*drive home to drop something off* *pull into driveway* *neighbour opens side door* *get out of car* *neighbour thrusts tupperware into my hand* "Soup!"

Friends needed two replacements for their once-a-month curling team. I've joined, and have also roped a mutual friend into playing as well. Our friend has never curled before. 🥌 I'm giving them a private curling lesson after work tonight.

I don't have a ticketing system at work (yay, budgets), but I do have two Outlook folders that I sort specific requests into so I can keep track of volume.

“It’s no wonder we’re seeing homelessness numbers explode like they never have before in this community.” www.thespec.com/news/hamilto... #HamOnt

This is incredible camera work

lol

Helping a friend take some furniture in the dump in an hour. He thinks he's going to get a couch into a van, but I don't trust his ability to measure things. So I'm showing up with a reciprocating saw, just in case.

Can't say I'm shocked Anthology Inc. (merged with Blackboard in late 2021) has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Though I'm not sure how you rack up more than $1 billion in debt. #edTech #eduSky marketbrief.edweek.org/financing-in...

I started my position with Continuing Professional Development (CPD) office in July of 2024, and have finally gotten around to updating my portfolio: www.jasonlamb.org In the last 14 months I’ve: • Launched and continue to oversee a new learning management system

My work implemented Microsoft's 'email quarantine' a few years ago in an effort to combat phishing attempts. It flags potentially bad emails, and you get a message prompting you to review and/or release it. Which is honestly good, because we don't want people falling for phishing attempts.

The weather is nice and cool, so I've been heading to the office early so I can get a walk in before work starts.

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett's 'Boots Theory': en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_t... Poverty forces you to buy cheap items that need to be replaced. Repeated cheap items are more costly in the long run vs. an expensive (quality) item. So I saved up and literally bought nice boots back in 2019.

Kaprizov just signed 8 years x $17 million (Kevin Weekes reported). That's: - 2026/27 - 16.3% of the cap - 2027/28 - 14.9% of the cap So we're back at the ~15% superstar cap. Really curious what McDavid will take though.

I love autumn.

I love that in 2025 universities are still "this will get students to apply to us":

Here's a visual representation of the writing quality of 'Alien: Earth' as the season progressed. Pretty much encapsulated everything I hate about modern television.

What is your favorite sticker shop?

I *love* these clean masks. They look way better than the cluttered airbrush collages most goalies wear.

Ahhhh, fall is here and so with it comes people in the office getting sick.

Read a book recently where corned beef hash was featured. Made some tonight. Where oh where has this been all my life?

Autumn begins tomorrow, so it's stew time.

Curling bonspiel today 🥌 Very curious to see just how rusty I am after six months off.

Me at work: "In case disaster strikes, I'm available all day *except* for this very narrow 30 minute window." Disaster: "30 minute window you say?"

Evergreen

Every day I grow more and more convinced I'll never voluntarily visit the US again.

Post a movie you like with a terrible rotten tomatoes score. Outland (1981) is honestly one of my favourite films. It's basically a slow burning anti-capitalist take on High Noon. It's *very* stylistically reminiscent of Alien and makes great use of sets and miniatures.

Just hitting peak sitcom absurdity levels today.

Softball teammate posted an invite to a November 5km run in a group chat. The sick part of my brain is now trying to convince me that going from "topping out at 200m" to "running 5000m just two months shy of 38 years old with no prior training" is doable.

The more I think about this, the more I think some teams are embracing a post-cup era. Superstars (McDavid and Matthews) set a previous high of commanding around 15% of the cap. With a rumored $20 million offer out there for Kaprizov, he'd be taking up 19.2% of the cap next year.

Had dinner with some friends last night, and at some point I talked about how random people just like to strike up conversations with me whenever I'm out and about. Was just at a Rona and a senior couple immediately asked me to help them pick something to seal around their exterior dryer vent.

Haven't seen Frank since July. Her tails finally healed.

The problem with old homes is that sometimes you wake up on a Sunday and decide "well, I guess I'll try restoring the terrible old window sills today". (There's going to be ample use of wood filler for that hole that wasn't really visible until I started scraping)

It's nice that at 37 years old I fit into a dress shirt I bought when I was 22.

Every day I grow more and more convinced I'll never voluntarily visit the US again.

Uh. www.jezebel.com/we-paid-some...

Heck of a news day

Congrats to the Rangers for their imminent Yankees-style rebuild.

What an expertly called shot

Thank you to the random American who bought a paperback copy of "Second Life: Should you use this game in your classroom?" on September 5th. A wise choice for the back to school season. I will spend the $0.97 CAD worth of royalties wisely.

Oh good, they scraped my VR study wiley.altmetric.com/details/6956...

If I'm reading the tea leaves correctly, I think I'll be producing a podcast at work.

Have an action packed 24 hours of: - Lunch - Softball Tournament (day 1) - Celebration of life concert for a friend - Softball tournament (Day 2)

I read 'Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History Of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, And Assassins' (Annie Jacobsen) this past July. One of the things it commented on was how Americans oddly accept drone strikes killing people, but display abject horror in regards to hand-to-hand killing.

Oh hell yeah, my curling club got a grant 🥌 That'll go a long way to help fix the "this building was built in 1906 and the roof isn't doing great" issue: otf.ca/grants-award...

The great thing about being in a wedding party is that you and another groomsman can take over the photoshoot.

Things I don't get about my medical coverage at work: A) To get an elbow brace, I need a prescription from my family doc. Only then will a brace from a physiotherapist be covered. B) I can go to a Christian Science practitioner to have them pray away my arm pain, and instantly get my money back.

I know the new school year has started at the university because the number of phishing emails I've received has skyrocketed.

Damn, always loved him in everything he appeared in. He was one of the quintessential Canadian actors of my youth. ca.news.yahoo.com/graham-green...

Softball playoffs are next weekend. My coaches draft for vibes ever year, so we ended 2nd-last in the regular season (which is fine) and are seeded appropriately for the tournament. A SS/OF on our team, who is arguably our only power hitter, has just broken the index finger on his throwing hand.