Sam Jones

@samguyjones.bsky.social

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Father, software developer, writer, cat servant

Yard birthday card display saying, "Happy Birthday Bergen" with an orange frosted cupcake, the silhouette of a ballet dancer, two pickleball paddles and the number 19
A 10x10 grid with fifty boxes checked off in a 7x7 block plus one box.
A small hydroponics tank with a Kaiju-like growth of chives and dill
A card depicting a planet as a giant clock covered with ants with a spider of species portia labiatta superimposed and a satellite above with the words "Happy Birthday Kate!" below the satellite. The satellite and the spider have tabs to attack them to the card and move as it folds.
A plastic bracket bolted to a bike that holds a U lock and a pair of glasses. On the glasses side, there is a bungee cord wrapped around the bracket to help hold the glasses in place.
Paul Simon Graceland cover
U-lock held in place by a bracket which shows elegance of design even if it looks vaguely like a toilet.
Ceramic label for chives in a pot of chives
Book with blurb: Showing witchcraft, family and academic research with passion and curiosity, this book is warm and comforting most of the time -- authentic and heartbreaking in moments.
Bumper sticker reading, "Honk if you'd rather be watching the 1999 cinematic masterpiece "The Mummy" starring Brendan Frasier and Rachel Weisz."
Three panels in the first, a teenager says, "I found a new recipe." A woman asks, "New or another word for latkas". In the last panel, the teenager says, "Another word for latkas."
The three books Hemlock & Silver, Lessons in Magic and Disaster, and Last Soul Among Wolves, all released August 19.
A grainy picture of a rabbit hiding behind some bushes.
Tupperware container of home made mayonnaise (egg, oil, salt, pepper and mustard)
A painting in ceramic glaze of a grey tabby cat lounging in a blue green basket in front of an orange circle with the word "Tigerlilly" following the edge of the circle.
Two hands clasping. One is labeled "Pope Urban VI of Avignon" (the pope from the great schism who almost immediately started a war with his cardinals) and the other is labeled "Pope Leo XIV of Chicago" (reportedly a White Socks fan). Where the two hands are joined, it's labeled "the Cardinals suck".
Man standing next to manager in a tank saying, "This is Barbara, she's a manatee." Off panel, a chorus of people say, "Hi, Barbara." The panel is captioned "Introduction to marine mammals."
A rendered medieval wall that's more finely detailed on the left and kind of pixelly on the right
Crowd of protestors with signs.
Apple II Plus computer, which my family got around 1980.
A 3D model of a building showing a set of six windows on one side of the building.
Box with an egg, some sugar, rice, chickpeas, frozen green chile and several frozen containers of soup.
A miniature building wall with windows lighting up in sequence.
Food for the last week piled into a box. It's mostly soup, with some butter, nutritional yeast, rice, eggs, tofu and frozen blueberries.
3Dprinted diorama of a medieval building with a set of stone, vine covered stairs leading up to a second floor doorway. There are three windows and a signpost with no sign. The street below is cobblestones with grass on the sides.
A box filled with food meant to last two weeks.
Two boxes of food, one of them half-full.
Tiny plastic sign and signpost
3D printed base with the doors with minimal walls to hold them up.
Two bins piled up with 50,000 calories worth of food.
Bowl of thick, blended soup
A tiny 3D printed replica of a wooden door reinforced by iron bars.
Shows a hazy urban sprawl with a swarm of flying craft zipping against a gray sky.
Grayscale image of bricks with light vines superimposed over them.
A small model depicting two roofs sitting on vestigial buildings over grass and cobblestone.
Roof sitting on a very low wall on a painted terrain in a tiny diorama.
Plastic 3D printed model of a dormer window.
Bumpmap with random spots on a series of rectangles with a gradient going dark to light.
Two windows with blood blinking lights connected to an Arduino.
Blinking 3D printed window next to Arduino r4 wifi board