Graham A. Yeates

It's municipal voting day in Ontario! The decisions made at a local level are the ones that impact us most, but voter turnout is usually pretty low (around here). Find out who's running and vote for the person who best aligns with how you want your community to be.

First 5 TTRPGs I played: 1. Dungeons and Dragons (the 1983 Basic Set) 2. Elfquest 3. Rifts 4. HârnWorld 5. Dungeons and Dragons (5th Edition)

Things I only just learnt #3,217: Rather than a Sunday or a Monday, the Republic of Maldives starts their week on a Friday! That alone means the Maldives may suck.

In “some technology is quite cool”news, all of Denmark's runestones are getting 3D-scanned! The stones date from about 600-1100 CE. Previous scans in Denmark revealed enormous amounts of information about the Jelling and Ravnunge-Tue Stones. #Vikings #MedievalSky #History

So I just did me some talking to the sun And I said I didn't like the way he got things done Sleeping on the job Oh Raindrops are falling on my head They keep falling But there's one thing I know #DailyEarWorm

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Today's kit

It may just be my imagination, or perhaps it's only a local thing, but the colours of the autumn leaves seem somewhat muted this year.

Seven weeks ago, I placed an order for linen shirts with my itinerant tailors. This morning that order arrived. And I'm in the office today, like a chump!

I'm not sure if I made good choices this morning. I'm not quite getting dressed in the dark, but I was pretty bleary-eyed.

New #genealogy blog post!

No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Mr. Spock says on this Caturday, live long and get a cat. 🖖 #caturday #cats #cat

Shots fired in the novel I'm currently reading.

As a researcher, I can't really emphasise enough that the main thing LLMs have done is significantly slow me down and add cognitive burden. I'm just *tired* of every aspect of this trend at this point.

Happy Week 42 to all those that celebrate! #Week42

Seen in the wild (Hwy 401 and exit 275, Homer Watson Blvd.)

Angela is really bringing in the hygge today!

Many people like to laugh at medieval illuminations of stag-snails, oh those funny medieval artists making up anim...

New #genealogy blog post!

I currently have the right to live and work visa-free in 35 countries (Canada, EU, UK & a few others). Yet I live and work within 100km of where I was born. I likely won't do anything about it, but I do find this worthy of some thought, as it doesn't feel as being very 21st century of me.

This diabolical and fun.

This is amazing and needs to spread worldwide: the Pittsburgh Parallel Parking Championship h/t @mathewingram.com and his delightful newsletter: newsletter.mathewingram.com/?...

"You can't park there, boyo"

I am a man of modest delights. And so on Monday, at fifty-four years of age, I had a valet park my car for the first time in my life. A 2012 VW, my car is neither fancy nor new. But I took some pleasure and pride when he thanked me for driving a manual transmission.

Today's cufflinks are new to me; their last owner wasn't someone I knew particularly well, but for whom I had enormous respect. His was a titan in his industry, and also built a loving home that nourished one of my favourite people. He was a good man, with good taste in cufflinks.

Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry When I take you out in the surrey When I take you out in the surrey with the fringe on top #DailyEarWorm

New Pumpkin Carving Strategy: Leave pumpkin outside and perhaps a talented squirrel will come by and excavate the interior for you.

With an upcoming move on my horizon, I've made a hobby of looking at real estate listings. These people are a straight up menace!

Twenty-four years is a long time. It's longer than anything else I've ever been a part of. I haven't held a job that long, or even lived in one place that long. It's almost half of my life, so far. And while it may not be all fun & games all the time, it's who & where I choose to be.

What I want You've got It might be hard to handle But like a flame that burns the candle The candle feeds the flame What I've got Full stock Of thoughts & dreams that scatter You pull them all together You make my dreams come true Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh #DailyEarWorm

Simplicity can look like many things. Like this. But only for a minute. For as long as the golden leaves cling to the trees. For as long as the sun lingers in that singular piece of azure sky. It never lasts as long as we’d like. So we hold on. Tightly. #ldnont #canada #bluesky #autumnvibes

I'm dreaming tonight Of a place I love Even more than I usually do And although I know It's a long road back I promise you #DailyEarWorm

I complained to the City that they enclosed my voting info in an envelope addressed to my tenant. As he's under no obligation to tell me, it's a great way to suppress votes and disengage voters. She said it's a cost savings. LOVELY. (She also tried to deflect and put onus on me...nope)

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

Speaking of awesome music, I'm winding my way through some of my favorite 80's Canadian synth-pop bands (a favorite sub-genre given that I had free access to Canadian radio which was WAY better than the local stuff) and stumbled upon Rational Youth, who I haven't listened to since the last century.

I know Beyond a doubt My heart will lead me there soon We'll meet I know we'll meet Beyond the shore We'll kiss just as before Happy we will be Beyond the sea And never again I'll go sailing No more sailing... #DailyEarWorm

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

I see the crystal raindrops fall And the beauty of it all Is when the sun comes shining through To make those rainbows in my mind When I think of you sometime And I wanna spend some time with you Just the two of us We can make it if we try Just the two of us You and I #DailyEarWorm

I'm off to an SCA event tomorrow with a ludicrously overpacked car. It only serves to remind me why I don't do this often anymore.

Yeah no.

MODERN ENGLISH: I’ll stop the world and melt with you

did i post this here already? slide from my talk at CIGS last weekend!

Angela and I had a fabulous night trying pottery for our first time! Our instructor Alice did a great job leading us through each step.

#Syrupeans