Kevin Solez
@kevinsolez
Humanities Instructor & Researcher, Host of | PhD (UBC), MA (Johns Hopkins), BA Hons. (Alberta) | Currently teaching Anthro, English, & Classics | kevinsolez.ca
Lac la Biche today, 3 pm, 20°C. First photo at lake level and second of the same area from the road at about 10m elevation.
In honour of my pathologist father Kim Solez's move to Professor Emeritus at @ualberta.bsky.social, I presented him with two silly little list poems, one of which I made into a meme. Here I am caught in the act + the meme. I hope you, too, find it amusing.
This is very cool. I speculated that unusual sounds in alpine languages may be due to the retrievability of sounds in that acoustic environment, and this language is more evidence of the same.
Wild roses, Lac La Biche County, 27 June 2026, 6 PM, 27°C. #photography #Alberta #Canada
Lone player practices his strikes on a day Canada has a chance to win Group B at the World Cup. #photography #Alberta #Canada #WorldCup2026
Giant cattails with a barely visible spider web between them. #photography #Alberta #Canada
An amusing & completely silly student prank I caught live the other day
Rockpublican Vice President D.J. Lance introduces the cabinet (clockwise from right): FBI Director Plex, Health Secretary Muno, Secretary of State Toodee, Defence Secretary Brobee, and Homeland Security Secretary Foofa. #uspoli #Midterms #yogabbagabba
In the case of D.J. Lance v. J.D. Vance, the People find in favor of Lance. #jurisprudence #MondayMood #Monday #wordplay
What I learn from this amazing story is that Tolkien took the name for his fantasy world from the oldest English poem, Caedmon's Hymn, which mentions ða. middū. geard., "the Middle Earth."
Plamondon Reservoir, 12 May 2026, 4:40 AM, 7°C. The ancient Sumerians call the moon in this phase Akimbabbar.
It was really in the speeches of George W. Bush that one first heard an American envy of Islamic theocracy.