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@JohnPhilpin under two urls, when I settled on kaa.bz, before it was under brokenkode.com which served me well, but first post was in Jan 2004…

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This is my iPad setup. iA Writer, Claude (as my research assistant) and Procreate (because it’s the single greatest app on the iPad and enough reason to buy an iPad in the first place).

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🍳Today was a warm chicken soup kind of day. Super nice including the ciabatta bread but Yasmine and Ryan complained about the ginger - next time I’ll grate it rather than chop.

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@patrickrhone Happy Birthday! My site is turning 23 in January!

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🍁 Last embers of fall. The final leaves on the trees haven’t fallen just yet, but it’s getting close. 1 more week and it’s done visually. Bittersweet one this year but actually looking forward to November and December with all the madness that comes with these months

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Easily my favourite grouping of trees in Toronto.

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🤘 Pumpkins on parade.

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🗝️ First day of Locking.

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Autumn has been truly special this year in Ontario. Weather has been spectacular (mostly warm sunny days). The colours have changed gradually. The leaves have definitely not all fallen (probably another 2-3 weeks at least left). Interestingly enough we have not turned on our heating...

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Best decorations in the new neighbourhood.

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📚Finished reading: Dragon Hoops by Yang, Gene, Luen. I read Boxers and Saints but it did not give me the same awe I had when I read Gene’s American Born Chinese. This book was that high level. Totally worthy of the Eisner it received.

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⚽ I actually can’t do this torture any more. Watching Manchester United is bad for my mental health. Loosing every bloody week is just getting mega boring at this stage. Bad luck is one thing, but this is just rubbish.

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dbrand. Idiot proof screen protectors. Wish I’d known about these three years ago. I’m still going strong with my iPhone 15 Pro, which has some scratches and I keep telling myself, ‘it’s all wabi sabi my friend, chill.’ But then the other part of my brain cannot chill and wants to go back in time and get...

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One of my favourite things at the moment is curling up with the family an hour before bed and watching an episode of Snoopy. It’s 26min, 3 story format and tempo is just perfect for bringing our energies down after a hectic day.

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It’s been too long since we had a proper fitting mattress in our bed. A combination of living in Denmark but buying our bed in Dubai meant we couldn’t until we moved to North America. Then life happened for four years….but that stops today. New mattress day. Happens once every seven years apparently.

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@Munish Nope never tried it.

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New boots! Happens once every 4-5 years but always super exciting. Growing up I hated Timberlands because they were a status symbol in Greece in the 90s. Now I just love the fact that they are incredibly durable and look fine for years.

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☕️ That first sip of coffee on a Saturday morning after a long week.

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Techy or Not. Really been enjoying this new channel on YouTube. Short videos, giving me the latest tech news. No fluff.

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A creation’s life - after the creator goes off the rails: kaa.bz

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Sudo is a music player by New Matter. Retro-tech of the highest order and I’m honestly all here for it. Both the silver and black versions are chef’s kiss.

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October haul. 3 in means I need to depart with 3 books. Trying to build that sweet spot of a library.

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My favourite time of the year.

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🛌 One of the few pleasures in life, that feeling you get when you land on fresh sheets and pillow.

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🇨🇦 Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
\nIt’s a strange weather day here in Toronto. Balmy 21°C, in the middle of October. Braised beef ribs in the oven. Horizon Hazy IPA in the glass. Been pottering around the house, getting closer to where we should be - the back of the basement is still a total mess, but it is a l...

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@JohnPhilpin this is definitely on my list.

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Made the pizza dough for tomorrow. Such a simple thing to make the night before but sets you up for success the next day. Long weekend ahead, hopefully we’ll be able to polish our home a little bit and set the family for the locking season.

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Been getting into retro gaming, my childhood, these last few weeks. The game that I have been coming back to is Super Mario Land 2. I never played this game back in the day, but all the DNA is there and it is glorious.

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@ayjay Nah. They’re going to throw the book at them. And seeing as the book doesn’t exist for this level of industrial doping…this is Armstrong levels of trying to gain an advantage. They gave 20points to Everton for what was it 20M over?

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@lmika Nice!

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@manton Pretty sure I first heard it from you…not sure if you posted about this last year? Either way, great book. So much enjoyment from this book.

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@hjalm thanks, it’s coming down but that initial time period was nuts

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@patrickrhone huh, that’s (in a strange way) reassuring that it’s not just him, but honestly these North American wasps are vicious!

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@numericcitizen I have yes. My favourite city in Canada - Toronto is a nice place to live, but Montreal is definitely the better city.

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@moldyringwald It ruined my morning no doubt, but just now bought the kids the last ice cream of summer and while standing at the light, I saw an old lady doing the exact same thing as me and guess what, not a peep or rage from anyone around!

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@numericcitizen Nice! I love that!

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@numericcitizen these look amazing. Curious, are you using a particular platform to log these trails?

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@cabtastic I spent 5 years in that mode on my newsletter Stet, I quickly realised was that I was doing it wrong and never reached the audience that I thought the newsletter deserved. After reading The Art and Business of Online Writing, I realised the errors of my way. Go where the audience is and use their platform to build your own and then keep building from there. Otherwise, you might end up like me, 5 years with a set of articles and site I am incredibly proud of, but with no traction. I found so much more traction on LinkedIn for my stuff.

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@danielpunkass Totally the right person for the moment. Inbetween all the craziness its good to have a story like his.

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@eurobubba Ha! Agreed totally!

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

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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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@velocykel

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  2. Great Escape Books on Kingston Road
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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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