dewline: A fake starmap of the fictional Kitchissippi Sector (Sector)
Working on multiple maps of the same region of #StarTrek 's version of our galaxy is fun. It's also research-intensive and time-consuming, especially where keeping the various maps consistent with each other is concerned.

From last night's progress to such ends in support of several Tranquility Press fanfic projects...

Harmonizing the Triangle Region - 11 July 2025
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Early December 2023 - Hiawatha Park and Radisson

The fog was just perfect in the moment on December 10, 2023. Imagine my surprise to find Google Photos "stitching" three shots together into this.
dewline: Text: Trekkish Chatter Underway (TrekChatter)
May as well show it off here. It's a week old, and still...

EoM-DisputedZone-7Nov2023-A
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I've been quiet here - though not elsewhere online - of late. The job search, caregiving errands, and map project have been taking up a lot of the time. Not sure what else to add at the moment. I might upload screencaps of the map project progress to Flickr in the coming days.

More later, okay?
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This is still a work in progress. I am not happy with legibiity of the place names, not yet. I've switched most of the labelling over to Helvetica for now, pending a decision on what to switch the labels to.

If you know of any communities and connections that I should add to this map, please tell me!

WIP: Air Route Map - Canada - 14 Sept 2022
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This is part of a map I've been designing with help from assets from Maptorian. I was inspired by a map in the old Dent's Canadian School Atlas devoted to Canadian airline connections across the country, as well as by a recent job interview for a graphic design position.

I'm making this with Adobe Illustrator CS4, in case you're wondering.

AirLineMapCanada-InProgress-20Aug2022-Cap2
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Got some pix of the construction of one of the new O-Train stations, doubling as the renovation of one of the old Transitway stations here in eastern Ottawa.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/albums/72177720297478784

Also, got some laundry done this morning before I went out for my day's shopping errands.

Rain day, too. Not the worst rain we've had, just enough to keep the spring melt moving along.

Oh, and I got a haircut last week. The CPAP machine mask harness was part of the impetus, the new job search was another reason. Although some people seem pleased with it regardless of the motives.

At Sunrise Records - Place d'Orléans
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I have really got to do a walking tour of the city. Or pull together enough of my Flickr collection to turn into a story for here.
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I just realized: I've had an account with them - through three ownership groups (Yahoo!, Verizon and now SmugMug) - for fifteen years now.

So...yay, me, I guess?
dewline: Highway Sign version of "Ottawa the City" Icon (city life)
I've written the occasional entry for Spacing Ottawa on the subject of street names, illustrating those entries with photographic imagery of the streets whose names were under discussion. Owing to inspiration from a friend, let me share some of that imagery again here. Some weirder, some more entertaining than others, others in need of a change.

In the same spirit as Toronto's Avenue Road, we have on the eastern edge of Centretown, also known as the Golden Triangle in between the Rideau Canal and Elgin Street, we have...the Driveway:

Just "the Driveway"

We have streets named for nations, foreign and domestic. Norway, for one example of the foreign...

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For our provinces as decided by the federal government:

Ontario Street

Our better-known artists are represented, too, among them the photographer Yusuf Karsh:

Manju and Karsh

And a few others you may have heard of in relation to Canada:

Entertainers' Streets I

Artists and entertainers from elsewhere, too:

Cole Porter Street

Fictional characters of various origins:

Britannia Novel Names

Street Names of Ottawa: Works of Fiction


Canada's first female-identifying doctor:

Stowe  Court -2

A revolutionary and a doctor who tried to save him from the consequences of his actions:

Riel and Valade

And there are more to be seen on my Flickr account...
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I didn't feel like travelling outside my neighbourhood today. But I needed the walking time, so I got it.
Morning Walk - 1 July 2021
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So I saw this in downtown Ottawa in 2008...

A touch of the aulde...
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I went to Nanaimo to visit relatives, and one afternoon, I took a walk along the shoreline south towards the downtown...

Nanaimo - Shore Life
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It's been over a decade since I recorded this image. Not sure if the painting's still there nowadays. I'll have to ask friends who live in Lowertown if they've noticed.

Graffiti With a Commanding View?
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Photo sourced from the European Space Agency via Flickr:

A matter of time

I'm a sucker for spacewalk/EVA imagery. Also for logo designs.
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So I was waiting for a bus on Bank Street, just north of the Rideau River across from Billings Bridge Mall in 2008...and I spotted these critters.

Ducks on Bank Street II

Ducks on Bank Street IV
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While I'm getting some family-tree-related desktop publishing done for relatives this afternoon...

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dewline: Doctor Who quote: Books. Best Weapons in the World (Books)
Seemed like a good mix of reading material while I had supper tonight.

Starships and Railroads
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A little typographical device, often used, not really noticed. And I just found out from the Weekly Typographical podcast that this group - devoted to the device - exists:

https://www.flickr.com/groups/610612@N21/

Meanwhile, let me test something here:

✍︎✌︎👉👈👇👆👌🏾

(Just a little stealing-back of a symbol with that last one, and since the emoji options on this version of Mac OSX allow the colour variations now...except that things get weird when the text appears in GMail notices of replies to this entry...



See?)

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