The reflection should show what’s about 60 degrees above the shuttle, not what’s in front of it. #startrek #tng jerz.setonhill.edu/the-devils-due

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Rewatching ST:TNG after a 20-year break. Picard searches for a legal loophole in peaceful planet’s pact with the devil. Memorable scenes include Data playing Scrooge on the holodeck, courtroom hijinks (“The advocate will refrain from making her opponent disappear”), and Picard padding around on the planet in his jammies (“Just have Mister Data fetch me…

I spent Thanksgiving break building a #trimsheet for steampunk control panels, because why not? #blender3d

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The Myth of North America, in One Painting

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You’re Doing It for the Exposure!!

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Dr Jerz I think your microphone glitched

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It started with a ride down an escalator and ended with a press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

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He checkmates me in two moves. I lasted about a half hour, and went down fighting.

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