Malcolm Stanley.
A Stone from Grand Manan Island
Cooler Heads series · CNC carved pine · iron patina
Laser Engraving×Stone Carving

A Stone from Grand Manan Island

What I want to make is simple: a whale, a lighthouse, a fisherman. Each one from a single stone off that beach.

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Canadians are searching for a way to interact more primarily with each other online
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Canadians are searching for a way to interact more primarily with each other online

They are not the only ones. If you are Canadian you may have seen this message recently: Attention is a zero sum game and Canadians are starting in greater numbers to ask reasonable questions about why their limited attention should be taken up by people who live in another country and who are, even when they are not being actively hostile towards them, not really much like them in any way at all. Given recent events in the relationship between Canada and the United States, its not surprising

Using AI to give distant memories a new lease on life
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Using AI to give distant memories a new lease on life

The photo on the top of this post came from the photo album of my late grandmother Kate. It is a picture of her father-in-law, my great-grandfather Bruce, rowing a boat with three kids in it. One of those kids is her son, my father. The other kids are our cousins, Myrna and Barb. Kate died many years ago. Her Father-in Law, Bruce, died many many years before that. I'm told I met him, when I was a small child, but I have no recollection of the event. To me he is in the category of the most dista

My article for Technical.ly about current Challenges in Job Seeking for Tech Workers
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My article for Technical.ly about current Challenges in Job Seeking for Tech Workers

I was invited by Technical.ly to write a guest post about the challenges of job seeking as a tech worker in the post-pandemic, between-recessions, pre-election, high interest rate, layoff-heavy, early generative AI environment we inhabit in this second half of 2024. You can read it at https://technical.ly/professional-development/tech-job-market-2024-layoffs/. I've included the text of the article below in case for some reason Technicall.ly removes it from the web... How one-click job listings

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Every discipline thinks its tools are for one thing. The interesting work happens when someone notices they're wrong and has the gear to prove it.

Finished CNC sculptures with bronze-style patina.
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The machine that cuts parts can also cut faces. Most people who own it have not noticed this.

I have moved through ham radio, CNC machining, ceramics, 3D printing, photography, and video production, not as a master of any one field but as someone who notices what each discipline borrows from the others.

Specialists tend to stay inside their own rooms. This site is about the moments when two rooms unexpectedly connect, and the gear that makes that connection practical.

// there is a fun view. you will know it when you find it.