Andrew Jeanes

@wanderoo.bsky.social

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Still trying every day to learn something from the past, survive the present, and figure out how to make a better future. Also, I like trains.

Shark-class sailboat No. 1101, sailing on relatively flat water with a wooded shoreline behind it.
John Travolta operates a reel-to-reel tape recorder in the 1981 film Blow Out.
A still from the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, featuring 21st century soldiers with padded uniforms that include drug dispensers to control their behaviour, plus Q, dressed in a 21st century judge's robes and hat, watching over the scene judgementally.
A tweet from July 13, 2016, saying "now just hear me out, okay?" over a map of a hypothetical Toronto Island Subway: a red line running from Ward's Island ferry dock to Gibraltar Point, with a single intermediate stop at Centre Island. No, it does not go to the airport.
German U-Boat SM UC-97 in Toronto Harbour, 1919.
Frank Lloyd Wright's "Fallingwater."
A map showing the Swamp Ward area of Kingston, Ontario, bounded roughly on the east by the inner harbour, on the south by Queen Street, on the west by Division Street, on the northwest by a diagonal line from Division two blocks south of Stephen toward Belle Island.
Two maps showing the location of downtown Kingston, Ontario, relative to the borders of the overall municipality. My definition of the boundaries is shown on the left, a fairly small, irregular orange shape. The consensus definition of me and nine other people is shown on the right, same general area, but mapped as a cluster of overlapping orange squares of varying colour density.
The first Freiman's department store Santa Claus mystery special train prepares to depart the village of Vars for its return trip to Ottawa via the Canadian National Railway on November 19, 1956. Santa Claus and a gaggle of children wave from the rear car of the train, over a large banner mounted to the back identifying what it is. Photo from the Andrews-Newton Collection, City of Ottawa Archives.
A view into a high-ceilinged wood shop, with various large machine tools including a drill press and band saw on the left and a large table saw in the centre of the room. Two unfinished canoes hang from the ceiling and various partly completed woodworking projects and bits of sawn lumber line the walls.
Members of the Ku Klux Klan, on the verandah of a Dundas St. East house in May, raise arms in Nazi-style salute and shout at marchers from Riverdale Action Committee Against Racism who were protesting the Klan's activities. Photo by David Cooper, Toronto Star.
Ku Klux Klan Losers in white robes and hoods pose with a large cross in a field in Kingston, Ontario in 1927. Photo from the Archives of Ontario.
A Google Earth aerial view of Kingston, Ontario, with a red line drawn over it running roughly east-west, right through the middle of town.
Vann Gravage, Tom Skerritt and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the movie A River Runs Through It (1992).
Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian in the 2018 film Solo: A Star Wars Story, looking dapper in a fur coat, side-parted afro, Van Dyke-style beard and moustache combo and trim, mutton chop sideburns.
An old tweet from former Ontario Liberal Minister of Transportation Glen Murray on March 14, 2013, saying that the Union Pearson Express train would be electrifying by 2017.
Arthur Read the Aardvark from the eponymous animated series, sits at a piano while wearing headphones, however the earpieces from the headphones sit where a human's ears would be, on the sides of his head, rather than where his actual ears are, on the top. The resulting image looks very incongruous.
A Generra Hypercolor™ t-shirt on a wooden hanger. It has ragged diagonal swatches of various shades of green and brown.
Lockheed C-121A Constellation, USAF SN 48-610, the Columbine II. This was President Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Air Force One." Seen at the Mid America Flight Museum in Mt. Pleasant, TX, in 2015. Photo by Ken Stoltzfus.
A map of downtown Kingston, Ontario, with major waterways to the south and east, and streets oriented to four different survey grids with gores in between them.
A photo mockup of Kingston, Ontario's downtown arena, currently called Slush Puppie Place, with a giant rotating Slush Puppie cup mounted on the roof.
An illustration of a motte and bailey castle with wooden palisade walls.
Mr. and Mrs. Met, the anthropomorpic baseball-headed mascots of the New York Mets, pose in Citi Field with their backsides to the photographer.
The Shambles, a very narrow old street in York, England enclosed by timber-framed buildings with overhanging upper floors that date to as early as the fourteenth century CE.
A Google Maps aerial photo of Smiths Falls, Ontario, with a crudely drawn red line indicating a potential route for a high speed rail line, diverging southward off the existing Ottawa-Smiths Falls VIA route and crossing the CPKC mainline east of their Smiths Falls yard, before crossing the Rideau Canal and again bending toward the southwest.
The Kaleidoscope Pavilion at Expo 67, an elevated cylinder with 112 vertical fins around its circumference painted in a spectrum of vivid colours. Conceived by the University of Waterloo's Institute of Design and Toronto industrial design firm Morley Markson and Associates, Limited. Library and Archives of Canada photo.
An older white woman with a microphone stands beside a life sized cardboard cutout photo of President George W. Bush in the 2006 documentary film Jesus Camp. Behind her are several other women, one holding an American flag. In front of her are many young children, reaching out their hands toward the Bush cutout.
Jack Black as Billy Glenn Norris, holding an American flag on a pole as he is vaporized by a Martian ray gun in the 1996 movie Mars Attacks!
