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    Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs Dogs

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    November 1, 2020
    October 31, 2020. I used this photo of my ceiling as an example in a transcript. When I look at our ceiling I see multiple images of dogs - the knots form eyes and a snout. It's an example of how we recognize images, how they emerge out of chaos. Anyho...
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    Evening Light

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    November 1, 2020
    October 30, 2020. The days are getting shorter and busier. The leaves are almost gone. I wrapped up a fair chunk of writing for data literacy and my colleague finished off the document with a flourish of professionalism - loved it! Also, more meetings ...
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    Julia

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    November 1, 2020
    October 28, 2020. I don't know why cats sky away from cameras, and our Julia is the shyest of the lot. Today was another busy day in a busy week (the best sort of week) - I've been catching up on tasks that have been sitting there, for example, complet...
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    Cookie

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    November 1, 2020
    October 27, 2020. Andrea made cookies. They were delicious. Busy day, including a presentation and meetings, more work on data literacy, https://flic.kr/p/2k2hrLt
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    Dead Milkweed

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 26, 2020
    October 26, 2020. The cold has come, the rains have started, and they even had some snow in the city today. I was indoors all day presenting at and attending the ePIC 2020 conference on open recognition. I like doing presentations because they always p...
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    Mer Bleue Bog Trail

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 25, 2020
    October 25, 2020. Andrea and I went for a 9 km hike along the Mer Bleue Bog Trail today. It was a crisp 7 degrees but sunny and nice. The trail out was great, but on the way back, well, it was a bog. Still, it was great exercise and good for some beaut...
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    Emma on the Rug

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 25, 2020
    October 24, 2020. The expected rains did not materialize but it was still an indoor day for me as I prepared my Open Recognition Networks talk for Monday. This is Emma waiting patiently for food. Or string games. or something. https://flic.kr/p/2jZ1Qbk
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    St. Lawrence River

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 23, 2020
    October 23, 2020. I could not resist getting out for a ride on what is for sure the last nice day of the year. So it was about 90 km to the St.Lawrence River and back. I also had a nice lunch at Rockin Rhonda's in Avonmore (while taking part in an onli...
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    Kitties

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 22, 2020
    October 22, 2020. This is why you don't want to split kitten siblings up. That's (from top down) Julia, Emma and Charlemagne. We bought another cat couch today, though we evidently don't need it. Today I spent working on a talk for next week on open re...
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    Lexi in the Kitchen

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 21, 2020
    October 21, 2020. Even with the excitement of the kittens I make sure Lexi is well tended with regular tuna and attention. She is also the catalyst for string games, which the kittens love. Today was focused on data literacy, again. https://flic.kr/p/2...
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    Dogwood

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 19, 2020
    October 19, 2020. I saw this dogwood by the deck in the back just glistening in the rain and had to make it today's photo. This morning I did a seminar on personal learning and through the afternoon I did newsletter posts and reading for data literacy....
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    Mer Bleue Squirrel

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 18, 2020
    October 18, 2020. We went for a walk in Mer Bleue today, about 8 km, on a cool cloudy day. It's late fall now, but there's still a lot of life in the forest. https://flic.kr/p/2jWQKrd
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    Corn

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 17, 2020
    October 17, 2020. I was able to get out for a 60 km bike ride today to Russell and back, and visited family along the way for an hour and a half or so (all is well with them I'm happy to say). This is dried corn intended (I believe) for cattle feed; ye...
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    Cat Couch

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 16, 2020
    October 16, 2020. We picked up a cat couch at the store yesterday and they took to it instantly. At any given time now, there will be one cat or another in the cat couch. Today was another data literacy day - I'm making good progress, I've identified s...
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    Parking Lot

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 16, 2020
    October 15, 2020. I know my life may appear glamorous in my social media photos, but sometimes it's ordinary, as in the case of noon today when we drove into town to get some groceries. Still deep into researching data literacy literature. https://flic...
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    Bread

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 12, 2020
    October 10, 2020. This is a loaf of Andrea's bread. I can't overstate how good it is to have home-baked bread in the house. Today was a quiet indoor day spent puttering around with Angular and other web frameworks and creating OLDaily posts. https://fl...
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    Soybeans and River

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 9, 2020
    October 9, 2020. This is a soybean field by the side of the nation river, seen during a short bike ride after work. Today was another day filled with work on data literacy; I'm getting a pretty good sense of the development of the concept over the last...
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    Nation River

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 8, 2020
    October 8, 2020. It was too bright and too windy to frame this photo, so I just fired off a bunch of shots and hoped for the best. I took it on a short but cold bike ride after work. Today was a day of back-to-back-to-back Zoom meetings, plus a good do...
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    The View from my Office

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 7, 2020
    October 7, 2020. I was just wrapping up a very productive day in my home office working on data literacy when I looked out the window and happened to see a brilliant (but very short-lived) rainbow. https://flic.kr/p/2jQGdAx
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    Wasp

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 5, 2020
    October 5, 2020. Andrea came in today to say the wasps were swarming on the goldenrod by the back deck. Definitely worth a photo! Had a couple of meetings today, documented my week-end work, and cleaned my desk of accumulated clutter from several month...
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    Son of Bones

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 5, 2020
    October 4, 2020. This year I'm relatively early with the Hallowe'en decorations. This is the third year for Son of Bones. Another quiet day in today, messing around with more code (and could also be called a work day if pressed). https://flic.kr/p/2jPU...
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    4 Cube Cat

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 5, 2020
    October 3, 2020. The cats survived our short trip away just fine, as I knew they would. This is Charlemagne (notice his right eye was permanently damaged by his infection before his rescue). Quiet day in today messing around with code. If pressed I cou...
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    Brebuf

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 2, 2020
    October 2, 2020. We drove home from our short Tremblant vacation today. This is the scene at the village of Brebuf, just a few kilometers in from the resort. It's hard not to have a visceral response to the beauty. https://flic.kr/p/2jNtb4c
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    Mont Tremblant

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 1, 2020
    October 1, 2020. I went for a bike ride this afternoon and the weather alternated between rain and sunshine. A little cool, but as you can see from the photo it was also quite beautiful. https://flic.kr/p/2jNe8L8
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    Ridgeline

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    October 1, 2020
    September 30, 2020. We took the gondola to the top of Mont Tremblant and went for a hike inside a cloud along the Summit Trail,a winding path along the ridgeline that has the appeal of (as Andrea said) being uphill in both directions. Maybe, but it was...
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    White-Tailed Deer

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    September 30, 2020
    September 30, 2020. We are at Mont Tremblant to take in the fall colours and the mountain wildlife. This was one of a small herd of three deer having dinner on one of the slopes near the village. https://flic.kr/p/2jMLSyA
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    Bee Sting Cake

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    September 30, 2020
    September 28, 2020. Andrea made this cake in preparation for our short vacation. It's a yeasted cake with pudding in the middle and absolutely delicious. Today I gave a seminar in the morning and did some writing in the afternoon, getting as prepared a...
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    Hunting

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    | 2020365, Syndicated
    September 27, 2020
    September 25, 2020. This time every year we get an influx of ladybugs (or something similar) into the house. The kittens love watching them - here's Charlemagne (with his many extra toes) hunting them on the ceiling. A couple of longer meetings today h...
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