When I discuss the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) with folks, I usually point them to the following three on-line comics: Obamacare Obamacare Follow-up Trumpcare These three comics go over the details of health insurance in the US, the problems that Obamacare was supposed to solve, how well it solved them, where there was room for improvement, and…
This past weekend I turned on my HBO subscription in order to watch Game of Thrones. It gave me the opportunity to binge-watch another HBO series, Westworld. I have mixed feelings about the series. As I'd heard, the show has a narrative complexity and messes around with the viewers' perceptions in an intriguing way. This sustained the…
I like to print test samples of the items in my Kickin' Wiccan shop on Shapeways. I realized recently that I'd printed in enough materials that I could share a visual story of how a polished-metal item is printed by Shapeways. The process begins with a model created in 3D software. Here's how my large pentacle ring…