![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
On a library wall...
Dec. 23rd, 2011 05:23 pm![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
dduane mentioned this today:http://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2011/12/23/up-against-the-wall-or-actually-on-it/
I want that on the wall of my local library.
dduane mentioned this today:http://www.dianeduane.com/outofambit/2011/12/23/up-against-the-wall-or-actually-on-it/
I want that on the wall of my local library.
(no subject)
Dec. 19th, 2010 04:27 pmOkay...a few quick notes:
I've just uploaded some pix from the October 2004 meeting of the Ottawa SF Society. This meeting was notable for having Julie Czerneda as guest speaker.
Posting this from Bridgehead's Glebe location while wrapping up an early supper. After which I expect to attend another meeting of the organizing committee for Can-Con 2011. Things are picking up steam on that score, and if I'm not able to update you on the preparations, it's my hope that another of the board will be doing so shortly after the meeting breaks for the night.
More as I think of it, unless you think of it first...
I've just uploaded some pix from the October 2004 meeting of the Ottawa SF Society. This meeting was notable for having Julie Czerneda as guest speaker.
Posting this from Bridgehead's Glebe location while wrapping up an early supper. After which I expect to attend another meeting of the organizing committee for Can-Con 2011. Things are picking up steam on that score, and if I'm not able to update you on the preparations, it's my hope that another of the board will be doing so shortly after the meeting breaks for the night.
More as I think of it, unless you think of it first...
I'll be seeing Romeo Dallaire speaking at the Mayfair Theatre tonight. WritersFest event, you see...
More later.
More later.
Ken Dryden at WritersFest
Oct. 20th, 2010 03:54 pmIn addition to his work in the House, he's also written the occasional book. His latest being Becoming Canada. I happened to be at the NAC at noon today to watch him promote both the book and a discussion that I suspect was already underway before he began researching it: what might we do if we dare imagine ourselves able to do it?
The photos - the ones I consider best of the lot - are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/sets/72157625206059874/
More anon on this and other topics...
The photos - the ones I consider best of the lot - are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/sets/72157625206059874/
More anon on this and other topics...
Flickr: Ralston Saul and Boyden in Ottawa
Oct. 14th, 2010 05:03 pmA clue as to what I was up to last night:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/sets/72157625039867939/
Actually, twenty-four of them...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/sets/72157625039867939/
Actually, twenty-four of them...
We Lost Paul Quarrington
Jan. 21st, 2010 11:08 amSome of you remember him for his novels. Some for his TV work, particularly Due South and Power Play scripts. And as the CBC obituary notes, there's a tonne of other stuff he had a hand in over the years.
I met him briefly once or twice in the course of my volunteer duties with the Ottawa International Writers Festival. I can at least say that I was able to thank him for the work that I saw on the TV screen. For that, I'm glad. I'm sorry that we won't be seeing anything more from his keyboard, or hearing his singing voice in anything not already pre-recorded. He was a joy to watch and learn from in person.
I'm sorry for the pain his closer friends and family must now be dealing with.
Thanks again, Paul. For everything.
I met him briefly once or twice in the course of my volunteer duties with the Ottawa International Writers Festival. I can at least say that I was able to thank him for the work that I saw on the TV screen. For that, I'm glad. I'm sorry that we won't be seeing anything more from his keyboard, or hearing his singing voice in anything not already pre-recorded. He was a joy to watch and learn from in person.
I'm sorry for the pain his closer friends and family must now be dealing with.
Thanks again, Paul. For everything.
Spider Robinson: Help Jeanne Stay Healthy
Sep. 8th, 2009 10:26 pmDetails on what's behind the title are here:
http://community.livejournal.com/ottawa_sf/22570.html
Go. Read. Confirm as best you can. Act on it once you're done. Please.
http://community.livejournal.com/ottawa_sf/22570.html
Go. Read. Confirm as best you can. Act on it once you're done. Please.
