Sniffy the Cat
I was telling Tristan about Sniffy the Cat, the creation of my high school friend, Mark Salvacion. I sort of adopted Sniffy in college and extended his story. This inspired my to post his adventures on paynecentral.com/sniffy....
Start of the Internet
I was researching some accounts today and while tracing Verizon to Yahoo! (recently spun off) to AOL…just found out that AOL can trace its roots back to PlayNET, a company I worked for while at RPI in their Incubator. I had no idea I was so close to the...
SpaceRocks lives
I have been working to bring SpaceRocks back to life. My latest version (Dec 2021), for the Oculus Quest 2 and built with Unity, can be found here: https://paynecentral.com/files/SpaceRocksVR.apk (42MB) Here is a link to my original SpaceRocks demo built back in 1997 when I was working for Sense8....
The pond is done…
The pond is done. Let the tranquility begin. There are a few odds and ends to finish up. At least one more bucket of rocks should be cleaned. And I need to find some parts for the hammock (not sure where they went during winterization…but what I did find...
Pond Progress – Aug 14, 2021
More pebble cleaning today. After about 5 hours of that, I decided to see how much new stones would cost at Home Depot. When I realized it was only $4/bag, I made a trip. I will probably clean one more bin of old stones (good exercise) and head out...
Pond progress
While I am mid-project, I figured I would attempt to document my efforts to rebuild/restore the koi pond in our yard. Today, I spent a lot of time cleaning pebbles. I did some googling and came across this video: https://youtu.be/flwWZ1qmKxA that suggested screening the stones with “hardware cloth”. To...
Laser FX memories
So Josh sent me an email this week pointing to a YouTube “unboxing” video of a Laser FX. For those of you who don’t know, Josh and I brought the Laser FX to market back in the late 1980’s. Josh was the inventor (he also gave credit to some...
First (2021) VR App
It’s so cool that I can actually develop apps for my new Oculus Quest 2. It took a while to find the correct set up instructions (the SDKs, plugins and Unity user interface are a constantly moving target), but these instructions from XRTerra were spot on! The app isn’t...
Hacking Saturday
I was thinking I would spend yesterday setting up a Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server for the boys, but William decided to have a meltdown over swim team practice and lost access to electronics for the weekend. So I put that project on a back burner and instead tackled some...
Pond Damage
When Tropical Storm Isaiah hit town, we lost power for a couple of days but also had some pond damage. It turns out a branch not only landed in the stream between the waterfall and the main pond, it also pieced the rubber liner that keeps the water from...