On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Clip Studio Paint: Question re: 3D Props - Part II

Sun, 09 Oct 2022 00:06:00 GMT

More specifically, I'm looking for something like this:

https://www.corningware.com/product/cornflower-3-quart-baking-dish

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Wed, 15 Dec 2021 01:13:53 GMT

Ideas is replaying a defence of nihilism on CBC Radio One as I type this.

Meanwhile, I'm reading Rabble.ca articles.

Tomorrow, I hope to make time to resume work on a commission sketch. The reference materials sent to me for this one have been challenging reading. Somewhat more challenging to print out in a legible fashion.

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Tools for Reporters

Tue, 23 Mar 2021 14:19:13 GMT

Interesting!

https://www.poynter.org/tech-tools/2021/four-digital-tools-that-got-me-through-the-pandemic/

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SPACE/MAPS: Galaxy Map - the 10-Parsec Edition

Sun, 13 Dec 2020 04:30:21 GMT

More good stuff from Kevin Jardine.

Stars with planets are green-circled with numbers of known planets where known. And some extra stuff thrown in that we didn't know we needed to chart...

https://twitter.com/galaxy_map/status/1337901467160743939

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JOBS/TECH ISSUES: Remote Work Infrastructure Questions

Mon, 16 Nov 2020 14:39:49 GMT

This seems like a thing for me and any prospective employer(s) to jointly try to figure out:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/future-of-collaboration-04/

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SPACE: Exoplanet Note from MIT

Sun, 08 Nov 2020 15:31:31 GMT

For ongoing future reference:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/11/06/1011784/half-milky-way-sun-like-stars-home-earth-like-planets-kepler-gaia-habitable-life/

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Two Books

Fri, 28 Aug 2020 21:58:54 GMT

I found myself inspired to go digging for one book yesterday, and in the process of finding it, rediscovered another.

1. I was looking for A Stó:lō-Coast Salish Historical Atlas yesterday, inspired by the news that a guest starship on Star Trek: Lower Decks would be named USS Vancouver. I half-remembered that this book would have that Indigenous nation's name for the larger region including Vancouver, the one I was taught to call the "Fraser River Valley": S'ólh Téméxw.

(Which I dearly want to learn how to pronounce properly!)

It occurs to me that, before I die, I'd like to see that name, S'ólh Téméxw - accents and all - on the hull of a Starfleet ship, preferably one more prominent than a DS9-style runabout. They can name a runabout "Fraser" if need be. With the people running Star Trek as a while these days, I'm thinking that it might happen, provided the Trek people reach out properly to the Stó:lō. There seems to be at least one Trek fan amongst that nation living in the metro Vancouver region going by anecdotal evidence on Twitter.

(Note: Titmouse Animation, the company handling the actual animation work on Lower Decks, has a branch studio in Vancouver, BC. This might be at the heart of the shout-out to the city.)

2. In the process of trying to find the first book, I accidentally rediscovered my copy of the second one, Ikonica: A Field Guide to Canada's Brandscape by Jeannette Hanna and Alan Middleton. Which contains a number of historical overviews of some two dozen Canadian brands of note and longstanding in our memories. I don't know if it's still in print. My copy became mine thanks to an airplane ride out to PEI back in 2008. It was a family trip, and my mother and I were travelling together by plane for the occasion, everyone else taking their families' respective cars. I think I posted some of the pix from that trip on my Flickr account...?

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Housing: A Thought Inspired by Singapore

Wed, 08 Jul 2020 20:06:31 GMT

Taking a look at this for future study:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-08/behind-the-design-of-singapore-s-low-cost-housing

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For future reference: Ontario workplaces

Mon, 18 May 2020 23:06:32 GMT

Ontario's current list of Essential Workplaces:

https://www.ontario.ca/page/list-essential-workplaces

City of Ottawa:

https://www.ottawapublichealth.ca/en/public-health-topics/novel-coronavirus.aspx?utm_source=OPH&utm_medium=Home_Page_Banner&utm_campaign=Coronavirus&utm_content=self-isolation-page

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RESEARCH: Alex Epstein on Writing Dumb Decisions

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:10:08 GMT

Now this is something that caught my attention while checking my Blogger reading list this morning:

https://complicationsensue.blogspot.com/2020/03/brilliantly-dumb-decisions.html

Alex Epstein has a couple of books on the art of scriptwriting for film and TV that you might want to look up as time and access allow. But the blog alone is worth a couple of hours for anyone already inclined in that direction.

The specific reference to Jaws here...

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Feeling Canadian?

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 15:25:17 GMT

There's a thing I want to talk at length about, in reply to an opinion of Lee "Budgie" Barnett's recently published. When I do discuss it, it's going to ramble a bit. So I'm making a note of the link now.

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JOBS: Historica Foundation

Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:02:02 GMT

Found this one. If you know someone who might be a good fit...?

https://www.historicacanada.ca/employment/recruitment-program-assistant

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Ottawa-Gatineau History Bookmarks

Sun, 12 Nov 2017 13:47:33 GMT

On the Veterans' Housing Project in modern Carlington:

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/the-vets-neighbourhood-where-everybodys-mother-was-everybodys-mother

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