Found this cool beer called Yasuke, named after the famous African samurai who first landed in Shimabara Japan in 1579. The company Mascot is from Toronto and apparently the only Black-owned brewery in Ontario. mascotbrewery.com
Updated my “Interesting Conferences in 2025” list. Tomorrow is the start of #DWebCampCascadia which I helped out with a bit but can’t attend due to being in Ottawa right now 😅, but there are some others coming up. Any suggestions, leave a comment!
The national Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa is a very impressive building. Built in “Scottish Baronial” design, it features of all sorts of animals 🫎🐺🦬🦫 on the outside and depicted in the stained glass. Also it has giant Earth 🌎 and Moon 🌖 globes!
Made it to the capital 🇨🇦
Tomorrow will be a nice #meditation milestone
https://stephango.com/ramblings
This from @stephango.com | @kepano@mastodon.social is similar to the #monologue channels we used at Fission. We didn’t do the strict threading tho. You could leave a note “on a person’s desk” without notifying them, useful as we were across 5 continents.
In downtown Kingston there is a bar called The Toucan where 19 years ago me and my friends would go every Thursday for “Grad Student Night”.
I am here now with my children 🤯
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After one last trip to Notre Dame, we left Montreal and drove to Kingston, Ontario. We are staying in my old neighborhood from grad school, and tonight will eat at the restaurant where we held our wedding banquet in 2006! 😱 🎉 👰♀️💗🤵♂️
Amazing to be back here with our children 🧑🧑🧒🧒
Why BrainRot
Sunday, August 3, 2025
In the second segment of this Neverpo.st episode researcher Emily Owens discusses “BrainRot” as a rare method of decompression for today’s teenagers: There are loads of things you could do to decompress. Sometimes it is use your phone, but oftentimes it’s go for a walk, like go for a swim, take your bicycle out, paint a painting, write a little story. And we’re, I think, systematically discouraged from doing those things because those things don’t make anybody any money.
Now for some Cirque du Soleil 🎪
2 last morning shots of le Château Frontenac before we get on the train to Montréal. Over the past 100 years it has been expanded 5 times, taking the room count from 160 to over 600. In the 90s they almost lost their 5 ⭐️ rating for lack of a pool and spa so they built one! 🏊 🧖♀️
We GOBLIN’d it up in Quebec today #kdrama
Navigating the unfamiliar campus of Laval to pick my daughter up from her university for the first time. So THIS is what it feels like to be that awkward/proud parent 😅
Crossed the plains of Quebec to the capital city, founded in 1608 by Samuel de Champlain and the only walled city north of Mexico. We checked in at the hotel, did a walkaround, and ate some crepes. Tomorrow we reunite with our older daughter who has been here 5 weeks studying Français!
On the rooftop of the place we are staying and we got one of these tower thingies. Le Fancy!
Current status: Quebec City ⚜️
This is the furthest east I have ever been in my life‡ 🙀
‡ Most of my travels have been in the Far East
Last day in Montréal! Walked a bunch including up the mountain! 🥵 Lovely view. Had amazing handmade spicy noodles 🍜 for dinner. (Seriously get the Oil Spill noodle, spicy cucumber, and spicy tofu strips. Perfect for a hot day!). Bon nuit Montréal! 🌇
Started reading: Awakening from the Daydream by David Nichtern 📚
Takes a modern twist to teach the Six Realms of the classic Wheel of Life (Bhavacakra)
#Buddhism
Today was “Dome Day” in Montréal for us. We first visited the Biodome by the Olympic stadium dating from Olympics in 1976. Afterwards we saw the Biosphere designed by Buckminster Fuller himself for the 1967 Expo.
The sun sets on a hot and smoky day in Montréal. We walked around quite a bit. Sunburned. Saw The Ring. Ate crepes. Hit Schwartz’s. Walked by a ton of murals. Drank with witches. Daughter pet cats. What a day!
