On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Star Trek Mapping: Harmonizing the Maps

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:17:35 GMT

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...

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Photos: Hiawatha Park and Radisson

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 13:40:04 GMT

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.

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Edge of Midnight: Base Map Progress VI

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 01:23:22 GMT

May as well show it off here. It's a week old, and still...

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Checking In - 12 Aug 2023

Sun, 13 Aug 2023 03:05:14 GMT

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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WIP: Air Route Map - Canada - 14 Sept 2022

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 14:30:33 GMT

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!

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Graphic Design: Canadian Air Transit Mapping - Work In Progress

Sat, 20 Aug 2022 23:20:34 GMT

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.

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Sun, 20 Mar 2022 01:24:24 GMT

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.

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The Photography of Harley613: Elmvale Mall and the Rideau/Chapel Intersection

Fri, 03 Sep 2021 23:43:20 GMT

Some pix from neighbourhoods I haven't visited in a while. I don't know the photographer personally, but I recognize the neighbourhoods.

Elmvale Mall:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51419740897/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51419740922/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51421470250/

The former site of both the Torah School, and Heartwood House (AKA OC Transpo Lost and Found), and other community organizations on Chapel at Rideau Street:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51421470215/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51421249304/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51420484471/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/92071236@N08/51420484501/

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Walking Tours

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 17:52:29 GMT

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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An Anniversarial Aside About My Flickr Account

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 20:21:20 GMT

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?

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Street Names: A Selection of Imagery

Mon, 12 Jul 2021 19:05:58 GMT

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:

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

For our provinces as decided by the federal government:

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

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

Artists and entertainers from elsewhere, too:

Fictional characters of various origins:

Canada's first female-identifying doctor:

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

And there are more to be seen on my Flickr account...

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Walking Time - 1 July 2021

Fri, 02 Jul 2021 00:58:04 GMT

I didn't feel like travelling outside my neighbourhood today. But I needed the walking time, so I got it.

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2008: Horse Traffic

Sun, 27 Jun 2021 01:03:54 GMT

So I saw this in downtown Ottawa in 2008...

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2008: Nanaimo Shoreline

Mon, 14 Jun 2021 00:48:59 GMT

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

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Photography/Ottawa: 2009 - The Painted Shark

Wed, 19 May 2021 18:20:57 GMT

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.

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Spaceflight: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer

Wed, 19 May 2021 18:16:54 GMT

Photo sourced from the European Space Agency via Flickr:

I'm a sucker for spacewalk/EVA imagery. Also for logo designs.

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2008: Ducks on Bank Street

Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:45:52 GMT

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.

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Seen at Beechwood Cemetery's Poet's Hill in 2015

Sat, 23 Jan 2021 20:31:44 GMT

While I'm getting some family-tree-related desktop publishing done for relatives this afternoon...

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Starships and Railroads

Thu, 21 Jan 2021 01:29:05 GMT

Seemed like a good mix of reading material while I had supper tonight.

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FLICKR: A Group for Manicules?

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 20:40:49 GMT

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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FLICKR: My first two digital cameras

Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:17:25 GMT

I still have them. The first is the A70, the second is the S5 IS. I currently use a Rebel T5 EOS, including for this picture. I'd need to check if my stockpile of rechargeable batteries is still up to the challenge of supporting them.

Additional note: I used Air Miles to get that T5. Took me only ten years, I think!

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CULLING: Aurora Awards Nomination Ribbon Rediscovered

Sun, 18 Oct 2020 12:11:15 GMT

During the current round of culling going on at my place, I rediscovered this ribbon from twenty years ago. I think I was one of three people who was editing the Ottawa SF Society Statement newsletter that year...and there's the confirmation:

www.sfadb.com/Dwight_Williams

Me, Joel Polowin - AKA bunsen_h - and the late and still-beloved Sharon Fall co-owned that nomination for Fan Achievement (Organizational).

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OTTAWA: Hand-Painted Signage is Back

Sun, 13 Sep 2020 20:16:49 GMT

A profile of the artist is carried by CBC News:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/old-fashioned-sign-painting-pandemic-1.5664984

Their business has its online home here:

https://www.pascalearpin.com/

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2009: Birds of Hintonberg

Fri, 21 Aug 2020 19:22:05 GMT

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Wildlife in the Neighbourhood

Sun, 09 Aug 2020 18:48:22 GMT

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