On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

1. The job search continues. As I type this, I'm looking at Indeed and Jobilico. I expect to check several federal commissions, departments and agencies, a couple of crown corporations, GC Jobs, the federal Job Bank, and at least ten temp placement companies (yet again) over the rest of today.

2. I hope to listen to Ontario Today at noon, because Perseverance on Mars is the topic of the day.

3. Downloading new updates for Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher.

4. The Affinity suite is still on sale from Serif.com at half-price as I type this. About C$35 for each of the three programs in the suite.

5. Inkscape and Krita and the like are also still useful freeware, so why not get those too?

6. Listening to The Current right now. The discussion in progress as I type this entry?

Letter-writing. Actual letters through the paper-mail system. Apparently, this is making a come-back among many who have the time and enough other resources.

7. More later today as I think of it.

It occurs to me that I want to see or read a conversation between the MCU's Natasha Romanova and Star Trek's Elim Garak. There is one thing they have in common, admittedly, and they each came to that thing from different yet similar places. I don't think I have the skill or the knowledge to carry off the scripting properly.

Elizabeth May and Ming-Na Wen. Conversing with each other in the same room. On whatever topics seem agreeable to them both.

It's an idea that amuses me. Also, I might learn from it.

Okay. Some of you already know this: I bought my ticket for Saturday.

No table, no half-table. Just another guy wandering the halls.

Maybe next time for the table, huh?

Andrew Barton spoke a little while back about planet-naming in pop fiction (and possibly elsewhere as well).

My thought?

One of the things the Trek writers - TV, novels in particular - seem to have been sneaking in has been the assumption that the species we see DO have their own names for themselves and their worlds. But that pesky Universal Translator as we know it today was first programmed by humans...