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Some random notes:

- Beth Simons writes for Spacing Toronto about the discovery of incomplete headstones made for Jewish cemetery use.

- I watched Star Trek: Prodigy tonight. Not bad. Some cringey bits of dialogue, or maybe it was the character interactions that annoyed more than the dialogue. More believable than I'd like in places, maybe? I have to remember that most of the main characters are newly escaped-from-enslavement children here.

- I got somewhat lucky today: someone else cancelled, so my molar repair gets moved up the dentist's schedule to tomorrow morning.

- My Eye Institute exam got pushed back again, this time to next February. This is...I think, the third rescheduling for the eye exam.

Current Mood: busy

1. The End of (Some of the) American Freeways and What Might Be (Re)Built Where They Used to Stand

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-01/a-federal-agency-asks-how-it-can-be-more-equitable

2. Waiting for another wave of rain here in Ottawa. It's like there's a wave of storms stalled, stretching from Pembroke to southwest of Hamilton as I type this entry.

3. Speaking of colonialism: Macdonald and company had to get it all approved at Westminster in the first place, right?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/02/the-toxic-legacy-of-the-british-empire-in-canadas-residential-schools

4. More on other topics later.

Current Mood: busy

The work of looking for work continues. Local weather is uncertain at the moment. One of my friends from local fandom is down with a serious illness, not COVID-19 but probably terminal. Immediate family is mostly okay for now.

I feel like there's more to say publicly here, but I'm not sure what it is yet.

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home

Job search resumes after the latest weekend.

Not happy with how the Banjo Bowl game went for the Saskatchewan Roughriders, but these things are indeed fleeting.

Getting the sense of fall kicking into gear in Ottawa-Gatineau. Leaves are falling, yet bees and butterflies are still zipping around.

More as it comes to mind.

Current Mood: busy
Current Music: Margaret Atwood interview on CBC Radio

- For

radargrrl:
https://apt613.ca/ottawa-roller-derby-disco/

- For fans of Corner Gas and/or the Indigenous cultures:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/indigenous-kids-molly-of-denali-1.5262616

(Noting that Atomic Cartoons has branch studios in Vancouver and Ottawa...)

- Bigots getting the responses they earn in Mississauga:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/singh-muslimfest-protester-1.5267827

- I'll try to get those Labour Day pix uploaded to my Flickr account at "dwight_ew" this morning.

- Job search resumes today after the Labour Day weekend, as well.

- Newsrooms are still unionizing these days!
https://niemanreports.org/articles/why-newsrooms-are-unionizing-now/

- More later...

Current Mood: busy

https://www.tor.com/2019/08/26/select-difficulty/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/27/three-catholic-schools-abandon-ethos-to-become-multi-faith

Notes on anxiety.

Great white shark as celebrity, but not according to the late Peter Benchley's manuscripting.

A tale of truly Canadian organized crime. Amusing and disturbing all at once.

Michael Enright speaks of a divide between nations, of music, of grief and joy.

Can-Con 2016 is wrapping up in Ottawa today. It's been fun, it's been a learning experience. And I should have left for home last night at least a half-hour earlier than I actually did.

Today, here in Ottawa-Gatineau, we got thoroughly soaked. Rainfall warning, thunderstorm warning, special weather statement...you get the idea here.

Rewatched Star Trek XIII (AKA "Beyond") today in 2D format while the lightning played outside. Compliments again to designer Sean Hargreaves for their part in that movie.

If there's one question I'd put to Messrs. Pegg and Jung in their role as writers, it's this: if you were using ST: Star Charts as your reference maps, where would you want the Yorktown Base/Altamid neighbourhood to fit into those maps?

Job search note: despite currently being employed, I am still actively looking. Alerts subscribed to via the federal job bank, indeed.ca, Workopolis, glassdoor.com and a few other outfits.

Current Mood: nerdy

I'm listening to a guy complain about a squirrel stealing broccoli from his garden at the ByMUG meeting right now, speaking of what he's done to avenge the theft. "Avenge" is strictly my choice of verb for it, mind you. It entertains me to listen to such things, as well as family misadventures in an Israeli desert, discussions of various software compatible with more recent iterations of Mac OS X and on and on it goes.

I'm on warrenellis' "Orbital Operations" mailing list, and from there, I read this interview on tor.com about life on the Internet of today. Disturbing, yet hopeful. Maybe we - as a species - manage to salvage enough of whatever else is trying to survive us living on this planet, maybe not.

Last night, I rummaged through YouTube and found that The Agenda's people salvaged a 1976 interview from The Education of Mike McManus with the late Mel Hurtig. It's a bit of video history archeology in action there, dating back to when a kid in grade school in Saskatchewan wouldn't have a hope in Heaven or Hell of seeing a TVOntario show without some expensive intervention from either CBC or the local school board or public library. VHS and Beta were just starting their fight at the time, I think, right?

