Welcome to Day 1 of… blogging.
This isn’t to say the previous 1,712 days haven’t been of blogging, but today is a blog reboot. And just like a reboot on a computer, this reboot clears out any temporary and unused files which have accumulated over time. But unlike a reboot on a computer, these temporary files are not going to just go away—they’re going to become part of the blog, though perhaps not in the way I’d originally intended.
Unfeatured Images
On occasion a post’s featured image is what inspired the entire post, and it’ll be the first thing I add to the page. But most of the time the featured image is found later—either from pictures I’ve already taken or a picture I end up taking. Either way the image is always connected to the post in some way, though that way will sometimes escape even me. I’ll just know that’s the image when I see it—except when it’s not the image. Sometimes a post’s featured image doesn’t work the same way it used to once the post is finished. I’ll replace it with a different image, so the first one usually remains online and unused… Until now!
This was the original image for Covid & Carbon back when it was called Cars & Carbon:
One of the reasons Politics was as long as it ended up being was it was originally three different posts. This was the featured image for one of them:
Remember back in February how worried the federal and provincial governments were about the rail blockades crippling the economy? Turns out the economic damage was minimal, and certainly entirely insignificant compared to what’s happening to it now.
Calvin and Hobbes
At one point I wanted to include panels from Calvin and Hobbes as—for lack of a better description—thematic assistance. I decided against it, but not before tracking down this one panel:
No, Calvin—it makes even less sense once you grow up…
The above was to feature in a post called Anger, but after a few paragraphs the post was headed in an unreadable, toxic direction. I abandoned it, though some of its themes ended up in Covid & Carbon and Politics instead.
Unused Images
There are times when I come across an image and decide it would make a great addition to a post, but then the post in mind never gets drafted, or the nature of the post changes and the image no longer fits.
I don’t know where I thought I’d use this image, but it is among the coldest yet warmest images I’ve ever come across. So flooofy:
And speaking of flooofy:
There’s a cat in there somewhere.
And coincidentally enough, I believe that’s also what both Doug Ford and Justin Trudeau are thinking about the other in this delightful pre‐handshake moment:
A stark contrast to this image where neither Stephen Harper nor Rob Ford are thinking about the other.
Rob Ford had a truly amazing ability to always be in front of the cameras yet never aware of them.
So that’s it! All the leftover images from behind the scenes have been cleaned up. I’ve made some creative decisions about what draft posts will be officially abandoned and which ones I’d like to complete. There’s also some category and tagging functionality built into the blogging software that I’ve rediscovered and will hopefully be using properly going forward.
But for now, on to Day 2—whenever that will be.