I don’t have a lot of new news to report. I’m still looking for “a real job,” while I’m otherwise occupied trying to keep my IT skills in shape by updating my own websites, learning how to better use Flash & ActionScript, learning Blender and animation skills, etc. I haven’t been doing much gaming at all, mainly just using Oblivion to test out my “Blender Blunders.” I’ve also been working a bit more on my photography and writing, mainly by doing a “Picture A Day” project on my Facebook page … Continue reading
So it’s been awhile since I’ve tried my hand at 3D modeling and animation. I started way back when on my trusty Amiga 2000 when I ran a bunch of different 3D goodies (VideoScope 3D, Calligari, imagine, etc – I couldn’t afford LightWave, but a friend of mine had it). Since then I’ve also tried 3DSM and Maya at local “night school” type environments – I can’t afford those either. I could afford POV-Ray, and actually built quite a few “still scenes” with that tool. But now I’m trying my hand at Blender. Mainly … Continue reading
Well, I’ll tell you. It’s Dutch for “object.” Why am I writing about objects today? Because a CNN blogger totally got the facts wrong on a recently Hubble photographed object named “Hanny’s Voorwwerp.” (hopefully the facts have been updated by now?) Here’s the real skinny: It’s much closer to the size of the Milky Way (100K Light Years across) than the cited 300,000 miles (which is just over the distance from Earth to the Moon). There’s almost zero chance of it bumping into our galaxy (as suggested). It’s over 650 … Continue reading
2010 was a very slow blogging year for me. There weren’t any new games that monopolized my attention and I was out of work for the lion’s share of the year. It’s odd that I didn’t blog nearly as much during my downtime as when I was working – for some reason it just seemed like I didn’t really have the time. Very odd. It also shows that I probably did a lot of my blogging when I was bored at work. I imagine that’s probably true for many bloggers. … Continue reading
I’ve been using the new scanner intensively the past week or so. For the most part it has been great, but when it fails, it fails big time on the “Digital ICE” feature that is supposed to clean up old, possibly damaged photos, slides, negatives, etc. Besides the problems with ultra rocky settings, it also seems to do odd stuff when there are a lot of leafy trees or rippled water shots. It just over smooths those things and turns them into blocky, artifact filled pictures, which is unfortunate. Of … Continue reading