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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 11/09/2026

The part that's interesting to me is the signage. Specifically, the use of the trans symbol. No signs ever say the word "trans", but the symbol appears on the all gender washrooms.

A photo of an outdoor sign indicating that the building includes "Universal washrooms" and includes two symbols: a person in a wheelchair and the transgender symbol.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 02/09/2026

Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old? There are a lot of really interesting films that came out that year, for me. But if I had to choose, it'd be this one:

Promotional image for _Star Trek IV: The One With the Whales_ showing the main characters' heads on a red background, with the an image of the Golden Gate bridge and a part of a Klingon Bird-of-Prey in the foreground.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 22/08/2026

Since we're talking about Canadian culture, can I talk about a thing that really annoys me? Apple TV offers a boxed set of the Canadian TV adventure series, _Relic Hunter_ (which seems like a knock-off of _Tomb Raider_). It's CDN $200.

AppleTV's Complete Series of _Relic Hunter_ available for $197.34

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 09/08/2026

Read the room, Modiphius.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 03/08/2026

I saw this image on Faecebook. Note SAM's comm badge:

A promotional image from season 2 of _Starfleet Academy_. Showing characters SAM and Genesys in the foreground and a third character in the background. Genesys is wearing the red athletic outfit with hoodie, but SAM is in a standard cadet uniform in operations gold, but with a new-to-season-2 comm badge.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 29/03/2026

Here's another gripe in the same vein: this is a photo of the "movies" in my "purchased movies" list on my Apple TV: Note my _Lord of the Rings_ films. Weirdly, the movie "posters" are the French-language version of the posters. Why? Who knows!?! Are they French versions? No.

A photo of (some of) the movies in my Apple TV movies list.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 29/03/2026

It was finally at a price point that I was up for owning a copy. So I bought it. And re-watched it. And discovered that it's missing one episode: episode three of season 3.

A screenshot of the Mac TV app showing the box set of _The Good Place_, specifically missing an episode.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 16/01/2026

Okay. Early contender for best new character.

Commander Lura Thok from Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 16/11/2025

Me, I probably would'a gone for this favourite. Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

An image of Martian Marine Bobby Draper from the TV series, _The Expanse_, standing "at ease" in front of some suits of power armour.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 08/11/2025

I’m so old, this was my first cell phone.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 15/09/2025

James Baldwin is amazing, but awkwardly that wonderful statement wasn't made by Baldwin, but rather by a user on Twitter who used the handle "@SonOfBaldwin."

A tweet by Robert Jones, Jr. that says "We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist."

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 17/08/2025

I was looking around for a 3D model of the TNG Engineering Kit, and couldn't find one. So I threw this together in Blender, fairly quickly. It's not a terribly complicated mesh, but there are a bunch of things I never seem to get to completion and this actually feels finished.

Render of a 3D model of a TNG-era Engineering Kit (the kind that Geordi is often seen carrying).

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 06/07/2025

Bidi bidi bidi. If you see this, quote with a robot that isn't from "Star Wars," "Star Trek," "Dr. Who," or "Transformers."

Twiki, the little robot from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. He's a short metal-looking robot with a mushroom-shaped head, carrying a tray. Tied around his neck, he's carrying another character -- Dr. Theopolis -- who looks like a cross between a clock and a face made out of circuits.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 03/07/2025

On the topic of commissions, here's a Zatanna I commissioned from Sarah Leuver, aka ComickerGirl, a few years back. (Huh. I just looked it up and it was in 2019). As I say, I like Zatanna.

A drawing of Zatanna in a cute, cartoony style. She's wearing her "top hat, tails, and fishnets" costume, holding a wand in one hand and her hat in the other. Tendrils of magical energy are emerging from the want.

Art by Sarah Leuver.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 03/07/2025

I got a coupl'a art commissions from Campbell at Fan Expo Canada just a bit before his _Naomi_ and _Far Sector_ work. This Artemis image hangs on my wall just beside my computer.

An drawing of the Young Justice character, Artemis, from waist-up, holding a bow. Her stance suggests that she's just fired an arrow. It's a commission from Jamal Campbell, inked with marker and coloured with (I think) Copic markers.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 18/06/2025

I think about this sign all the time.

A yellow warning sign that reads "It is possible to survive this, but not unaltered."

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 07/06/2025

Tell me your pet's name with a gif.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 19/04/2025

Duolingo kind of sucks these days. This was a question from yesterday’s batch. The “correct” answer is not an accurate translation.

