A Small Gunpla Step Forward

Nov. 2nd, 2025 01:19 pm
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After assembling my first Gundam model kit (and the first full-blown model kit I’d put together in quite a few years) I bought another “Entry Grade” Mobile Suit from the same hobby store and built it as well. I was a little inclined to ponder how both of these kits “left out accessories” from how their Gundams deployed in their anime, the better to motivate you to move up a grade, perhaps. With that in mind, when I saw a third Entry Grade kit that happened to be the very first Gundam and was labelled on the box (this time in Japanese and English) as including a “Full Weapon Set” extending to more fanciful armaments left out of the compilation movies, I was motivated to buy it.
Fine details within )

The Twilight Zone: Third from the Sun

Oct. 29th, 2025 05:46 pm
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So far as starting with a title and not much else goes, I was ready to suppose “Third from the Sun” meant The Twilight Zone was getting back to science fiction. Perhaps I didn’t think too much about certain criticisms that science fiction can (or “should”) involve more subtle subjects than “space travel,” but I might have just been trying not to speculate too much, conscious of the apparent risk in “finding fault with a story just for not being what you thought would be a good idea.” (I suppose, though, that I had a thought or two of a title from a few decades later that added one word to shape a less serious mood...)
Surprises in store )

Random Flakes of Snow

Oct. 25th, 2025 06:44 pm
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Poking away at the Snow emulator to explore a few corners of the antique Macintosh experience has stayed interesting enough to get me wondering about making another post on the subject. The whole matter of “old computers,” though, can leave me thinking “it interests me, but anyone likely to see this here would, at best, just sort of shrug and think ‘too much detail.’” The best I can do is keep this introduction short and put everything else a click away.
Guest appearance by actual antique hardware )

Database maintenance

Oct. 25th, 2025 08:42 am
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Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

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After another week’s break to head home for the long weekend I returned to my Twilight Zone Blu-Ray set. As an isolated title, “The Four of Us Are Dying” had got my attention while remaining something to guess about. Rod Serling’s next-episode preview naming four actors also got my attention; it seemed a more extravagant number of potentially significant characters than I’d quite associated with the show up to now. As I loaded up the Blu-Ray I was also amused to see the option of a commentary track from Beverly Garland. She seems the person who’s appeared in more than one of the movies featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 who the fans of that show are most impressed with.
Four plus )

AWS outage

Oct. 20th, 2025 10:11 am
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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

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