I have my first villager kids. Had to swipe all the beds and extend two of the generated houses into a community bunk room. 2 or three stacks of carrots later, there were hearts abounding and three little ones....

I made a successful journey into the Nether tonight. The last time I ventured to the Nether Fortress that Tristan found, I died. Three times. Lost everything. Enchanted diamond armor, great swords and great pick axes. But this time I was more cautious…and with only iron armor, I made...

Years ago, I modeled our home in Minecraft creative mode. It’s stuck on a iPad somewhere and I can’t seem to open it anymore. Rebuilding it on a server means I can share the model. And building it in survival mode was something of a challenge, (I hate creepers!)...

I have had a couple of cats and dogs on this new server but they seem to disappear. This kitten will stay at home on my new adventures. Hopefully he stays around for a while...

I made myself a turtle farm. Or more accurately, a “scute” farm. Scute are defined as “a thickened horny or bony plate on a turtle’s shell”. The definition goes on to include the “back of a crocodile, stegosaurus, etc” but we will focus on the turtle. It is basically...

Arghh…my new least favorite mob. Silverfish. I was clearing out space form my Zombie Spawner when I was jump-scared by a swarm of unknown meanies. I looked around and didn’t see what was attacking my, unaware that my feet were being attacked by the minuscule menace. I tried to...

I have been spending a lot of time lately distracting myself with Minecraft on my Quest VR headset. The immersion is fascinating. I have accumulated enough armor to gather the nerve to cautiously enter some of the extensive cave systems in the latest version. I don’t know why I...

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....

I think I have finally found the simple replacement for SiteScope that I have been trying to find. It is a little poorly documented, but provides a simple dashboard (see below) and email or SMS notifications. To get this up on my Raspberry Pi, I first needed to install...

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...