Ok. I'm not a certified plumber. But I have done a lot of plumbing. Let's break this down. If you have a pipe entering your sink from the top. You fucked up.

No hazards here! Nothing to see. Keep moving…quickly

Looks like nice day for a walk along the sea side!

Looks like nice day for a walk along the sea side!

Another amazing dinner with Marco and Marta!

Seems like a good day for a hike! After the torrential rain we experienced while walking back to the bed and breakfast after dinner. Damn thundershowers!

Hhmmm, this place seems ok. Geology seems interesting.

I had my own little eruption that day! I turned 19 on the 16th which is the legal drinking age in BC. My “friends” got me drunk on pink lemonade and vodka. Unfortunately we were on Hornby Island so did not hear the blast.

Going to do three days if holidays for my birthday at Portofino, with Marta and Marco. It is like Cinque Terra coast with less landslides blocking the paths and less people. This is the view from the Bed and Breakfast.

Hey BC people, famous Italian the Garibaldi peak, and subsequently the park, named after!

Three ages of Genoa. Although old, the younger palace on the right, a younger building in the centre left, then the more recent theatre on the left.

So does he have to pay double?

Old skool hands free!

May 18, 1920, during a meeting of the German Geographical Society in Leipzig, meteorologist and geophysicist Alfred Wegener presents his theory that continents move over time, providing also a map showing the position of the continents during the Carboniferous, the Eocene and today ...

Terrible, terrible news. Was a great place to see live music, especially the Pointer Brothers, the house band for years and years. Huge loss. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Marco and Marta took me out to the finest restaurant in Villarbasse for my, well let’s not mention the number, birthday! It was fantastic! Started with a cocktail call the myth of Aphrodities.

Visited a monastery on Thursday. I am following the rules of the staffarda monks. I just happened to have a bag of cat treats in my pocket!

Birthday lunch at Marco and Marta’s. We shall not speak of the years!

Which box will Manka bobcat choose?

The original was better and more impactful. youtu.be/9tU-D-m2JY8?...

“I’m just so goddamn fed up with all this,” Gina Small, 29, said in a comment on the U.S. economy that one of her friends assumed was about the world’s ongoing humanitarian crises, another friend thought was about the weaponization of America’s military against its own people.

Great snow in the mountains.

Helping out today on a 2nd year fieldtrip. Have to earn my keep! Student are learning how to use a compass by measuring the trend of all the roads leading out from this plaza. Which is interesting. But I was kind of freaked out the students were standing in the road. Nothing bad happened

Here it is, a Bluesky exclusive: The goth legends of baby birds The best baby American Coot encounter of my life, 2hrs next to a pond dangling my camera less than an inch above the water, cut down to the best 8 secs, and slowed down to 25% speed, and set to Clan of Xymox' "Jasmine and Rose" 🪶 🐣

This visual style really helps to show the latitudinal gradient of temperature anomalies over the last 6 months, which unsurprisingly was the largest in the #Arctic. [Plot shows zonal-mean surface air temperature anomalies, where latitude = y-axis (not scaled by distance). Data from NASA GISTEMPv4]

On 19 July 2025, intense, long duration rainfall triggered over 550 landslides in Sancheong, South Korea, killing at least 10 people. eos.org/thelandslide... Image by @planet.com

Italy is a dangerous place for fieldwork! I could injure myself.

Visited Castello di Racconigi, summer palace of the Savoy kingdom. Very thorough tour. Marta translated a cokes notes version for us.

This is an amazing low point, even for her!

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

Some famous monastery.

Affogato al caffe vs caffe con gelato. Ya totally different! One is in glass the other in a coffee cup. Both very good. May need to increase pant size soon!

Now THAT’S a breccia!

As a Canadian, every time I hear Americans talking about COVID-19 like this I think, "Yup, attitudes like this were pretty clearly a major contributing factor to 1.24 million Americans dying from COVID-19." I wonder how many Americans realize they ended up with 2.5x the per capita deaths in Canada.

No idea what is going on. Seems like a student competition. Of some sort.

Urbane renewal Italian style. Probably both are older than Canada.

It’s Spitz-o-clock!

Pointe Coperto over the Ticino River. #Pavia

Parking Italian style!

In Pavia. San Michele Maggiore, a 12th century romansce church. The sandstone facade must have a carbonate cement as the acid rain is taking its toll!

Went into the university of Torino today. It is very dog friendly here. The highlight was this 3.5 month Dalmatian puppy in the farinata restaurant we had lunch

So the number of complaints is incredibly small. So why is this an issue? I thought it was awesome when she was appointed! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

May 9, 1926: U.S. aviator Richard Byrd takes off on his attempt to make the first flight to the North Pole. He and pilot-mechanic Floyd Bennett return after a 15-hour, 57-minute round trip from Norway's Spitsbergen island to report they achieved the historic feat. Did they actually do it? 1/9

May 9, 1926: Richard Byrd was acclaimed as an American hero after his flight today in which he claimed to have reached the North Pole. For this feat he was given parades and presented with the Medal of Honor. Increasingly, researchers now believe he and pilot Floyd Bennett never made it. 1/9

Epic journey from Vienna and the EGU to Marco Giardino and Marta Chiarle’s villa in Villarbassa just outside of Torino. It was a train, a plane, a bus, a train, the metro, and then a mini van! With a lot of luggage and my stupid poster that cost me €72 that I am not sure what to do with it!

Festival of joy Concert in Vienna to celebrate freedom from the nazis.

Post EGU drink! My brain is full! #EGU26

At the #EGU rockfall dinner. Who knew Lorraine was a rockfall expert! Even more people came after this.

Yet another reason to ban jet skis: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

come and see my poster: Marginal Cirque Contribution to the Northern Cordilleran Ice Sheet, Yukon Territory X.18 from 10:45 to 12:30. Hawkins cheeses for non-Canadians!