jonjennings

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I LOVE public art and New West has more than its fair share of it.

This is one that I'd missed, even though it's been in place for 6 months on the outside of the Anvil Centre: https://imgur.com/a/u142dWA

**Rebecca Bair
Curl Mapped, 2023**
(b. 1995, Toronto, ON, Canada;
lives and works in Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Anvil Centre Public Art Project
April 2023 - March 2024
Curated by Emmy Lee Wall, Capture Photography Festival

Commissioned by the City of New Westminster, this temporary public art installation is presented in partnership with Capture Photography Festival

Situated on the façade of the Anvil Centre in New Westminster, Rebecca Bair's site-specific installation, Curl Mapped, tackles the complex, colonial history of archives to represent that which is absent: traces of Black settlers in this region. Bair spent significant time in the city archives poring over the leather-bound ledgers, reading the handwritten notes, and examining the photographs therein only to discover a gap - what she describes as "a ghost in the space." In Curl Mapped, Bair interrupts parts of the map with curly tendrils of hair, which for her, is symbolic of heritage. and cultural care. As these coils reach toward one another, attempting to close the gap in the map, they suggest the subjective nature of maps while gesturing to the need to acknowledge and repair this lack of representation.

[–] jonjennings@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

Photo of an estimate from a local mechanic? And same with you - take all the physio you need and bill the hell out of them. Hope the knee's settled down now but an expert opinion might spot something long-term that can be corrected now.

[–] jonjennings@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sorry to hear :( Feels like we're all one momentary lapse of concentration (usually someone else's) away from a life-changing coming-together. I've lost track of the situation with the shifting sands of ICBC and what they will/won't do these days, but can you claim against them for a) any out-of-pocket medical expenses (eg physio) and b) damage to bike/helmet?

Ahhh right, sorry - must read more carefully - I see you've already said ICBC will cover the helmet. If you get the bike in for a mechanic to look over & give you an estimate then presumably they'll cover that as well?

[–] jonjennings@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

I've never understood why there's a fuss about default wallpaper. It ships with a dozen options and you can obviously install your own. I guess it's the opportunity for a news story and a sign that things have reached a certain level of development and are getting close to release.

Personally, I saw the item on installing your own dynamic wallpaper at https://www.omglinux.com/dynamic-wallpapers-for-gnome-desktop/, followed the instructions on github and set up a lovely time-of-day based wallpaper based on the game Firewatch (https://github.com/manishprivet/dynamic-gnome-wallpapers#code-firewatch) - I love all the sunrise/sunset options there but if you've played Firewatch then this one might speak to you :)

 

:(

 

This Saturday will be Car Free Day. Columbia St shutdown for "live music, food trucks, site-wide liquor license, and more!"

Date: Saturday, July 29 Located: Columbia Street, New Westminster, BC Time: Noon - 8 pm

Always a lot of fun... this is what the food truck festival morphed into (which is probably a good thing because the food truck festival had grown to a ridiculous size).

Core details including the bands playing on https://www.carfree.ca/new-west

More details on https://www.newwestrecord.ca/local-news/get-ready-to-enter-a-pedestrian-paradise-new-wests-car-free-day-is-back-7322081 (including that there's going to be a bike valet this year)

 

There's no time to relax after week #2 of Fridays on Front - the fun never stops in New West in the summer...

Uptown Live today, Saturday July 15 from Noon - 8:00 PM - uptown New West.

Lots of food trucks, lots of bands, lots of vendors.

Schedule, artists, vendors etc here: https://www.uptownlive.ca/schedule-1

I'm especially looking forward to hearing Ayla Tesler-Mabé - that woman sure knows her way around a guitar but there doesn't appear to be anything she can't do.

 

Arts New West (what used to be known as the Arts Council of New West) is putting on a series of free concerts at the bandshell in Queen's Park.

Every Thursday at 7pm and every Sunday at 2pm (apparently with a break in the middle...??) until the end of July.

Go take a picnic (and even a beer if you like) and enjoy free good times. Maybe see ya there.

