Jason Tremblay

@jasontremblay

Brewer. Red River Métis and citizen of the MMF. He / him. Currently battling one of life’s least dangerous cancers, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.

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Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· 6d

I contend that high volume vertical drinking is better than the obvious alternative of high volume horizontal drinking.

A quote from the article reads:

The draft policy says pubs should "discourage excessive drunkenness and encourage the provision of more seating in premises that serve alcohol for people to sit and enjoy a drink and order food by table service in place of open bar space that caters for high-volume vertical drinking".

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· 9d

Atop her throne, her subjects at her feet.

My kid’s cat sits atop a cardboard scratcher with her favourite toys scattered around her front paws. The Yeowwww fish is particularly shabby looking since she sucks the juice out from it via the snoot.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· 28d

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” Neuromancer’s opening line feels extra evocative today. Apologies to @greatdismal.bsky.social “The sky above the brewery was the colour of a dead forest.”

A view of the patio at Two Loons brewing. The sky is a washed out brown mixed with orange and grey. An awning fills the top right, with picnic tables and a railing filling in the bottom half of the photo.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Jul 12

I’ve taken a not small number of cat pics that look like album covers. And there are decent editing / layout tools for cheap, and even free, these days.

Me and my recently departed cat in black and white. I’m holding a black cat in the foreground. She has a distinctive white whisker. I look like an underemployed brewer who’s also a dirtbag. My hair’s too long. And I’m wearing glasses with dark frames.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Jul 8

Went to the southernmost tip of Canada’s mainland! And got eaten alive taking the pic!

A group of people walks toward the tip of Pelee Point. Weathered logs, sand and some rocks. Lake Erie’s pale blue wafer is on either side of the point.

20 or so biting flies on my pasty legs. You can see some of the chunks torn off by other flies.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Jun 27

But also pencils.

A common misconception states that, faced with the fact that ball-point pens would not write in zero-gravity, the Fisher Space Pen was devised as the result of millions of dollars of unnecessary spending on NASA's part when the Soviet Union took the simpler and cheaper route of just using pencils, making the pen an example of overengineering.[1]

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Jun 23

This hasn’t been a great day. But seeing the echinacea blooming has made it a little better.

A lone blossom of purple cornflower in my garden. 20 or so spindly, pale purple petals extend out from the yellow cone. Tall plants this year, about 1 meter tall.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Jun 21

Took a cute pic of my brother and nephew playing, saw this too late in the background.

An unfortunate Potato Family tableau with a younger member staring, with eyes bulging, at another Potato’s can.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Jun 18

The most boring part of brewing is transferring beer from a fermenter to a brite tank for packaging. Eventually, you’re stuck waiting for the air bubble in the sight glass to show up, signalling the tank is now empty. But you then have to cut the flow so the bubble doesn’t fug up your your brite.

A blue transfer hose connected to a fermenter. There’s a T on the connection between the fermenter and hose so I can connect CO2 for purging the hose of oxygen.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Jun 16

Here’s one for you — the Discovery Museum in Dundee has a room of Inuit technology that doesn’t once mention the Inuit. In a dig at my fam, there’s also a note on how the ship carried pemmican without mentioning its origins in the Plains.

Text from an exhibit about snow goggles in Dundee, Scotland.

The clothing as worn here by Charles Royds, first lieutenant on the Discovery, represented the best then available to polar explorers.
All expedition members wore similar clothing, regardless of rank.
SNOWGOGGLES
Snow goggles offered protection from the glare of the vast expanse of snow and anyone who did not wear them risked the excruciating pain of snow blindness. The goggles were either made from wood with tiny slits cut through or were more like traditional spectacles but made with green glass and side protection strips of gauze or leather.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Jun 14

I don’t think she was at all unhappy about RPing Godzilla during Gloomhaven.

A small torbie cat looks across the table at a disrupted Gloomhaven session.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Jun 12

Now that’s just one helluva cute cat.

