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Handwriting for Humanity
I should probably start this post by explaining what an unabashed geek I am. Professionally, I help solve problems people have with computers and software, and I’ve been doing that for almost 20 years. Personally, computers have been a big part of my life since the 1980s. Not like hackers, but for more mundane uses,…
Read MoreSecond Life updates
Linden Labs has promised some big changes are coming to Second Life. The ones that have generated the most hubbub seem to be related to the mobile client that will finally bring SL to smartphones and tablets, and PBR (Physically-Based Rendering (Sorry, Pabst)) which aims to make everything in-world look more realistic. These updates promise…
Read MoreHello World
Stylecards is a bit of an experiment. It started out a few months ago as I was trying out Easy Diffusion to create images. After playing with it for a few weeks, I wondered what would happen if an image from Second Life was used as the source. I love Second Life and love taking…
Read MoreArtifacts
As I play around with Easy Diffusion, I’ve been reminded of something that happened fairly often when I was working with Blender on a regular basis: rendering artifacts. Artifacts happen when there is a problem between what the user thinks they told the software to create and what it actually does. In the case of…
Read MoreThe Girl from Ipanema
It’s sort of crazy how quickly I’ve become addicted to using Easy Diffusion. Just a few days ago I found out about it and less than a week later I’m able to turn out images like this one. Reading about the passing of Astrud Gilberto a few days ago, I used the first verse of…
Read MoreCreate images with Easy Diffusion AI
As a member of Generation X, it’s not often I find out something new, but over the past 24 hours I’ve learned more about AI than I have in the past…well, since ever. More specifically, I’ve learned how to create images using Easy Diffusion. Easy Diffusion is the same thing as Stable Diffusion, but it’s…
Read MoreCalibrate Huion Kamvas Pro 24 4K on Linux
About a year and a half ago I bought a Huion Kamvas Pro 24 4K as a replacement for an old Wacom Cintiq 21UX that died after being used over 10 years. Wacom no longer makes that model of display and their direct replacements cost over $2000, so I was hesitant to buy another. At…
Read MoreLike a kid in a candy store
Now that I have more free time, I’ve been getting back into Second Life again. I also want to get back into Open Simulator, but it’s sort of hard to know where to start. A few years ago I tried a few different Hypergrid instances, and they were okay, but not mind blowing, so I’m…
Read MoreHacking AI News
Having recently graduated, it seemed like a good time to try new things. Among the new things I’ve recently tried out is a WordPress theme called AI News. It’s an open source theme intended for sites that want to incorporate a ChatGPT plugin to write blog posts. I have no intention of using that plugin…
Read MoreMSEd
As of 12:00 AM on May 5, 2023, I officially graduated with a Master of Science in Education degree in Instructional Systems Technology, or MSEd in IST for the sake of brevity. I began working on the degree at the height of the pandemic lockdowns in August 2020, and by taking two classes a semester…
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Taking notes with Obsidian
For a few years now, I’ve been using Obsidian to keep a daily journal, and it’s been great. It has a lot of options that I’ve never explored or needed but something came up recently and I wanted to find out how to connect Obsidian to Zotero. An online search using DuckDuckGo returned an unexpected…
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Business continuity planning
For the past 20+ years I’ve worked at a large public university in the American Midwest, and over the years I’ve picked up “other duties as assigned.” These are duties that don’t take up all of my time, but are good to work on when things are slow. One of these duties is business continuity…
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