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    Metro

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    September 14, 2016
    September 14, 2016. An uneventful day today. Zero response to the article I spent all day yesterday writing. Life is like that sometimes. This is pour local Metro, where we got cabbage, roma tomatos, and maple syrup. From Flickr http://ift.tt/2cZ1abj
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    Highway Scenery

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    September 13, 2016
    September 13, 2016. Got a bit off track today. No biggie. I was delayed this morning by hughway construction, but it gave me a chance to take this photo of the scenery along the way. Staff meeting, then I distracted myself reading proposals from the pu...
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    Asters

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    September 12, 2016
    September 12, 2016. I spent the day tallying the list of universities I've worked with over the last five years. This isn't so desolate as it sounds, as it gives me an opportunity to clean up the data in my presentation list and an excuse to create a n...
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    The Market

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    September 11, 2016
    September 11, 2016. The weather turned today, a couple weeks later than usual, and it was a cool and windy day. We went into the city to the ByWard market for a bit, toodled around Rideau Place, and I bought new shoes. Exciting. From Flickr http://ift....
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    Rush City Road

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    September 10, 2016
    September 10, 2016. A 62 km run south of Avonmore to Rush City Road and the village of Newington. I felt good the whole ride, which is good, because the wind and rain were uncooperative. The yellow crop is probablky soybeans. From Flickr http://ift.tt/...
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    A Plethora of Puffballs

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    September 9, 2016
    September 9, 2016. I thought at first I had a multitude of mushrooms, but my online reserach reveals them to be gem-studded puffballs (Lycoperdon perlatum). This healthy crop was observed on the path through the little wooded area next to NRC. These ar...
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    Pushing Through

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    September 8, 2016
    September 8, 2016. This is the back deck at our house, which will need staining next summer. Good day today. Got some writing done, and some coding for Ed Radio (almost done this little project). Accomplishments: - wrote 'Canadian Values' - coded YouTu...
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    Smiley

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    September 7, 2016
    September 7, 2016. Seen on my noon-hour walk. Worked on Ed Radio a bit today, researched for a paper for an IEEE conference, and had a dental appointment this morning. From Flickr http://ift.tt/2bV1f2b
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    Virginia Creeper Berry

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    September 6, 2016
    September 6, 2016. These are growing along the fence line by the railway outside our home. They look like grapes, but contain oxalic acid, which makes them toxic. From Flickr http://ift.tt/2cbpV5J
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    Vesuvius

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    September 5, 2016
    September 5, 2016. Recovering from jet lag, watching the Jays lose, and breaking in my new mousepad - Vesuvius, by Warhol. Accomplishments: - uploaded photo sets From Flickr http://ift.tt/2cveLa6
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    Forbidden

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    September 5, 2016
    September 4, 2016. Flying home from Naples today. In the airport this morning looking for something to photograph - was given the 'no photos' look (I know it so well) in this shop, so of course I'm posting this here. From Flickr http://ift.tt/2caAFCQ
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    Conference Dinner

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    September 5, 2016
    September 3, 2016. Gave a presentation this morning as part of the MOOC conference. It was too long and I didn't capture exactly what I wanted to, but by th same token, with all the MOOC people in the room, it said some things that needed to be said. B...
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    Mountain

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    September 5, 2016
    September 2, 2016. A full day at the MOOC conference, and then in the late afternoon we were able to take the lift up to the top of the mountain. The clouds were rolling in making for some spectacular views. I walked down from the mountain, with the re...
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    Capri

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    September 5, 2016
    September 1, 2016. Took a good walk through Naples in the morning, then joined the conference crew to take the ferry to Capri (pictured) on our way to the conference opening in Anacapri. Good interesting mix of people involved in different MOOC initiat...
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    Naples

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    September 5, 2016
    August 31, 2016. Arrived in Naples, slept, had a pizza, slept. Actually a very comfortable flight; thanks Lufthansa. From Flickr http://ift.tt/2ciIZNZ
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    Baggage

