"There is no visible trace left of a plot just outside the main cemetery set aside for Canadian UN peacekeepers." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

At start of grad school, we were shown a graph of high-school graduation grades vs. grades at the end of first year of university over the previous decade. The high-school grades showed a steady upward trend, and the university grade graph was basically flat. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Schools should teach practical life skills. If my high school chemistry class taught how to change a wiper blade on a 2019 Chevy Bolt instead of how many moles there are in a sodium atom, I’d have had a much better day.

Kraftwerk singing about the good old days when the only people with computers were Interpol and Deutsche Bank and FBI and Scotland Yard.

I…I just want to look at a PDF.

TED Talk topic: “The neuroscience of why people who give TED Talks on neuroscience so often turn out to be complete shits."

Special Weather Statement is the name of my new ska band.

I bet the guy who wrote that "Take On Me" song wakes up every morning in his big mansion and gives thanks for the fact that word order in English is pretty flexible.

If the US threat to de-certify Canadian-made aircraft includes water bombers, I hope y'all enjoy the upcoming fire season.

Come for the headline, stay for the Roy Bland quote. om.co/2026/01/27/a...

Ye know I canna read a word.

I'm not saying I’m feeling a bit fuzzy this AM, but I did just create a new folder on my Mac and for a name typed out "New Folder."

Phone keeps telling me to "check my rings" like I'm a goddam hobbit.

Once every decade or so I seem to end up dealing a bit with fibreglass insulation and anyone how has to deal with that crap deserves to be paid way more.

Cleaning up some storage shelves, and it may be time to convert/discard some media. (This is just a sample.) Not the Apple-branded floppies, though. They're staying.

Needed to look something up in the New York Times of 50 years ago, and even though I am a child of the age of print, was floored to find out that the Sunday, Jan 25th 1976 edition of the NYT was 432 pages long.

It's bracing out. And can only think of one thing when I use the word "bracing":

/3 Seriously though what sort of goth has a LINKEDIN

"We have airplanes which fly three times faster than sound. We have television cameras that are orbiting Mars. But we have the same tired and inadequate mass transportation between our towns and cities that we had 30 years ago." - Lyndon Johnson, 1965

Arg, another Monday storm forecast, so quite possibly another cancelled Monday class. I should really get this course moved to a different day of the week.

Public service announcement: Denmark is a great place to visit, there will be non-stop flights from Halifax this summer, and its reputation for being expensive is kinda overblown. (For reference: the hotel I stayed at in Copenhagen is currently half the cost of a similar hotel in Charlottetown.)

Hm, things are getting to the point where I might have to ask that ex-special forces guy I know to take me out in the woods and give me some basic lessons in, uh, collecting wildflowers and suchlike.

Read this correction and did a celebratory pedant backflip. Yahoo!

I assert that the song "Ghostbusters" features an unreliable narrator who is, in fact, *afraid* of ghosts and that bustin' does not make him feel good.

I can see moving away from the guitar guy and laminated pass imagery, but the new MainStage icon is just…so weak.

On the waterfront.

If you want to know how today is going, I just found out that the space I'd usually use for students with extra time accommodations to do evaluations is now an off-limits "AI Lab."

Don't tell anyone this, but if your excuse for missing class is "I had to help my parents on the farm" I'll probably let you use this as many times as you want over the term.

Holy hell, what an obituary

The CBC News content management system seems to be leaking.

I think there are two kinds of bakers- the kind that carefully sift the baking powder into the flour, and the kind that made the cookie I had at a cafe today. It was like taking a bite out of a stick of antiperspirant.

I am in full control, in good health, and enjoy the support of the people.

It's quite an accomplishment to get a 40-minute video out of a tiny house tour. We're 10 seconds in, and I've literally seen the whole house.

Stared long and hard at the word geteduroam, trying to figure what language family it was from, until I was able to parse it as English-ish.

Looking for new rain pants and trying to understand why they are almost exclusively available in low-vis black. Like pedestrians on rainy days need to be invisible as they attempt to negotiate Halifax crosswalks.

Only actually interesting price of AI-generated media I've seen is the Tai Chi Walking guy. I want to see him fight crimes or something.

I would have liked to have seen Montana.

I never actually found myself wondering "How is Robert Fripp doing" but the answer is "Just fine." www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsOr...

Thunderwall!

Starting off the year with my worst take ever: Viennese rapper Falco did a better job of painting a musical picture of the druggy, decadent, dissolute end of the 20th century than Lou Reed ever did.

At my mom's seniors’ residence, they post the old movies they are showing in the common room, and they seem to be rapidly catching up with me. Expecting to see Repo Man or My Beautiful Laundrette on the schedule any week now.

Only you can prevent podcasts.

"I'm not upset, but if everyone just did the required readings, you'd get a lot more out of this class."

Before the Internet, I got a lot of my computer news from this man. RIP 🫡 obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...

What CSS really needs is a few more ways to specify colour.

For some reason, a single phrase of Irish has managed to stick in my head for decades after I saw it once in a little rural shop: "Bord na Móna" - the name of the Irish peat harvesting organization. Need an excuse to just drop that into a conversation someday.

Sounds like US air traffic control put Zelenskyy's plane under flow control so they were going to be delayed taking off from Halifax, and Canadian controller had to call and remind the US that this was a VIP flight.

Carney inbound to meet with Zelenskyy.

I can't believe this is not parody. But it's real.