I will now go to the grocery store to buy baby bok choy. I don’t need my phone for that, so I’m going to leave it at home on purpose.

How often have you seen somebody in a city just standing on the sidewalk and soaking in sunlight?

I’ll be in Iceland when it happens, but Taste of Iceland is coming back to Toronto starting on November 20th. #toronto https://events.inspiredbyiceland.com/events

I’m going to put this out there that there’s gotta be people, like me, who don’t think December is all that chaotic a month.

Wish me luck!

Happy New Rosalía Album Day!

A friend remarked recently that he couldn’t believe people used menus in software, which slows them down. (I think he meant exclusively, without using any keyboard shortcuts, ever.) Reflecting on that, every now and then, I use Edit > Copy because of Cmd-C just won’t work. (Huh?) I also switched […]

I’m going to have a good day today.

There’s people who love jerks. I mean, there must be. Right?

“I don’t doubt the sincerity of that,” I said to her, twice.

I don’t think you should have to listen to bad music so that you can appreciate good music. I think you should listen to good music that you don’t like, so that you can appreciate the golden age of music that we’re currently in.

Less of a human right and more of a human need?

What am I to do with these three extra hours tonight?

Quiet night tonight.

IF/DK (I forgot/didn’t know) that Claire Rousay is Canadian.

Mamdani!

I authorize Mayor Chow to negotiate a contract to cover snow removal in the snow clearance contracts. #toronto https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/city-budget-no-room-for-snow-removal-9.6966799

What’s it like to not be always-online?

Lots of news today, huh?

I will now read in the park for half an hour (mainly to get some sunlight), and I will leave my phone at home on purpose.

I had the day off yesterday, mainly so that I wouldn’t work 12 days in a row, but now I’m thinking it’d be great to always have the day after a time change as a day off, to get back in the flow after what is effectively jet lag. We could call it Time-Adjustment Recuperation Day (Intra-Season) […]

You know how you’re OK at something, and you want to get better at it in part because, if you were a bit better at it, you think you might enjoy it more, and in part for the satisfaction knowing you’re getting better at something, and you want to be somewhat good at it for the times it matters […]

Quiet night tonight.

I'm going to experience boredom tonight.

TIL about https://www.compassmeet.com

congrats to all the finishers of the new york marathon today! a perfect occasion to write about one of my old hobbyhorses: fewer people should run marathons https://macwright.com/2025/11/02/fewer-people-should-run-marathons

I wish scam texts in Telegram made it seem like they came from 7s and not 10s. At least that would be a little more believable.

I’m not comfortable with being called “sir” basically at all, but especially not in public by women half my age.

A university education is proof that one has the ability to overwork. There, I said it.

Loud night tonight.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of when I moved to Toronto. I remember getting to the place I’d stay for a month and a half, the basement suite of a friend and former colleague, while trick-or-treaters were also knocking on his door. My PS4™ survived the trip in my suitcase, and so I bought a […]

I’m will now shake things up a bit by…moving around the stuff on my desk.

I successfully avoided being nominated for a board position last night, in part because I didn’t know the AGM happened until afterwards (my fault, I need to update my information filters).

Don’t forget to wish your group chats Happy Friday and Happy Hallowe’en!

If you’re backpack-oriented like me, maybe you need to periodically clear out your backpack completely. You might end up finding the AirPods that you thought you’d dropped somewhere and had lost forever but nope, they were in your backpack this whole time.

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@justagwailo/115465130737474500 Taylor Swift would have done a lot for urbanism if she had walked or biked or taken transit to her concerts when she performed in Toronto.

Sort of a weird idea that I don’t know is good or not, but maybe, for at least one game a year, the Toronto Blue Jays could wear a special uniform, or on their uniform, have a patch of a Blue Jays logo designed by an Indigenous artist.

This looks fun. What can systems thinkers learn from tech governance with Bianca Wylie. Nov 11 evening, Toronto. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/what-can-systems-thinkers-learn-from-tech-governance-tickets-1901737781899 #torontoevents

We're accepting new writing for Orbital Studies, a literary science magazine cultivating a poetic orientation towards the world revealed to us by science. Issue theme: *Ways of Seeing The Objective World* Deadline Dec 10: https://orbitalstudies.com Please share! We pay all contributors.

I’m setting a goal of closing 35% of the @browsertabs I have open by the end of tonight.

I don’t like the way I handled that.

If I tease you about something you’re sincere about, I’ve most likely forgotten that I hate it when other people do it to me, so I apologize in advance.

What’s the equivalent of these, but in other languages? • The language of Shakespeare • La lengua de Cervantes • La langue de Molière That is, who are the epitomes of languages other than English, Spanish and French, and in those languages?

Sessionize has a login option called “Classic Login”, by which they mean email address and password.

“The best time to [do something] was [a long time ago], the second best time to do it is now” is a cliché now, just FYI.

I’m thinking of adding a /canada 🇨🇦 slash page to my website. The first instance I’ve seen of it is https://sechilds.ca/pages/canada.html

What’s it like to be indefatigable?

It always feels funny when somebody other than me uses my computer.

As of today, I’m the vice president (and, because there’s no rule against it, still secretary) of the Icelandic Canadian Club of Toronto. I’d faithfully execute the duties of president if called upon to succeed the current office-holder, but it’d be a stretch for me, so I’ll work closely with […]