This morning fog condensed on the branches. Near Ottawa.

After all we've been through this year, I think it's that escaped monkey that's going to finally destroy civilization.

"The ballroom is really the president's main priority" is the new "Let the eat cake."

Me being grumpy when I was still small. Toronto Islands.

Everything Trump does, is to inflate his ego. Nothing more.

Right here, right now.

Trump had those fly-overs so that he could remind everyone that he's involved.

I was playing with the Gemini AI, 2.5 Flash model. My prompt: "create an image of a Bichon Frise driving a blue MG sports car"

Anyone who uses Cubase on the Mac for music production, may find my new article helpful: damaru.com/articles/usi...

What with the White House ballroom and tacky decorations, the cancelling of trans military pensions, ICE, extorting universities and all the rest of it, it feels to me like Trump is trying to engorge himself as quickly and voluminously as possible. Maybe he realizes it can't last forever, maybe not.

I can't help indulging in some schadenfreude. I believe Trump is in a state of deep paranoia that keeps him from being able to enjoy anything at all. I'm sure he's in a living hell.

Here's a great TED talk about detecting AI generated images: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5_P...

Do they expect anyone to fall for this crap?

I'm working right at this moment with a group of civil servants. We're getting a new application running that will allow people with disabilities to get a new benefit. I'm proud to be working to help fellow Canadians, and I must say the people at Economic, Social and Development Canada do work hard.

I uncovered a magic circle in my backyard a couple of years ago. It could be ancient.

So far I'm having a good Friday.

One thing I like about our new P.M. Mark Carney is that he's not in the news all the time. He doesn't care about the ratings. I suspect he might be a Buddhist.

Here's something I did a couple of years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGOe...

Just in case there are any musicians on here who use Arturia Pigments, I just created a tool to generate wavetables for it: github.com/damaru-inc/w...

We still have a bit of snow, here in Ottawa. Anything to keep my mind off the election.

Are any of these accounts real? @mariabartiromo537.bsky.social @mariasbartir0m0.bsky.social @bartiromo.bsky.social Just curious because one of them is messaging me and wants to be my friend. As if a Fox news host wants to hook up with a random Liberal Canadian guy - yeah sure...

Next year the Americans will all be driving Ladas.

As the world is in turmoil, we can still discover moments of bliss. First beer on the deck this year! 15C in Ottawa.

Let's think about how that Signal military leak affects the U.S.'s security relationship with the Five Eyes and the other countries. Would anyone trust them with anything now?

We have visitors!

This is 3 minutes and 52 seconds every single Canadian should watch from start to finish and then share.

We got fresh snow last night in Ottawa.

Some of his readers have asked Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social why his technology news site, Tech Dirt, has been covering politics so intensely lately. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w... I cannot recommend Mike's reply enough. It's exactly what readers need to hear, what journalists need to do.

I'm going to indulge in a little self-promotion. Here's a fairly recent piece: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGOe...

I'm so relieved that Doug Ford cancelled the Starlink contract. That was really bothering me. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@cubase.bsky.social I'm sorry to report that Cubase 13.0.51 has crashed on my M1 iMac four times tonight. That's more than previous versions have crashed on me over the last 10 years. I upgraded my OS today to Sequoia 15.3, maybe that's why.

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

I thought Trudeau's speech tonight was excellent. I hope it's true that all 10 premiers support the strategy. #cdnpoli #tariffs

Tonight's dog walk. $ottawa

Maya is a poser.

Yesterday's walk. Warm and foggy which is strange for Ottawa this time of the year.

Totally worth watching!

This evening's walk.

This morning, near Ottawa.

Bathroom Reno #3 They tell me the bathtub isn't ready. I don't care. I've shoveled snow 6 times in 2 days and I really want a bath.

Bathroom reno #2

Bathroom reno #1

I'm starting to see flirty-bots showing up here. These are accounts with names like violet245339 with a profile pic of a woman in a bikini who has no posts, and they are following me. Instant block.

My favourite feature of this platform is that it's billionaire-proof.

I signed it, you should too if you're Canadian.

For the first time in my 30 year programming career, I need to work with mainframe data (i.e. transform it to a newer format and send it off to a modern microservice.) Never stop learning!

This is our pet Clyde.

This is Maya

I've added an old piece to my music page. I'll be gradually adding more over the next few days. This is a Musique Concrète piece using just water sounds. If you like the sound of gurgling, and rain going down storm drains, this is for you: damaru.com/music/dralaq...

Today's walk, near Ottawa.