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...

🇨🇦 If you haven't been following this, the Canadian women's rugby team has been dark horses all tournament, but they are very, very good. Just dismantled world champions NZ to earn a spot in the World Cup final, probably against England. Bravo, ladies.

Interesting wicked problem A couple of things: 1. logistics-wise, hospitals are as far apart as possible making it tenuous and costly; 2. Canada almost has no native medical device manufacturing, even if it did at least some part of it will be overseas; 3.

In my late teens, after the fights with my parents had slowed and we had come to some peace, I gave my Mom 'Love you Forever' for Mothers Day. She cried. She's 86 now, and she still keeps that copy on her bedside table, while I do my best to fulfill its promise. This news of Mr Munsch saddens me.

Years ago, I was at a anatomy/pathology conference and there was a talk on bumper height and bone damage, can't remember by whom. Bumpers hitting mid tib/fib, they just shatter both. But when they're high enough to impact the femur, two things can happen...

Chapeau, Monsieur. Chapeau.

Behold, the educational foundation for several generations of Canadians.

Oh mein gott there is so much zucchini.

Local mechanic now servicing all makes and models.

Before learning to replace spokes (it's kind of easy), I would take my bike to the local bike store and the guy would be like "yeah, we'll probably get to it early next week, so..." Really? It takes five days to replace a spoke? Gosh, I guess you're super busy fixing really expensive racing bikes

Don't even know what this is, but it's cold, sparkling, and it's so danged hot out that it should be perfectly drinkable.

When you plan to fly Porter into Toronto Island for the transit connections to get home, but Porter lands you at midnight at Pearson instead, you're practically marooned. Hour 3 now of trying get home 02:32. Southern Ontario transit is not at its best at this time.

Telefrancais and The Math Patrol.

I just don't think it really benefitted anyone to allow ice hockey to be played below the Mason-Dixon line.

Yeah but is it the REAL fake Holy Grail? "It be not made of resin". www.juliensauctions.com/en/items/184...

This is the kind of transit Toronto needs. It doesn't need to be fancy. Miniature trains take up almost no space, are cute and endearing, and compared to full size transit are probably orders of magnitude cheaper. Miniature trains for all!

Got try out my new casein paints AND go flying the other day, huzzah. #flying #painting

"It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant, it's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas."

Fun fact: my Dad designed the EZ-Pass system in the early 90's. Before there were GPS tags, his company would often work with law enforcement (FBI, State etc) to put hidden transponders on vehicles of interest. They would train the law enforcement guys how to install antennas in the roads around,

I love the NEJM image challenge. Today, mmm. 🤌 A less clinical, far less mature version of me would say: "This right here is a classic case of truck nuts".

I spend a strange amount of time creating IFU's of various sizes for the medical devices I work on (and of course nobody reads or follows), and frankly I'm with Hannah Fry on this. North American paper sizes are disgusting. youtube.com/shorts/KW_bv...

Elsa Lam continues to prove & document how corrupt & full of lies the Doug Ford closure of the science centre was & is. Read & share widely - not that it matters in Ontario, a province that seems ok w a high level of this. www.canadianarchitect.com/draft-engine...

Most favoritest time of the year. Everything so green, so new, so much new life afoot. Saw snakes, butterflies, beaver, woodpeckers etc. And the ubiquitous, prominently placed bag of dog poo in the woods. What is really going through the mind of a dog walker when they do this?

I work with Swedes and occasionally spend time in Stockholm. I can't think of a people that would be more ambivalent to whatever the US is doing or saying than the Scandics (maybe the Dutch?). They're almost polar opposite cultures. They're gonna keep paying high taxes,

Loving hearing and seeing all the orioles at this time of year. The birds not the ball team.

In case everyone needs a distraction this evening, this is the coolest thing I've seen in, like, weeks. Birds. Migrating. At night. birdcast.info/migration-to...

The real 🇨🇦 election issue is the price of buttertarts. Chalice tabarnak!

Guerilla design improvements are the best design improvements.

"What sort of times could possibly have inspired Bruegel's Dulle Griet", I wonder out loud.

Oh, I'm just drilling away some of the zygomatic and harvesting a little bit of the temporalis muscle to, uh, patch up this opening I made in the frontal & sphenoid bones - but only after I went in through the orbit via the eyelid. Skull base surgery is weird stuff #SciArt

So someone in the 1920's developed a time machine and all they did was use it to transport teapots and toast racks back 40 years. Pffft, humans.

Man I loved this place as a kid. There was daring, risk, reward: you could get hurt, or a soaker, and it was OK. As a little kid trying to keep up with bigger kids, this had incremental challenges and, when you were exhausted, a fascinating soft landscape around it that you could retreat to.

God this is a funny interview, best thing you'll watch all week. Skip ahead to ~7:00 to watch Stephen ask Mr Oldman about his "fartwork". youtube.com/watch?v=GvRV...

Yeah, this jives. Ham-fisting the markets like they ain't never been ham-fisted before (in recent memory (without a deadly virus aiding in the cumulative ham-fisting)).

Lay-overs mean I get to do a quick aircraft painting.

Ontario, you suck at voting.

Ignoramusi, if you would like to be less ignorant about the wilfully ignorant, or just less ignorant across the board, I highly recommend this podcast on willful ignorance. It's got some enligthening nuggets. www.alieward.com/ologies/agno...

The Westminster parliamentary system, ladies and gentlemen. Not perfect by any means, but you'd literally have to blow it up for it to cease working entirely.

Effing Hell. If they think this is a good idea, they should prove it in their own private jets by flying a minimum of 20 night, low visibility approaches at 10 different aerodromes, 5 of which they have not flown into before. And let's make it truly sporting, like when America was great: no GNSS.

Paw Patrol. Listen, if Colombia cuts the supply of coffee, and Canada cuts off access to Paw Patrol...devastating.

Toddlers. We use toddlers.

I think this is a large part of how we arrived to where are right now - decades of underfunding and diminishing the importance of education.

PHAC or the Government of Canada should probably be doing the exact opposite of this as H5N1, or something else entirely, is collecting all the missing genetic pieces it needs.

It's one thing to discontinue training of biomed techs because of liabillity, it's another thing altogether when you deliberately inhibit the resilience of a health care system for $$. Heart-Lung machines are pretty crucial to any severe respiratory illness, like, oh, say...a new variant of H5N1.

This could be a painting.

Just a reminder that there are plug-ins and extensions that, over the next few days (or years), you can use with your browser to replace certain words with words that you prefer. I use Word Replacer Max. Here is an example of it at work. #Orangefacedshitgibbon

Straight out of a Wes Anderson film: www.core77.com/posts/135027...

These days. These days feel like one big game of Half Wits. (Without the concentrated comedic genius, though I'm hoping we'll one day look back and laugh.) youtube.com/watch?v=eTDs...