Stanley Q Woodvine

@sqwabb

Formerly an artist (commercial sort); not much of a dog lover; always an avid reader. Currently a homeless binner in Vancouver, BC Canada. He/him. sqwabb@gmail.com

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Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· 17d

Am I truly #unhoused if my #Vancouver Fairview parkade #homeless sleeping spot attracts Giant House Spiders (Eratigena duellica or Eratigena atrica)?

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· 17d

1482 W Broadway McD's still closed after power outage. I've opted for coffee shop bakery Anecdote at 1333 W Broadway. #Vancouver

Looking out front window of Anecdote coffee shop. We can see front of my locked-up bicycle and the back end of a blue and green transit bus

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· 18d

Enticing smart ring advertising kiosk seen in the #Vancouver Kitsilano London Drugs. Don't recall Tolkien mentioning anything like this in "Lord of the Rings" but I bet Sauron had something similar.

Smart ring kiosk with actual rings, advertising video and sizing aid, looking like an old rotary phone dial.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· 18d

Bought fossil gas & browsed for 5k mah power banks at #Vancouver Kits London Drugs. Told sales rep I needed the toy PB to make a light for my new e-reader. They asked which one. Showed them my Xteink X4 & they lit up! They plan to buy one & were thrilled to play with it!

Xteink ebook reader showing start screen with navigation choices, including current book being read: M.A. Foster's "The Gameplayers of Zan" - classic 1970s science fiction.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· 22d

Due to the absense of cloud-related friction, sunrise over #Vancouver Fairview should occur notably faster this morning.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· 23d

Vancouver mayoral candidate Scott Gilbert in his campaign RV (Residence Vehicle) driving down West Broadway. #affordableHousing #WheelEstate

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· 24d

Tuesday's sunrise over #Vancouver Fairview had a bit more eye appeal thanks to clouds.

Sunrise under a woven blanket of cloud cover.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· 24d

Sunny side up over #Vancouver Fairview.

Egg yolk-yellow sun peeking over low-rise buildings in a mostly cloudless sky.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 16

Happy to see Turnabout consignment expand into former Zebra Club space on NW corner of 3100 block S. Granville but really hoped Turnabout would keep & extend Zebra's distinctive black & white paint job across both Turnabout storefronts. The beige is dull as F! #Vancouver

Turnabout painting former Zebra Club storefront bland beige.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 16

Shafts of sunlight beam thru the slight haze and puffy clouds, which are popping like corn over the morning's hot-looking sunrise. 5:50am & 6:01am respectively.

Beams of sunlight from the hidden sunrise at 5:50 am.

Yellow-orange sun rising above low buildings at 6:01 am, topped by puffy clouds and light beams so as to evoke a thermo-nuclear event - which is what the sun is, after all.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 12

My cheap new Xteink X4 ereader has MANY virtues & few drawbacks. It lacks support for DRM & library ebooks & has no backlight. As a #Vancouver #homeless person I'm often low on light. Pending parts for proper solution I'm using bits from a broken lightsabre toy out of a dumpster.

Ebook reader screen illuminated by spooky green light from LEDs from a lightsabre toy.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 10

CrossPoint makes the Xteink X4 e-paper ereader functional and fun! May try another firmware called WritingSlate that provides simple word processing and can allow a dual boot with the CrossPoint ereader firmware. #tech #Vancouver #homeless

CrossPoint Display setting to allow a custom sleep screen.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 9

Xteink X4 is great! Had to install Python in Windows to back up stock firmware (10 min). Went to CrossPoint website to overwrite stock with better, community-built CP firmware (2 mins). Filled microSD with DRM-free epub files. Put SD in X4. Diddled settings. Done! Much online help for techy bits. 😋

Showing root directory loaded with epub book files. Note it understands subfolders.

Lots of well-thought-out customization settings.

Reading a book! It's the first page of the preface to "Victorian Internet" (1998) by Tom Standage.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 9

Another look at the disassembled disposable vape. Big Li-ion battery & big LED screen. Sure would like to get skilled enough to repurpose such useful stuff.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 9

Toys arrived! Giant "thank you"s to #Vancouver Fairview residents who help me with delivery addresses etc! * Xteink X4 e-paper ebook reader built on rewritable ESP32 microcontroller ($70). * PikoKey mini HID keyboard ($15). And dumpster-dived disassembed disposable vape.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 8

#Vancouver Fairview resident put out 4 cans of "Nutro Hearty Stew" dog food. BBD 2027. Ingredients r better than Puritan Stew! But FDA is investigating link tween dog foods like Nutro & doggie Dilated Cardiomyopathy due to potatoes & legumes. But potatoes & legues aren't implicated in DCM in people!

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 6

I should add that Live Transcribe is available free for all Android phones but only built-in on Google Pixel phones & select Samsung phones (meaning Samsungs prefixed "S" not "A"). If it's not to be found on your Android phone Live Transcribe is a free download from the Play Store.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 6

Homeless #Vancouver Fairview binner dragged a shopping cart loaded down with returnable glass bottles all the way to McD's hoping to get the cart's locked Gatekeeper II wheel unlocked. Not that I know how to do that. 🤪

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 6

Don't have the means to safely balance charge three 4-volt Li-ion batteries in series but evidence online *suggests* I may be able to test this LED headlight module with a cheap 9-volt alkaline battery. Be nice to know if LED &/or fan work.

LED car headlight module disassembled and electrical wires stripped for possible battery testing.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 6

This morning on #Vancouver #homeless dumpster-dived tech tear-down over breakfast: LED car headlamp module. 2 Torx screws hold it together. Inside: * Wee cooling fan. * Aluminum heat sink. * Two 2000-6000 lumen LEDs mounted either side of a copper bar. Draws 12v but LEDs use only 2-4v.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 4

During their evening rushhour commute eastward out of #Vancouver Fairview crows like to take a breather on the construction crane of the moribund concrete skeleton of the bankrupt condo at 1125 Spruce St.

Black crows covering the topmost guywire of green, steel construction crane.

Closer look at 15 of the commuting crows resting on the crane.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 3

A Mobi Bikeshare bike (No. 30293) has been derelict in 1400 block of W Broadway, in #Vancouver Fairview, for maybe 2 weeks now! Was in front of Circle K at Hemlock, currently dumped on alley side of McD's at 1482 W Broadway. Mobi has been notified over on the Hellsite™.

Green and pink Mobi Bikeshare bike under yellow McDonald's window sign and flanked by blue construction hoarding fabric and a fat, safety orange bollard.

Wet bike dashboard with little LED screen displaying almost empty battery icon.

QR code on bike frame which points to French language website:

https://www.velib-metropole.fr/crc?s_num=&c_num=&type=mechanical&city=&source=smoove-qr&p1=&p2=&p3=&p4=&p5=

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 2

Handsome Freightliner-like dumptruck has been running back & forth on #Vancouver's W Broadway since morning. Search shows it's made by Western Star Trucks, owned by Daimler & made in Portland. Wikipedia says Western Star trucks were built in #Kelowna, #BritishColumbia till 2002!

"W" badge on the cab of a Western Star truck.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jul 2

To wrap up the tale. I fundraised a total of $150 & the Rolser cost $110 with tax. Today I found the recipient - my #homeless #Vancouver peer Liese - & gave her remaining $40, which she can use given the rising cost of food & such. We both say "thank you" to the donors!

Liese in black and red with her new black Rolser.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jun 30

My #homeless peer is *very* stressed today & didn't want to be directly photographed. But the handover was accomplished & everything's now in the new Rolser & it's out with the old Canadian Tire shopping trolley.

My homeless peer transferring stuff to the Rolser.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jun 30

On my way back to #Vancouver Fairview with the Rolser for my #homeless peer - Total cost: $110. It's nice-looking & tge bag is durable but frame & wheels disappoint me. Supposedly has a 3-yr warranty. Now, how do I hotwire this car?

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jun 30

In Kingsgate Mall. Waiting for Home Highlights to open.. I can see the Rolsers on the back wall...

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jun 30

Here's a photo of the Mount Pleasant bookstore @pfbvan.bsky.social.

Front of Pulp Fiction Books, with some cardboard boxes full of free books.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jun 30

In #Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, waiting for Kingsgate Mall to open (I apparently have an hour-and-a-half to wait) but I wanted to be in as soon as the mall opened - that's how I Rol(ser)! 😅 Here's a photo of how you have to lock your bike up when there are NO bike racks.

Looking out the window of a Starbucks at my bike and trailer locked to a steel bus bench.

Stanley Q Woodvine@sqwabb· Jun 29

The Crappy Tire shoppy trolley we bought my #homeless #Vancouver elder friend Liese in Jan is on it's last wheels! Want to raise $100 to buy her new trolley (Kingsgate Mall shop has Rolsers). After 30 nights at Belkin was kicked out & has had to go to Richmond for a shelter bed. Killing her cart!