On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

If you're interested in (a) moving to Ottawa and (b) working for a community-owned ISP, you might want to keep an eye on this page belonging to my ISP:

https://www.ncf.ca/en/get-involved/careers/

If you see anything that looks like a good fit for you, please let them know!

So this is a thing today?

https://www.gisday.com/en-us/overview

An exercise in advertising for interstellar colonisation. More details on the Flickr page in the link!

Check out this item on the issues facing the one Jason Kenney's setting up in Alberta to protect tarsands money from reality.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/kenney-energy-war-room-1.5393010

The thing that Mr. Kenney's trying to get us to ignore is that we can't afford to burn anyone's oil to get the energy we need anymore. Not Putinist Russia's, not the Bakken deposits in the northern prairies of the USA, not the Saudis', nor our own in Alberta or off the Newfoundland Island coast...not anyone's oil from anywhere. But you being my audience-by-choice, you knew this yourselves already. Mr. Kenney probably doesn't like that fact either.

I just started listening to the podcast of today's Sunday Edition. I should never hear a CBC podcast start with an ad for an Amazon Prime series.

Ever.

This is a deeply trivial yet deeply important thing to me.

I saw the full-page ads where they tried to declare themselves as being the energy industry incarnate. Never mind the renewables, only oil is allowed to matter as being "vital to the Canadian economy" and all that stuff and nonsense?

(I'm sure that "vital..." phrase is an actual quote from somewhere in the oil sector!)

That ad annoys me. Especially in the present context. As does the behind-the-scenes meddling.

I'm not sure that I have much more to say than that on this topic right now.

I remember seeing this.




Mr. Jackson's speech in this teaser derived from the preamble of so many issues of the various Avengers comics series published by Marvel across the decades...

The casino is across the Kitchissippi (AKA "Ottawa River") in Secteur Hull, Gatineau, QC.

The bus shelter is on Laurier Avenue West in Sandy Hill, Ottawa, ON.

The ad was set up nine years before this posting went up on Dreamwidth. Long since gone.

But the image stuck with me.