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

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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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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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URL Hacking (new graphic for an older page that’s surprisingly popular on my site)

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