2005
Posts from this year
Fun with a Web Camera
I have a new web camera set up at my parents house overlooking the outdoor model railroad that I hope to finish someday (maybe next summer). Hopefully this camera will remain ON most of the time, but things always seem to creep up. However, as of right now I'm still working on the positioning of the camera itself. I may [...]
Site Revamp 2005
I finally began the very slow process in revamping this site (for the 6th(?) time in 6 years). I decided it was time to lighten this site up a bit, and consolidate all of those links you see there on the left. I just don't know what I was thinking at the time. It will probably follow a structure similar [...]
This Website #2
Wow. This site is only a year and a half old and I already have some desire to rebuild it from scratch. I think I will go with simplicity(tm) for the next design, that seems to be the new direction everyone is going. Hopefully I will be able to come up with something better(tm). Whatever I replace it with, it [...]
Trains, Trains and More Trains
One of the many projects that I've been meaning to do for the longest time has been to build an outdoor/garden railroad with the G-Scale (large scale) trains that I've been collecting for a number of years. Now that my parents have moved back to Wisconsin, and subsequently have a big backyard, I finally decided to go forward with this [...]
Intro of REMLAB
And now for something completely different... a fully-functional totally web based Battletech Mech Designer! REMLAB is pretty much bug free, as far as I can tell. However, future development is going to be slow, because of other projects that I have that need to be completed, but for all intensive purposes, this project is as done as it needs to [...]
More Fun with Illustrator
Okay, I've got another paper cut-out and this time it's for my church, the United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay! It's not quite as exciting as the Nott Paper cut-out, but it does have some character to it. I still have at least one more building that I would like to make into a paper cut-out, but we'll see when [...]
Fun with Illustrator
While I was digging through some old magazines, I found a really neat paper cut-out and glue together 3D castle. I immediately thought, "Hey, I could make a cut-out of the Nott Memorial." So, after just a couple of hours in Adobe Illustrator, I came up with a mostly functional cut-out of the Nott Memorial. I would like to use [...]
What About Designer Computers
Now this is a cool design for a small computer. It still amazes me that no one has yet to commercialize small designer PCs. I mean, the Mac Mini is a big step in the right direction, but I would like to see more companies market this same approach to small computer design. No, they don't have to be made [...]
Out with the Old…
A year ago this month, Napoleon's (a local pen and paper game shop) closed it's doors. It was a store that was around for almost my entire life, one that my old elementary school was across the street from, and I would walk past it nearly every day going to and from school. At one point in it's history, it [...]
Happy New Year – 2005
Happy New Year! (With a little luck, this year will be better than the last one, and the one before that, and so on.)
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