It's my 10th wedding anniversary today, and I just wanted to share this picture of our wedding cake. My wife and I both look at most traditions with disdain, though we did follow a lot of the Salish rites for our wedding. But we got nagged about the wedding cake by some guests. 1

Hiking in the mountains today. Walked back over the Lions Gate just in time for a Disney cruise ship to pass under. Volume up, wait for it…

Random Bible story - Jesus allowed someone to pour expensive ointment on his feet (worth ~$10k), and then mop it up with her hair. Seeing it, Judas was enraged, saying the ointment could have been sold to feed the poor. Jesus excused it, Judas decided he was a fraud, and turned him in.

Unexpected at WebSummit today. Yesterday was ‘boo Israel’ talkers - today Curtis Yarvin and Lauren Southern.

I love this decision, and everything it stands for. Also, I dread the mother-fudge load of internationally funded hate that this is going to unleash on First Nations people. This has the potential to be our 'Dreyfus Scott Scopes Monkey Wade' decision.

Saw Cenk Uygur, Hasan Piker, and Gabor Mate at the Web Summit in Vancouver today (along with a bunch of educational talks - new key words in tech: "layer", "SaaSppocalypse"). Met lots of new Indigenous AI companies doing work on culture, language, and band admin.

At the Web Summit all day today, very interested to see what the local media makes of Hasan Piker - he’s doing a talk with Gabor Mate here this afternoon.

I met several First Nations planning on building data centres - and where necessary, nuclear plants to power them. First Nations people generally (of course with some exceptions) seem to be very supportive of AI.

Visited senakw today - omg. It’s pretty epic, and cheap for the location.

First duckling spotting of the year... in a marsh near the Trout Lake Farmers Market here in Vancouver. I got gochujang bbq sauce, Indian popping corn, orange pound cake, bhaji crisps, and fresh radishes.

In an Uber back from Chilliwack. And the valley is bordered by dozens of these small pointy mountains - which makes you see why the ancient Salish people out here built earthen pyramids. Copies of these mountains for their dead - I’m guessing they most have thought giants lived under the big ones.

Someone asked me if I'm writing about all this stuff going on BC lately. And no, I need to focus all my mental energy on staying sane while building a company. So in lieu of all that stuff, lookit this bird family I saw on Granville Island.

New most hated person in Vancouver just dropped. It's a shame grey whales don't have teeth. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

3 huge discoveries today: 1. My childhood dream of BicMac salad has come true 2. Bunnies have colonized Marine Drive in Vancouver (they finally crossed the Skytrain bridge) 3. I am Sheldon levels of clueless and apparently this taco sticker is less ‘aw cute’ than I imagined.

After many delays, and an unexpected night in Calgary - I'm back in Vancouver. It's summer here, and the second I got out of the airport, I could smell the sea. Pics: Me in Calgary (wearing a suit, because I'm flying), desolate Toronto, futuristic St Lawrence Mkt / MKT back bacon sandwich.

I don’t think I post a lot of food pics but look at this beautiful thing. Met a friend for dinner at this Israeli-Palestinian fusion place in Toronto called the Haifa Room. This is their Nazareth Hot Chicken.

A fun stat - here are the First Nations that are richer than Canada (numbers courtesy my app: KnowledgeKeepr.ca):

I’m happy I’m Salish and don’t have to accept ideological capture - because these Enbridge beef sliders are literally the best beef I’ve had in a year. Fatty but… not? I’m at the First Nations Major Projects Conference on begalf of my cimpany www.KnowledgeKeepr.ca

What’s this? In Toronto for the week.

As far as conspiracy theories go, candidate Trump getting Biden’s Secret Service, local police, and media to cover for a false flag attack is one of the dumber ones. Far more likely - esp. after the latest attack - that the Secret Service is incompetent and Trump has a horseshoe up his ass.

I’ve reached the ‘takes lots of pictures of birds’ age.&

This is the Vancouver-ist pizza order. We may not have good pizza, but if we keep kitchen-sinking it, we’ll eventually get there.

Rando Geography: the Indigenous names for Vancouver - the 2 most common - translate as: Maple-y, or "That weird grass that grew out of magic snake poop". Our suburbs are 'people who smell of fish slime', 'place of decomposition', 'people of the inlet', 'tireless runners', and 'squishy moss'.

This is a dance off. If you see this repost a dance.

Pink tree peak is followed by pink snow season. Drifts of this stuff everywhere for the next few weeks. Also - you can tell it’s an election year because they fixed something for once - the fountains at QueenE are back:

Loving this new bike. Got up to Deep Cove today - and with errands tacked on, it was a 56k ride.

Peak of pink tree season in Vancouver today.

Just saw this on Facebook and it instantly triggered a thousand memories... I could hear the bell and clunking perfectly. Add in this beast and that's 71% of my childhood right there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUUt...

The seawall is covered in starfish right now.

For comparison, the 10,000 or so people in Metro Vancouver's 9 First Nations, have an annual surplus of $242.9 million.

Latest infographic from my app - showing First Nations population trends over the last quarter. A while ago I made an ATIP request to Ottawa to get population stats on my nation from a few years ago, and they couldn't find them. It's crazy that none of this stuff existed until we built it.

I've been creating infographics for my app www.knowledgekeepr.ca - now that I have all this data, it's neat to be able to just know this stuff with a second's work. So fun fact, as of this month there are 1,136,339 people with First Nations status who live in 623 functioning bands.

The thing about the rainy season here in Vancouver, is if you close your umbrella and look up, this is what you see.

I like the Pope, the Pope smokes dopes.

Sorry… but do people not wash their pants?! Reading this advice thing on mending pants and they mention washing your pants every few months as if that were more than normal.

Worth remembering that the New Westminster Indian Band (so-called “Qayqayt”) is widely opposed by First Nations in this region.

You ever look at a chart or stat or some online factoid and think: do they suck at presenting data, or am I dumber than I thought? [my experience just now reviewing a chart on exercise and VO2max by age]

It's cool that they do corruption openly online now. Given the millions that were just bet on a ceasefire, it looks like Trump will have to resign himself to slowing dimming American civilization, rather than nuking Persian civilization.

After 3 years of building, my app is finally live for paying customers (we did a 6-month free beta). You can see it at www.knowledgekeepr.ca Basically, if you need authoritative information about any First Nation in Canada, finances, bylaws, lands, contact info, governance info... that's us.

What a day to get an image like that.

That was a very cool final shot before going dark.

Loving this new eBike - perfect for these super long rides up into the mountains. Also - just look at that street sign font. Like an Arial Black or Helvetica Black, whatever it is... chef's kiss.

Tout le monde est critique.

Working on data merge for the app and I just thought you should know that there's a Chief Chief, Chief Indian, and Councillor Skywalker - among Canada's 4000 or so First Nations chiefs and councillors.

That gives me an idea: Cana-duh?! The party of common sense. Kantnada. The party of deontology. We Kant stand with notwithstanding. Can-nada. Politicians do nothing. At least we're up front about it.

I saw a story about this online, but can't believe it's still available for sale (and so easy to find). Alibaba is selling Shahed drones. www.alibaba.com/product-deta...

My favourite bit of Canadian space history is this picture from Mars. It got no attention at the time or since. But look closely…

In 2026, to call attacks on the Epstein class (aka Trump, Andrew, Clinton) antisemitic? Who is that convincing? Is it really out of bounds to say that Israel has a radicalization problem when mobs of armed settler terrorists have been running wild in the West Bank for the last few weeks?

NYTimes: Israel ordering towns to expel Shiites or be destroyed. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

A funny translation fail. Le Roi « Peut »!