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When I first saw these balconies I hated them. But now that I’ve experienced them across multiple days, I’ve come to really appreciate how they are a dynamic park of the building, changing colours depending on what is happening outside.

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@eurobubba Ha! Agreed totally!

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Throwing rocks and sea shells. About the right thing to do in such situations.

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📚 Finished reading: Blueberry Chihuahua Pearl by Jean Michel Charlier and Moebius. I picked this up in Dubai 8 or 9 years ago in a used bookstore, never been read, until now. It’s a dense western but I really enjoyed this. Sadly finding other instalments isn’t going to be easy with some of these books going...

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Tangerine sorbet. Summertime in a cup.

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@JohnPhilpin it’s hyper novel writing specific, which I do like. There are a couple of things I don’t like about it so might add them as requests/comments, but for something that is formatted to look like a book as you write, it’s pretty good :)

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@patrickrhone oh man my kingdom for summers that are consistently sweltering. I can’t complain about the temp, it’s wonderful and like you want but the rain and cloud cover just sucks.

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@patrickrhone No. No. No. Summer is only here for a few more weeks. Enjoy it fully and completely!

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Why should I fear death?
\nIf I am, then death is not.
\nIf Death is, then I am not.
\nWhy should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
\n— Epicurus

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🍳 First day of holiday. Weather was crap, but hey at least I’m not broken, so that’s a plus. Didn’t get dinner sorted, but got a bunch of little things done and midnight banana bread.

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NEO is a new writing app developed by Hugh Howey, of Silo fame. I’ve only spent a few minutes with this app, but I really like what I’m seeing. Maybe because it is very opinionated software for writing novels that makes this feels different? Either way I certainly intend to kick the tires and see whether or...

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The Obama Tan Suit. I hate the fact that Obama continued to support the Israelis and wasn’t different in this regard, but man do I miss the guy. Naturally funny and a great orator. This was on point.

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📚 Finished reading: Notes on Being a Man by Scott Galloway. Took me a while to finish this one (for several months now I couldn’t bring myself to read anything, likely depressed about what is going on in the Middle East). The lessons are only intended for myself as I share them (or versions of them) with...

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One of the things I am actually pretty thankful for during my summer break is not needing to think about what to wear.

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Shorts. T-shirts. Ankle socks. White sneakers. Watch. Any combination will do. Rinse and repeat.

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FIFA Executives Were Given Ultimatum to Approve World Cup Privatization Plan. Filthy. Rats.

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🍿Finished watching: Ted Lasso S4E1, Home. It’s good to have Ted Lasso back! Super annoyed that I can’t binge, but honestly that might actually be a good thing. Having gulped The Bear in a sitting this weekly dose might be a good thing.

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📚 Finished reading: The Big Fat Kill by Frank Miller. The second chapter takes me back to when I was a teenager. I still have that issue somewhere. It was my introduction to Frank Miller, and eventually led me to follow him on 300.

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‘Please Use AI’. Via Daring Fireball. This was worth the read and a beautiful reminder of our humanity

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🍿 Finished watching: The Four Seasons. Such a great show. The COVID episode hit so hard. Great writing and delivered so well. Really happy it’s gotten renewed for another season.

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🚲 Now I get it just worked out Ryan and I cycled 12km today. No wonder I am aching all over. Meanwhile the 8½ year old isn’t feeling a god damn thing.

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The colours are amazing on this guy.

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Hello Toronto!

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Total Copenhagen vibes.

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It’s a bit annoying that the most amazing bike path, only 10min away is a little on the dangerous side to bike to in the city, but this is how we roll.

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@mroutley Thanks, it will definitely change things in my professional life here in Canada

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As I’ve grown older I have really begun to embrace series that limit themselves to 8 episodes at 30minutes each. The whole season is like watching one big movie into bite sized chunks.

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The reduction process has begun. The first part was that ridiculous basement. So much crap. The main pieces are sorted. Now the difficult process of removing items that may potentially have an emotional element to them - it’s sometimes a delicate balance. Then after the basement, the ground level will get...

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In addition to being a Chartered Engineer (CEng), I am now also a Professional Engineer (PEng) registered in Ontario. This journey took 4 years to sort out - so for those hoping to do it faster be warned, it’s a lengthy process.

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@manton really looking forward to this. This has been a little bit of a barrier and voices app isn’t great for this type of thing.

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🍿 Finished watching: Hoppers. This was excellent. Especially powerful for our family with the split of animal lovers and engineering/robotics.

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Unreleased Footage of Senator Graham on his delusional assessment of Trump and Bibi. Good riddance to bad garbage.

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@velocykel

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  3. Doug Miller books on Bloor
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@mroutley you know, 99% of the time no, but when it is needed, it’s really great to have. We have one that has an indicator of air quality and when the forest fires were raging is was bright red when we first turned it on. So it can’t hurt.

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@mroutley I hear that. We ordered another air purifier. It’s certainly not going to go to waste - likely to be used next year as well.

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@mroutley so so rough out there

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@hjalm thanks for the encouragement. I know we’ll find something, but it is really getting too close :)

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@maique agreed! Great game with great attitude

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@ayjay game of the tournament. If you’re going to go out, go out like that.

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@maique They became absolute heroes tonight. What a game of football. The ability and drive to keep pushing against the odds was amazing. 500k population!

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@mike that makes two of us. Tahoe was a bad year. Even the best wines have bad years.

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@manton super sad. Like you I really thought he was coming into his own writing recently.

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@manton is it still the worst AI in the world? Just super dumb.

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@cherizilla Great movie. Beautifully shot.

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@joshuapsteele It’s like the Bulkans. Or all the ‘Stans’ to many countries for one person to remember exactly where they are (if you’ve never visited them).

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@manton such bollocks. Hurley is giddy on the apple sauce at the moment. This is the equivalent of saying I will stick to whatever Windows continues to make in the phone space, rather than accepting the iPhone as the superior tech

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@pratik see now that is interesting. I’m not well versed in all things Costco at the moment - but I want to say I am wise to their tricks but I imagine I will be caught :)

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@eurobubba I found the checkout to be pretty reasonable. Maybe a function of the fact that you buying bulky items?

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@hutaffe Agreed. I feel the ‘vibe’ naming is there to diminish the software’s legitimacy maybe? Its definitely a shift in mentality I guess. Software engineers will struggle to shift, but I can see this shift across industries.

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@ithx1138.bsky.social Thank you sir! You also!

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@chriscoyier.net Tables suck to format. Links also suck to write in html

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