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2023-12-04 08:34 pm
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Horror re: CBC Staffing

This is not what I want for the future of the Public Broadcaster:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/cbc-radio-canada-layoffs-budget-1.7048530

Here and I've been listening to this year's edition of the Massey Lectures for most of the afternoon while I was working on the new day job...
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2023-05-20 05:18 pm
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2023-03-07 08:04 pm
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2023-02-25 08:34 pm
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2022-07-07 11:28 pm
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Trek: "A Quality of Mercy"

That was Ali Hassan - from CBC Radio! - playing Garry Walberg's TOS character from "Balance of Terror" on tonight's episode, right?
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2022-07-03 09:12 pm
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Checking In - 3 July 2022

Didn't visit anyone today. Instead, I listened to the radio, did laundry and shopping chores, and attended a Mac User Group meeting via Zoom. Oh, and worked on a design project on spec...which I expect to amount to nothing helpful to anyone.
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2022-06-23 06:10 pm
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2022-05-29 08:57 pm
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It's been a quiet day here for the most part. Watching Clip Studio Paint-related webinars on YouTube, taking phone calls, shopping and exercise walks, listening to the radio. Even got some practice time sketching in Clip Studio Paint just before supper, which I'm in desperate need of.

Still feels like I'm getting nowhere helpful. Not right now.
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2022-03-27 04:21 pm
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Keeping Busy On Another Sunday

Practicing with the Cintiq and Clip Studio Paint and listening to Cross Country Checkup on CBC Radio.

Two things I am reminded of:

1. I have to got to learn to loosen up in my illustration process.

2. I am absolutely okay with the Confidence and Supply agreement between the federal Liberals and NDP right now. There's things I want to add to their to-do list (like eye care), but this was a possibility I was okay with when I cast my vote.
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2022-01-12 08:07 pm
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2022-01-07 08:09 pm
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2021-12-24 04:56 pm
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Julie Czerneda, Hockey and Reindeer

I am listening to All In a Day on CBC Radio One, and Alan Neal is fielding questions from kids about Christmas. One about what do reindeer enjoy games-wise got pivoted to SF writer Julie Czerneda - turns out she's also a biologist! - and Julie just improvised an answer about how antlers can be repurposed as hockey sticks!

(Yes, Julie and I chat on occasion at bookstores, at Can-Con events, and so on.)
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2021-12-14 08:08 pm
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Ideas is replaying a defence of nihilism on CBC Radio One as I type this.

Meanwhile, I'm reading Rabble.ca articles.

Tomorrow, I hope to make time to resume work on a commission sketch. The reference materials sent to me for this one have been challenging reading. Somewhat more challenging to print out in a legible fashion.
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2021-12-11 01:41 pm
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I just got home from walking exercise, which I needed to have. The weather is grey, unseasonably warm and wet, hereabouts this afternoon.

A few days ago, George Pérez broke the news of his inoperable stage 3 pancreatic cancer diagnosis, as I noted here.

Right now, I'm listening to an episode of White Coat, Black Art via CBC's On Demand radio services devoted to consequences of the Pandemic as regards cancer diagnoses in general across Canada...and the effects on the cancer-fighting sector of the medical professions, particularly morale and mental health.

So there's me, connecting dots, right? Dots that I'm not sure need connecting, because what's the point of it beyond blame-casting?
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2021-10-22 08:34 pm
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One job lead is taking longer than I was expecting to see either pay off or not. So it looks like my flu vaccination appointment Monday morning can happen safely. I can take care of some follow-up stuff with my CPAP machine dealer on the way home.

Another job lead is set for an over-the-Net interview for Wednesday morning. We'll see how that goes.

Family's mostly okay today.

I'm listening to Ideas on CBC Radio One at the moment.
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2021-07-02 09:59 am
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2 July 2021

Job search has resumed this morning, of course. Checking the alerts I'm subscribed to, logging into assorted websites to look for new leads, and so on.

I've been listening to The Current since logging into my computer. Life goes on around me, regardless.
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2021-06-28 02:30 pm
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Ideas: History (and Perils?) of Technocracy

Expecting to listen to this after tonight's Ottawa SF Society monthly Zoom-chat session:

https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk
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2021-05-20 08:09 pm
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CBC/Ideas: Untold Stories of Ethiopa

Listening to this programme as I type this entry. Per the title on the CBC page:

Maaza Mengiste on confronting the past without 'smoothing out the rough edges of history'
The writer turns to archival photography to explore how historical narratives are created

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/maaza-mengiste-on-confronting-the-past-without-smoothing-out-the-rough-edges-of-history-1.6033285
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2021-05-18 02:30 pm
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The job search continues. I've got two offers, one I have to decline because lack of experience and temperament. The other seems to be real, and might be interesting. There's no guarantees, of course, but I'll wait for the reply to my reply.

While I keep looking for other leads in the meantime, there's this episode of Ideas about the sounds of space, "Music on Mars". And there is sound to be listened to and to be listened for.

More later...
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2021-05-08 09:19 am
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RADIO: The House - 8 May 2021

Listening to this on the radio right now:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thehouse/cbc-the-house-may-8-2021-1.6017783

Needing to think through the implications raised by the discussions aired today...
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