Love it when a student's lab report begins "Across all trials we have calculated physical impossibilities..."

Nova Scotia school calendar released - Kids' first day back is the Friday *before* Labour Day. www.hrce.ca/families/cal...

This is, apparently, what I look like to my students...

My rugby club spending a few hours cleaning up and providing some TLC to the field at Gorsebrook Park.

"Why are there two snowblowers in your classroom, Mr. Morton?" Because my students are awesome, that's why.

My daughter (14), in discussing whether her teachers have kids or not... "Well, not Mr. XYZ, because if he's married to anything, it's his own nihilism."

Meanwhile, in Québec... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is another reason to consider the power of missions like this, it’s a chance to highlight the humanity that we are all capable of in a difficult world. And to show people, in this case particularly young men, how emotion and vulnerability are inextricable from bravery.

Hey folks - humanity just raised the bar. We (specifically the 4 people on Artemis 2) have now gone farther from our home than anyone before, in the history of humanity. I'm honestly really excited that we're once again actually expanding the frontiers.

I, an adult, exist around teenagers who play sports. Hence, I arrive home at least once a week with someone's jewelry in my pocket.

My rugby club is weird and awesome.

I don't suppose that I explicitly *thought* that NS Virtual Care would be using AI agents but, y'know - it's easy to fall into a kind of cynical "nothing online is real" loop... ...then the doctor I'm messaging with turns out to be someone I coached in high school rugby 20 years ago... :-)

Fun: the school had to block CBC Gem on the school network today, due to the number of students streaming the hockey game. Good thing we have TWO national broadcasters. Radio-Canada was never as popular in our school as it was for those 2 hours...

Something good in the neighbourhood - more transit for more people, and not just in the big centres! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Holy hell, what an obituary

I love my word-nerd kid, and she brought me two words which are phenomenally valuable in Halifax & Dartmouth: * cispontine - on this side of the bridge. * transpontine - on the far side of the bridge. From now on, these are the only adjectives I will use to clarify which Costco I'm talking about.

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Home visiting my parents. Went to someone's 75th wedding anniversary party with them tonight. 75 years! Man that's a lot of time. When they married, he was 22, she was 18, in 1951. The event was in the local Legion hall. It was a pot luck. There were 12 plates of devilled eggs. Small towns rock.

Very excited! My kid turned 14 this morning, and we're doing a book store crawl to celebrate! Agricola Street, Bookmark, Trident (also lunch!) and Strange Adventures, with a cameo by the Central Library along the way. Distant family sent gift cards to spend, and she's very excited. Me too!

Whoosh!

I love local business updates ( and @halifaxretales.bsky.social in specific.)

Bill is a friend, and I'm so grateful we get to have him around for much longer.

... And the only counter that had an all-time record was the *bridge*, which means this isn't being driven by new counting locations or similar changes - it's literally more people cycling. Yay!

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Hydrogen won't help get us off hydrocarbon fuels. I think this article (please ignore AI-generated image - the writing is not AI-generated) explains well why hydrogen will likely never be relevant for de-carbonising rail. Relevant for most other transport, too. cleantechnica.com/2025/11/27/a...

A recent visit home by a Ukrainian refugee living in St. John’s underscores the joys of her homeland amid the harsh reality of the ongoing war Read the story of Katerina Gavrilyuk and her family, from Rhea Rollmann 👇 theindependent.ca/news/lji/ret...

I am unreasonably happy about this. If you had to pick one item that a) isn't going away anytime soon (we can't ban them like shopping bags, even if we wanted to!), and b) seemed like it shouldn't need crazy technology to be able to recycle, ...it the Tim's cup. And now we can!

One of the humorous outgrowths of junior high students using Chromebooks in class a lot is that some days I get play-by-play emails from my kid, reporting stupid things classmates do or, more often, kvetching about the teacher. Today, it's the assignment the English teacher gave them...

Christ. This is my hometown. A grade 4/5 class. 5 adults with bear spray present. Bear attacked the class, hurt 3 kids. Adults fought it off, including a teacher who used his crutches to defend the kids. Three kids (and the guy with the crutches) med-evac'ed to Vancouver. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Wait, the #123 goes... Where?

(Reposting to fix typos.) I love this story. Seriously, if you're going to be arrested for anything, be arrested for providing public transportation in an irregular fashion. Chaotic Good alignment FTW.

Man, my wife is good at everything! She randomly decided a couple of weeks ago to make a Derpy Tiger costume for Hal-Con. It was just a goofy idea, for some fun - she's not a cosplayer, she's a remote-working research manager who coaches kids' rugby as a hobby. Fast forward 3 weeks...

Tee hee. Fantastical creatures attempt to organize themselves in number order... #HalCon2025

Staring at Canada's own gender-based analysis of its budget. Give you one guess at the main beneficiary of all the major spending investments....

Good good. Just added 90 events to "My Schedule" for Hal-Con. I wonder how that will go?

oh fun Nova Scotia is going to dress up as a place that gets rain for Halloween

Did you remember to feed the cats?

I love this, and I appreciate the "most Canadian thing ever" comments, but I gotta tell ya: This is not how things go in Vancouver or Montreal...

I am constantly struck by how much Canadian rugby is erased in public promotion. This thing with Barbie is cool, except you wouldn't guess that Canada is the second-best team in the world, with the current literal best player on Earth. (World Rugby Player of the Year.) www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Online voting throws away fundamental ideas of democracy. It simply isn't *secret*. Anyone from an abusive spouse to a mafia enforcer to a workplace bully can be in the room with you, watching how you vote. That's before we get into just picking up PINs from recycling! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Going to a Canadian rugby game abroad (let alone at the World Cup!) is a huge family reunion. I just met Emily Tuttosi's parents and a childhood friend of Caroline Crossley in the hotel restaurant. My daughter is star-struck already, and we're all so excited for the whole day! :-) Go Canada!

Crazy that Canada will be World Champions this time tomorrow

Already the best tickets my family ever bought, and it hasn't even happened yet! So great to be able to watch, together with my daughter, fun, clever media talking about *her* sport, in the run-up to the most amazing game ever! Go Canada Go!

This is so infuriating. Six volunteers with reflective vests could have solved this.

Thus far, in governments' quest to protect kids from the increasingly-evident harms of social media, we've tried: -Befriending big tech -Sending sternly-worded letters -Pretending it's fine -Nothing None of it's worked! Let's try something else. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

I continue to be proud to be from Bella Coola, and proud of my family's role in this story. I also love the two political reactions: Social Credit claiming that it showed the success of free enterprise; New Democrats claiming that it was a victory for co-operative organization...

Rouet pre-match "I'm not worried about New Zealand" to Pelletier post-match "It's just fun to play rugby". Canada don't give a shit about anything but balling and it's incredible.