This is brilliant and inspiring. I’m so thankful for people like this, using their skills for the benefit of everyone.

This is brilliant. My first blender project was a cube, slightly larger than the default cube.

At that age, kittens will hiss at every smell that’s not their siblings or mother. If you keep up being near them as often as possible, they’ll soon get used to you.

Those look like CRT units without cases, which is slightly terrifying. Be careful.

What’s on the back of it (i.e. connectors) and what country are you in? (i.e. PAL, SECAM, NTSC)

Likely connectors are RF aerial, BNC, component, composite. Maybe s-video?

Assuming they still work and power on safely, you may find the issue is in generating a signal that they accept, with modern equipment. This depends a little on what you’re planning on using them for, and therefore what you want to connect them to.

There’s quite a lot needed from peripheral manufacturers, regarding drivers and utilities. You still can’t, for example, just buy any new printer or scanner - you have to check compatibility first.

In any foodstuff which says “average contents”, followed by a number, you will always get fewer than average.

For example, your packet of chicken nuggets says “average contents : 24 nuggets”. You are the person who receives 23 nuggets.

Here is an example of the discussion stage:

The actual sleeping stage was just a pile of multi-coloured fur.

We think one of our cats thinks he’s a human, whilst believing his sister and two brothers are still cats.

“Mama! Papa! one of those cats is trying to get into our bedroom and sleep on our human bed for humans”

Yeah, Mac stuff is white or silver now. They stopped doing the colourful stuff 20-odd years ago.

Did it work?

I knew nothing of this! It would appear ski boots use mondopoint divided by 10, so it’s centimetres instead of millimetres.

For international readers, that’s a size 2 in UK/Australia, and approximately a size 33.5 - 34 European.

Apparently it’s also roughly a 210 - 215 mondopoint length.

I would guess so. It’s hard to find any genuine Merle Hheesnd merchandise these days.

This is brilliant. Such a useful website, I’m surprised it didn’t already exist.

Thank you for doing this!

Rest assured that sometimes only half the text gets pasted.

I’m severely impressed with what you’ve done here, both artistically and poetically. What an epic project!

Did you invent the alien script as well? It appears to be a letter-by-letter substitution of the English text, so technically quite learnable :)

I’ve only read a few sections into it, but I’ve enjoyed what I’ve seen, so I’m going to come back and give it a little time when I have some. I’d love a pdf/epub etc for an e-reader (or a paper copy!), though it might be hard to get the image/text flow right - and I imagine quite some effort to rearrange the html document into a page-turning format.

This is a really cool collection. Are they all part of the same “sci-fi universe”, or even part of a larger graphic novel or comic?

Bonus “cool points” for having a cross section of a building with lots of tiny people attacking each other in gory ways :)

I think everyone’s got the CAD/3D programs covered, so a slightly “out there” answer:

If you’re just doing 2D blueprints for yourself, do you actually just need a 2D vector program for doing a scale drawing with measurements?

I’ve done a lot of floorplans / layouts/ site maps etc using Inkscape, for instance.

It depends on exactly what you’re wanting out the other end - so you may be lacking a lot of the features in a full CAD program, but the learning curve is comparatively so shallow that you might have a working plan by the end of the day, rather than the end of the month.

These three are brothers from the same litter, and they’re best mates 90% of the time, thankfully :)

That’s very impressive. My personal best was 3: