Andrew Jeanes

@wanderoo

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.

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Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· 29d

Can't believe I forgot the tenth anniversary of this tweet yesterday.

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Jul 13

I mean, there were in the past.

German U-Boat SM UC-97 in Toronto Harbour, 1919.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Jul 13

For example:

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Jul 10

Compare with this map created by Francine Berish and Laura Murray, showing the location of Swamp Ward, which I think most Kingstonians would agree is not part of downtown. There's only a little overlap between their southernmost extent of Swamp Ward and my northernmost extent of downtown.

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Jul 10

My definition vs. nine other people's (so far) definition.

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.

Two zoomed in versions of the map of Kingston, showing my definition of the boundaries as an irregular blue shape superimposed over the map at left, and the consensus definition as a cluster of yellow and orange squares at right, again, illustrating pretty much the same area of the city.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Jul 8

June 25, 1973. Freiman's famously ran a special Santa Claus excursion train from Ottawa out to the village of Vars and back every Christmas season from 1956 until 1972. Thousands of kids every year got to ride the train, and many of them still remember it fondly.

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Jun 28

Last weekend I was visiting Lower City Joinery in Hamilton (www.lowercityjoinery.com) and I asked how old their machine tools were. Turns out some of them are over 120 years old!

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Jun 25

And here's a Toronto Star photo of self-identified Klan members in Toronto in 1981, lest we think that particular part of our sad, racist history all happened long ago.

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Jun 25

Here's a KKK rally in Kingston, Ontario, in 1927. I live about 2 km from where this happened.

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Jun 22

Do it, you cowards!

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Jun 10

Was the movie A River Runs Through It?

Vann Gravage, Tom Skerritt and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the movie A River Runs Through It (1992).

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Jun 3

He was motherfucking Lando Calrissian!

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Jun 3

I still remember fondly when then-Minister of Transportation Glen Murray said that the Union Pearson Express would be electrifying by 2017. That was in March of 2013. I'm still waiting. x.com/Glen4Climate...

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· May 29

Long history of this sort of thing.

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· May 28

What my 90s was like.

A Generra Hypercolor™ t-shirt on a wooden hanger. It has ragged diagonal swatches of various shades of green and brown.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· May 27

The constellation in question.

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· May 25

Grew up in Ottawa, moved to Toronto for university and spent years adjusting to the water and the downtown being south instead of north, then moved to Kingston, where to this day I still sometimes get turned around.

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· May 25

I also don't mind the name Slush Puppie Place for Kingston's arena, and prefer it to the previous two names. The cowards didn't take my suggestion for a rooftop sign, though.

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· May 14

"This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build everywhere."

An illustration of a motte and bailey castle with wooden palisade walls.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· May 13

Ball butts

Mr. and Mrs. Met, the anthropomorpic baseball-headed mascots of the New York Mets, pose in Citi Field with their backsides to the photographer.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· May 7

Heck, I'm in favour of upper storeys being cantilevered out over the street, like in the good old days. Gardyloo!

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· May 4

Assuming a southern corridor, I think it would be smarter to diverge east from the existing Ottawa-Smiths Falls line and cross over the CPKC tracks east of the Smiths Falls Yard.

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· May 1

I'll buy it.

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Apr 21

Do you think this was the Bush Derangement Syndrome that Krauthammer was talking about?

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Apr 14

Or Jack Black from Mars Attacks!

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!

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Apr 8

I still remember the proposed northern connection that would have joined the top of the Yonge line to the top of the University-Spadina line and made it into a big distorted loop.

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).

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Apr 1

Here's the fake news clipping with Danger Mouse right there in the first graf.

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."

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Mar 27

It's a real issue.

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."

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Mar 27

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.

Andrew Jeanes@wanderoo· Mar 23

Wunderbar! Alles klar.