Don't get me wrong, I love a Bell 212 as much as anybody—particularly that cinematic sound—but I think we can also agree the real star of this video is that sky, don't you think? The mountains are also pretty nice. 😉 Captured at Springbank last week. | 🛩️ 🚁 📹 📍 🇨🇦 | 🔗 lrhelicopters.com/aircraft/?ut...

Gosh, we had no idea this project was even in the works. Our hats 🎩 are off to Renault for getting behind this amazing effort, intended to enable the aircraft—one of the most beautiful ever 😍 in our humble opinion—to get back in the air, where it belongs. More details and videos with link. | 🛩️ 📹 📰 🥇

Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 We had a lactose-free requirement in our household this week, so we tried the Mozzarella Style Shreds from Violife. While the texture on the cooked pizza wasn't quite spot-on, the flavour was surprisingly close to the real thing. | 👨🏼‍🍳 🤌🏻 🌱 | 🔗 www.violife.com/en-ca/produc...

The choice of Trainer Yellow and military markings for this Hatz CB-1 is an inspired choice, and looks particularly striking when set against the backdrop of the Rockies. It was spotted at Springbank on Thursday, and it sure looks like it *could* have been used for RCAF training. | 🛩️ 📍 ⚔️ 🇨🇦

I have just come up with an exciting new career option for myself: writing referendum questions. Here's an example of my work: "Do you prefer to see rabbits in the wild, or the red one? Answer 1) yes, or 2) no." | 🍁

I've always had a soft spot for the Duke and its 'mini-airliner' lines, particularly in profile. The elegant livery and the logo 'B' on the tail accentuate these characteristics on this particular example, spotted at Springbank yesterday. Oh, and then there's *that sound.* | 🛩️ 📍 📹 🇨🇦

What's the *only* benefit of the city doing sewer maintenance in the alley behind the house? It's a great excuse to spend the morning at Springbank. This very handsome Super Decathlon graced the ramp right on cue. Lots more to come when I have a chance to post them. | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦

What a shock. | 🍁

The moon-venus conjunction as seen from Calgary this evening. To my eye, the cloud formation below looks like a sunlit river through dark mountains, leading the viewer's eye to the celestial event above. | 🔭

I haven't watched professional golf on TV for quite some time, but I did catch a bit of today's coverage. What is it that certain members of 'the gallery' have taken to yelling, seemingly all the time? It sounds like "Imma assole!" but that can't possibly be right. (📸 See ALT) | 🏌

Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 Most of the time, the pepperoni scatters itself randomly across the pizza. Then, every once in a while, right out of the blue … what are the odds?! | 👨🏼‍🍳 🤌🏻

Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 You know what they say about pizza: when it’s good, it’s great, and when it’s lousy, it’s still pretty good.

Class action lawsuit, anybody? | 🍁

Okay, I've never seen a network television commercial for a submarine, but there's a first time for everything. It's both stylish and brooding, which seems to fit the message perfectly. Well done to the creatives behind this effort. | ⚔️ 🍁

While many are zigging and linking John Travolta's 'Propeller One-Way Night Coach' trailer, we're zagging and linking his 1997 book, the existence of which we fully admit came as news to us. Check your local used bookstore first. (📸 Apple | Warner Books) | 🛩️ 🎬 📚 | 🔗 www.abebooks.com/servlet/Sear...

Informed by new reporting by @danlebla.bsky.social for CBC, what say you, fellow Canucks, should Canada pick the: a) Boeing Wedgetail 🇺🇸 or b) Saab GlobalEye 🇸🇪? For extra credit, why one over the other? | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🗳️ 🍁

'No Butter, Butter Chicken' from a Bal Arneson recipe as demonstrated on Global TV Calgary's 'Weekend Dish' with Patricia Warner from Bowest Applies and the Teatro Group's Chef Matthew Batey. Accompanied by 'Green Cardamom-Studded Rice'. For a first attempt, it turned out pretty well! | 👨🏼‍🍳 🤌🏻

No need to wait ‘til October. You can have my answer right now. (📹 Seinfeld) | 🍁

A.J., Alijah, Brandon, Chucky, Collin, Garrett, Gradey, Immanuel, Ja'Kobe, Jakob, Jamal, Jamison, Jonathan, RJ, Sandro, Scottie, Trayce, Coach Darko and the rest of the Raptors staff: thank you for an *incredible* season and the stage is set for great things in the future. See you in the fall! | 🏀 🦖

One of the projects that is occupying a lot of our time and attention is @blufly.media. In fact, our Founder and President @terencecgannon.com has been seconded to them as Managing Editor until such time as they're off and running. Have something similar in mind? Let's talk. 🗣️

I’m sure the current pathological obsession with betting on anything and everything will eventually be seen for what it is: the greatest voluntary transfer of wealth in history, from those who can least afford it to those who least need it. 💸

Seems about right. (📹 'The Rocketeer' via Yarn)

Sometimes winnin’ ain’t pretty. | 🏀 🦖

Except for the last three minutes of the half, it appears as though neither the Raptors nor the @clevelandcavaliers.bsky.social got their wake-up call this morning. | 🏀 🦖

Swedish planespotters who are fans of ‘Ice Pilots’ or Buffalo Airways (or both), there is an opportunity to see C-FBAE at Jönköping. It’s enroute. Consult @flightradar24.com or other flight trackers for details. If you do spot it, Mikey is looking for a picture, apparently. (📸 Buffalo Airways) | 🛩️

Do you know (I'm looking at you, @arlenedickinson.bsky.social 😉) that there are socks that are 100% Canadian-made, in Quebec and Alberta? I bought eight pairs, and they are the most comfortable I have ever worn. | 🍁 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 en.dristex.com/product-page...

Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 First attempt at Neapolitan-style pizza using Ken Forkish's 'Saturday Pizza Dough' recipe on page 108 of his 'The Elements of Pizza'. Also, first time using hot Italian sausage from Calgary's Alpine Sausage, which was outstanding. | 👨🏼‍🍳 🤌🏻 | 🔗 alpinesausage.ca/product/hot-...

Hey, @mark-carney.bsky.social (or staff attached, thereto) another development in this program worthy of your attention, and a shout-out. | 🍁

In the final section of his monthly column, Managing Editor @terencecgannon.com spitballs the idea of having one of the current crop of HAPS stratospheric cruisers escort and observe the bar-tailed godwits migrating across the Pacific. What say you, strato-cruisers? Any takers? | 🛩️ 🛰️ 📡 ⚡️

Hi @amnanawaz.bsky.social: I took the plunge and gave @pbsnews.org's 'Settle In' a try, starting with the episode featuring your excellent interview with Dave Chappelle. However, so you know, the recording's dynamic range was *brutal*, ranging from inaudible to deafening—almost unlistenable. | 🎙️

Partly in response to @toni.bsky.team's recent article 'About the Atmosphere'—and it's likely to ruffle feathers—if we're concerned about the long-term well-being of @bsky.app, outside of the @atproto.com developer community, we need to stop talking about the AT Protocol. (📸 Declan M. Martin) | 🦋

Based on my vast NBA coaching experience, my note for Darko going into game two: rather than let Harden stroll around wherever and whenever he wants, take the youngest, freshest set of legs on the floor and faceguard him ‘til he’s begging for Kenny Atkinson to take him out. You’re welcome. | 🏀 🦖

Hey, @pareidolia.bsky.social, this breakfast is really speaking to me. | 👨🏼‍🍳

With Mark Jones moving on from @ESPN.com, it would seem there's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him and his brother @paul--jones.bsky.social to team up as the new Toronto Raptors' TV play-by-play team. Any takers? (📸 @hallpassmedia.bsky.social) | 🏀 🦖 | 🔗 hallpassnetwork.com/2020/07/epis...

Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 One more stab at this particular combination of ingredients. Practice makes perfect. 😉 Oh, if that were only true.🤦🏻‍♂️ But I do believe it was a measured step forward from last week. | 👨🏼‍🍳 🤌🏻 (PS. A plane and a pizza. My work here is done.)

A rare treat at Springbank yesterday. This grande dame is looking pretty darned good for any age, let alone seventy-four years young. But the real star of the show is … *that sound*. | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📍 🇨🇦

Why is the Lee Valley Claw Cultivator giving me the finger? 🖕🏻 | 🌱

Just when you think every microscopic detail of Amelia Earhart's life has been thoroughly examined, something new shows up. In this case, twenty-one seconds of her voice, brought to you by the great people of the indelibly magnificent @librarycongress.bsky.social. | 🛩️ 🎙️ 🥇

Thinking of setting up a toll booth on the street where I live. (📹 Blazing Saddles)

Anybody know if a gathering of robins is one of the seven signs of the apocalypse? 😱 | 🦉

I wrote this in 2018 and published it back then on @medium.com. As part of a new effort to consolidate my collected work on in-house servers, I'm republishing it today. It's my recollection of the arrival of the IBM PC at the ComputerLand at Broadway and Arbutus, in Vancouver, BC, in 1981. | ✍🏻 🎙️

Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 Another experiment with Favuzzi '00' pizza flour (linked) for this all-in-one-day dry yeast pizza crust. Like the tavern-style last week, it made a significant difference. The crust was softer and had more flavour. | 👨🏼‍🍳 🤌🏻 | 🔗 www.favuzzi.com/en/product/-...

Hi @toddzwillich.bsky.social : I don't know if this is an acceptable way to submit an entry to this week's @wamu.org 1A News Quiz, but the answer is, of course, a reading from the Book of Genesis. This really resonated with me, so I made this short video tribute back in December of 2020.

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social: has anybody suggested this as your walk-in music? If not, I’m doing that now. | 🎶 🍁

An item from today's @robbreport.com email newsletter: what an amazing co-branding opportunity for Culligan® water. « Do *you* have Culligan® in your Cullinan? » That's marketing gold. | 🥇

Watching the Raptors game today, the third-quarter commentary by Matt and Jack was so brutally inattentive that I just muted it and played this instead, on repeat. A much improved viewing experience. | 🏀

My suggestion for the name of the new Las Vegas @nba.com team? The High Rollers 🎲 and here is their walk-in music. My work here is done. | 🏀

Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 Same as last week with one really important change: use of Favuzzi '00' pizza flour (linked) for this tavern-style pizza. It made a dramatic difference both to the texture—it was softer—and you could really taste the crust, as well. | 👨🏼‍🍳 🤌🏻 | 🔗 www.favuzzi.com/en/product/-...

Still present on those 'other' social platforms? If so, you likely have heard of FlyingJul; described in the article as an « avionics influencer ». 🤔 A good interview, and the photo shoot features lots of those quirky, charismatic, modern Junkers « ultralights » in a wintry, Alpine setting. | 🛩️ 👩🏻‍✈️ 🥇

Hey @toni.bsky.team: If you have a spare moment between keynotes at @atmosphereconf.org, this is the one feature, above all others, we would like to see in the @bsky.app core offering. (📸 Steven Pavlov, via @wikimediafoundation.org Commons under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license.) | 🦋