I cannot begin to express how delighted I was to find the the crooked kitchen was still at Ottawa’s Canadian Science and Technology Museum after around 50 years since I last visited. And that the kids these days are as fascinated now as I was then.

There are few less locomotives now than there then were but they are still pretty magnificent.

Now that I finally have my garage reasonably clean and relatively free of extraneous clutter (it only took 10 years), it about time I put the work bench I built back in 2019 to some use.

I needed a better shelf for my NAS and routers etc so I decided to build a cabinet. I went for particle board because it was cheap. I forgot how hard it was. Turned out ok though…

Next up is a cedar shelf for the kid. I cheaped out again and got cedar fence boards that I glued together. Sanding them is proving to be a challenge 🙂

 

AI is (as promoted) both stupid and destructive but sometimes it can still be fun.

Complaining about my neighbour’s AC unit I said I was resigned but still might introduce a skunk to their yard. When challenged on my definition of “resigned” I turned to Gemini:

re·signed
/r??z?nd/
adjective

Accepting something unpleasant that one can no longer avoid; passively submissive. However, according to subsection 4B of the unspoken laws of cosmic karma, this state of total surrender automatically activates a clause of petty retaliation. Because you have accepted defeat, you are now legally and spiritually entitled to weaponize a highly disgruntled Mephitis mephitis (striped skunk) to exact absolute, foul-smelling vengeance upon the author of your misfortune.

Usage Examples

• “With a resigned sigh, Arthur accepted that his coworker had stolen his lunch for the third time this week, quietly unlatching the carrier cage he had hidden under his desk.”
• “She became completely resigned to the fact that her landlord wouldn’t fix the plumbing, meaning it was officially time to deploy the revenge skunk into the building’s HVAC system.”

Synonyms

• Passive
• Acquiescent
• Biological-warfare-adjacent

Note: True resignation is not about giving up; it is about quietly waiting for the scent glands to charge.

I seem to keep coming across these and feel they aren’t quite appropriate for public posting but still I want to remember them.

This one isn’t about people so much as how I currently feel about international politics and diplomacy.

instagram.com/copperwoodhollow/

Almost a year. Settlin’ in…

Years ago we saw this episode of Rug Rats and were always tickled by the dude from Cogs Unlimited’s interaction with Angelica.

So we finally got it out from the library, found the scene, and have stored it here for posterity.

Facebook has an irritating new feature that puts an AI prompt under every post and picture, often offering to explain all there is to know about the subject matter.

But under a recent image of Calvin and Hobbes playing Calvinball it went just a bit too far. Explain the rules of Calvinball? Ha! I triple dare ya…

 

“Lordy, it’s a duck-in-a-row kind of day, but I don’t even know where mine are, and I’m pretty sure one is a pigeon.”

 

 

https://xkcd.com/3113/

It would work on editors too 🙂