There was a point in the middle of inning like 15 where the camera just lingered for about 30 seconds on a fruit plate in the dugout while the commentators talked about how much they liked pineapple. That's baseball baby

So Canada, we're all in agreement that any other Halloween celebrations are done by 8:08pm Eastern on Friday, right?

How much public money did Doug Ford spend to have this same Ring of Fire commercial on approximately every second commercial break of the World Series?

Vladdy!

Alright, here we go again, game 4.

I have been one of those weird people who use Bing for a while for two main reasons: 1. Integrated results from your work/school files, which can be pretty useful (more in my previous job than my current one). 2. Rewards points which fund my occasional Xbox game purchases. The first one […]

You want to build "an AI"? With your data? Your data's so dirty that the only way I've been able to navigate this mess is through manually manipulated spreadsheets. Your data is more qualitative vibes than quantitative. The only thing artificial about it is that we continue to pretend like […]

Kirk with the 3 run homer to get the Jays in front!

Didn't quite get Freeman out at 2nd but made up for it getting him running home.

It feels like a joke that Dan Shulman referred to the Dodgers stadium as one of the world's most iconic venues while the screen showed mostly parking lot around it.

I think the World Series Canadian anthem singer did the "our home ON native land" instead of "and" and I really think we should make that the official wording.

I am watching KPop Demon Hunters for a second time because my wife is sick and has decided this is the perfect time for her to watch it for her first time.

I do appreciate how fast this game is. I do not appreciate that it means the Blue Jays haven't scored enough.

Raptors superfan Nav Bhatia is in the house cheering on the Blue Jays, visible on camera behind the plate.

Grand slam! 9-2 Jays!

We got a tie game!

3 up, 3 down. Good start, Blue Jays.

We wondered if we'd see the return of Canadian sports fan booing the US anthem with today's news, but there's no way anyone was going to boo that choir rendition. #worldseries

Ciri is clearly very excited that it is almost time to watch the Blue Jays in the World Series. #Calico #pixelfedcats#Calico#catsofmastodon

Every time I see the Springsteen biopic commercial I think it's called "I am Springsteen going on Spreventeen" before I remember that was a Spinal Tap II joke.

Is it really a stunning bombshell that Trump has made another rash emotional decision because somebody challenged his ego, or that he has never been negotiating in anything resembling good faith? […]

One of the things I've noticed since getting a Pixel Watch and trying to be more health-conscious is that aimlessly opening the Fitbit app has taken a chunk out of my aimlessly doomscrolling social media, which I think is a positive development?

Our usual TekSavvy TV stream for the Raptors game was being glitchy, so I put on the Sportsnet app instead and now I'm really appreciating that instead of the usual constant gambling ads I'm getting a bunch of local Ottawa businesses (I do not live close to Ottawa).

I've gone smoothly from the WNBA Finals to the Blue Jays bandwagon and now the Raptors regular season is starting before the Jays are even done. Lots of sports the past couple weeks!

There's an Outlook app for Wear OS which includes a complication showing your next event. It fits perfectly where I want it in my chosen watch face. One little problem: it only updates whenever you first enable it, so you're just looking at the same event forever after that. Why, Microsoft?

I know it's from a different sport but the #bluejays have earned the Zaza: https://youtu.be/DbEgdmTy0iI?si=uvO_TPFThRWezfqY

I know it's from a different sport but the #bluejays have earned the Zaza: https://youtu.be/DbEgdmTy0iI?si=uvO_TPFThRWezfqY

Firmly on the Blue Jays bandwagon but also a narcoleptic who needs to sleep enough to function at work tomorrow so staying up an extra couple hours to watch the whole game is not going to be a viable option.

Luke 18:1-8, the parable of the unjust judge and the persistent widow, seems like an appropriate one for the lectionary on No Kings/Tyrants weekend. I mean, there's a lot of texts for the marginalized standing up against unjust holders of powers, but that one seems particularly directly relevant.

Baseball is so much easier to watch since the introduction of the pitch clock. And because the Blue Jays are good. That obviously helps, too.

Raptors cutting Chomche is a surprise. It wasn't long ago they were talking up how much they were invested in him as a long-term project. Hopefully they're signing another C because having just Poeltl for that traditional C type is not great. #rtz #wethenorth

Any #drupal developers set up a locally-hosted LLM coding assistant? Preferably highly specialized to Drupal, but even some general #php. In theory it would be better results, free (if you have the hardware), less environmentally destructive, and not beholden to the whims of for-profit tech giants.

I turned on the option for my Pixel Watch to log "body responses" in Fitbit which are supposed to be things like stress or excitement and so far I think about 3/4 of them have been when I am eating. Do I just get that excited about eating, or is this feature not very good?

“I celebrate Columbus Day!” —- Exactly how does one do that? Breaking into someone else’s house and claiming it as yours? Giving someone a contagious disease-filled blanket? Going to a supermarket and getting lost looking for spices?

I don't know much about baseball but I do appreciate that it's the kind of league where a player can be universally known as Big Dumper.

Happy #Thanksgiving, Canada. Enjoy some time outside before the deep freeze sets in.

It's been raining plenty but the #Oktoberfest party must go on. #WatReg #kitchener

I'm trying to secure a shared Google account at work with Yubikeys as passkeys. It turns out Google won't let you add passkeys if your computer doesn't have Windows Hello, which is not enabled on work computers.

I'm already convinced: next year's Nobel Peace Prize winner should be the Portland Frog(s).

I'm sure Trump will have a completely normal response to the Peace Prize going to a Venezuelan woman who stands up for democratic rights and fair elections against an authoritarian - you know, actual peace stuff - and not to him doing the opposite […]

My only gripe with the #pixelwatch4 after my first day with it is that it is too easy to give input you didn't mean to give. A tiny screen with swipe gestures from all four sides plus scrolling plus clickable buttons? I've already had a few times failing to swipe properly and I'm really inclined […]

I hadn't checked any social since lunch so when I had a podcast labelled "Giannis-Knicks reaction" pop up I definitely did a "wait, what?!" response before checking the description and learning it was just a report that trade discussions have happened. #NBA

In the MNBA when the higher seed wins 3 straight, loses 1, then finishes it off in game 5, we call that a gentleman's sweep. Can we settle on the terminology now for the W, with a non-trivial chance it will happen in this first best of seven? Is it a gentlewoman's sweep? #wnba

i'm happy it's halloween purely because i can now buy candy corn in bulk without people looking at me weird

My Pixel Watch 4 has arrived and it turns out that smartwatches have gotten significantly more complicated since the days of my Pebble Time or Fitbit Charge 2.

@Edent So what? Nothing about having alt text embedded in EXIF data stops from being able to edit it for specific contexts in the rare cases where it needs to be. I just want it to be easier to make my images accessible. Being able to compose thoughtful descriptions in advance, once, rather […]

I should note that none of this is technically difficult. Many image editors can embed and edit arbitrary EXIF fields (GPS location, captions, copyright, exposure, etc). Extracting data from EXIF is straightforward for websites that process images. The software part is easy here, and mostly done […]

Speaking of image alt text, as a photographer who tries to put care into this, I would really love it if there were a single standard EXIF field in which alt text could be embedded and from which the text was reliably extracted when the image was uploaded. It would be much easier to write a […]

I do not have nearly the mental energy to try to figure out what the current BlueSky drama and the (I think maybe happened as a corollary) Mastodon drama is about.

We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.