"Computer 8 miles of soup no bowl"

Subscribed to Paramount+ for the first time because I need my Star Trek, and *man* their streaming website is hot ass, isn't it? Maybe the app is better. I hope it is.

This is a lovely article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

After repairing a bunch of old oscilloscopes, I melted down the failed wax capacitors and made up scented candles.

I am damned tired of having AI "features" continually rammed down my throat. And I'm beginning to realize it's the constant, low-level violation of consent that's driving me to the edge. Stop stealing my information for your slop factory without A) asking me first or B) allowing me to opt out.

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Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

You know, one of the stranger aspects of living in Ottawa is that sometimes on your way home from work you get stuck in traffic behind the king of Sweden.

TurboTax is integrating with ChatGPT, eh? Welp. I’ve already identified an alternative I’ll be using, and now I have to see if I can pull my tax info down and delete my TurboTax account. What a pain in the ass, all for the sake of the slop bubble. Thanks, AI bros. Really helping me out here.

How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

Currently waiting to see if the Canadian government falls. Should know within the half hour.

Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.

It literally has a disclosure on its Steam page. It didn't "slip through", man. You tried to charge people for a thing that's got slop in it and they're mad. I have an extension to add a pop-up on the Steam page for it but I really think it should be by default top-of-page.

Ladies, Gents and all between and beyond. Desert Bus 2025 is now departing for fun, joy, hijinks and a whole lot of hope! Let’s prepare to get silly for a good cause! desertbus.org

In the Museum of Brands and Packaging down in Notting Hill, you can see this happening again and again. “McIntosh’s Radio Toffee”. “Vimulon Atomic Soap: now with Uranium!” “Tinford’s Electric Cufflinks”. It’s always bollocks. It’s the giveaway it’s a nine day’s wonder, before it all calms down.

Part 3 of my ongoing series about the incredible WW2 flight of the California Clipper is now up and free to read. Imagine having to fly your aircraft on regular gasoline, which it has never used before. Now imagine having to work out how to do that while you're flying over the vast Indian Ocean...

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To me, the worst part about All This is the feeling that we’re faster and faster hurtling in the direction of *something,* but it’s not clear what it is. Some rough beast is slouching toward Bethlehem, and we won’t understand until it is born.

I legitimately think this article misses the mark, because Canadians are not avoiding travel out of some principled boycott of the USA over tariffs. Canadians who are avoiding the USA are seeing images of masked government thugs kidnapping people and teargassing children.

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Hey, Americans, can you, like, turn the volume down over there? You’re keeping the neighbours up and we have work in the morning. Be nice to have just one day of relative quiet from the apartment below us. Thanks!

For Remembrance Day, a Heritage Minute. Lest we forget.

A co-worker told me today that they had never seen Star Wars but would like to. I said it has ups and downs, but it's worth watching. And I asked if they wouldn't mind an unorthodox recommendation for a watch order: 1. Andor 2. Rogue One 3. A New Hope I'm excited to see how it goes for them.

Like, I get it, but it’s rough to need to keep not only my own country’s politics in my head, but also America’s. If you think politics is exhausting, imagine being forced to do it twice, forever.

Welp. I guess it's winter now.

Ottawa - 2025-11-08 1/4

Not now, carnivorous death ball

Today was a real Grown-up Pants politics day in Canada. Without commenting on any of that, I need the talking heads to know that saying "the previous administration" or "the Carney administration" is incorrect. We do not have "administrations" in Canada; we have *governments.* Words matter.

Oh, cool, the bad guys won.

An Air Canada flight right now

I can't help but think the stick man has gotten so fed up he's set the room on fire, and now he's calmly walking away. Mood, little stick-bro. Mood.

I like to throw the news on while I’m cooking, just for a little background content. Canadian news is wall-to-wall baseball right now. Which, great, but there’s only so much of that which can be interesting. So I’ve put on CNN, and let me tell you - *god* what an utter drop in journalistic quality.

They're playing Pink Floyd's "Money" in the Rogers Centre, which is: A) A wild choice; and B) A hell of a troll

No matter the platform you should have your default feed be reverse chron of who/what you follow and curate and diversify that feed. You’ll be better informed and less prone to disinfo and group think. This is a hill I will die on.

Delighted to say that an updated and expanded version of my series on one of the most extraordinary acts in aviation history will be running on The Up Front over the coming weeks. And even better: it's now completely free to read.

What the hell, Firefox? This is the second time I've caught you quietly ensloppifying in the background.

Blue Jays, Dodgers cause mass confusion by dressing up as each other for Halloween world series game

PLEASE BE VIGILANT! Am now a broken man on a Halifax pier!! Happy Halloween folks! Who's coming to St George's tonight for some High Rollers?! Say hi if you catch us! #TheLongestJohns #Halloween #Shanties #FolkMusic

This is your periodic reminder: Soup is good. Make soup. (Not sponsored by Big Broth)

It took the Jays less time to win Games 4 AND 5 (5:56) than it did for the Dodgers to win Game 3 (6:39).

Change one letter, ruin a candy: Big Turd

Please enjoy learning that Ottawa’s OHL team is called the 67s (pronounced the sixty-sevens). I now invite you to consider how obnoxious it must be to be part of the crowd in the arena these days, given the current meme environment.

The BASEBALL has again commenced. Pray for us.

Submitted without comment: The CBC is speaking to ordinary Jamaicans and local emergency management personnel about Hurricane Melissa. CNN is instead talking to a procession of American tourists who have found themselves stranded in the country due to the storm.