Archive for the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

Prototype Morty with Appendage Action

Wednesday, December 15th, 2004

An early version of Morty from the prototype notebook is up as today’s bonus – apparently at the time he had the ability to grow arms as needed. (Useful for station maintenance, I suppose!) The animated security simulation is here, the picture of Floyd looking at the Electric Building is here, and anything before that you might have missed is in the bonus archive. :)

Animated bonus

Monday, December 13th, 2004

Today’s new animated bonus is one of Linton’s security simulations! He’s doing about as well as he did here.

99 Spacers

Sunday, December 12th, 2004

Bob Oosterwijk, who does the comic Star Bored, has written 188 Lines About 99 Spacers who post to the Keenspace Forums, and drawn some great pictures to go with them – take a look! There are links to most of the Spacers’ comics, so you might find even more interesting things to read besides what Mr. Bob’s come up with. :)

(I’m one of those Spacers, and I seem to post a lot to the “Free Associations” threads there… but you’ll probably figure out which one is me even without that information!)

The Electric Building

Friday, December 10th, 2004

So, we went downtown last night to see the lighting of the Electric Building sign… We didn’t have the best view of it, with the rain, heavy traffic, people all around, and lack of available parking spaces, but it was still nice to see! (And after it was turned on we drove around the block and got a better view of it.)

For today’s new bonus, we see Floyd running into the same problem (and seeing the sign from the same angle) – fortunately, he wasn’t sporting his new look from the previous bonus at the time. :)

Misc. stuff

Thursday, December 9th, 2004

I recently saw an episode of The Persuaders, and thought one of the guys in the episode looked familiar, but couldn’t figure out who it was. It turned out it was Stephen Greif, the first guy to play Space Commander Travis in Blake’s 7. Maybe it was the mustache, beard, and lack of eyepatch that threw me off… Anyway, I felt a little better about my actor-spotting skills when I recognized Ralph Bates (“Hey, it’s the guy who played Michel Lebrun in Moonbase 3!”) right away in another episode.

Yesterday evening in downtown Scranton my wife and I saw the “Scranton – The Electric City” sign on the Electric Building lit up. This is the first time it’s been on in about 25 years. It was just restored this year… Its official lighting is actually today, as far as I know. I guess they had to make sure it was actually going to work when they officially turned it on!

DrunkDuck was having some problems yesterday, so you may not have had a chance to see yesterday’s Z7 comic, but it should be working now. (I know… dangerous to say that, it might be listening…)

Finally, in some V3-related news, I’ve updated the bonus archive, so it now has all the bonus strips, pictures, etc. except for the current three. Thanks for reading, thanks for voting, enjoy! :)