Category Archives: Making

We’re back, and in HD

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Geoff

Well, with HD. We moved into a new house over a year ago, and we opted not to get a cable TV subscription. But the HD antenna I got at the Shack wasn’t pulling in strong signal. Which is sad, … Continue reading →

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Wiz-War progress

Posted on February 8, 2009 by Geoff

We’ve been casting lots of Wiz-War pieces over the past weeks. I finally got some masonite to use as a base for the game board segments, to which we would glue the floor and spacer tiles. I cut a square … Continue reading →

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Making WizWar

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Geoff

When we attended the Carnage gaming conference in November, NatureBoy and I played a game called WizWar, and had a great time. The game itself is out of print, but rules and materials can be downloaded and used to make … Continue reading →

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Summer reflections 2: Picnic Table

Posted on September 21, 2008 by Geoff

I built a picnic table during my vacation in August. I hadn’t built anything this involved in quite a while, probably not since the chicken coop over ten years ago. It seemed like this ought to be a pretty straight-forward … Continue reading →

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Crafting in the blood

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Geoff

My Beloved Wife’s blog persona is “CraftyMommaVT” and it fits her perfectly. Part of her internship early this summer involved creating a tool for the Skilled Nursing Facility where she was working. She thought through how to make it really … Continue reading →

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She got me Make!

Posted on February 25, 2008 by Geoff

Beloved Wife got me a subscription to Make Magazine from O’Reilly for Solstice. We’ve been waiting impatiently for it to arrive, and it finally came! I’ve only had a chance to skim it, but it’s a solid issue. Thanks, BW!!

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Complexification

Posted on February 1, 2008 by Geoff

The Make blog pointed me to some beautiful and interesting computer-generated art at www.complexification.net. The artist, Jared Tarbell, has a gallery of generated images, and most of them applications that generate the images are available to run, creating more unique … Continue reading →

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Sky pirates

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Geoff

I was working at home in the afternoon, yesterday, and NatureBoy was keeping himself busy in the living room. After a while he made his way to the dining room where I was, making buzzy machine sound effects and moving … Continue reading →

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Sword tag

Posted on July 26, 2007 by Geoff

This post is very overdue. Several weeks ago, Beloved Wife headed off for a weekend of Grrrl Power, leaving NatureBoy and me to our own devices (buwa-ha-ha-ha!). We dropped into the friendly neighborbood gaming store to see what was going … Continue reading →

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