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Make Your Own Imitation Dip (Snuff)

This is for the people who are ready to quit or are currently quitting dipping. The simplest and cheapest imitation snuff that I have found is this homemade recipe. I’ll give you that it’s not the same as Copenhagen or any other snuff, but once you get used to it (just like if you changed [...]

360-something days without a post

Maybe I should post something? I guess I’ll have to start thinking about whether to bring this blog back from the dead…

XYZPDQ Penguin

Darths and Droids

Follow along as Jim, Ben, and friends take on their GM in a Star Wars campaign in a world where Star Wars never existed. If you’ve ever been a GM you’ll be laughing during almost every strip. The strip follows the movie visually, but diverges heavily on the plot and characters. This is definitely entering [...]

Dear Apple,

Dear Apple, Would you please quit making your software ask me if I want to install more of your software? All I wanted was to watch a Quicktime movie and now you ask me every couple of weeks if I want to install iTunes, if I want to install Bonjour, if I want to install [...]

How-to Build a Rope Barrier

Rope barriers are really useful items, especially at train shows where everbody wants to touch your $100 engines and your $300 scenes and you’re not allowed to use a taser or flamethrower on them… Sorry, got carried away there. Anyway, here’s how I built a simple rope barrier. We designed ours to have 7 feet [...]

Ft Worth Train Show 2009

This weekend is the Great Train Expo in Ft Worth at the Ft Worth Convention Center. General admission is $7 for adults, brats are free. Kenneth, Billy, Matthew, and I will be there playing trains with Tex-N-Rail. I just finished a rope barrier for the event, I’ll post a how-to on that next week. You [...]

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Classic Andy Capp

The British Cartoon Archive, courtesy of the University of Kent, has a collection of old Andy Capp cartoons going back to August, 1957 and running through December, 1962. It’s interesting to watch the evolution of Andy and Flo’s appearance over those 5 years and then to look at them in the current version. Here’s Flo [...]

The Armadillo Shortline History

Put together a small history of the Armadillo Shortline. Because of the way I designed it, I figured it would be best as a PDF (get Adobe Reader here or Foxit Reader here). I’ll eventually have an HTML version available.

Slinky

Came across this while Stumbling… “Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for much, but bring a smile to your face when pushed down the stairs.”