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Looking Back At Christmas Day 2024
Dec. 26th, 2024 08:35 amIt was okay. Quiet when I needed it to be, noisy when I wanted it to be.
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Names and Mistakes in E-Mail
Apr. 16th, 2022 07:15 amIt's weird getting e-mails from others sharing my own name...
Example: one guy in Georgia having subscribed to alerts from the local Home Depot. Another two were authors, one writing science textbooks, another in US law enforcement history. Then there was the "private military contractor"...
Example: one guy in Georgia having subscribed to alerts from the local Home Depot. Another two were authors, one writing science textbooks, another in US law enforcement history. Then there was the "private military contractor"...
Notes for the Morning
Jan. 12th, 2022 07:29 am1. Some of you may have heard about these three box-grabbing cats in Langford, BC. This is an update to that story-meme. These cats aren't the Scalzi Family Scamperbeasts, but they've been having a moment.
2. Indigenous control over Indigenous education makes more progress towards returning to pre-Contact normal.
2. Indigenous control over Indigenous education makes more progress towards returning to pre-Contact normal.
Exoplanets: Maybe Ohann?
Nov. 26th, 2021 10:17 amPhil Plait does a write-up on a planet orbiting a tight-orbit binary star system. Of course, there's a deep-cut Star Wars comment in there...
TIC 172900988 is the simplest catalogue number on file for that star right now. Here are the others on file at SIMBAD:
TYC 2483-160-1
2MASS J08343881+3133147
Gaia DR1 709709089004925440
GSC 02483-00160
Gaia DR2 709709093301608448
Note: For Trekkers' purposes, it's 800 light-years away, viewed in the constellation Cancer from here on Earth. So I guess that puts it well past the Klingon holdings...?
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/7989/tic-172900988-b/
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/TIC%20172900988
http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/tic_172900988_(ab)_b/
TIC 172900988 is the simplest catalogue number on file for that star right now. Here are the others on file at SIMBAD:
TYC 2483-160-1
2MASS J08343881+3133147
Gaia DR1 709709089004925440
GSC 02483-00160
Gaia DR2 709709093301608448
Note: For Trekkers' purposes, it's 800 light-years away, viewed in the constellation Cancer from here on Earth. So I guess that puts it well past the Klingon holdings...?
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/7989/tic-172900988-b/
https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/overview/TIC%20172900988
http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/tic_172900988_(ab)_b/
Talk Like a Pirate Day Tomorrow?
Sep. 18th, 2021 11:52 amApparently, that's the case. Just looking around for confirmation/debunking.
Getting my bedding washed and dried in the meantime...
Getting my bedding washed and dried in the meantime...
Signs: A Punnery in Melville
Jun. 12th, 2021 03:04 pmFor a little bit of comedy relief from a place some relatives call home:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/melville-home-hardware-pharmasave-bmo-sign-war-1.6063261
Update from Global News:
https://globalnews.ca/news/7943168/sign-war-takes-over-city-of-melville/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/melville-home-hardware-pharmasave-bmo-sign-war-1.6063261
Update from Global News:
https://globalnews.ca/news/7943168/sign-war-takes-over-city-of-melville/
Local Arts: Gruntled.ca
Aug. 5th, 2020 09:18 amFrom Apt613.ca:
https://apt613.ca/ottawa-artist-andrea-ross-doodles-to-document-the-joy-in-her-days/
Her own site:
http://gruntled.ca/
https://apt613.ca/ottawa-artist-andrea-ross-doodles-to-document-the-joy-in-her-days/
Her own site:
http://gruntled.ca/
It seems only right that a comic book shop should set up shop inside a school for cartoonists and animators.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/deweys-comic-city-of-new-jersey-moves-into-joe-kubert-school/
I hope this partnership serves both organizations well for...preferably decades.
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/deweys-comic-city-of-new-jersey-moves-into-joe-kubert-school/
I hope this partnership serves both organizations well for...preferably decades.
DESIGN: How to Work From Home
Jun. 3rd, 2020 10:41 amCreative Bloq passed along something amusing from LEGO.
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/lego-wfh-guide
https://www.creativebloq.com/news/lego-wfh-guide
"What I've learned about myself is that there is no amount of time that can pass, there is no break that can happen. I just will never clean up the basement." - Mercer during an interview with Tom Power on Q, date currently unknown to me. Source: Sunday Edition essay by Michael Enright.
2009: A Famous Intersection in Toronto
May. 19th, 2020 01:24 pmAt least, it ought to be famous.
I doubt that "Mercer Street" is named for Rick Mercer...especially after reading Toronto Street Names by Leonard Wise and Allan Gould, specifically page 148. But maybe, given the proximity to the CBC Broadcast Centre where Rick's Report was made for 15 years, it ought to be renamed in his specific honour.
I doubt that "Mercer Street" is named for Rick Mercer...especially after reading Toronto Street Names by Leonard Wise and Allan Gould, specifically page 148. But maybe, given the proximity to the CBC Broadcast Centre where Rick's Report was made for 15 years, it ought to be renamed in his specific honour.
Overheard from Colm Feore
Apr. 19th, 2020 10:22 amOn The Sunday Edition this morning: "Now is the window of our discotheque!"
You go discover the context yourselves, okay?
You go discover the context yourselves, okay?
ASTRONOMY: Lich/PSR B1257 + 12
Apr. 15th, 2020 10:17 pmThe first planets humans found orbiting any other star at all couldn't be ordinary. Nope. The first two that humans found back in 1992 by Aleksander Wolszczan, just as I was winding up my animation studies at Algonquin College, were found orbiting a pulsar.
To oversimplify, a pulsar - or neutron star - is a corpse of a star. It's dead, Jim. But what's left of it still has an energy output or we wouldn't have been able to notice it at all.
Small wonder, then, that when the International Astronomical Union started up a program or contest - I'm trying to remember which at the moment - to give as many stars as possible proper names in addition to the various catalogue numbers that they've all accumulated across the last couple of centuries, that...to quote the Wikipedia entry of the moment:
In July 2014, the International Astronomical Union launched a process for giving proper names to certain exoplanets and their host stars. The process involved public nomination and voting for the new names. In December 2015, the IAU announced the winning names, submitted by the Planetarium Südtirol Alto Adige in Karneid, Italy, were Lich for the pulsar and Draugr, Poltergeist and Phobetor for planets A, B and C, respectively...
A "lich" is a kind of undead being, usually depicted as a sorceror who's managed to keep their remains active and controlled by their intellect or soul or whatever after death. And the names of the associated planets were kept in related themes as well...
To oversimplify, a pulsar - or neutron star - is a corpse of a star. It's dead, Jim. But what's left of it still has an energy output or we wouldn't have been able to notice it at all.
Small wonder, then, that when the International Astronomical Union started up a program or contest - I'm trying to remember which at the moment - to give as many stars as possible proper names in addition to the various catalogue numbers that they've all accumulated across the last couple of centuries, that...to quote the Wikipedia entry of the moment:
In July 2014, the International Astronomical Union launched a process for giving proper names to certain exoplanets and their host stars. The process involved public nomination and voting for the new names. In December 2015, the IAU announced the winning names, submitted by the Planetarium Südtirol Alto Adige in Karneid, Italy, were Lich for the pulsar and Draugr, Poltergeist and Phobetor for planets A, B and C, respectively...
A "lich" is a kind of undead being, usually depicted as a sorceror who's managed to keep their remains active and controlled by their intellect or soul or whatever after death. And the names of the associated planets were kept in related themes as well...
Not Playing the April Fools' Game Today
Apr. 1st, 2020 08:45 amI 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...
Back to the job search...
FLICKR: Train Car Names of Ottawa
Jan. 5th, 2020 08:47 amOne example of the more amusing names we've given our O-Train cars:
