Jen Eggleston

@randomlygen.bsky.social

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History nerd and occasional illustrator. Vice President of PoCo Heritage. From Scotland, now in Port Coquitlam, just outside Vancouver, BC 🍁 ⌨️ http://www.RandomlyGenerated.ca 🎨 http://instagram.com/RandomlyGen 🧵 http://RandomlyGenerated.etsy.com

One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Dayton Boots neon sign
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s buses getting stuck on a snowy day
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Vancouver Art Gallery
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s a seaplane
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s a green peace sign
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s an alleyway with an old H-frame power line
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Granville Island sign
Woman in a party hat gives a presentation - the slide says “The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out”
People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Sylvia Hotel
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Heritage Horns
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s Mulder and Scully from The X-Files (aka David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson)
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Trans Am Totem
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Sea Wall
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s Girl In A Wetsuit, the bronze statue that sits on a rock in the water just off Stanley Park
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the former kitty corner Starbucks
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the statue from Dude Chilling Park
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Dominion Building
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Centennial Rocket
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the statue of Harry Jerome, installed on the sea wall in Stanley Park
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the English Bay Barge
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Digital Orca by Douglas Coupland
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s “thanking the bus driver”
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Museum of Vancouver
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s a beach with driftwood logs
Chart that shows my family tree, but only by country of birth. Mostly Scottish, with one English line and a random person born in Jamaica
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Grouse Mountain gondola
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s Science World
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Bill Reid statue ‘Killer Whale, Chief of the Undersea World’ at the Vancouver Aquarium.
Two cute comic stickers. One with an archival box - “Archives! So much dust, so much fun.” One with an outdoor information sign - “I ❤️ interpretative signs. Yay, someone’s reading me!”
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the seemingly ubiquitous redevelopment sign
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s Canada Place
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s The Raven and the First Men by Bill Reid, at the Museum of Anthropology
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Millennium Gate, the entrance to Chinatown
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s an angry Canada Goose
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Inukshuk at English Bay
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s a To Set sign
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Lonsdale Quay Q
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s Siwash Rock
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s The Drop (aka the big raindrop sculpture by the convention centre)
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the big yellow sulfur pile
Screenshot from Juno, filmed at the Coquitlam Centre mall
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s a sideways N sticker
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Harbour Centre
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Lions Gate Bridge
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the SkyTrain
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s Canuck the crow, with the knife he stole
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Steam Clock, surrounded by tourists’ phones
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s an Aquabus
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s rain!
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Central Library
Screenshot from an Instagram video - two puppets kissing
Excel spreadsheet, showing a family and their entries in each Scottish census
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s A-maze-ing Laughter by Yue Minjun
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Olympic Cauldron
Page from a Richard Scarry book. A scotty dog in his thatched house with the text: "Haggis has a hole in his roof. He never mended it because on rainy days it is too wet to work. And on sunny days it doesn't need mending."
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s a cherry blossom tree
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s the Woodward’s W
One inch cross stitch square of a Vancouver icon - today, it’s a Vancouver Special
Partial outfits for Mission Ren Faire