil out of it, and then followed...
View ArticleThe WWDC Ticket Problem
WWDC sold out in two minutes, but it didn’t really sell out because there were all kinds of problems and Apple is still distributing tickets and trying to make it right. If nothing else, it seems like...
View ArticleWhy Can't Netflix Stream DVDs? (Updated)
The big thing that keeps me from going streaming-only on Netflix is the selection. Of the 178 movies currently in my queue, only 68 are available to stream. Licensing, I know. There’s a good piece on...
View ArticleMy Favorite Action Scenes
This was one of my favorite Listology lists back in the day, and I’ve continued to add to it since. I’m sure I’m missing some, but these are my favorite action scenes. They aren’t all good movies...
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Highlighting Personal Bests in Excel
I keep track of some exercises in Excel, and I wanted to be able to highlight any cell that represents a personal best to date. I don’t want to just highlight the max value in a range, though. If I set...
View Article128 Character Games
A couple months ago Zach Gage started an awfully fun little thread with this tweet:Dear internet, here is a crazy challenge for you. Design a game prototype where the rules fit in <=128 characters,...
View ArticleWhat About Removing App Store Ratings Entirely?
This post by John Gruber touched off a lively debate on whether and how developers should prod users for ratings. The nag screens sure are obnoxious, but good ratings are pretty important in bringing...
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Instamorph Magnetic Doorstop
Our mudroom door has an annoying tendency to close part way, so I wanted to hold it open, and yet we go behind that door all the time for aprons and mops and stuff so it needed to be easy to open (I...
View ArticleLetterpress Thoughts
There are lots of iOS games I love, but Letterpress is far and away the one that has kept my interest the longest. It launched on October 22, 2012 and I’ve been playing it ever since. Recently Brent...
View Article5,271,009
On a recent episode of Roderick on the Line the guys has some fun with dentists. I think I will forever associate dentistry with a bit from one of Alfred Bester’s short stories, “5,271,009”, in which...
View ArticleHello Hugo!
Total site rebuild! I have a new responsive design that uses Skeleton, and a new static site engine in Hugo. I’m really happy with both tools, and am particularly impressed by Hugo’s speed. Even with...
View ArticleWhy I Liked Mad Max
Everybody likedMad Max: Fury Road, and everybody wrote about it already. I’m not going to let that stop me, but I’ll keep it brief.≻ I had forgotten that there’s nothing like real people doing real...
View ArticleRecommended Movies You Can Stream on Netflix
Here are all the movies I rated either four or five stars on Netflix that are available to stream as of 8/21/2015. Some of these ratings are really old and I’m not sure they’d stand up to a rewatch....
View ArticleMy Free-to-Play Golden Rule (and Pac-Man 256)
My current iPhone game addiction is Pac-Man 256 which is wonderful and you should play it. It takes the classic elements from the original game and reinvents them as an endless runner with power-ups....
View ArticleMy 2020 Favorites
In 2020 I watched 50 movies, watched some amount of 56 shows, read 57 books (32 solid reads plus 25 short ones (e.g comics) or skims), and whittled roughly 3,600 songs that the robots recommended to me...
View ArticleMy 2024 Favorites
I took a different approach to my annual roundup this year. I printed it on paper, for friends, like an animal. I just wanted something less ephemeral. But all is not lost! You can view the PDF online...
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Annual Roundup: Paper Editions
In 2024 I started taking a different approach to my annual roundup: I printed ’em on paper, for friends, like an animal. I just wanted something less ephemeral.But all is not lost! You can view the PDF...
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