Gotta be Optimus Prime

I understand it's American military propaganda and probably not even good history, but it's Memorial Day and I'm obliged to watch the Band of Brothers marathon TV again

The one with the omnipotent space frog who makes everyone take their clothes off

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

More tornado sirens! But this time I think we actually did have a mini-tornado...someone else's patio furniture is now in my backyard

Last year when we needed a new air conditioner, I must have signed up for some sort of home energy assessment or something...I ended up not doing that and got a new AC on my own, but ever since then, this one company has called me pretty much every single day, still trying to schedule an assessment

So is the Punisher just hallucinating everything, probably? I know the MCU is hardly a logically consistent universe but he barely seems to fit in even with just the Daredevil stuff, much less the rest of it

Another obligatory Victoria Day celebration www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHze...

Made some Tim Hortons-style chocolate chip muffins

Some kids were looking at World Cup merch featuring Lionel Messi, who they all knew, and also Thierry Henry, but they had no idea who that was, and I crumbled into dust

It's Victoria Day weekend so I'm legally obligated to barbecue, it's in the British North America Act somewhere

The lawn's not a mess, I'm just...uh...rewilding it. You know...for the bees

Scriptores Leges Diplomata Epistolae Antiquitates Weitere Reihen

Someone around here has a "In a world of princesses be a Beth Dutton" sticker on their car, and clearly one of us doesn't understand that show

FC Nantes was in Ligue 2 when I lived there, but they've been back in Ligue 1 since 2013. Unfortunately they're terrible this year and they've been relegated to Ligue 2 again

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What if...I translate the Wikipedia article about Robert of Nantes into Latin?!? I used to be pretty good at this, we even had a whole special Latin composition class in Toronto. Now I'm extremely rusty and it probably sucks

The kids are too old and don't want to hang out or watch their shows with me anymore, which is tragic for my ability to absorb pop culture: at pub trivia I didn't recognize the names of the K-Pop Demon Hunters

We even got the tornado siren going off at the university, very exciting

The dealership where we got our car has always been great, but it has new owners, and they tried to tell us we need $1800 worth of repairs. So we took it somewhere else, and that place told us nothing was wrong. Like, sure, a car dealership might try to gouge you, but it's usually not so blatant...

It's my parents' 50th wedding anniversary! This is what they posted today, but this photo doesn't really do justice to the blueness of my dad's suit. It does capture the "it's definitely the 1970s" vibe though

In the past 30 years this part of the city has changed a lot. It used to be the very edge of the urban area, but the city has expanded, and fields and forests are now full of stores and houses. But one thing never changes...a couple of times a year you can still smell the manure from the farms

What if Louis VIII of France's twin sons survived. They were the eldest surviving sons (assuming Philippe still dies), so do they split the kingdom somehow? Only one gets to be king? OTL Louis IX is just Louis, off making trouble with the other brothers, Robert, Alphonse, and Charles

Hahahaha holy shit the Leafs won the draft lottery???

Nobody else* seems to remember that gas was already over $2/litre a few years ago. This picture is from June 2022...I don't even know why it was so high back then, but it was! (*n=1, my wife didn't recall this)

Neat. The French immersion school here is named after her. She came to visit it once!

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It's the most exciting time of the quinquennium...time to fill out the census

Return of the Jedi is the perfect movie for its actual target audience (me, aged 10, watching it several thousand times)

Transylvania. There was always a stampede to get to it first whenever we had computer lab time in elementary school, so the teachers had to make a schedule. But it was pretty long, and saving wasn't a thing yet, so no one ever finished it anyway

"argh, freakin blue jays" - something I can yell at my TV, and out the window early in the morning

Be on my way back home from the Great German Pilgrimage to Jerusalem

The Stone Angel. The old lady is constipated on page 1 and it doesn't get any better from there. I know we're not supposed to like her but every character is unlikeable

What happens if I beat 10,000 levels of this stupid app game? Nothing, it just keeps going on forever I guess

I've been playing fantasy hockey and basketball for awhile, so this year I thought I would add baseball. I know lots about baseball, how hard could it be? Well there are a ton of players in real life, so there are a lot more players on a fantasy team. They also seem to get injured much more often

Sometimes whatever anyone in the house Googles shows up as targeted ads on my Facebook feed. But my daughter just found an actual harmonica and has been trying to play it, and Facebook immediately started showing me harmonica ads. No one Googled anything about harmonicas!

I had a job interview today and they started off by saying it looked like I would be a perfect fit, but then it went about as well as it ever does when I have to talk to people spontaneously. Hopefully they'll remember that first part

A brief history of the Order of St Lazarus

A translation company sent me a project for "MTPE", machine translation post-editing, which sucks, but good for a few bucks. There was no translated file, so did they want me to translate it? They said "You can machine translate it and proofread it." They can't even imagine human translators anymore

My daughter (safely in another room): why are you waving a knife like that Uh because if I'm using a sharp knife in the kitchen I have to pretend I'm in the knife fight scene from Under Siege? Obviously

Today's movie is one I have actually seen before, The Red Violin, classic Canadiana

As a Leafs fan it feels wrong to cheer for Montreal, but the Canadiens are a fun team and exciting to watch. But I can never be a fan of the true enemy, the Senators

But various recent popes have definitely been involved in covering up lots of crimes??? And the Catholic Church has totally justified war and violence many times in the past??!

Since my wife is still recovering from her surgery, but she's the one with the Costco membership, I had to go to Costco with my parents. You never want your parents to see how much you spend at Costco, so embarrassing

I had to upgrade to the newest version of Excel this year but it sucks. The ancient version I had before could do lots of complicated equations and the new version prefers to simply crash. Also I discovered I can do pretty much exactly the same stuff much faster and more easily on Google Sheets

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost a dance, or you're eliminated

I was in first place in fantasy hockey the whole season but my team all decided to take a nap for the championship week, so I finished in 2nd! Fortunately it's just a random league this year with people I don't know and no money is involved

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husband's racket