Malcolm's Ramblings

Sol Prima Miniatures

Science Fiction Minis are harder to find than fantasy ones, and I’ve wanted to see more cool models in the space, so I started looking at what was out there and the big of sci-fi stuff I found was typically either proxies or direct intellectual property rip-offs, so I figured there was a gap in […]
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Protected: Path to Success

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Resin Printing with Donatello: Phrozen Sonic Mini 4K

So even when I was buying my Sidewinder X1, I was dreaming of also owning a resin printer that could do miniatures in high detail and now Wallace has a friend in Donatello. I wanted to buy a medium sized resin printer, something that could print large, high detail busts, or bigger space ship models, […]
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Covid Response in Canada: An Open Letter

I emailed something similar to the following to my MP and MPP regarding the recent response to Covid-19. I am emailing you today as a concerned citizen regarding the “second wave” of Covid we are experiencing as a Country. I am hopeful that you and the rest of our elected government can see that the […]
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Luna Has Hip Dysplasia

We had a health guarantee, but we don’t want to give back Luna, so we will find a way to keep her comfortable and hope she gets to live a good life. Luna just had her second birthday and today we should be on our way to meet up with her litter mates, but we […]
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A House and Home

It feels weird to write about this since we’ve been living here for more than a month now but Annie and I bought a home. It is a raised bungalow with Annie, Luna and me on the main level, and my mom living downstairs. The house is semi-detached, so we still have a connected neighbor, […]
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Hyundai Kona EV – Too Tight a Squeeze

Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a post where I discussed the options available to Canadians that interested me with regards to electric vehicles – Electric Car Options, but I was focused primarily on range and price, and since then I’ve come to realize that my top choices might not work. While the Hyundai […]
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New Computer: Freyr

When Annie came to me and said that she will need a desktop computer this fall for school, since it is being delivered remotely, I jumped at the opportunity to build a new machine for myself and pass on my current machine to Annie. Don’t get me wrong, the current computer, Athena, has nothing wrong […]
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Gun Control in Canada- What’s the Solution?

We aren’t like the United States with its Second Amendment, nor do we have the level of gun violence per capita that they experience, but with a recent mass shooting in Canada, our government is making moves to try to show that they are doing more than paying lip service to the issue, but their […]
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Walking – April Health Challenge

In April, Annie and I decided to move a bit more. I probably do around one to two thousand steps per day, but could I ramp that up to two-hundred thousand in a month? As I do with most challenges, the first part was the easiest. I was doing nearly ten thousand steps per day […]
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