View from the Edge

I’ve talked about my fascination with maps and geography in the past on this blog. Whether its my various posts on the wonders of Google Earth, or my discussions of borders and satellite photography, I’ve always had a fascination with the way we, as humans, have mapped the space around us. One of the things that seems remarkably human is the ability to abstract the space around us into convenient maps that both simplify and extend the real space we live in …

Well, I’m done with work for awhile. Its been a VERY long haul, and a bit different from what I normally do. I haven’t actually been doing much to support the active exercise thats been going on out there the past couple weeks …

Its been a long stretch of work this time, and its not quite over yet even, lol. One more day to go, and I should get some time off. I haven’t really had any time to do much of anything beyond work, but I have run across a few ideas for future posts …

Not that I’ve had much time to enjoy it. I wanted to post a comment yesterday about the Summer Solstice … whether its the history, the astronomy, the time, the monuments, or any of the other fascinating aspects of the Solstice, the beginning of summer has been an important date to humans probably for as long as humans have been humans …

A Manitoba honours student is facing a final report card of bare passes after being suspended from school during the final exam time range, and therefore being unable to write his exams and getting zero for all final exams …

There’s a story going on in the sleepy little city I live in. At 57000 people, Medicine Hat is a small city even by Canadian standards, and its pretty rare that national or international stories unfold here …

In my early adulthood, there were several cartoonists whose work had a great deal of impact on me. Bill Waterson’s Calvin and Hobbes was a huge influence on me as a young adult, as was Gary Larson’s The Far Side. But at least as important to me at the time, if not moreso, was Berke Breathed’s strip Bloom County …

I’ve “joked” in the past about Alberta being the land of One Party Democracy. Last year in late May, I wrote an entry where I Christened the term “one party democracy” to describe the way Alberta has voted for the past several decades (even before the current Conservative juggernaut) …

Haven’t been posting here much lately … work has been keeping me pretty busy and I haven’t really seen much thats inspired me to write (or rant if you prefer) in the last week or so. I’ve been out doing a little bit of photography, but even that has taken a backseat to the day job in recent days …

This is fresh out of the goo … for some reason I had Pink Floyd and Nirvana in my head at the same time, and the following is what happened when I turned on the blender …