More as it occurs to me.

Current Mood: restless

CBC News notes a campaign to enable access to FM radio stations via our "smartphones" without needing to use our data plans. My current primary cleverphone may be better able to serve my needs if this campaign succeeds. Maybe.

The Guardian notes the looking into the causes of the wildfires plaguing Fort McMurray and its neighbours.

Science News reports the raising of questions to be further investigated about Body Mass Index. (Yes, there's a longstanding personal concern tied to this one.)

Current Mood: pensive
Current Music: CBC Radio One - The Sunday Edition

According to CTV's Atlantic News web service, today is National Superhero Day.

Speaking of celebrations: tomorrow will be a big day for independent bookstores in Canada and the USA.

The Intercept reports on...interventions in the communications of convicts' families on social media. The potential consequences for all involved seem Problematic at best to my eyes. That the examples under discussion are in Texas does not make the matter less relevant.

On mapping the now and the possible future, there is a book that I now want: Connectography.

That's today in two words. At least for the larger world around me.

Rob Ford died in Toronto. The first federal budget of the administration of Trudeau the Younger was delivered in the House of Commons today. A lot of people were forced to die or suffer in Brussels, no thanks to Daesh. Ottawa got some mixed weather. A friend of several years' standing trusted me with their cellphone number. Assorted friends across the planet are dealing with health issues of their own. Some of them even got some good news about those issues.

Not even beginning to scratch the surface here.

Even managed to get in a few minutes of sketching time, in spite of noticing all of that stuff.

Current Mood: tired

Just not much to say at the moment. I've been checking job boards, looking at YouTube tutorials on perspective and inking, rummaging around Facebook and G+ and getting other chores done around the place the last few days.

Nothing really coherent otherwise comes to mind right now. Will try to check in again tomorrow.

Current Mood: busy

Job search continues. Research on writing projects also. Ditto laundry as well.

More as it comes to mind.

Okay, watched Agents of SHIELD: "A Wanted (Inhu)man" on ctv.ca tonight. Lots of twists and turns on several fronts. More on that in the comments, if you want to talk about it.

Scanning my diplomas into the computer in anticipation of some job leads down the line, including one or two at the current day-job which require "proof of graduation". Well, these scans will settle that question unless they're fixated on transcripts instead. Which could happen.

I see the dentist about that repair job on the molar tomorrow afternoon. That appointment's been rescheduled to later in the afternoon than I originally expected. Which is fine in that it cuts down on the disruption of work. But I gave the dentist's office my clever-phone number for Reasons. Oh well...

Picked up some comics reading today.

Current Mood: tired

So this was the news dropped on us last night via the Canadian Media Guild's news feed:

http://www.cmg.ca/en/2015/09/22/cbc-announces-plans-to-sell-off-all-buildings-in-midst-of-election-campaign/

Disturbing timing, although it's not as if this wasn't on the "intended results" list of those engineering the cuts to the federal share of CBC's annual budgets. As far as I know, CBC never owned the current Ottawa Broadcast Centre's home building. Despite the place being designed to serve the needs of the Ceeb, if the landlord wanted them out...?

Meanwhile, the coughing jags are still dropping further in frequency, although it seems like the severity level tries to compensate for that at times with more enthusiasm than I want.

*winces at the memory*

I'm still going back to work this morning, though.

At least the weather's been holding steady.

To those of you who were fans of Babe Ruth, my condolences on your loss today.

More on other stuff later...

Current Mood: mixed emotions

The heat warning continuues today.

I'm on week six of my current contract.

The federal election countdown continues.

Current Mood: busy

...and I managed to get some shopping, laundry, and lawn-moving done anyway. I suppose I timed it well enough, avoiding the worst of it starting at 3 PM local time.

About scanner-printer combination devices: What's currently considered the best of such gear as can scan 11"x17" original boards? Opinions?

CBC's Cross-Country Checkup asks for your favourite summer reading recommendations this afternoon, heedless of the risk of trespassing on The Next Chapter's turf. Perhaps that's because The Next Chapter's on summer vacation and one of their past columnists, Randy Boyagoda, is part of the crew answering the phones today.

Current Mood: busy

Russell McOrmond discusses the consequences of bad intellectual-property law for people in the real worlds. Digital Rights Management tech can and does get manipulated into backfiring.

Canadaland pursues the connections between the HarperGov and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. Awaiting further revelations with some interest.

The CBC's Janyce McGregor explains why Canada probably shouldn't be quick to get rid of supply management in agriculture, whatever complaints various groups inside and outside of Canada may have about it. Would that such thinking had been heeded where the Canadian Wheat Board was concerned.

Current Mood: nerdy
Current Music: The Sunday Edition - CBC Radio One

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Entries tagged with random notes

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Assorted Notes - 2 July 2021

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Post-Labour Day 2019

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A Constellation of Semi-Random Notes

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