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I'm seeing this from multiple credible sources in science fiction and fantasy fandoms.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/harris-de-lint-recovery-fund
https://www.gofundme.com/f/harris-de-lint-recovery-fund
Linkages of Interest - 24 May 2022
May. 24th, 2022 10:01 am1. Ottawa author Kate Heartfield gets to hold forth on the Big Idea of The Embroidered Book by way of Athena Scalzi:
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/05/24/the-big-idea-kate-heartfield/
2. Dylan Reid at Spacing Media notes the contents of the "Rain" issue of Spacing now arriving in newsstands and mailboxes across Canada (and, I hope, elsewhere, too):
http://spacing.ca/national/2022/05/24/new-issue-rain/
3. Canadian national security is under threat in a way some of us never stopped worrying about, and others grew up never understanding until now:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/national-security-us-fox-news-threat-report-1.6459660
4. The process of recovery is underway, and it's complicated.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/storm-damage-ice-tornado-power-grid-ottawa-1.6463247
5. The Ottawa Titans have started their first baseball season.
https://apt613.ca/the-ottawa-titans-play-home-stadium-for-the-first-time-may-24-2022/
6. How to get help as needed during the Derecho-blackout of 2022:
https://ottawastart.com/ottawa-power-outage-where-to-recharge-get-a-shower-and-eat/
7. Fascist infiltrator in (New) Conservatives gets shown the exit door:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-party-resigns-racist-email-1.6463136
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/05/24/the-big-idea-kate-heartfield/
2. Dylan Reid at Spacing Media notes the contents of the "Rain" issue of Spacing now arriving in newsstands and mailboxes across Canada (and, I hope, elsewhere, too):
http://spacing.ca/national/2022/05/24/new-issue-rain/
3. Canadian national security is under threat in a way some of us never stopped worrying about, and others grew up never understanding until now:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/national-security-us-fox-news-threat-report-1.6459660
4. The process of recovery is underway, and it's complicated.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/storm-damage-ice-tornado-power-grid-ottawa-1.6463247
5. The Ottawa Titans have started their first baseball season.
https://apt613.ca/the-ottawa-titans-play-home-stadium-for-the-first-time-may-24-2022/
6. How to get help as needed during the Derecho-blackout of 2022:
https://ottawastart.com/ottawa-power-outage-where-to-recharge-get-a-shower-and-eat/
7. Fascist infiltrator in (New) Conservatives gets shown the exit door:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-party-resigns-racist-email-1.6463136
RIP Cinefex Magazine???
Feb. 23rd, 2021 03:22 pmJust got announced on Twitter.
https://twitter.com/cinefexNOW/status/1364282780490682369
If there's no rescue for this publication, it will indeed be a sad day for movie makers and the people learning those arts.
https://twitter.com/cinefexNOW/status/1364282780490682369
If there's no rescue for this publication, it will indeed be a sad day for movie makers and the people learning those arts.
Can-Con 2020 Cancelled
Jul. 17th, 2020 04:54 pmDetails here:
https://can-con.org/final-decision-on-cancon-2020/
Our intrepid organizing committee will just have to work out something on-line for the benefit of the region and the country (and have announced such intent). That might be more involving for more people, depending on how things go over the next weeks and months.
https://can-con.org/final-decision-on-cancon-2020/
Our intrepid organizing committee will just have to work out something on-line for the benefit of the region and the country (and have announced such intent). That might be more involving for more people, depending on how things go over the next weeks and months.
Getting Back to the Real Worlds
May. 30th, 2020 10:06 pmNight of contrasts: as white supremacists are trying to frame honest protestors across the USA for looting and vandalism, we also had the Crew Dragon launch today and the 2020 Nebula Awards are being handed out via streaming video. Surreal. Hope, fear and anger all at once in my heart and mind right now.
Futures, Tenser
Mar. 28th, 2020 08:30 pmTrump's gambling that he can leverage this mess to ensure his future remains locked into the White House.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/trump-coronavirus-response.html
Many object to having their lives redefined as acceptable collateral damage to achieve such ends.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/28/1932073/-All-of-us-are-now-viewed-as-collateral-damage-in-Trump-s-re-election-strategy
David Brin speculates - as you'd expect an SF author to do - on where this might lead for the US in particular.
