Aidan
@aidanglc
Economist, Cat Dad, Wife Guy living and working in Ottawa, ON. Proponent of Evelyn Normielib Thought.
Absurd number of cyclists in Gatineau Park today. Feels like the whole city is outside.
Some Hawks benchwarmer with a chucking instinct looking at the opportunity to do what Trae Young never could
You haven’t lived until you’re pushing close 40km/h in a driving crosswind on the last warm day of the year in fall colours so beautiful that they almost don’t feel real. There’s no better way to spend a long weekend with friends.
I spent most of my teens and early 20s uncomfortable in my own skin. If making music is the thing that makes me feel the most spiritually myself, then my bike is the place where I feel the most physically myself.
My bike has taken me to literally every corner of the NCR, and every one of them has had moments and places that were breathtakingly beautiful.
Miguel, you hit one of the highest leverage home runs in the history of baseball! You're a regular starter for the 2026 LA Dodgers! You don't need to lie about being six feet to gain a perceived social advantage!
Compare ATL's meltdown to the situation at the second biggest US airport (DFW). A couple of them with gnarly wait times but there's no single chokepoint that's getting overwhelmed.
"Don't waste peoples' time with noise and grandstanding", says Ottawa City Council's leading expert at wasting peoples' time with noise and grandstanding.
"Here's what (allegedly) cheating at curling taught me about building a successful B2B SaaS company"
This chonky boi was not very effective against Luftwaffe fighter aircraft. But it was *very* good at blowing up tanks, and when there are no Luftwaffe fighters in the vicinity there's not really anything stopping it from doing so.
I went scrolling through the author's substack history and the takes do not get more hinged (tagging in @sharonk.bsky.social for shared morbid interest in this particular species of religion brainworms)