my writing

1997 - 2024

I have been writing for this website since Jan 1 of 1997. (Not that anyone's been reading!)

book reviews (142 items)

movie reviews (1008 items)

about me

fiction (5 items)

creating things

wood carvings

a toy for my boy

a custom wooden toy

carving Buddha

how to photograph diamond jewelry

re-building an old PC for photo editing

articles

the nature of reality

luck (and bird shit)

turning thirty

turning forty

turning fifty

oh Fermi and your paradox

quantum science for a real mind-bend

allosaurus vs. t-rex

a smuggler in the family

page this!

seventy seven kilometers from nowhere

reviews

quietly despairing with Seiko's SARB033

my fishing watch - the Casio MDV-106

dismantling a Casio MDV-106 Duro

review: Minolta X-700 camera

review: Olympus 35DC

review: Minolta XD - XD-11

review: Pentax *istDS

review: Olympus OMD EM5 Mk II

my CASIO weighs a ton

don't buy a St. Moritz made-in-Canada watch

review: Alba solar watch (AQGD403)

review: Kodak EasyShare Z612

modifying a Guanqin watch

review: Asus 'TUF Gaming' FX504G

review: DxO Photolab 6

review: Olympus OMD EM5 Mk III

parenting

teaching your kid to ride a bike

teaching your kid to fish

a toy for my boy

spending

my grandfather's funeral speech

the funeral speech I couldn't give

on management

throwing ducklings to the muskies

genealogy

Neil MacKenzie 1821-1921

a difficult name

the abattoir - my ghost story

swimming with dolphins

favorite experiences in Australia

how I got kicked out of Japan

remembering my father

a smuggler in the family

avoid plastic bags

completing a Canadian PR application

amusements

dungeons and dragons

better character classes for B-X D&D

a fey druid species for dungeons and dragons

a new take on the halfling

infravision no more

magic in basic dungeons and dragons

new monsters for dungeons and dragons

dungeons and dragons monster: ankheg

dungeons and dragons monster: krickler

dungeons and dragons monster: nalek

dungeons and dragons monster: xenomorph pudding

dungeons and dragons monster: zosk thaumaphage

dungeons and dragons monster: xlid

dungeons and dragons monster: quoth raven

dungeons and dragons monster: ychnurc frog

dungeons and dragons monster: troll

dungeons and dragons monster: fire salamander

dungeons and dragons monster: yellow tongue

dungeons and dragons monster: flumph

dungeons and dragons monster: owlbear

dungeons and dragons monster: xuuc

dungeons and dragons monster: zombie mermaid

random monster encounters

better wilderness pursuit rules for B-X D&D

improving D&D monster encounter tables

cornelius clifford's small medieval castle

new alignments for dungeons & dragons

terrain evolution simulator

keeping an aquarium

civilization III add-ons

kanji study tool (2,228 items)

quotes collection (251 items)

rand()m quote

There is little success where there is little laughter.

—Andrew Carnegie