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.) | 🦋

Hey @mark-carney.bsky.social: with respect, shouldn't we be taking our lead from our friends in Brazil 🇧🇷 and building Gripen Es in Canada, by Canadians and for Canadians? | 🛩️ 📰 ⚔️ 🍁

The publication I edit is looking for a very specific photo—high-quality, well-composed, non-AI incorporating two elements: the first is a bar-tailed godwit; the second being any sort of aircraft. I hope the talented birders here might just have captured such an image. Please DM to discuss. 🙏🏻 | 🦉

A very nice @io-aerospace.bsky.social Gates Learjet 35A, registration N51NW, takes off from runway 17 at Springbank Airport this afternoon. Perhaps the flight was to test out their new RSM 300mm Shutterless Lens optical system? | 🛩️ 📹 📍 🇨🇦 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 io-aerospace.com/io-aerospace...

Is dazzle camouflage making a comeback? In any event, I like this razzle-dazzle colour scheme. Spotted this sunny Sunday afternoon at Springbank Airport near Calgary, Alberta, Canada. | 🛩️ 🚁 📍 🇨🇦

Friday Pizzapalooza (Saturday Edition) 🍕 Another kick at a tavern-style pizza from a Billy Zureikat (AKA Tripping Billy) recipe, which I have linked. If you follow the directions in the Baking Steel video the recipe references, it’s can’t-miss. | 👨🏼‍🍳 🤌🏻 | 🔗 www.trippingbillyz.com/recipes/chic...

I'm going to get one of these for the house. In fact, I think I'll get two: one for the front door and one for the back. Spotted at Lina's Market Hall in Deerfoot City, where the pizza is delicious, by the way. | 🍕 📍 🇨🇦 | 🔗 www.linasmarket.com?utm_source=t...

My first attempt at Greek Lemon Potatoes by Tina Fey (yes, *the* Tina Fey), as seen on the Food Network show Be My Guest with Ina Garten. They were absolutely delicious. Ms. Fey's recipe, which I followed to the letter, is linked. | 👨🏼‍🍳 | 🔗 www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/gree...

Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 Same as last week, except with the adjustments noted at that time. A big step forward, with still more adjustments identified for the next one. Also from the sourdough crust recipe from The Clever Carrot (AKA Emilie Raffa) 🥕 linked. | 🔗 www.theclevercarrot.com/2022/11/best...

I had a dream (nightmare?) last night where I was watching @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social and one of the contestants was using a wire to get the answers. But he was not attempting to conceal it; the equipment was so big that he had it in a piece of luggage right there on stage, and … | 🧵 1/2

Our friends from the @bas.ac.uk are once again back in town, captured today while parked near Rocky Mountain Aircraft at Springbank Airport near Calgary. According to @Flightradar24.com, VP-FBC departed Rothera Research Station on 02-27 and arrived at CYBW on 03-09 with … | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦 | 🧵 1/2

AI: long on the 'A', and short on the 'I'. Even the Apple proofreader is eminently fallible. I still have to read my 'proofread' text to ensure it hasn't changed something that totally alters the intent. I hate to think AI is being used for anything more important than debugging my poxy prose. 🤦🏻

Friday Pizzapalooza (Saturday Edition) 🍕 This weekend's effort was made with the aid of a sourdough crust recipe from The Clever Carrot (AKA Emilie Raffa) 🥕 linked. It needs a few minor adjustments for next time ‘round, but otherwise, it was delicious. | 🔗 www.theclevercarrot.com/2022/11/best...

Hey, @svenskaflygvapnet.bsky.social: given you’re so close, why not pay us a visit so Canadian taxpayers can take a closer look? 🔍 You should be able to get in and out of CYBW, no problem, what with its 1,500-metre runway. You’d be okay with that, @mark-carney.bsky.social, right? | 🛩️ ⚔️ 📰

And I thought I was the only one who got all the way to work only to discover I had my pants on inside out. | 🏀 🦖 (📸 @tsnofficial.bsky.social)

Hey, @eric--smith.bsky.social and @paul--jones.bsky.social: I've grown thoroughly weary of Matt and Jack/Alvin's never-take-a-breath, wall-of-sound play-by-play. Is there a cost-efficient way to listen to *your* call of the game in Calgary? | 🏀

Not to mention the flatulence. 🐶 💨

What I'd like to know is how answering nine abstract, esoteric questions eight months from now is going to lower my grocery bill next Wednesday, or help me avoid having to stand out in whatever weather winter serves up at 6:00 a.m. to get a blood test? No problem, I'll wait for your answer. | 🍁

Just subscribed to the @xblock.aendra.dev labelling service and set it up to hide posts with screenshots from the platform formerly known as Twitter, as well as posts that contain screenshots from Threads and Facebook. Thanks, @aendra.com. 🙌🏻 I’m finally living the dream. 💭

Well, I have to say the AutoMix feature with Apple Music in iOS 26 is pretty cool. Dachshund approved. | 🎵

What curling sounds like when you're listening to it on a TV in another room. | 🥌

