Suzanna Crage
smcrage.bsky.social
Suzanna Crage
@smcrage.bsky.social
Sociologist at SFU, writing an intro applied stats book that challenges the authority of numbers much less p-values; cocktail nerd; reader of feminist romance novels. Wanting good vocab for ADHD as a type of person, not an illness.
Vancouver view, to the North. With and without wildfire smoke. (March 2024 and today.)
September 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Yah. I found only oblique referrals to a Phase 2 on the city’s web page (as in, “finished the first phase”).

vancouver.ca/streets-tran...
August 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
The pedestrian elevator between False Creek and downtown is out of order, and I can’t safely do stairs right now. Walking is also hard, so instead of finding a long workaround I paid the fee to go through the Chinatown Skytrain station, which has exits at both elevations. This is what I am seeing.
July 16, 2025 at 8:30 PM
One of these is very poorly timed.
January 29, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Every so often I look at this 2018 screenshot and remember that everything can be commodified.
January 11, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I walked into a Southern Florida grocery store that says “the produce is so fresh it doesn’t even know it’s been picked,” and it turns out that no I won’t be coming back with my husband to check out the live shows at night.

Wonder if he’d be welcome, anyway. At least I’m white.
December 31, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Today’s very funky, and apparently quite rare, asperitas clouds. It is hard to capture just how much it felt like looking up at the surface of an ocean, but from the perspective of something much smaller than a person.
November 9, 2024 at 1:58 AM
In local miscellaneous: there actually is a city past the bridge, and behind the buildings on the left. Really.
#Vancouver #Atmosphericriver
October 20, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Such an example of “AI.”

I also keep going back to gendered bits in the telling of the story, too — the aside about the kids, the specification of the gender of the person running social media (without any asides).
October 16, 2024 at 7:12 PM
And in further important news, my clothing is seasonally appropriate.
October 14, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Public art that is not meant for people with a tendency toward anxiety.
September 18, 2024 at 4:23 AM
Can YOU identify which cars are moving and which are parked?

(Hint: I don’t understand how parking works in Milan.)
September 6, 2024 at 7:38 PM
Hah! Missed this bit.

By the time you get to vows, you’ve hopefully already discussed “terms of a marriage.”
*And you don’t need to state them all in order to say you are committing to them.* Sure, highlight a few. But focusing on why you want to make a commitment is a great way to deepen the act.
August 2, 2024 at 10:15 PM
This bit clarifies it for me. Saying you are committing to the “terms of a marriage” does not require sharing the terms. Saying why you want to make the commitment is more relevant.

As a guest! If they say they agreed on a pre-nup, I am happy if they both have good reasons. I don’t want to read it.
August 2, 2024 at 9:51 PM
We thought that turning the Allen key by holding it with a wrench, for extra leverage, had been a good idea. Then we realized it wasn’t the screw that had started spinning.

(The mounting piece on this old U-lock really doesn’t want to come off.)
July 17, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Canadian Weird #67: in 2001, Newfoundland was renamed Newfoundland and Labrador in large part because Quebec still wasn’t recognizing the 1927 UK court decision about a border dispute between Canada and the then-British Newfoundland, which gave Labrador the land Quebec wanted.

And it still doesn’t.
June 21, 2024 at 5:45 PM
I went to the Icelandic Punk Museum instead.

And actually, they did have a connection…
May 27, 2024 at 10:52 AM
This is not going to be a philosophical discussion about whether or not TikTok is an entity that can make authentic choices in a universe devoid of purpose.

@washingtonpost.com, get a hold of your headlines.
May 7, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Oh look, another health care product made just for men!

I just did an at-home sleep apnea test using ResMed's ApneaLink.

Here are two pics, from the instruction pamphlet and video. Do you see the problem? Because let me tell you, there is a problem. And not one that's needed. 1/3
April 10, 2024 at 6:56 PM
I’m going to try to do one bright-spot post a day (or at least a week).
Today: Bald eagles, back in downtown Vancouver! In 2020-21 several eagles made downtown their home. They were gone after lockdowns, but yesterday a pair flew right past my balcony. A quick photo of them circling above Chinatown.
March 9, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Yes. This dance sequence is elaborately and ornately absurd, packed full of intricate details but never overpowered by them, managing to maintain cohesion even as it changes settings and styles to help it depict important character development.

Still. The full screenshot is quite the combination.
March 5, 2024 at 3:52 PM
It’s Banff Town!

(No, If you said Banff you’re only almost right.)
February 29, 2024 at 3:50 PM
I just saw a TikTok video by someone who’s found a tiny town that’s one of Canada’s Best Kept Secrets! So I had to share.

Bet you’ll never guess!
February 29, 2024 at 3:40 PM
The moon last night, taken by putting my phone up to the viewing lens of a 7’ telescope.
February 20, 2024 at 12:06 AM
Like… the Lynn Canyon Suspension Bridge! Its secret is kept so best that they tell you twice.

To be fair, it isn’t nearly as assertively publicized as the other bridge.
February 12, 2024 at 6:04 PM