Stephen Childs

@sechilds.ca

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Senior Statistician and Systems Analyst, Humber Polytechnic. ORCID 0000-0002-4450-4281 He/him

A diagram of a video player user interface with the title “Network Service” and four boxes representing services (they are labelled XXXXXX, XXXX, XxxXxxx and XXXXXX. There is also a button labelled Settings near the bottom.
A representation of picture-in-picture video done as a line drawing. Inside a box labelled “Primary video” there is a T. rex. In a box in the top right corner there are two people facing each other talking. It is labelled “Secondary video”.
A hand holding up a copy of Weapons (2025).
Dried beans donated to the Guelph Food Bank. (Spencer Turcotte/CTV News). The beans are held by one person, hands making a bowl. They are wearing gloves. The beans are different sizes and colours. The background is out of focus.
A UV Index chart created with matplotlib for today, showing the maximum around 2 pm at 4.9. The graph has green (low uv index) and yellow (medium uv index) lines.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Book 2 by Eastman and Laird. It has the 4 iconic turtles on a New York rooftop in their original comic incarnation.
In box action figure: Fugitoid from Eastman and Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It is a grey robot with yellow eyes. It houses a human consciousness (not visible).
View of people lining up to go into Pioneer Tower, from the top of the tower.
Pioneer Tower, a tower with stones on the exterior, windows and a weather vane that is a covered wagon.
An old school Magic: The Gathering card called “The Goggles”, an artifact that cost 5 colourless mana. They can be tapped to “Do Nothing”.
Chart from Statistics Canada showing the average asking rents for 2 bedroom apartments in the largest CMAs. For 2025Q1, Montréal $1,930; Ottawa-Gatineau (QC part) $1,680; Ottawa-Gatineau (ON part) $2,490; Toronto $2,690; Calgary $1,920; Vancouver $3,170.
A 5 1/4 inch floppy disk, black in colour with a notch cut out of the left side indicating it can be written to. It is a Verbatim brand double sided / double density disk labelled TPUG Disk July ’81 to October ’81 .
Digital departure board at a GO Transit station shows the 16:11 Kitchener train on Platform 3, with stops at Bramalea, Brampton Innovation District GO, Mount Pleasant, Georgetown, Acton, Guelph Central, and Kitchener. The next train to Union departs at 16:00. The screen includes bilingual construction info and a current time of 15:54.
Cover of Brian Daley’s Han Solo Adventures with Han, Chewbacca, Jabba the Hutt and the Millenium Falcon on the cover.
The region has shared this artist rendering of what the transit hub could look like when completed. (Region of Waterloo). It shows both the GO Train and ION train, a terminal building and walkways.
A Brampton Transit Züm express bus on the side of the road near the Torbram bus stop. You can see the heated shelter behind the bus.
Title Screen for Ghosts ’N Goblins with a score of 3600. Elite Systems Ltd Presents Ghosts ’N Goblins Programming by Chris Butler Graphics by Chris Butlet Sound Effects by Mark Cooksey Copyright 1986 by Japan Capsule Computers UK Ltd.
Two identical wooden decorations one says “Coffee and Friends: A Perfect Blend” and the other says “Believe Nothing is Impossible”.
A animated Terminator in a police uniform with a helmet. A crossbow that is a part of their arm.
An Eastern Grey Squirrel, black in colour, sits on a snowy log watching the group of people (off camera) watching them.
A butterfly or moth sits on the muntin of a four pane window that reveals a winter scene outside.
View from the window of the GO train showing the sign for the Kitchener station. You can see the reflected train car interior. The train station is just a couple of buildings and a platform.
Parts of the mosaic.
View from the Northeast side of Silver Lake, with the Perimeter Institute on the left side.
Waterloo Park way-finding marker with Silver Lake in the background.
The banner at the Fredericton Convention Center, showing the Canadian Institutional Research and Planning conference name.
Banner for the CIRPA 2024 conference in Fredericton, NB. Students of Data, Data Serving Students. Inspiring a culture of student success through data empowerment. October 20-23, 2024.
Screen shot from the game Utopia Must Fall with various attacking aliens being shot at with a green railgun.
Movie poster for Late Night with the Devil. It shows a talk show host with his head on fire.
Sign for Fluffy Glaze donuts. The logo is a sprinkled, dripping donut.
A picture of a Northern Pike swimming. Text below reads “The Pike is a Happy Fish”, a translation of “Hauki on iloinen kala.”
Cover of the Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang. The cover features a warrior on horseback.
First 10% 10 million Blue Sky users image. User number 772858. Stephen Childs @sechilds.bsky.social. Joined August 29, 2023.
A view of the R.C. Harris water treatment plant looking out onto the lake. It is a large art deco style building that is better looking than a water treatment plant has any right to be. It is sometimes known as the Palace of Purification.
CIRPA 2023 IRP @ the Centre. Picture of Winnipeg.