As part of the programming for the Armadillocon 2025 game room, I GMed a short 2-hour adventure demoing Jess Nevins’s Fury of the Northmen. Like everything he does, this is an exceptionally dense and thoroughly researched project. Although it builds off the DnD Fifth Edition platform, it’s two hefty tomes with quite a lot of
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After a lifetime without complaints, I suddenly developed a snoring problem. Occasionally the snoring would get so loud that I would wake myself up, but mostly I learned about it when I woke up because my wife gave me a hefty kick. I brought this problem up with my doctor, and she referred me to
Controlled Experiment Finds the Answers! From time to time, I’ve found myself with a use-case for painted plastic. For instance, back in the day, when I was doing a lot of biking, but before I had a lot of high-end REI gear on the bike, I had a DIY panier made out of a re-used
The State of Austin’s Pedestrian Infrastructure 2025 Earlier this year I trained to walk the Megamarsch Hamburg, an endurance event in Germany where I walked 100km in 24 hours. I wrote a blog post about that which you can read on this very site. In the process of training for this absurdly long walk, I
So You Want to Walk the 100km Megamarsch. About two months ago, I walked the Megamarsch Hamburg, a 100km urban trail hike in one long 24-hour period. Now that I’ve recovered from the experience, I thought I would set out some material about it in English for anyone outside of Germany who is thinking of
If you aren’t familiar with the gardening conditions in Austin, let me tell you, they’re pretty terrible. Tomatoes in particular have a terrible time of it. Austin hits fatal extremes of heat and cold. You have to plant tomatoes after the danger of frost, but early enough that they fruit before the heat sets in.
A few years ago, my cousin Kelly put together a list of summer events which she called the Best Summer Ever. This list was optimized for Minneapolis, but it got me thinking that there ought to be a list for Austin. After the summer we had last year, we need a palate-cleanser summer, a summer
Let’s try another version of the green grape mustang pie! This is essentially the rhubarb pie recipe you’ll see up north, but with the green grapes substituted for the aforementioned sour stems. I like this recipe in a different way than I like the other green grape pie recipe. Because the fruit is baked in
Since I sometimes get requests for this pie recipe, I thought I would publish it for the world here. This is a selection from a guidebook in progress called “Central Texas Urban Foraging” which I’ve been writing with Kim Hill of KimCovers512.com. Of all the pies we’ve made, this one has the most enthusiastic fan
A while ago, a friend of mine living in California sent me an article from Business Insider that had been making the rounds. It’s paywalled, so to save you a click, I’ll summarize it. A Silicon Valley tech bro named Brett Adler moved his family to Austin, grew disenchanted, and then moved back to California