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Shawn Graham
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prof of DH at carleton u. Archaeologist of things Digital, Roman, and Outer Space. Editor of epoiesen.carleton.ca. Sometimes blog at […]

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Greetings from the very cold market stall
A box of hard cider
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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screenshot of it in action. drag cards onto cards to join 'em up. Export based on vertical positioning (initially, I had it follow direction of the join, but discovered I consistently drag upwards, and so all my outlines were backwards)
demo cards, all nicely joined up
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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... In a lonely corridor, the ghosts of academic fields past...
A brick wall adorned with a deteriorated sign advertising the program in Soviet studies
December 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Doug the Wonder Dog arrived in our house 11 years ago today
Doug: a small brown wee dog. Imagine a retriever crossed with a chihuahua.
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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The village of Portage-du-Fort featured in a Canadian Illustrated News series on ‘Cities and Towns of Canada’ in 1878 (story on pg 186, pictures on 181 https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.8_06230_462/5).
John Amy’s mills are in the illustration foreground […]

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composite. satellite view at left of likely location of mill in etching at right
November 28, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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article screenshots, from this am and this afternoon, showing the difference. curious.
the article as first published, showing the cbc reporting something chatgpt produced as if it somehow matters. basically, it wrote, ‘it depends’ same article, but now the chat gpt stuff has been excised.
November 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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We have a cart in our department where unwanted books are given away. A one way free library, as it were.

Anyway, I thought it needed a little bit more pizzazz
A display of books. Above there's a sign showing a creepy clown beside a scary bunker door. On the wall pointing to the door it says 'free books'
November 19, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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3d hologram box project, conniving with digital projector and 3d print of artefacts...
A black box that will host a peppers ghost illusion with a 3d print of a jawbone
November 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Freya says hello #caturday
Little grey cat, wide eyed. Looking into the camera
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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Notice a pattern in the voting re Lansdowne? This split obtains re _everything_ (graphic via Councillor Menard newsletter)
Voting record re Lansdowne project, listing Councillor vote and then the same by ward map, which corresponds almost perfectly on the rural/ urban split
November 15, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Drove till the light pollution wasn't too bad and the clouds posted and...!
Aurora above pine trees, vertical bands of reds and greens
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Scanning.
Matter and form 3 scanner set up to scan a blue transfer ware cup
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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New toy, giving the matter and form 3 a whirl. Shiny cup usually defeats scanning, so let's see....
A cup on a turntable; light shines on it, being picked up by the scanner to make 3d object...
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Early experiment in projecting digital data into a 3d printed physical landscape, via peppers ghost. Just faffing about instead of grading.
GIS data onto a 3d print. iPad positioned on-top of a badly constructed plastic prism. There are better ways to do this.
November 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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#carurday Tilly confronts her nemesis
November 1, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Look, it exists in the wild!
A copy of 'practical necromancy for beginners' on a library shelf, amongst other books at the intersection of philosophical and programmatic approachesv to ai, all kinds Inside cover of the same book, where it says 'being a discourse on a variety of multimodal models, large language models, generative and other flavours of ai as full of ghosts and so necessitating a kind of Practical necromancy and guidance unto the same"
October 29, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Beaver lodge
A swamp, yellows and browns, a beaver lodge in the distance
October 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Gatineau Park
A gravel road heads into the forest; in the near ground, apple trees mark an abandoned farmstead
October 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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On a walk.
Red Maples brilliant in the clearing sky
October 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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My niece has started curating some of the materials at our village dance hall.
Matched-tone Brandes headphones, found while we were fixing the footings at the back of our dance hall.
October 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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From the twentieth floor of Dunton Tower #carleton #ottawa
A view over a canal, farm, city, then distant hills, all in fall splendor
October 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Apples from our orchard. But the drought conditions mean not near as much juice as should be
Two boxes of apples
October 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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In the park. #ottawa should have more fountains.
Close up of a fountain in full flow, sheets of water cascading, droplets reflecting the sun
October 4, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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This is inside the original Coronation Hall, village dance hall, after which we've named the cidery.
Old wooden dance hall, lined with museum banners explaining the village history. The stage is at the end.
September 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Cortlands from our orchard
A box of Cortland apples, which shade from yellow green to red. About 400 lbs
September 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM