30 June, 2025
In which an explanation covering the problems, solutions, and results of the last couple of years is given.
2 May, 2025
In which the same activities are shown to make cities more pleasant for humans and maybe less so for animal pests.
11 November, 2024
In which the initial shock of the US election begins to fade, and the work of sustainability must begin.
2 September, 2024
In which I unearth a mysterious list of things people wrote about my abilities and impact on others.
29 July, 2024
In which the series on applying more sustainable zoning changes to a model of Seattle is brought to a conclusion, and looking beyond the town level.
24 July, 2024
In which the model of Seattle has the pattern of one "village" extended to a full "town" in scale, adjusted for hyper-local population density.
15 July, 2024
In which I tackle transportation in the ecological modeling of Seattle and realize some of the benefits of density created in previous phases.
6 July, 2024
In which the ecological remodeling of Seattle addresses a mysterious golden band of land around the first "village" area on the map.
1 July, 2024
In which I bulldoze a strip mall in my model remake of Seattle so that everyone has a nicer place to work and live.
23 June, 2024
In which I begin a series of posts applying some city-scale permaculture design ideas to Seattle, to see if an existing city could convert to a better and more ecological plan.
5 February, 2024
In which a new game development project is sketched out after having shifted my development priorities described previously.
26 January, 2024
In which I succumb to all the bad news coming from the video game industry and explore avenues that might be more fruitful.
22 November, 2023
In which the NPC citizens of Pompeii, as represented by little capsules, refuse to get food from my vendor in the forum.
23 October, 2023
In which I describe my process learning Blender and demonstrate what I've learned by modeling a clockwork device with Cistertian numerals.
13 October, 2023
In which I irritate myself in the service of expedience, try to make amends, and show off some character models for my Pompeii project.
23 September, 2023
In which the previous post is extended, touching on ideas of art, history, worldbuilding, and applying a Minecraft mod to Pompeii.
5 September, 2023
In which steps forward and steps back struggled with each other, but learning occurs. And someone has the gall to call me an artist.
29 August, 2023
In which I attempt to figure out a reasonable way to represent human skin tones in a place and time I've never experienced, and completely fail to model human buttocks.
21 August, 2023
In which I make great strides through application of my recent studies and the judicious use of Blender.
17 August, 2023
In which I launch Venegeful Gods, and destroy Pompeii like Vesuvious wished it could have. And So. Much. Learning.
5 January, 2022
In which I describe the process of making my first game entirely from scratch and admit to not refactoring my code so I could release it in 2021.
15 December, 2021
In which I rescope to focus on the requirements of the assignment rather than show off the skills that I have.
13 December, 2021
In which I encounter an assignment in Unity's Junior Programmer Pathway that holds more interest for me because it ties into the math classes I just taught.
9 July, 2018
In which I look at patterns in unemployment within the bounds of a US president's term in office and find a stronger one than I expected.
29 March, 2018
In which learning projects are detailed as a living document for the year, integrated with my work as a part-time adjunct middle- and high-school science and Latin teacher.
13 July, 2017
In which I keep track of various learning projects, including nonfiction reading.
10 July, 2017
In which I answer my mother's request for a list of all the substantial interests I've had over the years, with addenda.
2 September, 2014
In which the refrigerator was wrong, hypotheses were disproven, disproven hypotheses revisited, and eventually another success is credited to the scientific method.
26 December, 2013
In which I enumerate seven reasons for which I get accused of hating Christmas.
