Another 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #aesthetics #design

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If Wishes Were Horses (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 16) Hallucinations become real as a Plot Contrivance Field threatens the station.

Rewatching ST:DS9 Quark tries to interest Odo in a holosuite fantasy, but Odo prefers realism. Jake passes through the casino, on his way to play his father’s baseball program. Dax is amused but unmoved by Bashir’s romantic overtures, and kindly suggests a “high-pitched sonic shower.” She’s on her way to Ops to look at a…

Another section of #steampunk control panel, because reasons. #blender3d #blender3dart

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I rather like my instructional page on writing effective dialogue. I created this new graphic for it.

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Birthright, Part 2 (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 6, Episode 17) Worf sows disorder in a settlement where Klingons and Romulans live in peace

Rewatching ST:TNG L’Kor tells Worf the Klingons have chosen to remain in what was initially a Romulan POW camp, because if were known they were captured alive, that would bring dishonor on their family. The Romulan Tokath gave up his military career to spare their lives and lead their new settlement. The Klingon survivors, their…

Today’s 10 sq cm of retro #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart

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Part of my daily routine is practicing German for about 15m per day. With no particular practical goal.

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Another 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #aesthetic

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Progress (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 15) Kira befriends a stubborn squatter

Rewatching ST:DS9 Dax and Kira are chatting in a runabout (Dax says Morn is “kind of cute”) when they discover humanoid life on a moon that’s scheduled to be technobabbled into uninhabitability in the name of progress. On the moon, Kira meets Mullibok (the great character actor Brien Keith), who escaped to this moon decades…

Another 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel goodness. #blender3dart #blender3d

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Dax (#StarTrek #DS9 Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 7) Jadzia Dax faces the legal consequences of Curzon Dax’s actions

Rewatching ST:DS9 Dax is apprehended for the allegedly criminal actions of a previous host. Bashir is unsuccessfully trying to escort Dax to her quarters when he witnesses people attaching her. Instead of calling for backup, he tries to be a hero and gets knocked out. The station manages to catch the baddies’ getaway ship, and…

White antiracist hero: “A hired killer fired a bullet right at Cassius’ chest… just as Cassius was unsheathing his bowie knife, which took the hit and saved his life.”

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Trainer and Sea Lion Tango: “He Had It Coming” (Cell Block Tango, from Chicago)

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Another 10 sq cm section of a #steampunk control panel. #blender3d #blender3dart #design

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I’ve missed doing this! Another 10 sq cm of #steampunk control panel goodness. #blender3d #blender3dart #design #aesthetics

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Computers and Writing workshop on Inform 7. (Happening now. In an asynchronous way.)

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Arsenic and Old Lace. I haven’t seen this show since I played the lead as a high school junior in the 1980s.

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I just dusted off a #textadventure project I started in Inform6 around 1999.

I just dusted off a #textadventure project I started in Inform6 around 1999. By around 2007 I had rebuilt about 90% of it in #inform7 and expanded it in fits and starts. But I haven’t touched it in 11 years. It took me about 90 minutes to update all the deprecated code, but it runs!…

Beautiful day for a walk.

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