Recent Blog Posts
Make: Prop Skull
You know those days where you’re noodling about what you might make and it occurs to you that you don’t have a full-sized human skull and somehow that surprises you? It surprised me. So I made one. I poked around a bit and found a model that was sufficiently detailed. […]
Make: Fallout 10mm Pistol
This project also was kind of a spur of the moment thing. I was watching the new Fallout television show on Amazon Prime (which was very good!) and one of the main three characters eventually came into possession of one of the game’s iconic 10mm pistols. While the pistol is […]
I Failed
Back at the beginning of this year, I set a goal. I wanted to write a thousand words per week for the year, much as I did back in 2013. That was a fun project back then. I thought it’d be a good challenge and give me a chance to […]
Fortune
Once upon a time, in the Before Times (call it the 1990s), software engineers would add to an otherwise boring login by displaying additional things like time, date or weather. Another was to display a random fortune. Some are movie quotes, some are literary quotes and some are just fortunes. Some are profane and some are a little profound. This bit of code accesses an online API to generate a fortune and display it.
Credit to HelloACM, which provides and hosts the API for this and many other cool things.
Staff Spotlight
This is our Staff Spotlight where we focus on some of the folks who help make us who we are!
Edwina Kane
Planner
Quote: "Be as you wish to seem." - Socrates.
Home Town: Emporia, KS.
Denise Trujillo
Director of Marketing
Quote: "If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher." - Pema Chödrön.
Home Town: Orange, NJ.
Dalton Riddle
Oyster Floater
Quote: "I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done." - Marie Curie.
Home Town: Knoxville, TN.
Blake Salas
Guru
Quote: "We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish." - Tony Robbins.
Home Town: Plainfield, NJ.
Credit to HelloACM for the random identity generator, Generated.photos for the AI generated headshots and Pixabay for the random backgrounds and api.quoteable.io for the quotes api.
Random Colors of the Day
Find some inspiration to brighten your colorspace! The three options below are based on trying to assign names to colors as they are represented on a computer screen, typically via a hex value like this: "#546789". Each pair represents the strength of the Red, Green and Blue value. Back in the day, the X11 Consortium declared that colors would be stored in a file called "rgb.txt" and many had names associated with them. Additionally, I found a list of colors and names based on Resene colors. The third one is what happens if you pick a random value and call it a random name. Very useful and highly scientific.
Mediumblue
#0000CD
From the classic X11 file rgb.txt
peanut
#782F16
From the set of Resene colors.
Loutish
#92459d
A unique color and name, created just for you!
About
This is a place where I keep my stuff on the web. The contents and appearance change with time, but tend to reflect my interests. Those interests include: writing, technology, computers, software (both as a user and a developer), 3D printing, crafting, role playing games, computer games, music, art and woodworking to name a few. I do a variety of things that change often and sometimes without warning and typically reflect things I'm curious about.
Darrin Mossor
Human In Training
“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
"Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary"