On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

I lived with epilepsy for a few years as a child and teenager. Interesting to see someone linking that to autism and/or ADHDivergence...?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/eeg-patients-brain-scans-medicine-1.7310186

Inspired by this tweet:

twitter.com/andrewfarago/status/1381730705424613382

Wondering what the Jabari in particular thought of hockey when they first learned of it.

And if Kilimanjaro is drying out nowadays because of climate derangement, then what's happening to the Jabari lands?

Not a happy thought there.

How many of my friendlisters here on DW also have accounts at DeviantArt right now and are willing to say so?

Of such friendlisters, I ask one more nosy question: what should I watch out for if I sign up?

Something else that Star Trek: Star Charts has inspired me about...and I don't think I want to discuss it on TrekBBS, because "story idea" prohibitions.

Looking at the Known Space map in the second fold-out at the back of that book...we see a 750-lightyear "sphere" with breakout "bubbles" around several stars. We are not focusing on them, but upon the coreward Beta Quadrant side, where the furthest-coreward systems tagged as Federation-affiliated are Antares - see also Memory Alpha - and Eta Lupi AKA Cerberus.

Looking back to the "core" spaces of the Federation, we see the following systems marked out along its coreward fringes:

Berengaria
Arbazan
Rhaandar/Alpha Indi
Ivor/Eta Scorpii
Norkan/Pi Hydrae
Caldos/Beta Octantis
Zakdorn

First reasonable assumption to propose: there should be networks of routes connecting Antares and Eta Lupi to each other.

(FYI: Celestia suggests the direct-line distance between them is about 160 lightyears. GAIA, JWST et al. may either confirm or correct this.)

Second reasonable assumption: there should be networks of routes connecting those two systems to each of the latter group of seven systems as well.

Third reasonable assumption: along those routes established in assumptions one and two, there will be outposts, colonies, starbases, full-member worlds and their holdings, and independent star-nations and their holdings. Yet to have been documented on any official Trek series.

I don't yet know if any of the fan fictions - text, podcast, video - have covered that part of the Orion Arm. There could be stuff hidden in Archive of Our Own, whose creators have reached these same assumptions.

I'll be trying to see Black Panther either Friday night or Saturday night this weekend. I need to nail down which cinema. Landmark on Innes, what used to be the Silver City Gloucester...?

Having seen only four episodes of the second season thus far (specifically episodes 3 thru 6), and none of the novels - which look rather dense on the shelves of the local bookstores - I have to admit to some curiosity about the whole thing, and a lot of uncertainty about what questions to ask about which aspects in what order. Also, I notice among those who have already been reading and/or watching, there's a growing enthusiasm.

So...open forum for discussion of what makes the novels and/or TV series work for those of you who got there before me.

Going to work as normal, but leaving early for the Eye Institute quarterly check-up. After that, dilation drops or not, I expect to go back to the office and do what I can for the rest of the work day. I promised as much.

Meantime, installing more brushes in MangaStudio/Clip Studio Paint tonight. Where to "file" the skin and hair "brushes"?

I've seen some weird ones myself around Ottawa-Gatineau. So this sampling from metro Toronto doesn't seem too bizarre.

How about where you live?

Wondering if anyone else has seen Concussion yet?