Some of my notes this week

Seeded watermelon tastes way better than seedless. US Space Force “Inquiry is fatal to certainty.” Will Durant “The idea that you can solve the social issues connected to the internet with anti-trust intervention is rather like thinking that you can solve the social issues that come from cars by breaking up GM and Ford.” Benedict […]

So much for that

I really wanted to use my website as my primary place for sharing in 2021, but that’s not at all how things are turning out so far. Trying to reduce my social media burden, I replaced Instagram with Twitter, got into that, and pretty much forgot about my blog. Plus I’ve been having fun with […]

VR Kitbashing

Adobe Medium has a “stamps” feature and a library of pre-made stamps that you can use to kitbash ideas quickly into form. You can combine and edit stamps, and then make new stamps from this effort. You can also import stamps from .obj files, so I can craft some components with HardOps  & Boxcutter in […]

Moebius in 3D

I’ve been a huge Moebius (Jean Giraud) fan since I first saw his work as a child – I didn’t know until I was much older that a lot of my favorite art were all Moebius works, I just knew what I liked. In my journey learning to bend Blender to my will, I’ve been […]

2021

A new year again.  Will the 2020s roar or be something much weirder? For me this is looking like it will be a year of VR  About four years ago I got a chance to try out the then new generation of VR hardware; the HTC VIVE. I was totally captivated by the potential of […]