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2020/03/where-might-this-all-lead-unexpected.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/opinion/trump-coronavirus-response.html
Many object to having their lives redefined as acceptable collateral damage to achieve such ends.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/3/28/1932073/-All-of-us-are-now-viewed-as-collateral-damage-in-Trump-s-re-election-strategy
David Brin speculates - as you'd expect an SF author to do - on where this might lead for the US in particular.
https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2020/03/where-might-this-all-lead-unexpected.html
TREK: A thought about the Picard series
Jan. 13th, 2020 10:27 pmAn intuition:
The Star Trek "Novel-'verse" many of us have been reading - and some of us, writing - this past decade or so has been travelling down the road where Picard took Kirk's advice in Generations to heart and kept it there.
What we're about to see on TV or streaming video - depending on where we live - is what happened on the road where he set Kirk's advice aside for reasons that seemed to make sense when he made the choice.
The Star Trek "Novel-'verse" many of us have been reading - and some of us, writing - this past decade or so has been travelling down the road where Picard took Kirk's advice in Generations to heart and kept it there.
What we're about to see on TV or streaming video - depending on where we live - is what happened on the road where he set Kirk's advice aside for reasons that seemed to make sense when he made the choice.
Postponed to Tomorrow
Oct. 17th, 2019 05:30 pmIt was going to happen today, but for the rain.
I don't expect to be there at the protest - day-job obligations! - but I do expect local traffic to be affected, including the traffic towards the Sheraton Ottawa for Can-Con 2019's first day.
I don't expect to be there at the protest - day-job obligations! - but I do expect local traffic to be affected, including the traffic towards the Sheraton Ottawa for Can-Con 2019's first day.
Canada Lands Company's legal reps just put their litigational foot in something rotten and smelly here. This is a place where pop culture and the law cross paths and swords, somewhat.
Does this mean that no one can watch Forever Knight, Rookie Blue, Flashpoint (the Toronto cop show), Coroner and the like anymore? Probably not, but the fallout's probably going to create problems anyway.
https://boingboing.net/2019/10/03/clcl-trademark-trolls.html
Does this mean that no one can watch Forever Knight, Rookie Blue, Flashpoint (the Toronto cop show), Coroner and the like anymore? Probably not, but the fallout's probably going to create problems anyway.
https://boingboing.net/2019/10/03/clcl-trademark-trolls.html
Can-Con 2018
Oct. 12th, 2018 10:53 amI'll be attending Can-Con this weekend.
https://can-con.org/
Not sitting on any panels, if you're wondering. Just one more member of the audiences wandering between panel rooms and the dealers' room and the consuite. Just the way I started, back when I first got to town and attended Maplecon 7 back in the 20th Century.
That's okay.
https://can-con.org/
Not sitting on any panels, if you're wondering. Just one more member of the audiences wandering between panel rooms and the dealers' room and the consuite. Just the way I started, back when I first got to town and attended Maplecon 7 back in the 20th Century.
That's okay.
Thought Experiments in Newspaper Comics
Jul. 2nd, 2017 08:58 amI have to wonder if - with today's installment of Candorville - Lemont (and series author Darrin Bell) isn't being a tad too optimistic with panel five about the indigenous peoples of North America if the American Revolution hadn't come off as it did in reality. We'd still have people who thought like Sir John A. Macdonald and Duncan Campbell Scott and Philip Sheridan did, although the specific people in power enforcing such atrocities as settlers' law would likely be different.
As for the rest of it?
As for the rest of it?
Concerns Raised by Madeline Ashby
Dec. 21st, 2016 08:37 amAshby, like Spider Robinson and others since his arrival, is an ex-American (or in her case, in the process of becoming so). I've been paying some degree of attention to her opinion columns in the Ottawa Citizen, particularly in the last few months.
This column is one of the root causes of my worry about "annexation or blitzkrieg?".
And then there's this one about how we use - and react to how others use - the Internet.
You may want to look at some of her other columns.
This column is one of the root causes of my worry about "annexation or blitzkrieg?".
And then there's this one about how we use - and react to how others use - the Internet.
You may want to look at some of her other columns.
Helicarrier Thoughts, Continued
Jun. 1st, 2014 08:33 pmSo I've been fiddling in Adobe Illustrator tonight. Half-tempted to revert back to CorelDRAW instead for this sort of thing, but never mind that for the moment.
This afternoon and evening, I spent part of the time fiddling with that Helicarrier tech art from the Marvel Universe Handbook from 1983. The working assumption being, if its length was about the same as a Nimitz-class CVN, what should its internal structures be expected to look like?
( Screengrabs after the cut! )
This afternoon and evening, I spent part of the time fiddling with that Helicarrier tech art from the Marvel Universe Handbook from 1983. The working assumption being, if its length was about the same as a Nimitz-class CVN, what should its internal structures be expected to look like?