A Duolingo translation question where the “correct” translation is not the same as the original English text.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 28/03/2025

2 (comics) characters you like (Anyone can join)

A cover from a Zatanna comic showing Zatanna, one of DC's mystical heroes who also performs as a stage magician.

A cover of (I believe) a collected version of the Paul Kirk _Manhunter_ series that originally appeared as a back-up story in 70s Batman comics.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 20/03/2025

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

The main cast from the 2002 Stephen Soderbergh film, _Solaris_ (based on the book by Stanislaw Lem). I adored this film, even though the audiences stayed away in droves.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 24/02/2025

I received an email response from the CBC after I filled in their ombudsman form on the weekend. I find it pretty underwhelming. Mostly because it basically says, "It was our job to 'just ask questions' and the fact that you found it obnoxious is a 'you' problem."

Text of an (mass) email from the Nancy Waugh of the CBC responding to the many folks who complained about that "Canada as a 51st state" discussion that CBC aired on the weekend.

Among the points it makes are:

1. The CBC tweaked the wording in response to the hundreds of angry messages;
2. Our job is to have "conversations" and our best way of responding to "this important moment" is to have a cross-boarder chat.
3. They felt it important to quote Fenlon's blog chiding the angry objectors for complaining about a programme that hadn't even aired yet.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 17/02/2025

A couple of other books caught my eye, but both are pre-orders. I've seen a number of Sara Tepes videos on YouTube, and I think she has a distinctive style. I don't think I'm a "beginner" with Clip Studio any more, but I can always learn more techniques. So I might check that out as well.

A Beguiling pre-order listing for the book _Beginner's Guide to Digital Painting in Clip Studio Paint_ by Devin Elle Kurtz

A Beguiling pre-order listing for the book _Digital Painting Made Simple_ by Sara Tepes.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 22/01/2025

I suppose a slightly more revealing way of looking at things is via a dependency table. It's been a while since I was actively using SonarQube, but I recall that it could give you this kind of picture.

A dependency table showing the relationship between different packages in an application.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 22/01/2025

Let's look at one little example in all of this. There's a dependency between a MailChimp package and an "exceptions" package. Turns out, that represents 1 single import statement. An import of an exception class used in exactly one place. To me, that's an anti-pattern.

Small example of package dependency analysis.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 22/01/2025

That's pretty overwhelming, sadly. I could feed the same data through PlantUML, but I don't get anything better. Also, PlantUML seems to have cropped the edge of the picture off.

A package dependency graph generated by PlantUML, based on some static code analysis.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 22/01/2025

I have some tools that I've played with in the past. I pulled a package analyzer out of mothballs and ran that on my codebase. It gave me this picture. Names anonymized, of course.

An analysis of package dependencies in a Java codebase.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 02/01/2025

The Book of Face offered me this little-known fact about Golden Retrievers and American tourists.

Two side-by-side short videos, as previewed Facebook. The text across both of them appear to read "Golden Retrievers have no known natural enemies except... American tourists in Europe."

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 01/01/2025

Obligatory response meme...?

Meme image from _The Office_ showing a white woman in business clothes saying "They're the same picture"

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 22/12/2024

Post your favourite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

Betty and her clone Betty from the TV Series _Quark_.

(Two twin, blonde, white women in pale blue science fiction crew uniforms).

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 07/12/2024

So now I have this. I spend a weird amount of time on some odd details in the character creator.

Revised version of the Par'Tok freighter ship outline as it appears in the character creator.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 07/12/2024

Anyway, that image helped me sketch out a rough version of the ship in #Blender. It's a pretty unsophisticated model, but I only care getting enough of the shape details to make a silhouette outline.

Screenshot of the Par'Tok frieghter, modelled in Blender using a good set of diagrams as a reference.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 07/12/2024

On the topic of the Par'Tok class, it's one of the spaceframes that I still had an old simple silhouette of in the app.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 07/12/2024

But if I'm honest, I just don't love the FASA civilian ships. They're pretty uninspiring. I have a copy of this book, for example. It includes two ships -- the Chameleon-class and the Mission-class (the Mission is "originally Starfleet, but later used by civilians"). They're both ugly.

The cover of FASA's Star Trek: The Role Playing Game Adventure Book, which came with the original 1st edition rules.

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BC Holmes @bcholmes.org · 06/12/2024

Post a GIF of you screaming into the void

An animated gif of Lola, the main character from the film _Run Lola Run_, screaming while holding a telephone receiver.

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