First day of working from home, and I’ve learend that USB-C hubs are both expensive and small enough to lose easily.
First day of working from home, and I’ve learend that USB-C hubs are both expensive and small enough to lose easily.
The kids and I have been having fun with the concept of “if we do it right, it’ll seem like an overreaction” by imagining the most ridiculous overreactions we could do at the moment. Try it with your kids!
Had to reassure my crying child today that just because the grocery stores might run out of hand sanitizer and toilet paper doesn’t mean they’ll run out of Kinder Eggs.
I accidentally shipped a package to my house instead of work. Now I get to bring a 4-slice toaster to the gym tomorrow morning and decide whether it’s boorish to give it its own locker.
Somehow I missed that Lego now has a cargo bike. 🔥
I’ve got a good sense of how many stormchips to buy, but I’m at a loss when it comes to outbreak-chips. One pallet? Two? Is there an upper limit?
We had an ice storm yesterday, the ice was literally covering the trees. Then this morning I righted a beautiful CCM Caprice bicycle that had been knocked over in the storm, and suddenly I realized, black out to phantom power, that’s the lyrics to Something On.
The view from the Halifax Citadel is beautiful in winter! It’s a shame @ParksCanada_NS only plows the road, not the sidewalk, preventing more pedestrians from enjoying it safely. Would be great to look out at the sights, not look out for cars.
Changes are coming to Halifax’s Bike Week to make it more of a year-long experience. More deets at Thursday’s Active Transportation Advisory Committee meeting. www.halifax.ca/city-hall…
The real curse of living with other people is forever wondering how they managed to get that part of the toilet dirty.
While I appreciate that @DalhousieU clears their bike lanes of snow, I’m not sure there’s much point if they neglect to clear them of cars. If you’re not willing to constantly ticket and tow, then you need to revise the design. Betting against driver entitlement is a losing game.
Had a beautiful pre-dawn commute this morning. Special thanks to @DalhousieU for ensuring the bike racks were plowed for Winter Bike Week!
Still disappointed that the Goblet of Fire’s cauldron-focussed climax didn’t pay off any of Percy’s work on the need to regulate cauldron-bottom thicknesses. All that buildup wasted!
It feels like a parenting win when one of your kids is singing Sarah Harmer songs and the other is singing songs from Homestar Runner.
It’s amazing how many drivers think they’re riding a bicycle and can use bicycle-only infrastructure.
It’s astonishing how much bike infrastructure is designed to let this happen.
Demolition has begun on the federal government building at Bayers & Oxford. Red brick buildings in Halifax are getting rarer.
Halifax: the Public Gardens are open this morning and they are gorgeous! Perfect chance for some urban cross-county skiing.
With shades of Don DeLillo’s White Noise, our kids are already confronting their mortality by arguing about who will die first. At the top of their lungs.
Beautiful view from the Citadel this morning
Was in a meeting yesterday where one guy blurted out “Can you actually suffocate someone with a pillow?” and everyone else was like “Oh, yeah, totally” and now I’m wondering how they’re all so sure?
I went on a sneckdown walk with @victorialwalton for the Coast. Here’s the result, featuring the awesome @BikeMayorHfx. “Sneckdowns are doing the work so Halifax planners don’t have to” www.thecoast.ca/halifax/s…
The Halifax Peninsula, in the style of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures.
Also did our other snow-day traditions today: cross-country skiing, taking the kids sledding, and filling up thermoses with hot water for when we inevitably lose power at some point. This is Nova Scotia after all.
Snow day! Made it downtown before the storm hit to find out work was cancelled. Stopped for coffee then had soooo much fun riding my bicycle home because the roads were empty and I could take my time. Who says you can’t ride a bike in Halifax in winter? 🌨🚴🏻❄️🚲❄️🚴🏻♂️🌨
So if mezcal is fancified by adding a worm, and Dawson City cocktails are fancified by a human toe, is my scotch fancier because a fruit fly landed in it?