Desmond Rivet - Lifestream

I made another book nook!

Yet again, my annual Christmas tree snap

I joined Goodreads in 2012, at roughly the same time I joined Twitter, in what might be called a more innocent age of social networking.

"The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake.

There is something to be said about the connection between ChatGPT, John Searle's Chinese Room thought experiment and Dan Dennett's response to it, but I'm not totally clear what that would be.

It's that time of the year in Montreal, when you have to alternate between wearing your winter coat and spring jacket several times in the same week.

If I have learned anything from the Trump tariffs imposed yesterday it's that we've obviously all been underestimating penguins.

I saw my first cyber truck the other night, "in the flesh" so to speak, and I was unprepared for the level of revulsion I would feel.

I have downloaded an app called "Buy Beaver" and I can't believe it's come to this

I have spent most of my life in Montreal but there was a decent sized chunk in the middle, spanning high school and university, when I lived in Toronto.

I never thought that the law applied equally to rich people and poor people.

Annual Christmas tree snap

This is the year for tech upgrades, I guess.

My blog is based around Eleventy, which means I write my entries in plain text, using Markdown and YAML front matter, a combo which I'm sure is familiar to most users of static site generators.

First real snow fall of the year.

I can't be the only one who often catches himself saying "When I graduate" when I mean to say "When I retire", right?

Madrid marked the end of our trip to Spain.

I'm 47 years old, and most of the people I work with are much younger than I am - often in their 20's and 30's.

The COVID-19 pandemic put a cramp in my travel habits, as it did with everyone.

Evelyn and I took a 10 day trip to Spain in September 2024. 11 albums

Barcelona: Noisy, gritty, vibrant.

There is a glut of vermouterias in Barcelona, many of them with their own house blends and...I kind of love it?

Yes, I know that the word "chai" literally just means "tea" in Hindi (and other languages) and that the term "chai tea" is therefore technically redundant.

I mean...not quite everyone is welcome, right?