Various Contrivances

Recovering from today’s shenanigans starts with some Collingwood whisky 🥃

The Spartan Super 10k in Blue Mountain was fun and difficult.

I’m excited to see Bruce Cockburn tonight at Massey Hall 🎶

Poor management of my library holds resulted in three books arriving simultaneously.

Finished reading: The Wall by Marlen Haushofer is hard to describe.

I really like the new blog audit feature on Micro.blog.

A quality of life improvement I’d like to see in the next iOS update is that Safari Reading List remembers that I want to see unread only by default.

🇨🇦 Raised the new flag

Watched: Neil Peart: No One’s Disciple is a great tribute.

First time I’ve used a winch to winterize a dock.

We had a great thanksgiving weekend with family.

🔗 When the Watch Makes the Call - Steve Magness We’re all entering an era where we get to decide what level of automation we want for just about anything.

Finished my quarterly review.

🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right by Bob Dylan from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.

Watched: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 4 is a lot of fun.

Next up in the reading queue.

Finished reading: The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett is great.

🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Deer Creek Canyon by Sera Cahoone from Deer Creek Canyon.

Finished reading: Two Wheels Good by Jody Rosen is a fun read.

The new place has nice sunsets

George is content

Finished reading: Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith is fascinating.

🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Salesmen, Cheats and Liars by Lowest of the Low from Shakespeare My Butt….

🎧 A reliable signal of Fall: a new season of Quirks and Quarks

Build Canada has a useful resource for the upcoming municipal elections in Toronto

Got some wood guitar picks from Tree Picks.

A large coffee kind of day

I like the new Recaps feature in Everlog.

🎶🚴 Cheap Beer by FIDLAR got me through a tough interval on the bike this morning

🏃‍♂️ Action shot from my coach at this morning’s track workout

🎵 Match Head Girl by Iceage is some good pick-me-up punk rock.

🏊‍♂️ A short test swim in the new lake.

Finished reading: I enjoyed Jack the Bodiless by Julian May.

🏃‍♂️ 400km of trails in the Haliburton Forest to explore

Nice to see Apple starting to put more effort into generating health insights, like readiness.

🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — The Night Starts Here by Stars from In Our Bedroom After the War.

Some highlights from last week, as recorded on the following Tuesday.

Dropped kid #2 off at Queen’s University to start engineering.

Unplug America is a great site from @todmaffin.com that lists Canadian alternatives to US tech products 🇨🇦

My daughter passed along some impressive footage from yesterday’s storm

🏃‍♂️ New running shoes day!

Aftermath of last night’s big storm

🎧 I’m glad to have supported Designed in California’s Kickstarter.

Although the whole “Lake America” thing is nonsense and frustrating, I agree with Michael Geist that we want the large internet companies to follow government direction: While critics may respond that Google was under no legal obligation to make any change

Augure had added an AI memory feature to help with migration and interoperability

🔗 Get along great - Paul Wells The President says he doesn’t want Canadian anything.

I’ve been thinking (perhaps too much) about digital sovereignty recently.

Finished reading: I like the idea of Origin Uncertain by Anatoly Liberman.

🔗 Resistance is never futile by Jen Gerson Resistance in the face of bad faith and coercion is a moral end in and of itself. 🇨🇦 Of the many reasons to resist America’s bullying, this one is particularly important

🏃‍♂️ Approaching the time of day when, having run into work this morning, I debate if I should just take the train back.