Lots of accidental connections here, triggered in part by bill_leisner's new novel for the Star Trek office at Pocket Books, TNG: Losing the Peace.
So, the novel in question shows up at Perfect Books on Elgin in Centretown this week, and today I picked it up. Speed-reading racer that I am, it's demolished in a day - in the good way, Bill! - and some of the things I note below are accidental connections. Not sure if they constitute meaningful coincidences, and at some points, it's going to look like random babbling.
( Anyway... )
bill_leisner's new novel for the Star Trek office at Pocket Books, TNG: Losing the Peace.So, the novel in question shows up at Perfect Books on Elgin in Centretown this week, and today I picked it up. Speed-reading racer that I am, it's demolished in a day - in the good way, Bill! - and some of the things I note below are accidental connections. Not sure if they constitute meaningful coincidences, and at some points, it's going to look like random babbling.
( Anyway... )
Muddling Through the Morning
Sep. 23rd, 2007 10:44 amI got home in good time last night from watching William Gibson doing his reading at Library and Archives Canada(AKA "LAC"). It was a good reading, and Adrian Harewood did a good job of figuring out questions on the fly to ask him about his work. I suspect Mr. Harewood would've preferred a lot more time for more questions, as many other equally competent interviewers would in his place. But, everyone who doesn't operate on a "night-owl" biological clock needs to get home by a certain hour or they're not going to function at all well the next day, right?
So. One thing I learned from attempting my photography is this: I need a better camera. My Canon A70's six years old if memory serves me, Canon's discontinued manufacture of the camera as a whole camera for a couple of years now, and for simple reference photography and keeping my archives on the changes in my family it's great. It'll probably last me a good decade or even more, provided Canon keeps on supporting it with spare parts for that long and I keep taking good enough care of the thing otherwise. But the optical zoom is not what I'd like at times, and when I try to take shots from the other end of the kind of room we were in last night, especially without using flashbulbs(to avoid blinding the subject(s) even temporarily...well. I'll try to post a sample of the results here later. I'll just close this by saying the results are less than ideal and leave it there.
Something new I'm trying today: Flock. Seems to be useful as a blogging tool in addition to basic web browsing. I downloaded it last night at Bridgehead before I headed over to LAC. Seemed interesting to look at, and I'm testing out its blog entry publishing tools with this very entry on my LJ. I'll see how it works over the next month or so, although I don't expect it to replace XJournal just yet, if at all.
Still hunting day-jobs, still working on Local Hero pages. More to come on those fronts.
Back to you.
So. One thing I learned from attempting my photography is this: I need a better camera. My Canon A70's six years old if memory serves me, Canon's discontinued manufacture of the camera as a whole camera for a couple of years now, and for simple reference photography and keeping my archives on the changes in my family it's great. It'll probably last me a good decade or even more, provided Canon keeps on supporting it with spare parts for that long and I keep taking good enough care of the thing otherwise. But the optical zoom is not what I'd like at times, and when I try to take shots from the other end of the kind of room we were in last night, especially without using flashbulbs(to avoid blinding the subject(s) even temporarily...well. I'll try to post a sample of the results here later. I'll just close this by saying the results are less than ideal and leave it there.
Something new I'm trying today: Flock. Seems to be useful as a blogging tool in addition to basic web browsing. I downloaded it last night at Bridgehead before I headed over to LAC. Seemed interesting to look at, and I'm testing out its blog entry publishing tools with this very entry on my LJ. I'll see how it works over the next month or so, although I don't expect it to replace XJournal just yet, if at all.
Still hunting day-jobs, still working on Local Hero pages. More to come on those fronts.
Back to you.
I noticed that one of our world's better-known authors has recently discovered what may be an unexpected peril of autographing your books.
I know of at least one other best-seller who's done similar autograph sessions, but so far they've avoided this particular mishap.
I know of at least one other best-seller who's done similar autograph sessions, but so far they've avoided this particular mishap.