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    September 5, 2016
    August 30, 2016. On my way to Italy. Looking out the window for a photo and couldn't resist the artistry of these baggage carts. From Flickr http://ift.tt/2cfdLsY
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    Hostas

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    August 29, 2016
    August 29, 2016. I had a fun fun day today messing around with YouTube feeds and podcasting. I'm to the point where I can subscribe to a feed with my harvester, download the video, and convert it to audio. The data is there, now just to capture the inf...
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    Calypso Road

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    August 28, 2016
    August 28, 2016. This is the LaRose Forest at Calypso Road at Baker Road. It doesn't look like this from the road - you have to go in through the outer brush. 35 painful kilometers today, including a wipeout on loose gravel at Calypso Park. From Flickr...
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    Maxville

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    August 27, 2016
    August 27, 2016. Maxville is special to me because my grandparents lived there for a number of years and we visited a fair number of times when I was a child. So it was special today when i was able to bicycle to Maxville and back from my home, a total...
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    Pyaring Mantis

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    August 26, 2016
    August 26, 2016. Still studying angular. This is something I haven't seen for a long time, a praying mantis. It was on our front step. From Flickr http://ift.tt/2bqPz2g
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    Wind Tunnel

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    August 24, 2016
    August 24, 2016. Today's noon-hour walk was to the other side of the NRC campus and back. This should have been a distance of 5 km or so, but for some reason Runkeeper kept topping into pause mode, so I can't be sure of the exact distance. This is a wi...
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    Hydrangea

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    August 23, 2016
    August 23, 2016. This is the day I finally got No Man's Sky working. It wouldn't work on my office desktop, or my laptop, but i got it going at home. It's every bit as wonderful as I thought it would be. I've only begin to explore. This is a hydrangea ...
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    Whiterock Park

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    August 23, 2016
    August 22, 2016. I was quite surprised to find this large stand of dahlias in tiny little Whiterock Park on my lunchtime walk. Nestled at the end of the forest beside an outside basketball court, these flowers stood at eye level as I took my photo. Acc...
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    Whiterock Park

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    August 23, 2016
    August 22, 2016. I was quite surprised to find this large stand of dahlias in tiny little Whiterock Park on my lunchtime walk. Nestled at the end of the forest beside an outside basketball court, these flowers stood at eye level as I took my photo. Acc...
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    Chateau Laurier

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    August 21, 2016
    August 21, 2016. Lots of rain today so we went to teh Rideau Centre to walk around a bit. This is a voioew of the Chateau Laurier from the Centre. It's dark and grey and rainy. From Flickr http://ift.tt/2ba2mcj
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    Rock’n Ronda’s

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    August 21, 2016
    August 20, 2016. Cycled 50 km to Avonmore and back. In the middle of Avonmore is Rock'n Ronda's, an authentic 1950s soda shop. I stopped there for ice cream on the ride. It was a sweltering day, 33 degrees plus humidity, that's my bicycle just at the c...
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    Mine!

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    August 19, 2016
    August 19, 2016. This black squirrel was determined not to share his snack as I left the office this evening. Spent the day messing around with Angular and with GitBook. From Flickr http://ift.tt/2bjY4zx
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    Monument

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    August 18, 2016
    August 18, 2016. I went for a walk through a nearby forest on my way to the local Bridgeheads at noon today and discovered this fine pile of rocks hidden in the brush. Accomplishments: - installed Anaconda Pygthon, also Visual Studio Community, by acci...
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    Plant

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    August 17, 2016
    August 17, 2016. "Plant." That's what Google image search returned as its "best guess for this image". Anyhow, Planty McPlantface is in out back yard attracting wasps and being eaten by leaf cutters. Today was spent watching baseball and working with S...
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    The Bridge at Casselman

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    August 16, 2016
    August 16, 2016. I got off to an early start thi morrning so stopped to take advantage of the light and still water to try to capture a photo of the railway bridge. Not the greatest result, but there wasn't really any safe footing closer to the water. ...
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