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Getting back to assembling a "Gunpla" model kit and trying a few simple tricks to improve its appearance: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/476982.html
Two 1/144 Gundam model kits. The smaller one in the front has had its head detailed with a marker and then been sprayed with a flat top coat.
November 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Trying to adjust both simulated ImageWriter printouts and the Snow emulator I winkle them out of: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/474423.html
A composite of various options for classic Macintosh screen text and simulated ImageWriter printouts, reproducing the text of the linked post.
September 27, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Further experiments in getting work out of the Snow emulator turn to Epson dot-matrix emulation: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/471676.html
Retyping from scratch is one way to produce a second draft, and I can imagine someone telling me reasons why that might be preferable to changing a word here and there. Having to transcribe text out of a window showing the emulated screen of an antique Macintosh with the sense everything I had worked on in the new emulator Snow was locked inside it wasn't all that pleasant, though...
August 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Just back from a cruise up past the Arctic Circle: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/468423.html
The North Cape globe in Norway. An older North Cape monument and the distant (and somewhat more northern) Cape Knivskjellodden in Norway.
June 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Visiting the Anime North convention for only the second time, I did know more of what to expect: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/467042.html
An _itasha_ car at Anime North 2025. A large Gundam model near the general model display at Anime North 2025.
May 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Some private sketching shifts a bit more towards Procreate on the iPad, but keeps up the "I did that *myself*" satisfaction: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/466635.html
A quick sketch done with Procreate, iPad, and Apple Pencil. A quick sketch done with Procreate, iPad, and Apple Pencil.
May 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Experimenting with an obscure Color Computer 3 word processor: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/466040.html
A screenshot of the TW-80 word processor (using MAME and the Ample front end), with the text of the linked piece.
April 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Taking the rare step indeed of importing an anime Blu-Ray (with English subtitles) from Japan: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/463422.html
The 2025 Blu-Ray release of Macross: Do You Remember Love?
February 3, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Misadventures with some new-to-me Apple II emulators: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/463088.html
Screenshot of an AppleWorks word processing document in the emulator Mariani.
January 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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A weekend day trip to an old computer exposition: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/457577.html
A Tandy Color Computer 3 (displaying a joshing "error message" and an older TRS-80 Color Computer. An Apple IIc, a TRS-80 Model 100 portable, and a North Star Horizon at the edge of the picture. An Atari 400 (with aftermarket keyboard) and a Commodore SX-64 transportable.
September 17, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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I managed to sneak in during the "invite code needed" phase; I don't remember how much more time passed until the codes weren't needed.
BlueSky user #1,179,228 card.
September 17, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Getting around to assembling a simple Gundam model kit: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/452747.html
An Entry Grade Strike Gundam model (unpainted).
June 24, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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In search of an ad for Transformers without their corporate name: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/450463.html
A comic book ad for "Trans-Bots," with line drawings of two recognizable Transformers and one more enigmatic robot.
May 20, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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Coming back from an eclipse-glimpsing cruise that went on to stop at Hawaii: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/449159.html
The total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024. Emerging from the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024. Waimei Canyon in Hawaii. Rainbow Falls in Hawaii, but no rainbow.
April 29, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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From a new version to Dosbox to DeskMate, a DOS program I couldn't quite get running in the more modern program: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/447123.html
A screenshot of the DeskMate text editor, made using MAME.
March 15, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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A good many years later, stumbling on real examples of an obscure yet more colourful graphics mode for the TRS-80 Color Computer: krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/437398.html
The TRS-80 Color Computer rendered in semigraphics-24 format.
November 3, 2023 at 12:18 AM
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Happening on bits of game software squeezed into the minimalist confines of the Apple I (not II): krpalmer.dreamwidth.org/435923.html
A screen shot of OpenEmulator, emulating an Apple I playing the World version Worple.
October 11, 2023 at 12:10 AM