by Lance | Apr 13, 2024 | Finance and budgeting, Life
Debt, Inflation, and Debasement by The United States spends more than it produces and pays for the difference with debt. This causes inflation. Historically, countries take on debt to fight wars and sometimes to ease the effects of a recession. Today, as a nation, we...
by Lance | Apr 9, 2024 | Art, Technology
Sculpture and AI by Yes, AIs can sculpt. They already have. While most of the AI generated art we see today is 2-D, there is nothing about 3-D that provides a barrier to generative AI technology. Many of the digitally generated fantastical creatures one sees in movies...
by Lance | Feb 12, 2024 | Art
How to mount a bronze sculpture to a base by This is a blog on how to mount a sculpture to a wood or stone base when the tap holes are hidden. There is a trick to knowing where to drill the mounting holes so that they line up. I will show this step by step, with...
by Lance | Nov 8, 2023 | Zero's story, DARPA, Life, Technology, Writing
Chetna Meets a Feral AI by “Knock, knock. Please don’t kill me. You can easily validate that I am no threat,” came the single-packet data squirt from MAC address 3c:22:fb:45:78:5d. “You’re dead,” I replied reflexively, but nevertheless validated that, unlike previous...
by Lance | Jul 10, 2023 | Art
50 Rules for Amazing Figurative Sculpture by Below is a list of 50 rules for figurative sculpture, with an emphasis on using plasticine clay and targeting a bronze finished product. I have collected these rules over decades from teachers, books, and...
by Lance | Dec 11, 2022 | Life
Two PhDs read a book on whitewater canoeing and drive to Maine by This is a story about two PhDs from Brooklyn who read a book on whitewater canoeing while driving up to Maine to canoe the Saint Croix River. What could go wrong? The photos are from later canoe trips....
by Lance | Dec 6, 2022 | Art, Life, Writing
Similarities between Sculpting and Writing by Lance As a sculptor who is trying to learn how to write fiction, I am fascinated by the parallels between the fields. Similarities between Sculpting and Writing are discussed below. In sculpting, the armature is the...
by Lance | Dec 2, 2022 | Life
The US state sizes adjusted for Federal Land by I recently was interested in how States would look in terms of size if one subtracted off Federal land. Remarkably, in that case Texas becomes the biggest state, exceeding the size of (non-Federal) Alaska. Just as...
by Lance | Aug 31, 2022 | Life
Places to visit in the San Jose – San Francisco Bay Area. by Lance For travel distances, all locations are centered on Saratoga, CA. For those of you familiar with the Bay Area, you know that distances are less important than travel time, which can be quite...
by Lance | Aug 24, 2022 | Business
Why we hate marketers by Some marketing folks focus on how to delight their customers. Others on how to delight their CFOs. Here are a couple of examples of why we hate (some) people in marketing. Why are hot dogs and hot dog buns sold in numbers that are...
