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Looking at this for a few minutes:

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2021/09/electric-cars-have-hit-inflection-point/620233/?utm_source=feed

I didn't think things were moving this quickly on the global scale in terms of cars and trucks. Yes, the manufacturing process is still messy as Hell. But are we making progress of some sort here? I think the answer to that question is "yes".

armiphlage,

autopope, you might have some informed context to add here...? Anyone else?

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: Ideas on CBC Radio

Who's interested in what I have to say in places like Kharkiv and Recklinghausen?

Current Mood: curious
Current Location: Home-for-now

I have no hope of qualifying for the job, I suspect, but as someone interested in astronomy in general the National Research Council advert caught my attention anyway. NRC is looking for a "Radio Astronomy Signal Chain Engineer" for their Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre as I write this. Does anyone in my friendlist know what goes into that job?

Current Mood: Curious despite being busy!

Taking verbal shots at Leonardo diCaprio?

Tch.

On what I hope to be a positive note of curiosity, what more can anyone tell me of Ivan Valente and Randolfe Rodrigues, also quoted in the same article as linked?

Current Mood: sore

I understand the new series based on comics written by Greg Rucka is premiering on CTV (Canada) and ABC (USA) tonight. Who else is planning on watching, either at broadcast time or later with PVR assistance?

Current Mood: curious

Seems like a good question to answer publicly while I'm in the middle of carrying out a job search. Don't you think?

So...a partial list:

Space
Cartography
Languages
Indigenous culture in North America
Politics in other nations
Mapping the Milky Way Galaxy
Urban geography
Architecture
Urban design
Ottawa-Gatineau history
Canadian history
Street names
Psychology
Comic books
Chess
Soccer(known as "football" outside of Canada and the States)

There's others to be added to the list, but here's a starting point.

Current Mood: curious

Home from work at last today, and I'm pondering a "wall" of sorts running from Mu Aquilae to Gamma Hydrae. Sure, there's member nations and colonies and outposts scattered well beyond it towards the coreward edge of the Orion Arm, but from Tyberius to Zakdorn? It's there.

Current Mood: nerdy

Noticed the existence of this community

astronomy, which seems to have lain fallow for about 4 years. Those of us with a shared interest in such things might want to kick the tires, so to speak, and find out which other Dreamwidth users might be interested in reviving the conversations...?

Current Mood: curious

You'll have your own opinions on the matter. That's alright. I haven't made up my own mind yet, but suspect that it depends on specific class and topic. Context will be very important here, as with so much else.

Current Mood: curious

I can see it taking two years, but ten?

http://www.canada.com/News/canada/Canadian+warships+built+over+years/10752235/story.html

Current Mood: nerdy
Current Music: The Current on CBC Radio One

Now this is a disturbing development found whilst rummaging through techdirt.com tonight.

Snowden, Poitras & Others Sued For 'Billions Of Dollars' Spent By US Government In Response To Leaks
from the not-a-ton-of-crazy-in-the-filing,-but-not-a-ton-of-right,-either dept

Horace B. Edwards, Navy veteran and former Secretary of Transportation for the state of Kansas, is suing Edward Snowden, Laura Poitras and a handful of "Hollywood Defendants" for profiteering from the distribution of "stolen documents." This is supposedly being done on "behalf of the American people" ("John and Jane Does 1-10" listed in the "Plaintiffs" field).

What Edwards is seeking is a court-ordered "constructive trust," financed by the proceeds of Laura Poitras' Snowden documentary "CitizenFour," to offset the financial damage caused by the leaked documents.

More in the techdirt.com article at the other end of the link...so go have a look. Has Mr. Edwards maybe reached a bit too far here? I'm not a lawyer, although I do have an interest in how law works.

Winterlude - Did We Heed the Advice? by dwight_ew

Winterlude - Did We Heed the Advice?, a photo by dwight_ew on Flickr.

Anyone from Ottawa-Gatineau want to answer that question?(Questions of divinity aside, of course.)

Current Mood: curious

I'm currently rummaging around the friendlists of my friendlisters lately, looking for new stuff of interest.

Also, posing this question to you: what blogs should I be watching now? Recommendations, anyone?

Current Mood: curious

From this morning's hardcopy edition of the Ottawa Citizen, by David Reevely:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Uncertainty+over+Lansdowne+cinema+engulfs+World+Exchange/8864752/story.html

A couple of reactions...

1. As I told Reevely on Facebook, having read the article, I'm surprised that the movie-screening rooms at Place de Ville are still intact after two decades, given that so much else of the underground mall there as originally built is now given over to governmental offices and meeting spaces.

2. I see that Diane Deans has reached a similar opinion to mine re: the downtown core and the expected influx of new residents adding to the need for cinema screening rooms. Could there be an impetus sufficient to rescue World Exchange, revive Rideau Centre *and* Place de Ville, and preserve Lansdowne, Mayfair and Bytowne?

Current Mood: curious

Should I happen to find the time in the course of my days, are there any channels or podcasts that might be of interest re: astronomy issues and whatnot particularly re: objects outside our star system but within our wider Galaxy?

Current Mood: curious

CBC's curious about second languages...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2013/05/do-you-speak-a-non-official-second-language.html

Atlanta, a photo by SpaceRef on Flickr.

For hawkward, seanhtaylor and anyone else from Atlanta watching this LJ, courtesy of astronaut Chris Hadfield, NASA and spaceref.com.

Current Mood: enthralled

Go have a look, if you've got the bandwidth.

Saying it again: some forms of progress really are worth the trouble!

Current Mood: enthralled

james_nicoll reminded me of the launch of Curiosity this morning.

Thinking back to Apollo X and the "Snoopy Visits the Moon" arc in Peanuts back in those days, it's a nice - accidentally timed, but who cares about that detail? - way of paying it forward to future generations of space explorers and cartoonists alike.

Best of luck to the Curiosity team!

Current Mood: pleased

If your town/city has them...what do they look like?

Current Mood: nerdy

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On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Entries tagged with curiosity

Electric Vehicles: A Pleasant Surprise? Maybe?

Interesting Stuff in Europe

JOB SEARCH/ASTRONOMY: A Sidebar Question

BRAZIL: Bolsonaro is Still an Idiot

TV: Stumptown

What am I curious about? - The May 2019 Edition

TREK/MAPS/ASTRONOMY: A Coreward Wall

Astronomy

Rick Salutin on Laptop Computers

Naval Design Question: Ten Years?

Class Action Lawsuit vs. Citizenfour???

Winterlude - Did We Heed the Advice?

Looking for New Things

Centretown Cinemas: A Couple of Thoughts on Movies in Downtown Ottawa

YouTube/Podcast Question for the Astronomy-Minded

Canadians' Languages: Passing Along a Question

Atlanta from Orbit: by Chris Hadfield

Curiosity: The view from Gale Crater

Speaking of celebrations of Schulz Day?

Recycle Bins on the Streets