Mayor @jeromyyyc.bsky.social: please try and imagine the frustration of local shops when a stretch of precious Inglewood parking spots are coned off at midday with *no work being done*. The shop I visited was *empty*, presumably because at least a few prospective customers *can't find parking*. 😡

I dunno, but I think @nba.com All-Star missed the low-hanging fruit: mascot James Brown impersonation contest. | 🏀

So, @nba.com All-Star this weekend. | 🏀 (📹 Seinfeld)

PM @mark-carney.bsky.social: Given we've been managing without it since 1929, is it an option for this new bridge to simply wait 1,074 days, 1 hour, 54 minutes, 51 seconds, and then open it under the currently agreed terms? (📸 AHeneen via Wikimedia under CC BY 4.0) | 🍁

Friday Pizzapalooza (National Pizza Day Edition) 🍕 I don't really need a set day to celebrate pizza; I celebrate pizza *every* day. 🎉 However, I marked the moment with a new, first-time ingredient: a post-bake dusting of Spiceology's Smoky Honey Habanero Seasoning. | 🔗 spiceology.com/blogs/recipe...

That aviation is, sadly, way too expensive for many to directly participate is the quiet part we'll say out loud. 🗣️ But there's a cost-effective alternative for which Managing Editor @terencecgannon.com makes the case. And without once uttering the 'D-word'. (📸 M.D. Klement) | 🛩️ 🪽 📡 📹 📍 🇺🇸

We recently remarked there's no such thing as a sure thing, but like our recent Concorde post, a photo of the achingly beautiful DH.88 Comet comes pretty close. Such as this one, from 1934. (📸 Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales) | 🛩️ 🏅 | 🧵 1/3 | 🔗 digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/Del...

I think I'm finally beginning to get the hang of this sourdough bread thing. From a Maurizio Leo recipe on the @kingarthurbaking.bsky.social website. | 👨🏼‍🍳 🍞 | 🔗 www.kingarthurbaking.com/blog/2020/04...

It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world. 🤪 But there's always planespotting. Or in this case, helicopterspotting at Springbank on a Sunday afternoon. | 🛩️ 📹 🚁📍🇨🇦

Me, when I learn I no longer have to go to the party. | 🍁

Managing Editor @terencecgannon.com feels we all might need a little light entertainment pick-me-up, given the dreary northern winter and the state of the world at the moment. This, from the August 2022 issue of the New RC Soaring Digest, is also the latest on our Avergreen imprint. | 🛩️ 📡 🪽 🌲 🥇

We were looking for a fitting way to mark Martin Luther King Day, and as @jonostrower.com of @theaircurrent.com says "there's always an aviation angle": to wit, this excellent 2019 article by Tammera L. Holmes. We also love the great collection of photos she found and included in the article. | 🛩️ 👩🏻‍✈️

Friday Pizzapalooza (Sunday Edition) 🍕 A tavern-style pizza from a Tripping Billy recipe, linked. | 🧵 1/3 | 🔗 www.trippingbillyz.com/recipes/chic...

I wonder if Nick Morrison thought his lentil soup 🥣 would eventually get made in the other Calgary; not the one on the Isle of Mull, but rather the one 6,500 kilometres to the west. His recipe in @theorkneynews.bsky.social is linked. Incidentally, … | 👨🏼‍🍳 | 🧵 1/2 | 🔗 theorkneynews.scot/2026/01/04/n...

The cure for what ails us after a week we thought would never end. | 🍕

Hey, @jay.bsky.team, can it be arranged that I never again see another screenshot from X here on @bsky.app? There’s absolutely nothing I want or need to see from over there. Ditto other social platforms as required. Anybody else like to have this option? 🗳️

In my day 👴🏻, all I had was steam-powered LEGO bricks made of wood, and I turned out okay. 🤡

Me, when I heard the Raptors may be in discussions regarding an Anthony Davis trade. | 🏀 🦖

Played hooky this afternoon and went to see a matinée of Marty Supreme. An outstanding film worthy of all the awards I believe it will win. That said, if I had known that Kevin O'Leary had been cast in it, basically playing himself, it would have been a non-starter for me; an absolute must-miss. | 🎬

Absent aircraft movements (exactly one in about ninety minutes, and no more predicted as per @flightradar24.com), avgeeks must resort to faux-arty shots of the hoar frost-encrusted antennae on the control tower, this one at Springbank Airport near Calgary, Alberta. | 🛩️ 📍 🇨🇦

Friday Pizzapalooza 🍕 Homemade crust; shredded pizza mozzarella; hand-torn chunks of fresh mozzarella; heavy cream; cooked, sliced potatoes; pre-cooked bacon, and then baked on a heat-soaked stone for nine and a half minutes at 500°F with convection. To finish, … | 🧵 1/2

Garlic toast as found in the wild. Baked today from a Zoë François recipe found on the ZoëBakes website. | 👨🏼‍🍳 🍞 | 🔗 www.zoebakes.com/2025/04/21/e...

Let's hope Santa 🎅🏼 likes Scottish oat cookies baked today from an Amy Cheung recipe found on The Scottish Mill website. | 👨🏼‍🍳 🍪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 🔗 thescottishmill.ca/blogs/recipe...