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    Fireplace

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    March 11, 2019
    March 9, 2019. This is the enclosed glass fireplace in the centre of the house, with the late afternoon sun streaming through it. It's really just a propane flame and we really never use it. But it looks nice. I was a little under the weather and took ...
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    Last Year’s Leaves

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    March 9, 2019
    March 8, 2019. Struggling through to the end of winter; these last few weeks are always the worst. These leaves are hanging onto the oak near my office. I like taking photos of them but it's usually too cold. Today followed up on an interesting paper o...
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    Past the Point of No Return

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    March 8, 2019
    March 7, 2019. We're past the point of no return, said one of the workers as I watched them take apart this work station in M-55. The wires woven in an out of the concrete floor where what caught my eye. Did a project review today and followed up with ...
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    Red Cross Chickadees

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    March 8, 2019
    March 6, 2019. The main cost of supporting Red Cross Alberta fire relief efforts wasn't the money, it was the steady pulse of follow-up mail from the Red Cross asking for even more money. They are very creative and in this envelop I opened today includ...
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    Snow Squalls

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    March 7, 2019
    March 5, 2019. Another day, another presentation. Got into the office relatively early and got to work compiling notes for my Creative Commons talk on the future of OER. This time I made extra-certain that the audio would record (and made a backup reco...
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    Decaf

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    March 7, 2019
    March 4, 2019. I spent the morning putting notes into my connectivism slides, then I gave the presentation in early afternoon. The audio failed, so I had to re-record the presentation on my own after in order to create the audio and video. Long day. Th...
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    Alex

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    March 7, 2019
    March 3, 2019. I spend another day on the connectivism presentation, finishing up the reading and making slides. More No Man's Sky in the evening, aided here by Alex in his usual spot between human and screen. https://flic.kr/p/2eZQoxw
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    Lexi

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    March 6, 2019
    March 2, 2019. This was another good day to work indoors all day, and so I did, digging through papers from the last year talking about connectivism. After that play some No Man's Sky and took a photo of Lexi. https://flic.kr/p/SVWmkm
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    Logging Truck

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    March 6, 2019
    March 1, 2018. I on't like logging trucks because they're too large, drive too fast, and drop bits of bark and whatever behind them. But as I followed this truck I admired the high quality wood (looks like pine) and thought about how much I like wood. ...
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    Office Farming Update

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 28, 2019
    February 28, 2019. As you can see, I can now grow thumbnail-sized red peppers. The problem is that the header fan doesn't work, to the plants literally bake. So they dry right out. Anyhow, I did my presentation this morning; it went well, I thought, an...
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    String Time

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 28, 2019
    February 27, 2019. The joke is that it's *always* string time. Put the finishing touches on my presentation, built a blockchain wallet from source (someone else's code, not mine) and had a generally good day. https://flic.kr/p/SQvbkb
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    Alarm Bell

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 28, 2019
    February 26, 2019. No, we didn't have a fire drill. But when we do, this bell is very very loud. And I always look at it each day thinking 'maybe today is the day it will be photo of the day'. I did have a good day today, very productive, working on my...
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    Dinner With Family

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 28, 2019
    February 24, 2019. I spent the day working on Electron applications, including my slide show, and then in the evening Andrea and I had dinner with my mother, Bernie, and my aunt Marilyn (all named clockwise). https://flic.kr/p/24mJrWF
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    Memorial

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 23, 2019
    February 23, 2019. We went into the city today and while Andrea was in the mall I took a few photos downtown, including this one from the Canadian War Memorial. https://flic.kr/p/2ePuS79
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    St. Andrews

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 23, 2019
    February 22, 2019. The trip home, again by train. This is St. Andrews on King Street, with Roy Thompson Hall in the background, seen as I made my way to Union Station. https://flic.kr/p/24hkH1D
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    Old City Hall

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 23, 2019
    February 21, 2019. I spent the day at the Big Data Challenge in Toronto, then walked back through the Lawrence Market and then along Queen Street, where I took this photo of Toronto's old City Hall. All photos on this trip were with my old beat-up Sony...
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    Tuba

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 23, 2019
    February 20, 2019. Arrived in Toronto and went for a walk along Queen Street. At one point I peered inside a window to watch this tuba band. It was a long day with a morning meeting and a 5-hour train ride. https://flic.kr/p/24hjEBT
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    Tracks

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 20, 2019
    February 19, 2019. The sun is setting later and later these days, allowing me to actually get daylight photos on the way home. These are the tracks just outside Casselman, a b-roll shot among a bunch of Super-Moon shots that didn't really work out (not...
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    Mirror

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 20, 2019
    February 17, 2019. I spent yesterday and today working on a presentation about Electron (making a presentation is a great way to review what I know) save for a quick trip to the Metro where Andrea went in while I played with my trusty Sony compact cam....
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    Twilights

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 16, 2019
    February 16, 2019. The Christmas lights are still up; it's been three years now. I really have to take them down because they don't work any more. Here they are seen against the yellow twilight. Spent the day working on Electron again; it's going prett...
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    Chicken

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 16, 2019
    February 15, 2019. We got this chicken from the annual arts and crafts fair in Moncton right near our new house about a week after we bought it. That would be 16 years ago now. It hangs in our kitchen. Productive day with a longish meeting about open s...
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    Mountains Beyond Mountains

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 14, 2019
    February 14, 2019. I had a productive day today - got a bunch of entries judged for next week, and completed my WHMIS course. This is M55 behind the mountains of snow we got over the last couple of days. https://flic.kr/p/2eKSSPa
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    Shoveling is the Lonliest Task

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 13, 2019
    February 13, 2019. It was a work-at-home day today in the aftermath of the storm. The local snowplows did a pretty good job keeping the road clear. I got up to date on email and went back to refresh my Electron knowledge - found a much better tutorial....
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    Ice

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 12, 2019
    February 12, 2019. It was -15 or so when I took this photo so I didn't linger. This ice on top of the snow in front of the building where I work is a left-over from last week's freezing rain. Later today it will be covered with a foot of snow. That's w...
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    Sunrise

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 12, 2019
    February 11, 2019. The nice thing about seeing the sunrise when I get up in the morning is that it means the days are getting longer again and I'm not getting up in the complete darkness any more. Installed, fixed and ran Gephi today and created some g...
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    Stars

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 10, 2019
    February 10, 2019. The afternoon light is shining through the living room window, turning everything a pale yellow. The stars came from Berlin a number of years ago. The moving box remains unopened from when we moved here in 2015. We are not very good ...
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    Sparty

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 10, 2019
    February 9, 2019. This is Sparty, Ottawa's mascot for the last 1000 games or so. I don't know where he got the name, unless someone confused Rome with Sparta some time 1000 games ago. Anyhow, it was a fun time at the game and we won 5-2! https://flic.k...
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    Namaste Frog

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    | 2019365, Syndicated
    February 9, 2019
    February 8, 2019. While I'm sure there would be no objection today, the history of culturally-themed lawn decorations is not good. Did more with Docker today. You'd think I would know it inside and out by now, but this stuff isn't as obvious as you mig...
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