A map from the TTC's abandoned Network 2011 plan, showing a then-proposed (later built) extension of the University-Spadina subway to York University and Steeles Ave., a never-built east-west connector along Steeles that would have joined the north ends of the Yonge and University-Spadina lines, the Sheppard Subway (partially built) and the Eglinton West subway (never built, now the western half of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line).
A fake newspaper clipping from the Apple TV show "For All Mankind." The headline reads "John Lennon and Jay-Z Performance Rocks Grammys: Duo's 'Grey Album' Collaboration Wins Album of the Year."
Queen Elizabeth II stands on a black square on a black and white tiled floor that resembles a chess board. To her left is a bishop, also standing on a black square. The meme text superimposed on the image says "a moment of tension. If the Bishop moves forward, the Queen can take him."
Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker's inflatable shark hovers over the Toronto City Council chamber during the October 25, 2011 council meeting. Photo by John Michael McGrath.
A "lion trainer" (man wearing a leather suit and holding a whip), according to Duolingo.
A be-mulleted head shot of George Clooney in 1985. at the time he was making a guest appearance on the sitcom The Facts of Life as handyman George Burnett.
An AP photo by Pavel Rahman showing protestors at an anti-American rally in Bangladesh in 2001 not long after the 9/11 attacks. One protestor holds up a sign with various images of Osama Bin Laden, including one that features Osama next to Bert, the Muppet, of Bert and Ernie fame, from Sesame Street.
A tourist is confronted by a KX-series security droid in the Star Wars TV series Andor. The scene was filmed on the beachfront promenade at Cleveleys, Lancashire, England, which features Brutalist architecture that served as the backdrop for the resort planet of Niamos in the series.
The Soggy Bottom Boys in their striped prison uniforms and chains running through a field in the 2000 movie O Brother Where Art Thou?
A preserved de Havilland DH.115 Vampire jet fighter trainer in Royal New Zealand Air Force markings. Photo by Pseudopanax via Wikimedia Commons.
A promotional image for the 2024 film CONCLAVE, with the faces of stars John Lithgow, Isabella Rossellini, Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci replaced with sloppily cut and pasted images of groundhog faces.
A graffiti mural depicting the late Ozzy Osbourne. A large snowdrift has piled up, blocking the lower half of Ozzy's face to just below the nose.
A Hitachi H6582 16 kg demolition jackhammer.
The city center of Siena, Italy (on the left) is roughly the same size as one Houston highway interchange (on the right) and holds 30,000 people. Source: Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission
Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman and three Canadian soldiers ride through downtown Toronto in an armored personnel carrier during the aftermath of the mid-January 1999 blizzard that shut the city down for several days.
Joe Morton portraying Miles Dyson in the 1991 movie Terminator 2: Judgement Day.
Composer Wendy Carlos poses in front of an impressively large Moog modular synthesizer with a double-manual keyboard.
A large bronze statue of Timothy Eaton, founder of the Eaton's Department Store, seated in a chair looking straight ahead. It is currently on display in the lower rotunda of the Royal Ontario Museum. Photo by D.V. Wiebe via Wikimedia Commons.
A photograph of Major-General William Tecumseh Sherman.
A screenshot of a tweet by Ivor Tossell on May 11, 2014, with a photo of his Amtrak ticket on the "Maple Leaf." The text of his tweet says "today I am taking Amtrak to go where nobody ever takes Amtrak."
The logo of the Hamilton Kilty B's junior ice hockey team, featuring a picture of its mascot, a bee wearing a red tam o'shanter a red kilt, skates and a grimace as it prepares to hit a puck with its hockey stick. Around the mascot is a circular yellow border with the words "Hamilton Kilty B's" and the year 1974.
A still from the 1966 Sergio Leone spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Tuco (Eli Wallach), aka "The Ugly," is sitting in a metal bathtub, surrounded by bubbles that conceal everything except his head and his left hand. His back is to the camera. The One-Armed Bounty Hunter (Al Mulock) has just burst through a pair of saloon doors and is facing down Tuco, pointing a revolver at him with his remaining left hand.
A Canadian soldier shoulders a man-portable air defence missile system while a second soldier looks on.
A Canadian soldier shoulders a man-portable air defence missile system while a second soldier looks on.
A composite photo of the four Teletubbies and English football player Peter Crouch standing in front of a white backdrop with height lines in increments of six inches from 1 foot to 9 feet. The overall composition vaguely resembles the promotional image of the five main characters in a police lineup from the 1995 film The Usual Suspects.
A Deutsche Bahn Class 103 locomotive with a special train under the train shed at Dresden Central Station, 7 October 2007. Photo by Sebastian Terfloth via Wikimedia Commons.
The bottom half of a model wearing a pair of gold coloured parachute pants—popularized by hip hop artist MC Hammer in the early 1990s—and black leather dress shoes.
I looked around a bunch and I couldn't find an image of Franklin the Turtle playing guitar. No way I was going to generate an image with AI, so here he is playing the piano instead. Sorry for all of this, Bruce.
Rick Green portraying Commander Rick on the TVO science fiction/fantasy/horror talk show Prisoners Of Gravity, with a caption about "Wong's Lost And Found Emporium," a segment from the ninth episode of the first season of the series New Stories From The Twilight Zone.
The 1895 Somerset House Hotel at the southwest corner of Church Street and Carlton Street in downtown Toronto. Photo from Hiking The GTA, https://hikingthegta.com/2024/02/10/somerset-house-hotel/
Pope Francis rocking the microphone in the Central African Republic in November 2015.