Italians pose with their new missile, 1971.

Highly recommend Lviv Pizza, who operate in the evenings out of Miel et Beurre's space on Gladstone. Only place in Halifax (as far as I know) that has Georgian katchapuri - cheese+egg+bread. Supper yummy. www.instagram.com/lviv_pizzeri...

Somebody finally listened to tourists complaining about the steep walk to the Town Clock.

Not sure any of my followers need to hear this but based on current events putting it out there anyway: PFDs are only $25 at Canadian Tire. Wear one.

Saw one of these for the first time in my local Asian grocery store and thanks to @adamchase.bsky.social and the Jet Lag: The Game crew I knew to immediately grab some.

"Last week 404 Media reported consulting giant Accenture found that much token usage, or ‘chewing,’ is not from supercharged engineers creating lots of code, but people converting PDFs into presentation slides." www.404media.co/companies-ar...

No big deal, just Pere Ubu, Debbie Harry, Philip Glass, Loudon Wainwright and David Sanborn, you know, hangin' out. Like an early 90s fever dream. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_DX...

A+, no notes.

Adobe app: Hey, wanna use AI to create your entire project? Come on come on come on! Me: No, but can you maybe use AI to put all my windows and palettes back where they should go? Adobe app: lol, no can do.

Just for once, I'd like to not come under fire for turning a blind eye to corruption and cronyism.

Just for once, I'd like to be praised for crushing Maoist rebels and taming hyperinflation.

My periodic reminder to designers: if you work with public health, public places, public engagement, etc., remove “pubic” from your spell check dictionary. I've seen this same typo *multiple* times. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is all kinds of depressing: Prof decides to make exam take-home to support students after a school shooting. Massive AI-driven cheating ensues. english.elpais.com/education/20...

100 years ago, the London Underground was a refuge from the summer heat.

all muppets except andy burnham human next election

Hoping that high-speed rail (if it ever actually happens in Canada) doesn't end up combining the vices of VIA Rail (lining up to board, baggage weight limits) with European-style regional politics dotting the line with stops where they're not needed. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Por una cuestión de respeto al público, este programa no contiene risas grabadas.

No idea if the quote is genuine or not, but "They are trying to drag Moscow into a war between Russia and Ukraine" has a lot of explanatory value.

OK, initial intelligence needs to be verified, but I'm getting word of Georgian-style kachapuri being available somewhere in HRM.

Roland Barthes would have really gone to town with this.

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Algae always wins.

I can't stop being astonished at the cost of hotels in Canada. How is a Holiday Inn Express off a highway exit in Stellarton costing more than one in central Milan?

Wow. Apple updated the HIG and the "what not to do" image is from the *current* version of Mac OS. There are some scores being settled with the previous design leadership at Apple. daringfireball.net/2026/06/maco...

The "Official Statement from Wendover LLC re: Canada" was a great bit in today's season premiere of Jet Lag: The Game.

I need to be more charitable in my attitude toward bonsai trees.

The hospitality industry is a great showcase of interdisciplinary design, since hotel booking sites and hotel shower controls are designed by the same twisted minds.

Gonna: 1) highlight "AI" in my academic CV, etc. 2) not mention that the AI in question is Adobe Illustrator 3) wait for those big federal $$$ to find their way to me

OK, OK, OK, is it too late to get an entry into that Twitter prompt from about 12 years ago where you "change a letter to wreck an album?" Because I woke up at 5 a.m. with jet lag but also Huey Lewis's 1983 album "Spores." #l'espritdel'escalier

Was walking down a busy main street near Atocha Station and came across this amazing store. They sell springs. I love this kind of stuff, that in Canada would have been relegated to an industrial park decades ago. madridnofrills.com/the-122-year...

A very Valencia sign in the Metro.

Moorish architecture understood the assignment. Light, shade, plants, water.

Currently staying in a Wes Anderson movie.

First nice weekend of the year here, so reposting this again. gcaptain.com/drowning/

Still get a kick out of the fact that BBEdit does basically everything and is less than 70 MB but some app that puts a sun emoji in your menu bar if the weather is nice is gonna be half a gig, at least.

Weird that something that AI/ML could do really well— enforcing traffic regulations— is the one thing the techbros seem not to be interested in boosting.

My list of 100 novels, starting at the top left of the nearest bookshelf, including ones I have not read, or forgotten reading, and some that may not be in fact novels since I have not read them, or have read and forgotten.

Gonna call up a few pals and found a smaller, better, cheaper university. At this point see few obstacles.

Business article, first paragraph: Restaurant chain CrabInYerFace declared bankruptcy due to rising crab prices. Last paragraph: Three years ago, bought by private equity, who loaded it with $8 billion in debt, sold off all the restaurant's real estate, and leased it back to them at 4x market rate.

Every time I encounter an interface element in MacOS that’s rendered in EDR/HDR it screws up my vision for the next 10 min. Please stop. I don‘t need a progress bar burned into my retinas.

I know it's just engagement bait, but that Guardian Best 100 Novels list feels kinda hinky.

Today I learned that a Dewey Decimal number is simply the book’s weight in grams.

AXYDLBAAXR is LONGFELLOW

The Hindenburg Omen wasn’t a great movie but the soundtrack still slaps.

Any time another instructor asks me who the current president/dean/chair is, I channel that scene in Apocalypse Now and just say “Ain’t you?”

Nothing like Zotero throwing an “SQLite database is corrupted“ error to really get the blood pumping on a Friday afternoon.

Thinking about changing the intro for my first class in the fall to "Hi, my name is Rob Currie and my first-year undergrad tuition was $1500. So how's everyone doing?!"

Young people making perfectly rational economic and life decisions still baffles the media. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Learning Metropolitan French (very poorly) in school means not being able to understand a word of Quebecois (let alone Acadian) French, and then one day going to a Tunisian restaurant and being able to follow along with the staff’s chitchat.