December 03.2023

December 03.2023

Welcome to 2023!

Well That Was A Pause The "Welcome" above wraps this up fairly well: it's been a while since I've posted. There has been a bit of "real life" and just plain being busy, some of the passing of John Rawlins deflated the balloon a bit more, and then there's a whole "behind the scenes" thing on the technical end. You know that scene in the episode "Invasion" that went like this: Goose disconnects that laser cannon. Shane Gooseman: Got any idea how to fix this mess? Stanley: Sure, all we've got to do is re-order a new machine center. That should fix everything. Shane Gooseman: Right... It was a lot like that and the longer I put off the upgrades the harder it would be to fix it. This past week I took a day and created a new server and went through all the steps and here we are, upgraded Mediawiki and phpBB forums! I did some streamlining here and there (hopefully this page now is more mobile friendly). This specific update prep took four hours to do as one thing led to another, some technical, some rabbit-hole, some just coming up with words. It'll feel good to publish this tomorrow morning as we hit Year 6 (or Year 24 last month). There's a bit of stuff below. Creator updates, a new 3d printable Ranger Interceptor model, etc. If anyone finds issues on the site, let me know. Future updates may be slow, but I feel like now that I've gotten past the much needed upgrade I can spend some time doing some things like episode synopsis writing or something.

Creator Updates Curtis King, Jr. How the he** did I not see this in the TWELVE YEARS he’s been on X-Twitter?!? I'm shamelessly co-opting one of his tweets about a YouTube video (UA:LA) because I really can't believe I haven't run across Curtis's twitter account before this past week! That's right, there is storyboard artist and production designer Curtis King, Jr. on Twitter! I may come back to this later. Masaaki Endo and Yoshiteru Tsujino Mid-last year I had a Twitter exchange with two TMS employees who worked on the pilot and the outcome was wonderful! Masaaki Endo posted a series of sketch artwork from the show and Yoshiteru Tsujino joined in, posting a series of four frames from the escape pod sequence in Phoenix. I responded with the four final frames from the episode! The exchange is captured here and the artwork has been uploaded (with permission) here. Load video YouTube YouTube might collect personal data. Privacy Policy ContinueDismiss Youtube: An unrelated YouTube interview with Yoshiteru Tsujino. Dan Fiorella - The Audio Series TL\DR: Check out Dan's SoundCloud account It's not an update without a mention of Dan, right? Last spring I reached out to Dan and asked him a question, actually wait a moment... I'll be right back... I can verify this conversation... ... and I'm back. I just revisited the moment just now for clarity. Often the things in my head are clear but when they come out the finger tips or mouth and reach others, it's soon apparent that there's a gap. Last spring was one of those moments and when I reached out, I didn't ask a question. Instead I just dumped a thought straight out of the brain. I'll step back now as I didn't then and explain the background: Given Dan's history of writing for radio and the fairly large amount of content he has on his website, it occurred to me somewhere during the pandemic that wouldn't it be neat to hear some of his work that he's written as radio plays? Given podcasts and the ease of recording these days, the medium is there. I rolled that thought around for a good year before reaching out to Dan with it, but you know, without any of the back thoughts and just dumped it out there. The reply was "Am I missing something here?" As I type this, I still get a chuckle reading that. Dan was way ahead of the thought though and he'd been working with a couple of groups already. In fact, now that I'm catching up on things this weekend, I'm seeing how far behind I am! Dan has the majority of his SoundCloud audio grouped into SoundCloud Audio Playlists and from there you can check out not only the new Spooky Time Theater, but also All Star Radio, the ACN Radio Sketches, his Prairie Home Companion Radio sketches, the Anything Goes Radio, 91.5 NYC Radio sketches, and of course The Nick Files.

3D Model Ranger Interceptor It's been a couple of years since I made my first printable Ranger Interceptor model (and I may have 3 or 4 of these printed around the house) and then Iskelderon's version (I need to add that version here), but a new model just popped up and it's a-maze-ing! You can check out the internal page here and from that page you can see the Facebook posts that have a bunch (40+) of pictures and links to where you can buy this thing to print yourself! I am seriously passing the Etsy link off to my kids later this morning as a gift idea. The printed detail....wow I may need a resin printer after this...