On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

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.

And now I know for certain that Facetime works on my current computer. Just had a brief and entertaining chat with people on the Pacific coastline.

We 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

I 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.)

Got 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.

I 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.

Creative Bloq passed along something amusing from LEGO.

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/lego-wfh-guide

Despite 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.

On The Sunday Edition this morning: "Now is the window of our discotheque!"

You go discover the context yourselves, okay?

I think that BBC goat video - of a story that's actually happening - is as close to a joke that I want to get today. Especially this year. If there's anything else really happening that I deem ought to be shared on the strength of its amusement value, I may well post that instead.

Back to the job search...