More details on their FB or their website https://artscouncilnewwest.org/concertseries/

 

This Saturday from 11AM to 2PM - official opening of the Agnes St Greenway. We rode it the other day & it's looking lovely. Lots of nice touches - the planting as usual in New West and the doggy exercise yard.

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Got in a coffee hat trick this afternoon.

#1 Photo: New West Chamber of Commerce

rode into town past the brand-new-just-opened-today-but-not-really coffee shop on 6th - Coasters Coffee. (As far as I can work out they had a ribbon-cutting with the Mayor etc today (Photo: New West Chamber of Commerce) but had a grand opening in March). https://www.instagram.com/coasterscoffeeshop

#2

got coffee & nibbles in Craft Cafe down on the Quay. Always good coffee and I managed to avoid buying any of the fancy coffee gadgets they have for sale. https://www.instagram.com/craftcafe.ca/

#3

In Craft Cafe I picked up a freshly roasted bag of everybody's-favourite-New-West-roaster Ghost Roaster coffee. https://www.instagram.com/ghostroastercoffee/

Is that too much coffeeing for one day?

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City Budget 2024 (www.beheardnewwest.ca)
 

City's asking for input on the 2024 budget - go tell them your priorities (and maybe win a local gift card)

[–] jonjennings@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

someone high up had a shitty idea and told engineering they had a month to figure out how to make it real

Ever see that Simpsons episode where Homer gets to design a car? Always reminds me of that.

[–] jonjennings@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

It’s also pointy as fuck. Mobile guillotine.

North American trucks in general are death on four wheels for pedestrians, cyclists etc. The tall vertical leading edges hit pedestrians in the hip and torso and then toss them under the wheels.

In the EU there's regulations about this stuff, designed to ensure that people are hit (ideally not hit at all, but you know what I mean) in the legs and thrown up onto the hood. Plus regulations about spacing underneath the hood to the hard engine components which allows for a certain amount of cushioning deformity when the victim hits the hood. Would love to see that sort of thing regulated in North America but not a chance in hell of it happening.

[–] jonjennings@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

so it would not be a surprise if Reddit administration or spez personally decides to usurp those mod teams.

There was some comment about "we'll do whatever's necessary to keep reddit online" so I think the implication there is that if high-traffic subs went dark for an extended period then he'd evict the mods and replace them with his yes men.

Personally I think the subs should go dark for 3 days each & every month. You can still run a successful community with those restrictions but it's a pretty visible signal to investors that hey your userbase hates you and is itching for the opportunity to leave your sorry ass.

[–] jonjennings@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

You can't expect parents to let their kids WALK to school can you? It's not safe - there's so many cars around! 🙄

[–] jonjennings@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Maybe a possible help here is Lemmy's federated nature? I wonder if it works like Mastodon.

If a certain instance is obviously the source of a significant proportion of the troglodytes then I wonder if their users can be blacklisted from a single community (maybe mod tools could do it??) or if their entire instance would have to be cut off from everywhere else.

[–] jonjennings@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Migrated to Debian 11 from Ubuntu 6 months ago. Loving it.

With Ubuntu I used to stick to the LTS releases and wait for a .1 upgrade. But I've been running a Debian 12 VM in anger (ie actually doing work on it - I needed PHP 8) for the last month or two and it's been faultless for me. Might break the habit and upgrade the main machine early :)

Edit: almost pulled the trigger a little early tonight. Ironically the one package I have that doesn't seem to exist for 12 yet is Virtualbox - not something I could install & test in my Debian 12 VM...

As the manual says you should run

apt list '?narrow(?installed, ?not(?origin(Debian)))'

before upgrading to check what non-Debian packages you have installed.

[–] jonjennings@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

It's gone pretty much as you'd expect:

#1 doubling down on everything and saying "I'm sorry that you were upset about this"

#2 ignoring the untrue allegations he made about the convo with a 3rd party developer and calling him out for having recorded the convo instead

[–] jonjennings@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

In this case they do actually link to a source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-08/smoke-sends-northeast-solar-power-plunging-by-50-as-wildfires-rage

I guess they'll be calling for more coal power stations now to help them through the climate crisis?

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