On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

History, Community, Trekkish Stuff, Health Notes

2021-11-05T03:04:44Z

Some random notes:

- Beth Simons writes for Spacing Toronto about the discovery of incomplete headstones made for Jewish cemetery use.

- I watched Star Trek: Prodigy tonight. Not bad. Some cringey bits of dialogue, or maybe it was the character interactions that annoyed more than the dialogue. More believable than I'd like in places, maybe? I have to remember that most of the main characters are newly escaped-from-enslavement children here.

- I got somewhat lucky today: someone else cancelled, so my molar repair gets moved up the dentist's schedule to tomorrow morning.

- My Eye Institute exam got pushed back again, this time to next February. This is...I think, the third rescheduling for the eye exam.

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Assorted Notes - 2 July 2021

2021-07-02T21:42:39Z

1. The End of (Some of the) American Freeways and What Might Be (Re)Built Where They Used to Stand

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-01/a-federal-agency-asks-how-it-can-be-more-equitable

2. Waiting for another wave of rain here in Ottawa. It's like there's a wave of storms stalled, stretching from Pembroke to southwest of Hamilton as I type this entry.

3. Speaking of colonialism: Macdonald and company had to get it all approved at Westminster in the first place, right?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/02/the-toxic-legacy-of-the-british-empire-in-canadas-residential-schools

4. More on other topics later.

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dewline @ 2020-07-20T12:52:00

2020-07-20T16:54:48Z

The work of looking for work continues. Local weather is uncertain at the moment. One of my friends from local fandom is down with a serious illness, not COVID-19 but probably terminal. Immediate family is mostly okay for now.

I feel like there's more to say publicly here, but I'm not sure what it is yet.

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A Bit of Stuff

2019-09-09T13:08:22Z

Job search resumes after the latest weekend.

Not happy with how the Banjo Bowl game went for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, but these things are indeed fleeting.

Getting the sense of fall kicking into gear in Ottawa-Gatineau. Leaves are falling, yet bees and butterflies are still zipping around.

More as it comes to mind.

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Post-Labour Day 2019

2019-09-03T12:46:37Z

- For radargrrl:
https://apt613.ca/ottawa-roller-derby-disco/

- For fans of Corner Gas and/or the Indigenous cultures:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/indigenous-kids-molly-of-denali-1.5262616

(Noting that Atomic Cartoons has branch studios in Vancouver and Ottawa...)

- Bigots getting the responses they earn in Mississauga:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-muslimfest-protester-1.5267827

- I'll try to get those Labour Day pix uploaded to my Flickr account at "dwight_ew" this morning.

- Job search resumes today after the Labour Day weekend, as well.

- Newsrooms are still unionizing these days!
https://niemanreports.org/articles/why-newsrooms-are-unionizing-now/

- More later...

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Making a Note to Come Back to This...

2019-08-28T04:20:15Z

https://www.tor.com/2019/08/26/select-difficulty/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/27/three-catholic-schools-abandon-ethos-to-become-multi-faith

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