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  1. Stephen Downes

    Tree Trunk

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    September 14, 2024
    September 11, 2024. The moss-covered apple tree trunk outside my office building in the city. It was the first of three office days this week, a result of the uninformed and arbitrary decision made to reduce work-from-home. Traffic was awful and waste...
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  2. Stephen Downes

    Serving Suggestion

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    | 2024366, curry, Syndicated
    September 13, 2024
    September 10, 2024. Here's a serving of my curry with green onions and, buried under the spicy goodness, a portion of Atlantic Canada salmon. So delicious! A second day of working on a Mastodon client from the home office. https://flic.kr/p/2qga7BY
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  4. Stephen Downes

    Rogers Pond

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    | 2024366, fungus, ottawa, Syndicated
    September 9, 2024
    September 9, 2024. It was fungus day on our weekly forest walk. We went out to Rogers Pond in Marlborough Forest in rural south-west Ottawa. Very few animals or birds. The light was low and I wasn't really set up for dark fungus pics. Evening was spen...
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  5. Stephen Downes

    Argos

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    | 2024366, football, redblacks, Syndicated
    September 9, 2024
    September 7, 2024. The RedBlacks played the Argos this afternoon. A rare day game, it could have been fantastic, but is was cold and poured rain for pretty much the entire game. Nice to see a convincing win, though. Got home, went to sleep right away....
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  6. Stephen Downes

    Jimmy Carr

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    September 9, 2024
    September 6, 2024. I wanted to share a photo from the Jimmy Carr and Jim Jeffries show tonight, but all I'm allowed to show is this. The show was great but it would have been nice to have something more to remember it by. The evening followed a great ...
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  7. Stephen Downes

    Parking Lot Rose

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    September 7, 2024
    September 4, 2024. This rose is found in the parking lot by the Costco where I went for lunch. Office day, which I spent heads-down all day writing 'Why Free Learning Needs Free Artificial Intelligence'. https://flic.kr/p/2qeQt9e
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  8. Stephen Downes

    Gaviscon

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    September 4, 2024
    September 3, 2024. Another nightstand photo. That's what we get when I have a busy day. Today I wrote a script that allows me to post from OLDaily into BlueSky. Pretty happy about that - in the past, it would have taken me a week. https://flic.kr/p/2q...
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  9. Stephen Downes

    Emerald Forest

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    September 2, 2024
    September 2, 2024. Went out for a nice 63 km ride today that included a jaunt through this, the Larose Forest (which is in my mind always referred to as the Emerald Forest). Cool with a strong northwest breeze. Watching football this evening. https://...
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  11. Stephen Downes

    Night Light

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    September 1, 2024
    August 31, 2024. The light on my bedstand, the last light I turn off every day. Rainy day today, but I finished something I've been working evenings and weekends on for most of the summer, a set of five articles to join a sixth I wrote in the spring. ...
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  12. Stephen Downes

    Vitamins for Her

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    September 1, 2024
    August 30, 2024. The selection of Centrum vitamins for women at the Gloucester Costco . I was searching for Centrum Caltrate, not realizing that these are two separate products. A work-in-office day today, and therefore not that productive, though I d...
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  13. Stephen Downes

    Corn and Country

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 30, 2024
    August 29, 2024. Photo from my afternoon bike ride after work. Much more productive day today, got quite a bit of writing done, a couple of forms filled out, and my proper allotment of exercise. https://flic.kr/p/2qdcXCB
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  14. Stephen Downes

    Floor

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 30, 2024
    August 28, 2024. The flow in the basement. With my feet. No meetings today. I tried to get some work done but wasn't very productive. I did however make a nice curry for supper. https://flic.kr/p/2qdbE67
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  15. Stephen Downes

    Harvest

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 26, 2024
    August 8, 2024. A combine takes some grain off a field as seen from a distance south of St. Albert on another bike ride after work today. No meetings; just the newsletter and some writing (it's slow going) today. https://flic.kr/p/2qcktrF
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  16. Stephen Downes

    Ottawa Pride

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 25, 2024
    August 25, 2024. We went to the Pride parade in the city today. It was a shorter parade than usual but the crowd was as large as ever. We always attend but made a special point of it this year. https://flic.kr/p/2qc6JCF
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  17. Stephen Downes