( Screengrabs after the cut! )
Orphan Black and the Law
May. 1st, 2014 08:04 pmSome of you might be interested in this. James Daily and Ryan Davidson are co-authoring a weblog on the depiction of legal issues in pop culture in general, science fiction and fantasy in particular. Today, their eyes focused on one of Canada's better-known recent TV exports in that field, Orphan Black.
http://lawandthemultiverse.com/2014/05/01/orphan-black/
http://lawandthemultiverse.com/2014/05/01/orphan-black/
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ms_danson, we've been alerted to some possible acquisitions in real estate for certain organizations of interest to consider setting up recreational shop in.
Needless to say, our surveillance division will be watching real estate developments fairly closely from here onward.
ms_danson, we've been alerted to some possible acquisitions in real estate for certain organizations of interest to consider setting up recreational shop in.Needless to say, our surveillance division will be watching real estate developments fairly closely from here onward.
CAN-CON 2013 Site Now Live!
Apr. 3rd, 2013 09:27 pmFor anyone with an interest in spec-fic planning to visit Ottawa during the first weekend in October...
http://www.can-con.org/2013/
http://www.can-con.org/2013/
Ottawa SF Society on Meetup.com
Dec. 1st, 2012 09:16 pmOriginally posted by dewline at Ottawa SF Society on Meetup.com
dewline at Ottawa SF Society on Meetup.comThought those of you reading this might be interested: the Ottawa SF Society now has a "room" over at meetup.com! If you're interested, whether you've an account over there right now or not, feel free to drop in!
New CAN-CON Meeting and Social
Oct. 10th, 2012 03:46 pmSeems like this notice ought to be spread far and wide across Ottawa-Gatineau...
Originally posted bypopelaksmi at New CAN-CON Meeting and Social
Originally posted by
popelaksmi at New CAN-CON Meeting and SocialOur final CAN•CON 2012 meeting and social will be held this coming Saturday October 13th at the Colonnade Restaurant on Metcalfe St. at 6 pm. We will also begin preliminary discussions about hopes, desires and expectations for CAN•CON 2013. Since we will be hosting Canvention 33 (and as a result host the Aurora awards ceremony) we think it'll be a bit different from CAN•CON 2012.
One thing we are hoping to do is gather a few new people to do volunteeer work over the next year as we prepare for CAN•CON 2013. More people means the tasks are spread out and no one person is doing too much. There is a great range of jobs to be done and any amount of time offered is appreciated.
Here are some examples of job we are hoping to find people for:
Most urgent: Marketing person
Con-Suite/ Hospitality person
Volunteer Coordinator
Writers (for blog content, social media, restaurant guide)
Events liaison
Signage
and more!
Please come join us for some food and good conversation:
Colonnade Pizza & Restaurant
280 Metcalfe Street Ottawa, ON K2P 2P6
(613) 237-3179
colonnadepizza.com
One thing we are hoping to do is gather a few new people to do volunteeer work over the next year as we prepare for CAN•CON 2013. More people means the tasks are spread out and no one person is doing too much. There is a great range of jobs to be done and any amount of time offered is appreciated.
Here are some examples of job we are hoping to find people for:
Most urgent: Marketing person
Con-Suite/ Hospitality person
Volunteer Coordinator
Writers (for blog content, social media, restaurant guide)
Events liaison
Signage
and more!
Please come join us for some food and good conversation:
Colonnade Pizza & Restaurant
280 Metcalfe Street Ottawa, ON K2P 2P6
(613) 237-3179
colonnadepizza.com
CAN-CON 2012: the Schedule!
Sep. 21st, 2012 10:29 amThere's a lot of stuff going on at this year's edition beyond anything I'm doing. You're going to want to partake of some of it if you're expecting to be there for anything that leahbobet or ttallan are up to, to name but two examples. And for the CBC fans, there's lots of stuff that Alan Neal, our Media Guest of Honour this year, will be involved with as well!
Here's the schedule!
leahbobet or ttallan are up to, to name but two examples. And for the CBC fans, there's lots of stuff that Alan Neal, our Media Guest of Honour this year, will be involved with as well! Here's the schedule!
T Minus One Day to CAN-CON 2012
Sep. 20th, 2012 01:34 pmAgain, if you're interested: http://can-con.org/
Hoping to see some of you there over the weekend.
And if not this year, perhaps the next?
Hoping to see some of you there over the weekend.
And if not this year, perhaps the next?
