Ross Churchley

Tillicum in property tax lineup at Vancouver City Hall (Vancouver Archives item 2011-010.379)

Tillicum the Otter

Vancouver's hilarious 1986 mascot

Five round stars in pink, blue, green, yellow, and purple, arranged in a rough line under the word "glimmerized!"

Glimmerized

A colour palette for my projects

Lots of Bluesky butterfly logos arranged in a grid and fading in from top to bottom. The first row of seven butterflies are labeled 140; the second fourteen butterflies are labeled 280; the last two rows of 15 butterflies are labeled 300.

The 300-character spike

An analysis of Bluesky post lengths

A fountain topped with a cloud and a sword, but which could also be viewed as some sort of cute gremlin

Gee, that's random: Japan

A collection of curiosities from our trip

Freshly painted origami paper of various colours hang to dry

Origami museum

Photos of a paper-dye workshop

A Japanese sign attached to a telephone pole points to a fire hydrant below

Japanese fire infrastructure

The hydrants are underground

A plastic box adorned with a portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte

Hanafuda

The original Nintendo game

A stamp with a train, Mt Fuji, and a castle

Eki stamps 2024

My notebook's local souvenirs

Torii gates overlooking the city of Kyoto

Japan 2024

A travelogue of our recent trip

The orange cat Diggy sits on my shoulders

Diggy

Remembering a singularly sweet cat

A yellow fire hydrant with a yellow cap on the front. It is surrounded by fallen leaves on grass.

What colour is a fire hydrant?

Each BC municipality uses a different scheme

A mock NYT Connections puzzle solution whose answers are related to crosswords or puzzles in some way

Connections

A crossword and category puzzle

Cricket in 600 words or less

A beginner's guide to my favourite sport

A wide-angle view of T-Mobile Stadium's baseball diamond, taken from the stands behind first base

Baseball

Photos and observations from a Mariners game

A large rectangular concrete building sits on the water at the base of a forested mountain

Buntzen Power Station

What's that derelict structure?

An exploded-view diagram of a cube broken into interior, faces, edges, and corners

216

A visual sum of three cubes

A screenshot of Tears of the Kingdom showing Link skydiving at night with a half-moon and stars in the background

Cosmology of Hyrule

Tears of the Kingdom takes place in a geocentric universe

A relief map zoomed in to New Westminster, Burnaby, and Coquitlam, showing creeks draining into the Brunette River watershed

Know your watershed

Where Burrard Peninsula's creeks flow

An illustration of a city block with bottomless pits for streets

Jilg's sidewalk

The Swedish source of an urbanist cartoon

Official Pokémon Legends art of Mount Coronet, overlaid into a crossword grid

Legends

A Pokémon-themed cryptic crossword

A still from the music video to "Lost in Japan" composited with a map of Japan and its surroundings

Where is Lost in Japan?

Overanalyzing a song's geography

Birds carry the number 280 in the style of Twitter's old Fail Whale graphic

The 280-character spike

An analysis of tweet lengths under Twitter's increased limits

The roaming Pokémon Raikou, depicted in the style of the cover Bonato and Nowakowski's Cops and Robbers textbook

How to catch legendary Pokémon

Computing capture times with electrical networks

A tiling made from 1×1, 2×2, and 1×2 bricks, with no four meeting at the same point

A brickwork fractal