Good-News Update re: StellarCatalog.com
May. 31st, 2025 10:38 amThat website is back online, if you're interested!
Vaccinations
Apr. 4th, 2025 10:20 amI got the first dose on my shingles vaccinations yesterday.
Aside from the hopes of averting that disease itself, apparently there's some small degree of benevolent knock-on effect against dementia too.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vaccination-dementia.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/shingles-vaccine-dementia-wales-1.7500368
You'll certainly want to do some additional digging into this on your own to be more certain.
Aside from the hopes of averting that disease itself, apparently there's some small degree of benevolent knock-on effect against dementia too.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vaccination-dementia.html
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/shingles-vaccine-dementia-wales-1.7500368
You'll certainly want to do some additional digging into this on your own to be more certain.
About Those Non-US Crayon Brands?
Apr. 1st, 2025 06:47 pmWallack's got back to me with an answer about the options they have either in stock or available to order:
Holbein (Japan)
Colleen Pencils (Thailand)
Bruynzeel (Holland)
Faber-Castell (Germany)
Caran d'Ache (Switzerland)
Derwent (UK)
Lyra (Germany)
Holbein (Japan)
Colleen Pencils (Thailand)
Bruynzeel (Holland)
Faber-Castell (Germany)
Caran d'Ache (Switzerland)
Derwent (UK)
Lyra (Germany)
Some Good News: 7 Nov 2024
Nov. 7th, 2024 07:18 amPassed along by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
andrewducker, some bits of good news amidst the Bad Craziness...
https://www.tumblr.com/andrewducker/766471507852541952?source=share
andrewducker, some bits of good news amidst the Bad Craziness...https://www.tumblr.com/andrewducker/766471507852541952?source=share
Crossed these off the to-do list today:
Gon'Cra
Deep Space 3
Starbase 514
24 Aquarii
Jod'Cor
Mivic
Huranzi
Latroci
Septimus
Gon'Cra
Deep Space 3
Starbase 514
24 Aquarii
Jod'Cor
Mivic
Huranzi
Latroci
Septimus
She escaped that lagoon on her own.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/orca-escape-generational-impact-1.7187235
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/orca-escape-generational-impact-1.7187235
Eye Exam 2024 - Part II
Jan. 4th, 2024 11:41 amI got back in the house about 40 minutes ago.
Good news: my eyesight remains stable. My next scheduled checkup is in February 2026. It's logged into my scheduleware.
Good news: my eyesight remains stable. My next scheduled checkup is in February 2026. It's logged into my scheduleware.
I am cautiously gleeful at the moment.
...I understand that this is also the anniversary of the births of notables such as Humphrey Bogart, Rod Serling, Jimmy Buffett, Sissy Spacek, CCH Pounder, Annie Lennox, Allanah Myles, and the brothers Justin and Alexandre Trudeau (in different years).
(Sadly, also, of Karl Rove.)
(Sadly, also, of Karl Rove.)
Work: Tech Happiness
Dec. 4th, 2023 08:56 amMy new HDMI switch works with the Mac Mini, the office loaner machine and the external monitor I need those two machines to share.
More on other topics later. On to work!
More on other topics later. On to work!
Mapmaking: A good day
Oct. 17th, 2023 11:23 pmI finally started to solve a puzzle I'd set up for myself in my Edge of Midnight project tonight. I'll try to share what I did tomorrow at some point.
...and it feels like we should have had Gord Downie still with us to put lyrics to the occasion.
Yes, we still have Buffy Saint-Marie, Leslie Feist, K-Os, Bruce Cockburn, and so many others of like talent to do so...for the moment at least.
Congratulations to Wab Kinew and the Manitoba NDP.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/2023-manitoba-election-results-1.6985468
If anyone's wondering if I've seen him in person...there was one time in 2015:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/albums/72157658107849654
Yes, we still have Buffy Saint-Marie, Leslie Feist, K-Os, Bruce Cockburn, and so many others of like talent to do so...for the moment at least.
Congratulations to Wab Kinew and the Manitoba NDP.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/2023-manitoba-election-results-1.6985468
If anyone's wondering if I've seen him in person...there was one time in 2015:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dwight_ew/albums/72157658107849654
First person of any non-White colour, actually...and he's an MP I met once in passing at a pro-CBC protest/advocacy walk from Gatineau across the Alexandra Bridge into Ottawa and up to Parliament Hill a few years ago: Greg Fergus. Details of today's vote here:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mps-vote-new-speaker-1.6984673
I'd have thought that this would have happened years earlier, with some other Member of Parliament gaining that honour and title. That's not how history evolved, though, so here we are.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mps-vote-new-speaker-1.6984673
I'd have thought that this would have happened years earlier, with some other Member of Parliament gaining that honour and title. That's not how history evolved, though, so here we are.
For those who care: this is the tenth anniversary of the launch of Agents of SHIELD and the sixth anniversary of the launch of Star Trek: Discovery. That coincidence shared by two TV series that I favour is worthy of some celebratory attention.
Eye Exam 2023
Aug. 9th, 2023 11:20 pmThe verdict is "stable". My next checkup for this particular eye issue is August 2024.
Comics/Ottawa: A Very Pleasant Surprise!
Jul. 3rd, 2023 06:03 pmSome of you may recall that the Comic Book Shoppe's Centretown store had been forced to relocate from a previous address further south on Bank Street a year or two ago due to a fire elsewhere on the block.
What I did NOT know was that they had moved into the old Prospero Books space on Bank and Slater until doing an unrelated Google Maps postal code search tonight! Excellent matching of tenant to location there! I hope they get to stay in that space for many years to come!
What I did NOT know was that they had moved into the old Prospero Books space on Bank and Slater until doing an unrelated Google Maps postal code search tonight! Excellent matching of tenant to location there! I hope they get to stay in that space for many years to come!
