Nick Heer

Calgary is not a real city.

Judging by the view counts, this isn't news, but full MythBusters episodes are now on YouTube.

"My safe space for CEOs is thriving!"

ClassicPress users: does it work out of the box with MarsEdit? (Please only answer if you know, for certain, because you have tried it.)

One day I will remember to remove the stopper as I remove the lever and before it drops into the sink, but today — on two sinks — is not that day.

I think Fontaines D.C. may have finally made a whole album I like?

A year and a half into a redesigned iOS and the keyboard still lags like I'm using Remote Desktop on a shitty Wi-Fi connection.

Some people don't like backgrounds in Messages because it makes the conversation illegible, but I don't like it because my wife keeps flashbanging me with the worst photos she has of my face in her camera roll.

I cut up a red cabbage tonight with dinner and now one of my hands looks like I have a clotting disorder.

Meta has invested a fortune into artificial intelligence yet, somehow, Instagram posts with event announcements will inevitably show up in my feed one to two weeks after they have concluded.

Who wants to tell him?

Separatists keep saying that federalists have not given one single reason to remain in Canada. All they have is fear mongering. Therefore, I am reupping this post from February. duanebratt.substack.com/p/the-case-f...

There are many disturbing things in the Globe's investigation, one of which is that the Alberta separatist push has been coordinated by a relative handful of rich Canadians and Americans.

People of Calgary: is there anywhere in the city where you know green chartreuse is in stock?

The cowards running this province are sending out this doozy of a pamphlet on the referendum questions. For most, it advocates a strong position, but when it comes to the separation question, the government refuses to stand by its official stance we should remain in Canada.

I think if Shame got the same people who mixed their 2026 KEXP session to work on their next record, I'd like it a lot more than most of their discography.

The actual story here is that conservative parties are populated by enough conspiracy theorists that leadership caters to the dumbest ideas, and that conservatives have spent decades complaining about media bias. This leads to the CBC giving cranks a platform.

Wild to have seen Gouge Away in this small room last year () and then they played B.C. Place last night. www.instagram.com/p/DdjoTgmIMZw/ Totally deserved. Great band, great tunes.

This is probably just confirmation bias, but the thing I noticed about drivers that made me uncomfortable in places like Vancouver and Montreal is that they are fast and aggressive, whereas the bad drivers in Calgary seem more likely to be sloppy and inattentive.

Feel free to dupe this bug.

Whomever at Frigidaire is responsible for the design of the wobbly-ass potentiometer used in their ovens' temperature control should be required to personally apologize to every owner for inevitably ruining something they were baking.

Gonna be tricky for Volkswagen if it wants to promote its ninetieth birthday next year.

HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Airline subreddits are a fascinating place because people with legitimate questions and complaints get ragged on by bootlickers. A lot of angry people shouting at each other without the power to do anything.

I've been used to 64 GB of RAM on an Intel iMac and, with the current pricing nuttiness, I'm tempted to save $600 by speccing a Mac Studio with 48 GB. Do we think I'll regret this?

I'm trying to track down some polling and you can't make this stuff up.

Using OneDrive makes me want to jump out a window, but my office is on the ground floor. @microsoft.com is this normal.

Cannot imagine any drug giving me a greater high than I had today when I needed 85 grams of butter and, in a single cut, made a block weighing 85.1 grams.

I have other stuff I'm working on, but I got distracted.

Albertans, here is a quick guide to the ten-question referendum: Question 1: do you want to somehow restrict movement within Canada? Questions 2–5: do you want more bureaucracy? Questions 6–9: do you want to shout at Ottawa? Question 10: do you want to do the dumbest possible thing we could do?

Is there a non-stupid reason for 10.5 pt to be in the list of font sizes in Microsoft Word?

Now to take a sip of water and check Canadian pricing.

If the first two episodes of a podcast are interviews with Sam Altman and Mark Zuckerberg, it is going to be yet another cozy place for executive marketing babble, not "reporting".

Since today's theme appears to be hugely expensive products with unique hinging characteristics that, nevertheless, share much of their underpinnings with much more affordable versions, let me remind you of this absurd but interesting sedan.

It's so damn good. Three for three.

Warming to this new Interpol record the more I listen to it. Middle chunk seems to lose a little momentum but maybe that will grow on me, too.

Siri, now with Apple Intelligence.

The reverse of this analogy makes more sense.

There's targeted advertising and then there's the ad I saw immediately outside the Prime Minister's office in Ottawa for Saab's military aircraft.

Going to other places is cool because I look around and think about how much of it we could do similarly in Calgary if we weren't a city full of cowards.

It is illegal in Canada to ship any quantity of wine from Quebec to Alberta for personal consumption. It is, however, completely legal to put wine into a checked bag, and also to ship a Canada Post box full of dirty clothing.

That must be because Adobe has such a great customer experience. Makes sense to promote the person in charge of that.

I think compliance with the "Lake of America" and "Gulf of America" names is good because it is a persistent reminder for every American that government does things; and, when they elect stupid people, they get a government doing stupid things.

The separatists are telling us who they are – they want to unmake Alberta www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... Yep. Fuelled by grievance, misinformation, and regressive and evidence-free ideas about immigration, crime, vaccines, gun rights, reproductive rights, etc. MAGA Rage 2.0‼️

Why is the CBC doing this? Haven't we learned from a decade of glowing profiles of Trump voters that this is not informative?