Ottawa Tulip Festival
May 20, 2017. Back home, and spent the afternoon at the Ottawa Tulip Festival at Lansdowne Park.
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Jardin del Arte
May 19, 2017. One last look at Mexico City before I depart. This is an early morning look at Jardin del Arte from my hotel room window, the view I had all w eek. -
My Twitter Advertsers
My list isn't as long as Audrey Watters's, weighing in at only 23 pages (to her 33). Note that all of these companies are wasting their money, as I block all Twitter advertisements.Twitter says: "Tailored audiences are often built from email lists or b... -
Mexico City
May 17, 2017. A day off today, but I ended up having to hustle ths afternoon to cancel credit cards and such after involuntarily donating my wallet to a needy person in Mexico City's old city. -
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
May 16, 2017. Centerpiece monument from UNAM, where I gave my talk today. After my talk: lunch, then sleep. -
Mexico City
May 15, 2017. Walked about 10 km taking photos, went nowhere in particulr, which is always the best place. -
Watching You
May 14, 2017. Flew to Mexico today. This is a view from the lounge at the airport in Montreal. -
Robin
May 13, 2017. Spent the day working (it ws cold and rainy anyway) and only had time to take this picture of a robin. Accomplishments: - final draft of 'Open Learning, Open Networks' submitted. -
Des Pins
May 12, 2017. This is the LaRose Forest at the end of Rue Des Pins near Limoges. The road is being extended, nibbling at the edge of the forest. It needs to be protected from this sort of encroachment, or it will disappear. P.S. mosquitos out in full f... -
Lights
May 11, 2017. Yeah, yeah, I'll take them down. Next weekend. After all 15 months is long enough. -
Tulips
May 10, 2017. This is on the front lawn. They didn't grow last year, but surprised us by making an appearance this year. Another coding day, frustrated by a drop-down select list that wouldn't work. It works now, though. -
Paint Shop
May 9, 2017. A few days ago I bought a couple of Muskoka chairs from Costco. Today I went to the paint store for some stain for them; this is a scene from inside the store. Accomplishments: - slides and presentation for an internal committee describing... -
Crabapple Leaves
May 8, 2017. Spent the day coding - converting my content editor to ajax so I can dynamically edit table structures. So I can maage different types of data. Which will help me build my MOOC aggregator. Made good progress. Cold and rainy (though not so ... -
Over the Trestle
May 7, 2017. This is the 4702 rumbling over the trestle pulling large load of freight. Another cold wet day, so I worked today, doing more coding. -
My Posts are Authored by a Cat
May 6, 2017. They can't be authored by me, because as you can see this cat is always in front of the keyboard. Today was a work day, since it was too cold and rainy to do anything else. More coding. -
Rain
May 5, 2017. The story around these parts today is rain (and flooding). We're far away from the water at home, even though we can (sort of) see the river outside the kitchen window. Spent the day coding (yay!) to whip gRSShopper into shape for wide var... -
Hyacinth
May 4, 2017. Andrea planted this pink flower in 2015 but it didn't come up until this year (the same is true of our other bulbs - go figure). Good day today, got stuff done. Acomplishments: - final version of CTE (annual evaluation) submitted - draft o... -
Periwinkle
May 3, 2017. We have a bountiful crop of periwinkle in the backyard garden next to the house Andrea doesn't like them and says they're invasive, but they look nice to me. Accomplishments: - first draft of Contact North paper. -
Polly
May 2, 2017. This is Polly, who in her old age has decided that she is afraid of me. Not so afraid I can't take a photo, but she doesn't like my habit of playing string with Lexi. She's 14 now, and it's all too much for her. Got half a paper revised th... -
Bobblehead
May 1, 2017. I took care of the last of the Moncton bills today, which complete and finally closes the chapter on that city. Otherwise, a quite day. This is the bobblehead (Steve Yzerman) and flag in my office window. -
In / Out
April 25, 2017. I've never seen anything in this box, and I doubt that it is used any more. Spotted in the halway outside my office. One meeting today, and a chunk of the day spent watching a video on open practices, but otherwise work without progress... -
Guilty
April 24, 2017. Lexi isn't actually guilty, but she certainly appears guilty as she hovers near the power bar. Busy day today with minimal progress. -
Chrysler
April 23, 2017. This is the Chrysler Community Centre in the foreground and the local church in the background, courtesy of my 37 km bike ride to the town and back this afternoon. -
The Chicken
April 22, 2017. I ddn't sleep at al last night. So instead I listened to the Blue Jays game - it started at 10:;00 p.m. and ended at 3:36 or something like that. And was, happily, a win. But that pretty much erased any ambition I had for today. We got ... -
Iron Art
April 21, 2017. Today was dentist day. Any thoughts I had of working evaporated after my morning appointment. This is some iron artwork in the dentists' washroom. I'm not complaining; he did excellent painless work. But going to the dentist still takes... -
6437
April 20, 2017. Happy 4-20! I had a relatively productive day today, especially compared to the last week. This is the train as it goes through Casselman - it was moving so slowly I thought I could outflank it but no luck. Blue Jays lost, but it was a ... -
Birds on a Lawn
April 19, 2017. It rained most of the day as I puttered away in my office. Meanwhile, birds were attracted to our backyard in droves - starlings, chickadees, sparrows, crows, robins... the cardinals are around, but I didn't see them today; same with th... -
Birds on a Lawn
April 19, 2017. It rained most of the day as I puttered away in my office. Meanwhile, birds were attracted to our backyard in droves - starlings, chickadees, sparrows, crows, robins... the cardinals are around, but I didn't see them today; same with th... -
Peat Bog
April 18, 2017. The highlight of my day was me sitting on a bench and eating lunch here, looking out over the peat bog at Mer Bleu. The rest of the day was a write-off. I drove into work, remembered I had a dental appointment, had a cavity, drove back ... -
Signals
April 17, 2017. Another day of rest. I meant to do things like work or whatever but instead watched videos and puttered all day. Just as well; it wasn't a good day for OLDaily posts as one item after another struck me as just wrong.
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