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Mean Girls Revenge Part 2 – Dune (1984)

Troy was my second target for Mean Girls Revenge, as he helped instigate the meme-flinging.  I didn’t have to work very hard to get a movie for him, because he straight-up asked to borrow Dune.  When pressed for which version of Dune he would prefer, he asked for both, so I lent him both the 1984 movie (starring Sting, Kyle MacLachlan, and Patrick Stewart, Freddy Jones…) as well as the 2000 sci-fi channel mini-series (starring William Hurt). Continue reading Mean Girls Revenge Part 2 – Dune (1984)

What Sci-Fi Universe Would You Live In?

A friend of mine asked during dinner the other night, “If you could live in any science fiction universe, which would it be, and why?”  I struggled with this question for a lot of different reasons, mostly because I have read about a lot of different science fiction universes, but many of them do not completely flesh out what life is like for the common person. Continue reading What Sci-Fi Universe Would You Live In?

3D Printing – Part 1

At around the beginning of the year, I started looking into 3D printing – what it was about, how it had evolved to this point, what the various options were, and what the workflows looked like. After looking at the various options and price ranges, as well as getting some helpful advice from some friends, I finally decided I wanted to do some 3D printing at home, and that I would get a 3D printer.

Before I even ordered one, however, I wanted to get a feel for the workflow of a project. I knew I wanted to start with as much freeware as possible so that I could figure out where the rough edges were, and know what I would want to get from anything not-free.

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Building Dune

Over the last couple of months, I have been working on a print-and-play copy of the 1979 Avalon Hill Dune Board Game. I finished it up last week, and promptly sent it off to my best and oldest friend John for his birthday. However, I did get a few pictures (and, of course, I still have all of the printables), and I wanted to take the time to talk a bit about all the things that went into this build, especially as it is my first complete print-and-play board game.

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Mosaic-a-Week: Dune

dune-logoThis week I have something a little bit different – rather than doing a mosaic from Magic: the Gathering cards, I’ve done a mosaic from scenes of the Dune miniseries. This was an interesting experiment for me, and exposed a bug in my dynamic binning preconditioner (which was rather nefarious, and took a bit to spot), so that was actually rather helpful. I also want to do some duplicate detection, as I think it will improve the image significantly, but it is going to take a different technique than what I did for the magic cards, so we’ll see. At any rate, here’s the Dune miniseries title screen as a mosaic.
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