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@heyscottyj That can’t have been an easy decision to come to — or an easy post to write. Wishing you better days ahead! Can’t wait for the 4th and 5th novels in your increasingly-badly-named trilogy.

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😎👍

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@tantramar @danielpunkass Of course, having only ever heard “George Sinjin Quimby” made it hard to find it years later.

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@danielpunkass There was a Saturday-morning comedy/variety CBC Radio show for nearly 20 years called Basic Black. It had a recurring character named “George St. John Quimby” who did BBC World News-style reports. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Black_(radio_program)

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@tewha That makes so much sense!

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Status update: hiding in my blacked-out house like the Hallowe’en curmudgeon I am (and have always been), hearing children prowling the street.

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Today has been a really hard day on me. On several levels. Not sure what to do. Not sure anything can be done.

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Candidates in the upcoming, province-wide municipal elections having their only online presence on a foreign-owned, demonstrably anti-democracy company’s platform (i.e. Facebook) is beyond disappointing. It should be disqualifying.

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@tewha Wow. Good for him.

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@benjohnson I held off buying it for years but recently took the plunge. Wish I’d done it sooner!

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You’re all reading Ian Betteridge, right? ianbetteridge.com/2022/10/30/weeknote-30th-october-2022

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There’s something satisfying about starting a fall Sunday with enough French toast that you immediately want to take a nap to recover. The coffee helps.

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@pimoore back atcha — also from 🇨🇦👍

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@jean Thanks, Jean! You folks have certainly been busy!

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@danielpunkass This is so true. Ease of on-boarding needs to be front-and-centre; this is why other services haven’t stuck for me.

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In the wake of Twitter’s recent changes, I’m back to micro-blogging via Micro.blog, with posts originating on my website (using Daniel Jalkut’s excellent MarsEdit for macOS). I’ve been on Micro.blog from the start, but never really took the time to set it up.

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@Mikehendley Nice!

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@rosemaryorchard there’s no such thing as “leftover chocolate”. 🤣

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@splorp I had one of these! (And I still have a bunch of PICT files that require a Classic Mac OS System Extension to read them.) ;) Well, that or a copy of Thorsten Lemke’s Graphic Converter.

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@Agiletortoise Always enjoy your all-too-infrequent appearances. 😎👍

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@ianbetteridge was thinking of re-reading Clifford Stoll’s Sillicon Snake Oil now that I’m older and wiser.

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@chartier try having had a .ca email for 20 years. US-centric is as bad as outdated.

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Quick watercolour landscape: cbmackay.ca

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@Mikehendley From the look of that easel I’m guessing you’re a follower of James Gurney’s. :)

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@splorp I’ve got one. tragically, I broke the spring-clip under the spacebar last time I took it apart to clean it.

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Small portrait study: coffee drinker: cbmackay.ca

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@manton I’m still rocking the original Retina MacBook Pro — the Late 2012! Runs Catalina like a champ and has all the ports AND MagSafe! Replaced the battery a couple of years ago and it’s like new! 😎👍

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@Agiletortoise Been there; it’s not easy. www.instagram.com/p/atowCtw...

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Van and apartments — digital painting : cbmackay.ca

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@manton you’re adorable.

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@patrickrhone people reporting problems are over-represented, as usual, because when things are fine, people aren’t as motivated to talk about it. I’ve been running iPadOS Public Betas all summer and, aside from sporadic cosmetic issues — keyboards & screen-rotation mainly, which is no different from iOS 4.3 through 12.4 on iPad, really — it’s been absolutely fine.

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@Mikehendley This looks like a James Gurney-inspired bit of kit. ;)

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@brentsimmons Sadly, I broke the spring (or rather one set of the plastic lugs that it clips into) under my spacebar when I was cleaning it. Griffin iMate FTW!

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@jack thanks for posting that; I hadn’t heard. My photography professor introduced me to Frank’s work in 1991. I live in New Brunswick; Frank had been summering next door on Cape Breton island, Nova Scotia — near Philip Glass’ summer place — for decades.

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@Mikehendley great work!

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Sports field with net; Port Elgin Regional School: cbmackay.ca

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Watercolour sketch of home near Botsford, New Brunswick: cbmackay.ca

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Sketch: Houses and barn in Memramcook: cbmackay.ca

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The Missaguash River from Fort Lawrence, Nova Scotia: cbmackay.ca

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House in Sackville: cbmackay.ca

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Quick sketch of the ruins of the Sunny Brae Rink: cbmackay.ca

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The Vogue Cinema, Sackville: cbmackay.ca

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House in Sackville

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House in Sackville; pencil sketch, 3 ½ × 5 ⅜″ Pentalic Aqua Journal (140 lb).

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Abandoned shop in Memramcook: cbmackay.ca

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Edith Cavell school columns: cbmackay.ca

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Boathouse and Farm House (sketch)

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The Boathouse and the Farm House. From a reference photo I took in 2014 in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Getting started; work in progress. Pencil on 9 ¼ × 6 ¼″ Stillman & Birn Alpha (150 gsm) white paper.

","summary":"","url":"http://cbmackay.ca/2016/11/24/boathouse-and-farm-house/","date_published":"2016-11-24T16:06:25+00:00","author":{"name":"Christopher Mackay","url":"https://cbmackay.ca","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fa1a4bd76092707470d08b45575bb1700%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tantramar"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2016-11-24 16:06","date_timestamp":1480003585,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"47973","content_html":"The Boathouse (sketch)\nThe Boathouse, Penobscot Bay, Maine. Sketch from a reference photo I took in 2014. Pencil, Lamy Vista fountain pen with Lexington Gray Noodler’s Ink, and Pigma Micron brush pen on 9 ¼ × 6 ¼″ Stillman & Birn Alpha (150 gsm) white paper.\nIn a private colle...","summary":"","url":"http://cbmackay.ca/2016/11/22/boathouse/","date_published":"2016-11-23T03:21:24+00:00","author":{"name":"Christopher Mackay","url":"https://cbmackay.ca","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fa1a4bd76092707470d08b45575bb1700%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"tantramar"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2016-11-23 03:21","date_timestamp":1479871284,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"47978","content_html":"

Lighthouse at Cape Jourimain: cbmackay.ca

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