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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Star Wars Episode X: The Emperor's New Groove

Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Choosing careers these days is basically trying to figure out what industry hasn't been bought out by private equity firms and stripped for parts with the remains relegated to AI, and then trying to get in to it before all the entry-level jobs are ripped out beneath you as the cycle starts anew.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Fahrenheit is convenient for human-tolerable conditions. 50F = cold, 75F = average or room temperature, 100F = hot.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I'm used to getting rejection letters from jobs I've applied to, but this past year I've noticed a rather large shift from "thanks, but we hired someone else" to "thanks, but the job no longer exists and nobody got hired."

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It seems like we could solve so many of our current problems just by banning the whole concept of "software as a service."

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

It's incredible that Windows 11 just can not recover from attempting to read a scratched CD from 2004. I don't understand how I need to hard reset my computer just because Explorer couldn't navigate a folder on a read-only external storage device in the year 2026.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Those grocery store freon refills can make things worse in the long run, so I'd look for a mechanic shop that specializes in Subarus or AC/HVAC systems. Dealerships are always expensive outside of warentee.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Blender could never beat Maya in the sheer weirdness going on in there. In Maya, you set minimum and maximum values for an attribute with one command, and retrieve them with another. I just discovered that with rotational values, one expects angles in radians, while the other returns in degrees.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 22/09/2023

What's the plural for this? Fox McClouds? Foxes McCloud? Or just Star Foxes?

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

You joke, but my new stove already has WiFi and a LAN port.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I haven't even said anything about AI, and I'm on the anti-ai ai-haters block list. That's how powerful I am.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The name for those are "scintillating scotomas." I get one maybe once a year at this point, but it's really annoying when you're trying to read. I just take a nap and sleep it off since there's not much else I can do at that point. Sort of a biological "Turn it off and on again."

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I finally got to see the results of something I made the design for last year.

A headstone with engraved art of two cats watching over a forested valley. There is a mountain in the distance, based on a photo of Devil's Peak that my father had taken. Celtic knotwork forms a border, traveling through a pair of interlinked wedding bands.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I replaced my computer's CPU and Adobe deactivated all my software, even though it's a fully licensed CS6 suite that I bought back in 2015. Didn't know they were that bitter about people still using their old software legitimately and not switching to a Creative Cloud subscription.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Yeah, the muscles are also doing unspeakable things in there just to get us to stand upright.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

SMART status concerns your hard drive, so make sure you get backups of anything important onto some other storage device.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

This might be one of the worst times to be having hardware issues. If it ends up being the ram, it's going to cost over twice what I paid for in 2019 to replace.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I wanted to keep this in my reel, so I went over the animation from 2017 to put a new layer of polish on it and pulled the textures from the old Houdini RAT files so that I could render it in Maya. I think I've fixed the problem I was having with the sheep rig, so that will be a future project.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Anyone remember how the Boston Massacre happened, the government labelled the victims as terrorists, and the whole event became one of many key events that led to the culmination of the American Revolution? Just wondering.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I know there are enough different Pokémon for at least one snail-riding rabbit.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I can understand the argument that they don't actively seek it out, as general curiosity will draw children to watch just about anything, but to say they don't care is dumb.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

How are we supposed to endure another three years of this?

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

I think this might be a different thing. In the mid-2000's, before Blu-ray was even a thing, people discovered that the then- current releases had a bunch of small changes to random things, like this and some impact frames where they toned down the size of surprised eyes, and such.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I guess the only thing that surprises me is that they actually managed to get this far before they inevitably caved.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

I recently animated a shot for @punchcatstudios.bsky.social's Over The Garden Wall Reanimated project! The 2d portion was animated in Toon Boom Animate and then brought into Maya to simulate Fleischer Studios' multiplane camera setup.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It's as if 4kids sent someone back in time to put it in there to hide a cigarette.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

I watched one get in a fight with a plastic bowl last week.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The 21ux has shortcut keys on the side, and I find myself holding the side so that I can both adjust the position of the screen and reach the keys with my thumb. It just feels more natural than reaching to the keyboard and back.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Probably because the priority is "migration" and not the underlying causes that result in migration.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I got my dtz-2100 off Craigslist in 2017, and it's still working fine with Win11 today. Didn't have any issues installing legacy drivers. The only weird quirk mine has is that if the power goes out, I have to disconnect it from its power adapter and plug it back in for Windows to recognize it again.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

John Williams also did the soundtrack.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

At least it's not the kind that's black and stripey. Those are a little more tricky to set free.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Okay, maybe I should replace my car's water pump...

Old water pump. The turbine is missing four out of six blades, and the remaining two have collapsed onto themselves. It probably tickles the coolant more than actually pumping it.

New water pump. No missing blades, very clean.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

It's kind of like the Napoleon Dynamite of anime for band geeks.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Well, you can tell from the math that they are certainly not square meals.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I'm not a mechanic, but I'm pretty sure my drive belt shouldn't be doing that.

A picture of the drive belt of a 1998 Toyota Tercel. The backing of the belt is peeling up at one end.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

When did he call that one diver, who had rescued a ton of children trapped in a submerged cave and said Elon's robot submarine idea was dumb, a "pedophile?"

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

It's only long because the initial appointment with a psychiatrist to address your concerns is scheduled 2 to 6 weeks in advance, and then the psychiatrist who does the adhd screenings is usually booked out 6 to 8 months.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

It's good at imitating it, but none of those details have any reasoning behind them, and you can tell.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

I was going to say, if the DNC was dead-set on losing another election, they'd run him in 2028.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I mean, there are, it's just that they're surrounded by fundementalists, and they aren't in one of the fundie sects, and don't want to hear about how they're going to hell for believing in "the wrong Jesus."

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

My computer's power supply has started crapping out. I checked my records and I apparently bought it in 2012/13, so I probably should have already replaced it by now. Running an RTX3090 on it probably doesn't help, either.

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I've become a fan of the padded cloth style of cone collar. They're relatively cheap, don't get caught on obstacles, are machine washable, and just look at him! He's a big doughnut!

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Markham Carroll @markhamcarroll.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This is an old #animation I did after university while looking for work. The assets were from the last group student film I participated in, Ram's Horn. I later found out that I pulled the wrong sheep copy, which had a broken rig so couldn't be animated. Audio is Street of Dreams by The Ink Spots.

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