When students don’t show up during office hours: I adjusted the cabinet and added a new (shorter) lamp so the doors can open freely. #blender3d

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The secret police: Cops built a shadowy surveillance machine in Minnesota after George Floyd’s murder

Many of the same people who reject masking and vaccinations on the grounds that they allegedly threaten the free will of the citizenry are perfectly OK with authoritarian police systems that harass and assault citizens who are exercising their First Amendment rights to a free press and free speech. If you’re worried that vaccines are…

Unfinished pine and not so ornamented, for the workshops and service areas of my fantasy #steampunk #blender3d project.

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Green / mahogany variation of the vibe I'm working on for a fantasy #steampunk #blender3d project. Rendered in #eevee and getting a little better every time.

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Getting a little bit better with each #blender3D scene I render.

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If I don’t hang my own artwork on the walls of my #steampunk fantasy ship-of-the-line, who will? #blender3dart #blender3d #blender3dmodelling #eevee (flowers, picture frame, and upholstered texture and backdrops are all remixed)

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A familiar performer choreographed and dances the “Canaan Days” tango in Stage Right’s Joseph (tonight and tomorrow)

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This the last hour I will have a teenager in my house. (Tomorrow my youngest turns 20.)

I blogged in 2004: “The time is waning that my son will want nothing more than to play Battleship and The Magnificent Race with me all afternoon. Some day I’ll make a silly joke, and my daughter won’t giggle with glee, she will roll her eyes and say, ‘Dad, you’re embarrassing me.’” https://jerz.setonhill.edu/blog/2004/07/09/2657/ …

Opening night! So great to see live local theatre.

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NASA astronaut: Russians were ‘blindsided’ by reaction to yellow suits

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Stuffed planet Venus, made for me by my dear mother, around 1974.

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We were a Neilsen ratings family during the pandemic

In March 2020, just as the lockdown closed down my daughter’s production of The Outsiders and the next couple of shows she had already lined up, and my school went to virtual teaching, my wife got a call from the Nielsen Ratings company. My household had been selected as one of the representative families whose…

All Good Things… (#StarTrek #TNG Rewatch, Season 7, Episode 25) Picard faces a timey-wimey puzzle in three different timelines

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Paradise Blue (so glad to be seeing more live theater lately)

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In April, 2002, I was blogging about an autistic person’s guide to asking a girl on a date; The Inform 6 Beginner’s Guide; broken links;

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Please use the microphone at public events (I have an auditory processing disorder and can’t understand you — even if you shout really loudly from your seat)

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“Wolf!”, cried the shepherd boy. (The whole thread is worth reading.)

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Ungrading after 11 weeks

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