• I have a certain fascination with AI. I’ll use it to make character portraits, to analyze my work, make feature images (see above) and to see just how dumb AI can be. And it can be so, so dumb. Today,…

  • So I’m sitting at my desk, eating ramen, trying to think of what do do with my day. Something that doesn’t involve playing Minecraft. Don’t get me wrong, I love playing Minecraft. It’s just it has been taking up too…

  • I have been blogging for twenty years. It’s hard to think I’m still doing this. In some ways I’ve stopped. This site, which I pay good money for every year, doesn’t get updated more than sporadically. The sister site hasn’t…

    [SITE INFORMATION] Twenty
  • You wanna talk about old, this post is almost twenty! All of these smilies are now called emojis. And I’m still waiting. Oh, and the header image is AI. For the record. I’ve yet to come across a smilie for…

    [SILLY STUFF] :-{ ?
  • There’s very little better than a Nero Wolfe mystery. They’re just something else. I’m reading Black Orchids right now. The only reason Wolfe is getting involved in the murder is so he can lay hands on the titular flower. That…

    [THOUGHTS ON STORIES] Exploring Nero Wolfe Mysteries: A Deep Dive
  • This week we’re working on a full low polygon character. This involves not only videos from the course, but at least two hours of videos from ANOTHER series of lectures. This series I’ve never done; I pooped out on the…

  • I discovered today something shocking. This classic and ever so important post has not been restored to this site after the reboot. As you can see, I’ve strove to correct this gross state of affairs by reposting it now. I…