Ugh. Tomorrow I need to do the swimming lessons scramble.

I'm nearly finished with the reread of the catechism of my childhood that I've been doing this year. It's worse than I remembered. Anyone want to tell me about the catechisms they're familiar with? ⚓

Today's tasks are boring but important and somewhat time sensitive. What are all of you up to?

Sooooo much infrastructure debt.

King For Christ the King Sunday, we're reading about the crucifixion. This was the point where he was recognised as King, and it was the same moment when the Roman Empire killed him for it. In some ways, this moment is the point of the whole story. This is the moment when he's fully human (we all…

Ugh. Still thinking about lighting. My tool doesn't actually have the fixtures I'm thinking of, but the general question has come down to: Ceiling lights or wall lights? We're somewhat height limited, but the ceiling lights come down less far than the beams.

Done except for buttons.

Like...Look at these jeans: www.showstudio.com/projects/des... In blue denim (the original design) they look kind of meh to me. it just makes a practical garment real complicated with no real benefit. But farther down the page with the lace or contrast colour panels? Now that I can see wearing.

Let's do bubbles for interaction circle Friday. @juliethecranky.bsky.social, @floregonian.com, @genuscorvidae.bsky.social, @spindlypete.bsky.social, @drwambsgans.bsky.social, @wintermute115.bsky.social, @intelectconfig.wtf, @lore.house, @blueberrymill.bsky.social, @jessnevins.bsky.social

This is a real cool project: www.showstudio.com/projects/des... Looks like free downloadable patterns from high fashion designers being collected alongside other takes on the same patterns. So...Which should I put on my to-try list?

Ok, this place makes tasty food, but their tacos are small compared to the other place. I'm going to need to find a dessert.

I don't believe in ghosts. But my workplace is definitely haunted. I have personally heard the ghost. That I don't believe in.

Ugh. I put too much stuff in my Power BI dashboard and now it takes an hour to change the linkages in the data model.

Want to give a recommendation? I'm looking for science fiction or fantasy in translation (written in another language, professionally translated to English.) I've seen older books suggested, but I want books from the last 10-20 years. Something that's come out this year would be great. #booksky 📚

Beforehand This passage is not a prophesy. Not the way we usually think of a prophesy these days anyway. It's not a supernatural prediction of future events. The remarks about the temple amount to a kind of "memento mori": remember, all things end. He goes a little farther talking about wars and…

Ah fuck. I'm going to have to join the federal NDP to vote for "not that guy" aren't I?

It seems to me that this pretty straightforwardly breaks the commandment against idolatry. I've been rereading my childhood catechism this year. It sucks in a lot of ways, but they do get this one right.

My house does not support limiting the books that a reporter will see. Unless I get time to completely rearrange everything, they're going to see dozens of books. In random seeming piles all over my living room. I'm not trying to make an impression. My house is just a mess.

It's that time of year again: Fellow cyclists, please calibrate your headlight as low beams rather than high beams and stop using your headlamp. Blinding oncoming traffic (cyclists, vehicles, and pedestrians) does not make anyone safer. #yyjbike

Went out to the shed and was mutually startled by a deer in the yard.

Everyone: Posts beautiful aurora pictures My weather:

I have nearly the opposite reaction to report cards than this. "Fine, we're all good at math. What about your social and emotional skills?"

Playing with lighting for my basement. I can't decide if this looks ridiculous or not.

When you confuse "best" with "most expensive"

We're making chili today. Not pictured: garlic, spices.

Ok, I think I have solved bright overhead lighting for most of the basement. But I also wanted warmer wall lighting for evenings when you want less brightness. Can I find anything that works for me? No, no I cannot.

Afraid Something in the passage from Haggai caught my eye this week, so let's take a look at that. I think we probably need to go back to chapter 1 to see the context here. We appear to be hearing about those who returned to the promised land after the Babylonian exile. They're ruled not by their…

I haven't done interactions in a while. Here's interactions.

My code is convinced that the first day of May is the 6th and the last day is the 27th. This seems wrong.

Mmmm. Now I want a sandwich.

So let's talk about the bike valet. I have very rarely used the service and I still think it's a hugely important program. It's a safe bike parking option. But it does so much more in terms of placemaking and community building.

I say, let's just pay some more taxes to keep having these great programs. #yyj #yyjBike

Oops. Had too many opinions today. Now I feel like failure.

So... The new office layout sucks. They should assign offices based on volume rather than seniority.

My kid and his friends (13) are working on a video game. They've got big plans. They're looking ahead and worrying that they don't know how to do sound. I don't know how to advise them. Anyone want to give advice about recording or editing or digitally generating sounds for games?

A house near me put up what looked a lot like Christmas decorations alongside their Halloween decorations. Lots of candy striped stuff in bright colors. And then on the weekend, they took most of them down when they took down their Halloween decorations. Does this make sense to anyone?

I'd like to be able to mute specific words from specific people. Some of you are great. Except when you're not.

Oooh. I get to make a list of the pros and cons for abandoning my least favourite piece of software! (The one that costs 5 figures and has absurd bugs in it given that it costs 5 figures.)

The Tax Collector So last week, we read the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector, contrasting their prayers in the temple and this week, we see a tax collector interacting with Jesus. In the biblical text between here and there, we have also seen the anecdote about the man sometimes…

Ugh. I hate standard time. Standard time is horrible.

Hmm... Mine looks different.

Oh. Maybe this is a nice case study. Paul is misreading the Torment Nexus tweet exactly like the Torment Nexus tweet observes people often misinterpreting scifi

Automatically filtering out our downranking some replies is not something that happens in real life conversations.

It's raining steadily, so I don't know if many kids will come by, but my treat bowl is ready and my jack-o-lanterns are lighting the way.

Hmmm. Looks like they're not clawing back our vacation because we were on strike. So I still need to use 10ish days before the end of the year. Looks like this will be the last weekend with only 2 days for me this year!

So my workplace has forced us all to move desks, the desks in the new area have monitor arms that adjusted.... Some? Almost enough? But I'm here 35 hours a week. Almost wasn't good enough. Additional adjustments seemed possible, but not obvious how to do them.

This is... Well you can definitely tell it's AI.

Phew. Pumpkins carved.

Terrible dreams last night. Don't forget to hug your families.

Ugh. People that I know have strong personal ties to one of the candidates for the NDP leadership but their guy is the worst choice. If he wins the party is dead. Already dead.