tantramar

tantramar, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

…while Green Party Leader David Coon downplays COVID by choosing not to do the simplest possible thing: wearing a mask… These people are exhausting.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/covid-19-new-brunswick-changes-opposition-deaths-hospital-respiratory-watch-1.6965467

tantramar, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to art

Drawing this time. My first year fine arts sculpture professor, the late Tom Henderson, lived in this house in Aulac, New Brunswick, just a few minutes from the Nova Scotia border and Fort Beauséjour National Historic Site, just off the road to Prince Edward Island. Typical late-19th/early-20th century home around here. Stillman & Birn hardcover sketchbook. 2B Pencil, Carbonpen, Copic markers. 2018. #canadianArt #art #drawing #sketch #graphite #ink #markers #canadianLandscape #architecture

tantramar, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

it’s 8°C (46°F) outside right now (mid-day), at 45.9°N.

on November 16th.

it’s t-shirt weather; maybe a light sweater or windbreaker. and it’s really nice.

and it scares the shit out of me.

tantramar, 10 months ago to StarTrek

Followed the #StarTrek hashtag for a while. No more.

Mostly complaints about how SNW/Picard/Discovery/etc. isn’t perfect or servicing their highly specific (and entirely unreasonable/mutually exclusive) demands.

Fandom — Trek, STAR WARS, anything, really — has just gotten exhausting. I’ll stick to podcasts like Vulcan Hello (w @blankbaby & @jsnell), because they’re smart and they enjoy the shows.

Life’s better when you let yourself enjoy things, you know?

tantramar, 8 months ago to UX

On every video player (AppleTV, Disney+, YouTube, Amazon Prime, Netflix, all of them) — no matter how long they persist, the on-screen controls persist 3 times longer than they need to. #ux #ui #video

tantramar, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

Hey, kids; remember — little need to use URL shortening services here.

• character limits are generally sufficient
• they obfuscate the link (which the security- & privacy-conscious will avoid)
• they add an unnecessary 3rd-party point of failure
• that 3rd party can track/spy on traffic
• some, like those ending in .ly, are dependent on countries (e.g. Libya) with regimes with questionable political motives for tracking/filtering traffic

#web #URLs #LinkShorteners

tantramar, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to random

been visiting a family member in hospital recently, and I can assure you that the healthcare profession is done taking covid seriously. I was the only masked person I saw. No doctors, nurses, staff, or patients I saw wore masks of any kind.

discussing things with a nurse, she said she’d gotten covid working in a nursing home; I said I’ve never had it. “You’ve been lucky”, she said.

“No,” I said, pointing to my 3M Aura 9205+ N95, “I’ve been careful.”

the fuck is it with these people?

tantramar, 9 months ago to random

I see @lisamelton is back on her boosting bullshit AND I AM HERE FOR IT!

tantramar, 9 months ago to wordpress

I’d love to love #WordPress’ block editor.

Alas.

It’s so gd click-happy. Wildly inefficient. Nothing’s ever in the same place twice. It remembers everything I don’t care about; forgets everything I’d like it to remember.

tantramar, 9 months ago to random

Both gone now.

Pencil sketch of my parents, reunited in the nursing home. Dad is holding mom’s hand in his. Mom had Alzheimer’s, Dad had had a stroke. 2018.

Dad died this morning.

tantramar, 9 months ago to random

in other news, my initial distaste for — and general avoidance of — Slack continues to pay dividends.

tantramar, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to art

More artwork from my archives. More of a drawing this time, from 2018, in a small Stillman & Birn mixed-media sketchbook. Pencil, fountain pen, Copic markers. People waiting at a bus stop in downtown Montréal, dans le quartier latin, dressed for a mild, Canadian winter day. The woman in the centre of the composition was watching me, unconcerned but mildly curious, as I took their photo. #art #drawing #canadianLandscape #groupPortrait #Montreal #quartierLatin #QC

tantramar, 9 months ago to random

The 2000 film The Beach (d. Danny Boyle) has a bit where 3 minor characters are attacked by a shark while fishing. 2 die outright; one, badly wounded, lingers.

Their remote, utopian community initially comes together to help, but turns resentful when forced to endure the survivor’s ongoing cries of suffering. First he’s segregated. Finally, he’s smothered, for everyone else’s benefit.

Anyway, this feels like a metaphor for how society’s chosen to handle long COVID.

tantramar, 8 months ago to random

This is a Western Honey Bee according to the insect lookup function in Apple Photos. Tiny little thing — much smaller than a bumblebee.

tantramar, 11 months ago to art

May post some of my artwork. Because why not? This is from my hometown, from a few years ago. #art #watercolour #painting #landscape #maritimes #canada

tantramar, 10 months ago to drawing

A change of pace from landscapes. This is Ornitholestes hermanni from the late Jurassic period — an #ink #drawing of a small, reconstructed dinosaur skeleton from a photo I took at the Royal Tyrell Museum of Paleontology in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. Pencil and fountain pen. 2016. #mastoArt

tantramar, 8 months ago to random

Pumpkins are berries. Huh. (This is a great podcast, BTW) https://overcast.fm/+J91OJSISg

tantramar, 27 days ago to random

“Looking for an alternative to Big Grocery? Moncton woman has a map for that” | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/moncton-online-alternative-groceries-map-1.7203870 #BoycottLoblaws

tantramar, 1 month ago to random

a) to hell with Adobe
b) I love how instead of yanking old media/apps I’ve paid for, Apple has, in contrast, upgraded old movies from SD > HD, and SDR > HDR — at no cost. Including titles that were digital downloads that came as codes redeemed from DVDs (in other words, not even purchased from Apple).

There are good and bad ways to treat customers. https://shakedown.social/@AAronL1968/112430436484912924

tantramar, 26 days ago to animals

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T_hD188jbaU #blackcatsofmastodon #CatsofMastodon #LaVieEnRose

tantramar, 25 days ago to random

Someone pointed out on a podcast recently that in the metric system, there are units — metres, grams, litres, etc. — and that all multi-unit prefixes are Greek (deca, kilo, mega) while all sub-unit prefixes (deci, centi, milli) are Latin. (Yes, since 1935 there have been exceptions… still.)

I’ve been using the metric system since I was 6 and never noticed this.

🤯 #metric

tantramar, 22 days ago to random

I love working in Markdown when writing HTML. When appropriate, I love using tables (for tabular data). On macOS, I love using TableFlip. #IndieMacApps https://tableflipapp.com

tantramar, 19 days ago to random

Apple: want to watch a 6 GB movie? movie starts instantly

Also Apple: wanna edit a 0.005 GB photo on your Mac that you just took on your phone? iCloud Photo waits for the heat death of the universe

make it make sense

tantramar, 20 days ago to random

Pro-ignorance dipshit strikes again. Vote these shameful, disgraceful people into unemployment ASAP. “Premier says sex education group will be banned from giving school presentations” | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/premier-ban-sex-education-group-1.7215157

StillIRise1963, 20 days ago to random

MSM tells you what THEY WANT you to know.