The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

All my life is a (UI) circle

matt | July 22, 2010

In the beginning, I was on RedHat, and there was Gnome + Enlightenment.
Later, Gnome adopted Sawfish, but you had a choice. I still used Enlightenment.
Then I don’t exactly recall what happened. I think Enlightenment went away from Gnome, I tried several (IceWM, Fluxbox, etc.) finally settled on FVWM, which I used for several years.
Then Liz [...]

Fixed mah car…

matt | July 22, 2010

The ABS light came on a couple weeks ago. It’s summer, so no rush. Hit it with the computer last night, got an “electrical fault in the right rear ABS sensor”. Pulled the wheel, checked the wire, looked fine. Figure it is a defective component. German Auto Parts is awesome and about 5 minutes from [...]

Minis

matt | July 12, 2010

So, aside from the past month which has been a bit crazy, I’ve been painting again…
The Chaos ships are painted dark green with a couple coats of black wash. The tanks are green and kind of a sand color, with appropriate highlights (treads, etc.) then black wash. The base is painted, and then after this [...]

What do you get…

matt | July 11, 2010

when you combine:

A goat
About 5 lbs of C-4
Containers of salt and nails

Answer: The world’s largest, walking, demon-spawn attracting Claymore mines….
Roleplaying game players are often very, very creative..
Oh, and Savage Worlds works really well.