It’s suggested that this ramming behaviour might be related to orcas ramming yachts, which kind of reminds me of this old Far Side cartoon.

For avoidance of doubt.

I took this photo of World Cup food specials at a pub in the Vancouver area on Sunday. It’s difficult to overestimate how angry Canadians are at the US.

I would prefer not to. (In general I’m more excited about leadlights — the simpler, often geometric panels you see in buildings — than I am about more representational stained glass.) But how about some Voronoi patterns?

By request: this is the TV test pattern stained-glass window that’s providing the colours (I made it at a workshop I took at Corning last summer to learn how to build using lead channel).

My cat Leroy always relocates to the most dramatically lit spot in the house for her evening snoozes. [the colour bars are from a stained glass piece I made that’s a TV test pattern — it’s sitting in the west-facing window]

Some Vancouver World Cup transpo, as seen while I was biking home from dinner yesterday. (Those are the Vancouver SkyTrain tracks leading to the stadium and the Science World dome decked out to look like a World Cup soccer ball.)

Canada Day breakfast.

Saw a post: “250 years old? How cute! The pub down the road is a century older!” Gee, I wonder if there’s anything in UK history that explains why there’s so little physical evidence of human settlement in North America that’s more than a few hundred years old…? native-land.ca/maps/native-...

I can’t find video, but the clam-themed childhood TV sketch that is permanently lodged in my head is “Clyde, the coool claaaam from Cleeeeveland” and it looks like it was (or at least, someone else remembers it as) on The Electric Company? muppetcentral.com/forum/thread...

@mikell.bsky.social I went to the Royal Tyrell Museum a few weeks ago (which is incredible, unsurprisingly) and I feel like you would appreciate seeing microscopically small fragments of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs.

How it started / how it’s going. [At the phenomenal Royal Tyrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta]

Did someone say ‘giant pile of sulphur’? [Vancouver Harbour, at dawn on New Year’s Day this year.]

Watching the northeast coast roll by under the spring sunshine. My favourite bit remains the staging area for (I presume) the Block Island Wind Farm — all the giant components on the New London State Pier (and across the river from General Dynamics Electric Boat).

It’s 17776 Day! @jonbois.bsky.social created one of my favourite works of science fiction of the 21st century, ft. immortal humans humaning together, sentient space probes, friends, and American football (which I have zero interest in, and yet.) Like nothing else. www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...

The button on my coat collar (from @margaret.bsky.social, lo these many years gone) says all I really want to say for Trans Day of Visibility.

I just heard that Tracy Kidder passed away this week — I read his THE SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE as a teen, and it’s one of a handful of books I can point to as having a significant impact on my life, starting with going to engineering school. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

I’d planned to visit Vancouver museums over the winter, while the weather was bad, and mostly failed to. Needed to go to the UBC Museum of Anthropology this afternoon for research and was kicking myself on the way over because the atmospheric river had just, finally ended but…this was pretty okay.

There’s a coffee chain here (Doe) that really foregrounds ‘no tips’ and I guess that’s why. [I’m agnostic (all those years in the US, I guess) except when the minimum tip prompt is 18% and I’m getting a 12oz drip and a >$20 bag of beans, in which case I hit ‘no tip’ and drop a toonie into the jar.]

Oh I know these feels. Me and Leroy still miss her big sister Zoe.

Came across this old Calvin and Hobbes cartoon today and immediately thought about the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. *glances at headlines* No, no reason.

Leroy says hi from East Vancouver and thanks you for putting your skill and energies towards the public good.

Leroy is blissfully ignoring the driving sleet outside the windows of East Van, distant in all ways from her feral kittenhood on the mean streets of Boston. (And a blissful and luxuriant holiday to you and yours!)

My photo of some pomegranates near Naples — I remember seeing some large pomegranates hanging from a small tree in someone’s front yard in East LA and being gobsmacked that they…just…grow on trees? In people’s yards?

I didn’t know much about Jake Paul so I was looking at his Wikipedia page shortly after the fight yesterday. I learned enough to feel fortunate I didn’t know more, and also I LOLed.

"Women naturally want to do womanly things because God created us with those womanly desires in our hearts."

And this is closer to the teal that I love in mid-century government office buildings. [almost all the furniture in my flat is black or grey, you’ve now seen the exceptions].

IKEA very briefly did this metal cabinet in mid-century industrial green and I managed to snag one — it now lives in my workroom.