On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

There's a thing that bugs me about Randstad: when I look for jobs they're trying to get people matched to and type in "Ottawa" in the location box, I keep getting entries for Hamilton, North York, Concord and so on.

Most people living in Ontario will, I expect, understand why this is an issue for me.

By way of explanation, with the note that North York is part of metropolitan Toronto. Source of map is Wikimedia Commons...

By <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Peterfitzgerald" title="User:Peterfitzgerald">Peter Fitzgerald</a> - <span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span> based on the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ontario-timiskamingshores.png" title="File:Ontario-timiskamingshores.png">outline map of Ontario</a>, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

I went to Perfect Books this morning, having pre-paid, to pick up Stumptown V.4 and ST:DSC Wonderlands. Both books were pretty much as I expected them to be, hence worth the money and time to get them.

The trip was mildly eventful because of the weather. The trip from home to downtown requires switching from bus to train at Blair Station these days, and the rain that was being given 40% odds of happening by Environment Canada fully happened during the train ride. The "wave" passed over my route when I was between Cyrville and Tremblay Stations and left me behind when I got to UOttawa Station and - at that point - off the train.

Finally got the transit pass updated for this month - thanks again for the current unemployment insurance rules, federal government, or that (and much of my current ability to keep looking for work) might not be possible! - after I got there.

Looking at the Rideau Canal as I crossed the Corkstown Footbridge connecting the University of Ottawa's Sandy Hill campus with the "Golden Triangle" section of Centretown, I saw...a lot of underwater plant life blooming. I think that's normal most years, but with canal boat traffic largely shut down because of the Pandemic (like so much else), the greenery comes right to the surface in much of the canal that I was able to see.

Perfect Books is in the midst of an upgrade of sorts. Their longtime next-door neighbour, Elgin Jewellers, has shut down in part due to Pandemic and partly because the owner was already thinking of retiring. That decision opened up an opportunity that the bookstore has taken advantage of: to double their then-current floor-space. They'd already been managing to weather the Pandemic "storm" - and the reconstruction of Elgin Street over the year prior to the Pandemic's beginnings - fairly well due to bulk-order business, a devoted long-time walk-in clientele willing to pivot with them, and other factors. So owner Jim Sherman's taking this chance. I'd really like this to work out for him and his staff.

Maybe it's because of the binge-reading of the Retail comic strip series' archives these past few days, but I'd like to see independent bookstores - and other retailers - be able to keep going, and maybe a little bit of careful growth, too.

And that leads me to my next reiteration: that we need a better "new normal" to move into from these Pandemic times. I worry that we're not going to get that better "new normal" because of far too many reasons right now.

It doesn't seem right to use the verb "love" here. But these are reference books I've gotten to enjoy looking at, even though I don't use them in the context their publishers intended for them.

Hagstrom New York City Five Boroughs, 1990 Edition.



MapArt Publishing Saskatchewan Street and Road Atlas, 2007 Edition.



I'll add the images for the front covers ASAP, okay? Then, I'll try to explain these choices.

Today's training focus was on GIS software under the brand of Tableau Maps, as well as a return to web editing, specifically embedding media files in one's web pages. I expect to move on to PHP itself next Monday.

More on other topics to come.

Once upon a time, back in the LJ years, I decided to try to give myself some idea of where visitors to my weblog were visiting from. Something like MapLoco or one of its competitors. I remember dropping that from my profile page some years later, but not the reason(s) why. Wondering if I should resume that habit, and why or why not.

Nerd pseudo-seismology question re: Endgame - how far away would the impact of alt-Thanos-2014's opening attack on the Avengers Compound have been felt?

Canada is now confirmed as geo-bracketed by hostile regimes.

Some interesting mapping linkages re: Detroit and Gotham for the purpose of this movie:

http://whatculture.com/film/batman-v...fan-see.php/19

https://twitter.com/tribluis/status/532676691752386560

What do you see in those visuals?

Fair warning: this looks to be bandwidth-intensive.

If you're willing to be patient with the load-up, and you're interested in animated mapping exercises, recent NYC history and geography and/or civic politics, this bit of linkage courtesy of the New York Times will repay your patience handsomely.

Been re-reading The Massive # 6 today.

One thing in the text pieces got my attention.

"The Great Lakes region expanded its water-surface area by roughly 4,000 square miles. The Upper Michigan Peninsula is no more."

Thunder Bay. Nipigon. Marathon. Wawa. Sault Ste. Marie. Manitoulin Island.

Elliot Lake? Sudbury? North Bay?

Parry Sound. Snug Harbour. Penetanguishene. Wiarton.

Goderich. Sarnia. Windsor. Point Pelee. Port Stanley.

The Niagara Peninsula. Niagara Falls. St. Catharines. Hamilton. Oakville. Mississauga.

Toronto.

Oshawa. Cobourg. Belleville. Kingston. Brockville. Cornwall.

All gone too after the Crash.

Whatever it turns out to have really been.

I'll keep reading The Massive and get back to you...