On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Edge of Midnight: Base Map Progress XII

Sun, 11 Feb 2024 02:39:18 GMT

My ego got a bit of a boost just now:

https://bsky.app/profile/davidmack.bsky.social/post/3kl3ozbfbzv2z

Strongly recommending you read Star Trek: Picard - Firewall by David Mack as soon as you can.

Some additional reasons for doing so mentioned here:

https://bsky.app/profile/davidmack.bsky.social/post/3kl472iyerk2f

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CBC: Tapestry - Living Deliberately

Sun, 08 Oct 2023 18:32:02 GMT

Listening to this as I type right now:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/tapestry/living-deliberately-university-pennsylvania-tapestry-1.6988112

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Jobs: Town Grouch?

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 20:54:02 GMT

I am thinking that I might have said "yes" if the local municipality had offered the job of "town grouch" to me. It might have been amusing for some time. I'm not entirely sure how much time I'd have spent being amused by living such a role.

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A Problem of Mine

Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:28:45 GMT

Talking over other people during conversations.

I've been trying to stop doing that for some time now. It's bothering me more and more when I find myself backsliding.

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For solidarity reasons:

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 16:17:08 GMT

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I looked in the mirror last night...

Sat, 02 Apr 2022 12:32:28 GMT

...and I've started seeing not my face, but my father's.

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Gail Simone on the #MyBrag Thread on Twitter

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:04:06 GMT

She's got some thoughts fit for sharing widely here:

https://twitter.com/GailSimone/status/1417860766661693443?s=20

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Job Search: Statistics as of Mid-July 2021

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 14:31:01 GMT

Noting that my job search diary for 2021 has now reached 3700+ entries covering 150 pages and six and a half months. For some reason of statistics, that seems to matter right now.

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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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Modes of Thought to Recover From

Wed, 16 Jun 2021 00:39:47 GMT

Thanks to andrewducker for pointing out something someone else said:

https://andrewducker.tumblr.com/post/654036315813347328

These kinds of second- and third-hand referrals really are of value. Sometimes, more so than I expect. And I need this particular reminder.

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Self-Care At The End of February 2021

Sun, 28 Feb 2021 14:57:31 GMT

I see some of you reporting that you've gotten your first doses of whichever vaccine's been lined up for each of you.

Congratulations on still being here, and getting to this point. I hope to join your ranks in due time. My mother is likely to get hers first out of my immediate family, and given the present situation and the relevant statistics, I think that's as it should be.

It feels like incremental progress, creeping progress...and I worry about many of us - me included - falling into a new normal worse than I was expecting before the Pandemic. Despite the efforts of so many to build a better normal across the world's nations, which I see playing out via your blogging, and the news services I keep track of. Among other sources.

I'm not giving up.

I'm confessing to still worrying.

Going to keep writing, keep drawing, keep doing my photography. This is a promise I make to myself, with you as witnesses.

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A new title for me to wear

Sun, 24 Jan 2021 18:26:20 GMT

I recently got called a "social thought leader". This, in the context of a push to get an O-Train line built under Bank Street:

https://clintondesveaux.medium.com/ottawans-favourable-to-bank-street-o-train-tunnel-a85925c68977

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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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PHOTOS: Self-Portrait, Three Weeks Earlier

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 01:01:42 GMT

Suspicious character, hm?

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FLICKR: Taken During My Travels Today

Sun, 19 Jan 2020 05:06:52 GMT

I had a moment.

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CBC: Out in the Open - Hyphen State

Fri, 07 Jul 2017 01:33:14 GMT

People who live in or declare allegiance to what I call Canada are a mixture of people who come from all sorts of different places, different ways of thinking. From people who insist they're not Canadian because their allegiance is to a nation that pre-dates European contact to people who see themselves as Canadian no matter where else on Earth they may live and work...this was a collection of stories that filled me with joy, sadness, fear, hope...and wonder above all else.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/hyphen-state-1.4184855

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Self-Understanding

Fri, 31 Mar 2017 16:16:23 GMT

If you grow up in a civil service family, everything to do with government comes back to your sense of identity sooner or later. Like it or not, want it or not. You are raised and trained in those terms. Your parents may not even realize it.

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Memory: Amiga Computers

Sun, 08 Jan 2017 22:14:09 GMT

So...back when I went to animation school, the college had a lab attached to it stocked with Commodore Amiga 2000 machines as its workhorses of choice. They had what was then a full suite of software tailored to the work we were doing. Scanning, clean-up of the artwork, scriptwriting, and so on...we could do just about everything that could be done with computers in animation back then on those machines. Having Commodore go to pieces two years after I graduated didn't help much, so I found myself staying with the office work and courtroom art contracts I'd fallen into to pay the bills of the moment.

So I find this article on Ars Technica today. I am both pleased to see the operating system and new machines using continuing today...and sorry that I wasn't able to get into being part of the continuing user base back then.

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