I have been loving the non sequitur humour in ACARS Drama. Tonight, somewhere over northern Florida, someone on aircraft is extremely smelly.

This is the opposite of a boast. Watching someone you love try their hardest at something really, really important to them, knowing they are going to fail, is just heartbreaking. I wish I was talking about kids because they tend to move past this stuff, adults not so much.

I swear all the worst stuff seams to happen over Valpraiso, Indiana.

Got to do some flying this week. And the deal is: if I do some flying, then I also take some time and do some painting.

Days this spring without using heat OR air conditioning: 0

Nobody "earns" billions. Oversimplified (ie not accounting for invested money or wacky returns), but say you have a 45 year working career. To "earn" a billion you would have to make, on average, >$22M per year. Once you "earn" a billion, you should be made into sausage.

And there it is. The first request from a client to clean up some medical illustrations that they had AI do. [Honestly, they're not terrible. But it's pretty clear it's been fed a steady diet of BioRender stuff]

Sees pizza box fly off roof of car driving past house. Rescues pizza box from getting squished on road. Waits to see if driver doubles back upon realization of error. They do not. Free fresh pizza. My weekend is off to a great start!

Had on a Niel deGrasse Tyson Startalk podcast and they were talking about how silly zombies are. I totally agree. This was my working example poster for my scientific illustration students last, fall illustrating why zombies are not the threat we think they are. #SciArt youtu.be/UwlV-mflc7o?...

A corner grocery store and deli that also serves a fantastic cup of coffee and breakfast.

Lol, I can't count the number of times during road rides that my competitive pride has spotted another cyclist up ahead, so I bust my nut trying to reel them in and pass them only to find out it's a 65 year old on a step through e-bike. After that, pride prevents me from relenting, so I nearly die

Classic. Amazon Women on the Moon, Son of the Invisible Man. youtu.be/hSQWyx26FnY?...

One of the field paintings I did as a USFS artist in residence in 2014. Harriman Fjord, Alaska. Casein on gessoed panel.

I was an Artist in Residence with the USFS in 2014. As a 🇨🇦 I learned a lot about how the US treats it's natural spaces and designated wilderness areas. The people who worked and volunteered were some of the loveliest people I've ever worked with. This, among many things, makes me sad for America.

95M birds on the move tonight! Nature, man, nature. birdcast.org/migration-to...

Oh boy. These are so insidious. They *LOOK* like an anatomical diagram, have the same visual style and language. But when you start to look closely and scrutinize it - never even mind the labels - it's almost entirely wrong. Like, not one correct thing about it.

That feeling when you find someone’s wallet and root through it *just enough* to figure out who they are and how you’re going to get it back to them. Was able to drop it off just when they were really starting to panic, made someone’s day!

Given our 60 degree temperature swing from coldest days to hottest days in Canada, you would think we would be world leaders in building energy efficient housing. But, if we build them at all, we build the bare legal minimum quality house. I wish this would change. We need it to, like, yesterday.

My octogenarian Mum has to write a book report for her book club. We fired up the old computer, updated it to windows 11 and, much to my surprise, Word 2003 works a dream. Surprisingly, pleasantly unshittified.

When darkness falls, it's time to migrate. I love this radar map/app for tracking migration density and direction. So cool to see things hitting their peak before dawn, then going out and hearing all the new voices in the morning. Welcome back birds. birdcast.org/migration-to...

10 Years ago, when we lived in Dublin, we walked down to O'Connell Street with some friends who were visiting. It was jammers. There is a really cool - kind of organic - parade through central Dublin. All the floats are human powered with limited height to clear the Luas catenary. There's definitely

Every idea that comes out of Doug Ford is pre-ossified, like he was passing kidney stones all over the province. I love this airport, honestly. But it's days are numbered and, as a low hour baby pilot, adding jets to this airspace, mixing with Pearson's is 100% not needed.

When darkness falls, it's time to migrate. I love this radar map/app for tracking migration density and direction. So cool to see things hitting their peak before dawn, then going out and hearing all the new voices in the morning. Welcome back birds. birdcast.org/migration-to...

Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper? Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.

Just a box, driving around, merging courteously with traffic.

So good. So, so good. youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

Right now, I would love for some of the people in my life to be able to use a self driving vehicle to get to their appointments or take them shopping. But those people need way more than just a lift. Why is it that, when we're designing services, it's just not appealing to design them with good old

Looking forward to being continually subjected to this inane game of Spin-the-Bottle policy coming from our southern neighbours.

Further to this point, this was great podcast. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-...

What Doug Ford gets wrong about "not too many baskets being sold these days" is that every human has, literally, dozens of baskets in one form or another.

Three degrees and a college diploma here; worked in higher ed for >10y; have a wife who has gone back to school for a mid-career refit. The only person who talks about "basket-weaving" courses is someone who has never taken one. Come talk to me about "basket-weaving", you absolute numpty.

Somewhere in the CBC's archives is an absolutely gorgeous version of People Get Ready. It was done for a long gone radio show called Fuse, that got seemingly different artists to play together. In this case it was The Sojourners with C.R. Avery. This isn't it but it's close: youtu.be/XY5wfqJ3LkQ?...

One of the things I love about visiting family in NL is that, while there is not one square meter of that country that has not been engineered by humans, and my dutch family complain "it's so crowded", it's still livable, textured and beautiful.

Saw the tracks leading to my overturned canoe in the back yard. Someone isn't very enthusiastic about the snow storm.

We can share it.

That time I went to an airshow and painted this Harvard. It was sitting next to a pair of A-10's and a CF-18. Pilot: "Of all the aircraft here, you paint this one. Why?" "Because it's yellow. Way more interesting to paint than low-viz grey."

Death reads the news.

Automotive Polkaroo. Took this photo to prove to my spouse that this local Alfa Romeo Guilia GTA Veloce, my favorite car of all time, actually exists. And it's gorgeous.

Well, I'm going to just do something positive by writing a nice reference letter for one of my students. If the world is going to crap, I'm going to make sure she at least gets where she wants to go.

QRP with my wing art? Most of the wings I render have flaps and ailerons...except this one.

A human factors case for the ages. Who'd have thunk not physically knowing where a control is, because it only exists on a non-tactile screen, would adversely affect a users spatial mapping and responses in a high risk environment with potential task saturation.

Final grades for autumn semester submitted. "Ain't no feeling like it in the world." #EduSky youtu.be/m_MaJDK3VNE?...

It's been a long time since I took medical ethics in undergrad, but still know that Kant beats Bentham on this one. Everything in Doug Ford's Ontario is designed to separate the poorest Ontarions from what little they still have left. So grotesque.

Sweet Cheesus. YES!!

It's important to remember, during the holiday season, that Beaker does indeed flip off Mr.Scrooge. youtu.be/cvZPm3lqaPs

Some seriously wintery flying this week. With the cold and high pressure, li'l airplane just jumped off the runway and climbed like it had a whopping 200hp instead of the usual old 180hp.

Good at art but interested in biology and medicine; took all the hard courses and spent undergrad swimming up and down a pool so didn't have the marks for med school; went into medical illustration instead; fell into teaching anatomy in a medical school, retrained as industrial designer. Still teach

Passing a massive project milestone on a picture perfect Friday morning calls for a celebratory cappuccino and sausage role. Today is a good day.

Bonkers video analyzing Canada's womens rugby team tactics and how they're changing the game. The lads at Squidge are in complete admiration, as am I. Even if you don't follow it rugby appreciate what happens in a team sport when one team moves at lightspeed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGi6...