    Football

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    | 2024366, redblacks, Syndicated
    August 24, 2024
    August 24, 2024. The opening kickoff of tonight's RedBlacks game, a hard fought and very entertaining win over the BC Lions. Football in Ottawa is fun again! Also did some writing this morning and got out for a bike ride this afternoon. https://flic.k...
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  18. Stephen Downes

    St. Albert

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 24, 2024
    August 23, 2024. The view from my bicycle entering St. Albert from the rest. The bridge crosses the Nation River. Started the day with a meeting, then filling in a spreadsheet for management, and some writing, with a late afternoon bike ride. https://...
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  19. Stephen Downes

    Architecture

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 22, 2024
    August 22, 2024. This is the wall of the Metro here in Casselman down by the highway. To me, it paints a picture of a society that has given up. No effort has been made to make it attractive or even not ugly. What really caught my eye was that there w...
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  20. Stephen Downes

    Flasks

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 21, 2024
    August 21, 2024. Coffee mugs and flasks on sale at the Starbucks near my office (by 'near' I mean 1.2 km - the NRC campus is a food and services desert). Longish day today with a thorough Research Ethics Board meeting in the afternoon. Since our force...
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  21. Stephen Downes

    Hydrangeas

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 20, 2024
    August 20, 2024. Taken in the evening in low light using the long lens from in side my home office. I've been a bit off all day, maybe have a bit of a bug, or just didn't sleep right. Experimenting auto-posting this to Mastodon. I hope they appreciate...
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  22. Stephen Downes

    Bumper Crop

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    | 2024366, potato, Syndicated
    August 19, 2024
    August 12, 2024. First day back in the office since before my bike ride and this is what I found. You may recall back in June I found a potato left on my desk had sprouted. I put it into some water and then in mid-July put it into some dirt. I gave it...
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  23. Stephen Downes

    Flooded

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 19, 2024
    August 11, 2024. The walking trail at Lavigne Natural Park near Bourget, where we tried to take our weekly hike today. The weather wasn't great and the trail conditions even worse so we called it after only half a kilometer or so. Nice pictures though...
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  24. Stephen Downes

    Tim’s Mug

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 19, 2024
    August 9, 2024. A new Tim Hortons mug I bought on the Quebec trip to get my bike. The traditional Tim's mug has all but disappeared, so I was glad to find this. That's a CFL game on the screen in the background - I like the way they have one game a ni...
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  25. Stephen Downes

    RedBlacks

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    | 2024366, ottawa, redblacks, Syndicated
    August 19, 2024
    August 8, 2024. The RedBlacks make their entrance into tonight's football game. It was a game not to be missed, as it went into overtime, we thought we won it, then we thought we lost it, and as we were on the way out the teams returned to play some m...
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  26. Stephen Downes

    La Pocatière

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 19, 2024
    August 7, 2024. The view from the biking trail near La Pocatière. We picked up my bike in Rimouski and on the way back scanned the entire roite between La Pocatière and Kamourasks looking for my tent poles, including a segment that has to be covered b...
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  27. Stephen Downes

    Magic Masala

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 19, 2024
    August 6, 2024. Magac Masala flavoured potato chips, purchased at a Subway in Drummondville. I put in a day of work, then took Andrea in to her doctor's appointment this afternoon, then we drove to Riviere du Loup on our way to pick up my bike in Rimo...
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  28. Stephen Downes

    Island

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 18, 2024
    August 4, 2024. My final day on the trail. This is an island in the St. Lawrence I passed on my way to Rimopuski. Day 15. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_eI09ewcPk&list=PLeBQHgzQN9x... https://flic.kr/p/2qaChPG
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  29. Stephen Downes

    Waiting

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    | 2024366, rimouski, Syndicated
    August 18, 2024
    August 5, 2024. This was taken at 1:30 a.m. as I sat waiting for my train in Rimouski, which would ultimately be an hour late. The plan was to leave it locked there at the train station and drive back and pick it up in a couple days. https://flic.kr/p...
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  30. Stephen Downes

    Chicken

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    | 2024366, Syndicated
    August 8, 2024
    August 3, 2024. Day 15 of my trip, waking up at L'Islet and going to a campground near Bic, about 40 km. Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ns98_RXmE&list=PLeBQHgzQN9x... https://flic.kr/p/2q8UFsz
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