A mixed tabby / tortoiseshell cat sits with her paws out covering her favourite felt toy. She’s staring straight at the camera. A soccer game is on in the background.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Jun 12

Guess who spent 45 minutes organizing the walk-in so he could have a cooling station!

A walk-in with some skids of cans and kegs along the walls. A crappy event chair sits in the middle of the walk-in directly in the path of cold air.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Jun 11

I am sneakily becoming a lager brewer.

A slightly hazy, dry hopped pale lager sits atop a bar. Condensation coats the glass. A fluffy head tops the beer.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Jun 10

My food processor has 8 separate safeguards that all must be aligned perfectly or it won’t start. Meanwhile, a straight razor in a plastic frame reminds me to watch my fingers.

A Chanel green mandoline by Benriner sits atop my counter. In the bottom left of the pic is the blade which is very sharp.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Jun 6

Boss: We need some cool looking pics of the space. Me: I got this.

A dimly lit industrial space with translucent plastic sheets hung up. 3 figures are behind the plastic. It’s some kind of art installation and not a sinister crime scene. Black and white.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· May 27

From r/askto on Reddit:

What does the word on the sailor's shoulder patch mean on Toronto Ferry
I saw a Ferry crew with a shoulder patch that said
"Aoteroa". It doesn't refer to the boat's name nor the person's name (he had a name tag). What does it mean exactly?

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· May 24

I know a lot of writers who can only dream of being this unpopular. Anyway, also read the thread.

From Toronto Public Library’s electronic lending site, there are 20 Copies of The Colour of Magic currently on loan.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· May 22

“Hey, Jay, you know how you talk a big game about eating anything?”

Raspberries embedded in a gelatinous kombucha SCOBY. It honestly tastes like a shrub.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· May 17

Dad (Red River Métis), to the right. “Yeah, he was kinda’ racist.” I think my kid tried to get this one into the Indigenous photos archive at the U of A to much hilarity.

Dad cooking with Colonel Sanders in Regina early 1970s.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· May 12

A sprig of supermarket mint went WILD in the Aerogarden. It’s going to make so much tea.

A great big bunch of lovely mint grown hydroponically.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· May 9

We did a walking tour of of Doctor Who and Sherlock locations in Cardiff. That l’il guy is in the church Donna tried to get married in. We even saw a couple TARDISes!

Tardis porta potties. Grey doors, salmon sides. Big ol’ green, yellow and red TARDIS stickers on them.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· May 9

What I love about Wales is how Cybermen hide in plain sight.

A small Cyberman on a post posing as St. George in a church in central Cardiff. The background is a love arch filled with stained glass.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· May 7

A track level injury means no subway Christie to Jane. For anyone who wonders what happens … this is 2 trains’ worth of people waiting for the shuttle buses. The line is now 100’ behind me.

Christie and Bloor in Toronto. A writhing mass of commuters awaits the shuttle buses.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· May 6

So it turns out I did not take a pic of a cow kitty

A skunk quietly enjoying a late snack on a concrete pad. Low quality pic since I had zoom in.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Apr 25

We might need to ditch the Roku. Nearly 20,000,000 ad requests blocked within a week WTF

Screen cap from our router showing 20,000,000 blocked ad requests from a Roku.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Apr 24

I love beavers. Absolutely amazing critters. But I don’t think it’s great if they’re moving up to the Arctic because of climate change. Anyway, bonus pic of a beaver in the Humber River near Étienne Brûlée Park in Toronto.

A beaver swimming close to a grassy riverbank. IIRC, this was just past the third fish ladder north of the bridge by Old Mill Station.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Apr 21

He didn’t stop until he saw my camera.

Car on Dundas and Bathurst driving past the open doors of a streetcar. Very dangerous, very illegal. The driver has his hands up and off the steering wheel recognizing that he’s a douche.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Apr 12

We celebrated Easter late this year, but still kept it traditional.

A 12” chef’s knife rests against the neck of a chocolate bunny. Black and white photo.

Jason Tremblay@jasontremblay· Mar 23

It’s always a good day when beavers hit my timeline.