Kevin Blades

If you’ve been on the Discord (join the Discord) you know that I’ve been having a bit of a week. Tons of little things have been building up to amount to one big lump of No Fun, and … Read…

Part of the philosophy of Operation: Puppet is things can be more friendly and personal. I try to be open and transparent about what going on with me and the shop, etc, and that’s not always great news. Having a…

Those of you who’ve been following Operation: Puppet for a while have probably been unable to escape me talking about how much I love New Orleans. Despite being a pasty Canadian dude, the music, culture and people of NOLA call…

Monday is the new Friday. Or something. Bit of an odd Monday here as it’s a holiday, so the mental rails I usually run on have been interrupted. So, in no particular order, a loose and unrelated collection of things…

I have been reliably informed that it’s a long weekend here in Ontario as Monday is a stat holiday. Working for myself from home I do tend to lose track of these things. Long weekends can get a bit weird…

Really fun build stream yesterday, happy to see regulars and fellow builders turning up. Plenty of fun shop talk and tips, I certainly learned some great stuff. I’ve noticed lately that between the podcast and streams, I’m becoming more ……

Recently I had a request that got me reflecting on my working methodology and revealed something of a shortcoming in my puppet building process. When I decided to start the shop, I established a few fundamental parameters, the most important…

As we talked about on the recent Pixels and Puppets episode, the current PC hardware ecosystem has me rethinking my approach to upgrade cycles. I’ve always been a tinkerer and enjoy the building process so I naturally fell into ……

Being an older person, I’ve had a lot of jobs in my life. I’ve been a fast-food worker, retail sales, a bar busser in a Goth club, and a succession of various web design and development positions. Some were fine,…

A busy week leading into a busy weekend has my brain in “chicken in a wind-storm” mode. Hard to pick just one topic for this morning. Why choose? Puppet stuff: A Goblin and one Greeblee done, which is a little…

A rare appearance by The Oracle 1.0 Another day, another thing wot is broke on that bird site. Hello to another new wave of Mastodon folks, hope you’ll find the platform as uplifting as I have. It’s a different ……