Category: Nonessential Thoughts
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My Five-Year-Old (Computer) Could Make That!
Supply, demand, and how the Steam Store helped me feel less anxious about the threat of machine learning
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Lessons from the BearPig
Learning to think of myself as an ever-improving artist instead of a bad artist
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Long Live the Smarm
The Queen is dead. Now is the time of warring edgelords.
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Department of Pettiness, Young Adult Literature Division
I demand retroactive credit for biting my tongue for so many years.
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Move Over, Bacon, Slowly, Without Making Eye Contact
A short story about the time I went to see a taping of Kate & Allie
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Revisionist History and Revisionist Present, Splash Mountain Edition
Thoughts on an update of a Disney ride, and being on the internet without taking the bait.
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The Ineffable Subtleties of “Ow! My Balls”
I get annoyed with a vlogbrother and defend a movie I thought was just okay
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Monday Cat
Here’s another experiment learning Nomad Sculpt for iPad. The cliche that cats are grumpy and mean-tempered is lazy and inaccurate. This cat, for instance, loves Mondays. That’s the day he gets to go to his job at the bank, foreclosing on people’s homes.
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Dreidelbot
And here’s the Dreidelbot 8000. I made it out of Nomad Sculpt. Partly to make up for posting Santa renders while Hanukkah was still going on, but mostly because I wanted to see if I could make a Nick Park-style robot. Don’t be alarmed by his low battery meter; his fuel tends to last longer […]
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Santa, Baby
I’ve been having a ton of fun with Nomad Sculpt on the iPad. I admit I didn’t think much of it until I found videos by Eric Lee on his eric3dee channel. (Start with his video doing Popeye). Not only is it possible to make neat-looking models with it, using the Apple Pencil directly on […]
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Friday Night’s All Right for Looking at all Those Chickens
Just a grab bag of older funny videos this week
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Friday Night’s All Right For Keeping the Kids Out of the Pool
Friday link post featuring Adult Swim and long-term storage of renewable energy