Oh this is mischievous as all get out. And it took me two years to find out that it exists?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqqWcZF2Syc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqqWcZF2Syc
Star Trek Mapping: Getting Reoriented
Sep. 18th, 2025 09:41 pmOkay, where was I? 50 Leonis, Bowler 15 (yes, there's a star with that actual catalogue number!), 5 Puppis, Omicron Leonis, Ross 391...
Would you believe that there is a star that humans have catalogued as "COCONUTS-3A" (among other catalogue numbers) and that for Star Trek purposes, it is just coreward of places like Morska and Rura Penthe?
You can look it up on SIMBAD.
I wonder what the Klingons' identification of it is.
You can look it up on SIMBAD.
I wonder what the Klingons' identification of it is.
So a new offshoot from my Tranquility Press fanfic map projects takes me rimward in the direction of Auriga, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Orion and so forth. The Hyades, Pleiades, the spinward side of Gorn-claimed space, rimward of the Klingons...and the Delta Triangle.
Created for the first animated Trek series episode "The Time Trap", it was a region known for the same kind of mysterious disappearances as Earth's Bermuda Triangle until Jim Kirk and company went digging around in the neighbourhood and found out where some of the vanishing spacecraft of multiple star nations across the centuries had ended up.
Based on material from Star Charts and Stellar Cartography, I picked out candidates for two of the three "anchor" stars of the Triangle, and now I'm working on filling in the surrounding neighbourhood with continued help from HYGMap.space...
Noting that, aside from Bellatrix, the other two stars I chose are not necessarily locked in. I'm open to alternative candidates.
Created for the first animated Trek series episode "The Time Trap", it was a region known for the same kind of mysterious disappearances as Earth's Bermuda Triangle until Jim Kirk and company went digging around in the neighbourhood and found out where some of the vanishing spacecraft of multiple star nations across the centuries had ended up.
Based on material from Star Charts and Stellar Cartography, I picked out candidates for two of the three "anchor" stars of the Triangle, and now I'm working on filling in the surrounding neighbourhood with continued help from HYGMap.space...
Noting that, aside from Bellatrix, the other two stars I chose are not necessarily locked in. I'm open to alternative candidates.
Street Names in Las Vegas
May. 26th, 2023 07:17 amThere's this project I have to track the street names of Ottawa and Gatineau. For a couple of years, I was using Spacing Ottawa as my venue for publishing such information as I could share. Since that's been archived, I suppose I'll have to use Flickr - my username there is "dwight_ew" - and this blog for that project for now.
Anyway, I came across this item about Las Vegas this morning:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/nevada-streets-named-for-pokemon-1.6854948
I expect that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
devilc will have comments once she reads that.
Anyway, I came across this item about Las Vegas this morning:
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/nevada-streets-named-for-pokemon-1.6854948
I expect that
devilc will have comments once she reads that.Entertainment in Street Names
Apr. 14th, 2022 11:34 amWe now have a Haiku Street in Ottawa!
See the map on page 10:
https://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/cache/2/m2bi3jxfmdin0ywfsf5zntts/79826004142022112559853.PDF
You can independently confirm via Google Maps!
Meanwhile, keep an eye on Kate Porter's coverage...
https://twitter.com/KatePorterCBC/status/1514610301022310409
Or watch the YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnQzAbzl5I
See the map on page 10:
https://app05.ottawa.ca/sirepub/cache/2/m2bi3jxfmdin0ywfsf5zntts/79826004142022112559853.PDF
You can independently confirm via Google Maps!
Meanwhile, keep an eye on Kate Porter's coverage...
https://twitter.com/KatePorterCBC/status/1514610301022310409
Or watch the YouTube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqnQzAbzl5I
Amusement in 3D Props For SF Scenarios
Mar. 23rd, 2022 08:09 amI do seem to recall devices looking like this one lurking in backgrounds across multiple science-fiction-type TV series across the decades. A rentable prop somewhere in Hollywood's many warehouses, I'm sure. Depending on the series, the purpose of the prop certainly varied a fair bit!
Julie Czerneda, Hockey and Reindeer
Dec. 24th, 2021 04:56 pmI am listening to All In a Day on CBC Radio One, and Alan Neal is fielding questions from kids about Christmas. One about what do reindeer enjoy games-wise got pivoted to SF writer Julie Czerneda - turns out she's also a biologist! - and Julie just improvised an answer about how antlers can be repurposed as hockey sticks!
(Yes, Julie and I chat on occasion at bookstores, at Can-Con events, and so on.)
(Yes, Julie and I chat on occasion at bookstores, at Can-Con events, and so on.)
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/softening-trump-political-potency-seen-in-endorsement-flops-limp-ticket-sales-129051205777
Heh.
The danger's still there from the Republican apparatus as a whole, yes...and let's enjoy this moment while we're preparing for the larger threat.
Heh.
The danger's still there from the Republican apparatus as a whole, yes...and let's enjoy this moment while we're preparing for the larger threat.
Eye-Roll Moment
Apr. 8th, 2021 03:27 pmGot another of those "This is Service Canada calling to inform that your Social Insurance Number is immediately suspended for reasons that your Social has been found in criminal or suspicious activity..." calls.
No thanks, whoever it is.
No thanks, whoever it is.
A Note About the Absurdities of Spam
Jun. 30th, 2020 07:28 pmI want to note for whatever records survive these times the following: there is no way on or off this Earth, nor in Heaven, Hell, Limbo or any point in between those places I've named that Charles Koch is ever going to offer the likes of me money of any sort by way of a GMail account. Nor from an eircom.net address disguised as a GMail account for that matter.
Whoever you really are?
Nice try.
Whoever you really are?
Nice try.
Modern Respectability
Jun. 19th, 2020 04:32 pmThis was earlier in the week.
Maybe, over the weekend, I take a proper purpose-built camera and go photographing some of the local street signage? Masked and gloved, of course. Respectability must be preserved.
Maybe, over the weekend, I take a proper purpose-built camera and go photographing some of the local street signage? Masked and gloved, of course. Respectability must be preserved.
DESIGN: How to Work From Home
Jun. 3rd, 2020 10:41 amCreative Bloq passed along something amusing from LEGO.
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/lego-wfh-guide
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/lego-wfh-guide
Music Meme from brithistorian
May. 5th, 2020 03:57 pm• Name a BAND (NOT a song, NOT a solo performer) that starts with the letter “R”.
• Please don’t Duck Duck Go one, just use your brain.
• I'll then give you a letter for you to REPOST (if you're willing to keep it going).
(I know: I'm doing this just after I posted a BNL/Chris Hadfield video link?)
• Please don’t Duck Duck Go one, just use your brain.
• I'll then give you a letter for you to REPOST (if you're willing to keep it going).
(I know: I'm doing this just after I posted a BNL/Chris Hadfield video link?)
SCIENCE: Yes, Everyone...There WAS...
May. 5th, 2020 09:09 amDespite all the jokes unwittingly made, there really is a dinosaur that we call "coronasaurus". You can find at least one fossilized skull in a museum in Grande Prairie, Alberta.
I May Have Just Made Another Mistake
Apr. 26th, 2020 12:55 pmI just signed up for Pantone's mailing list.
Overheard from Colm Feore
Apr. 19th, 2020 10:22 amOn The Sunday Edition this morning: "Now is the window of our discotheque!"
You go discover the context yourselves, okay?
You go discover the context yourselves, okay?
