Chad points at things London Edition ☝️🤓 Part 5: Random Edition including the I Goat, the site of London’s first coffee shop, the White Hart Lane train sign, and myself at the Bubble Bond outside Liverpool Station

Chad points up to a statue of a goat near Spitalfields MarketChad points to a sign that says: HERE STOOD THE FIRST LONDON COFFEE HOUSE AT THE SIGN OF PASQUA ROSEE'S HEAD 1652Chad points to the WHITE HART LANE train station sign (where the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is)Reflected in a silver ball, Chad takes a photo pointing at himself

Hey! It’s your Canadian 🇨🇦 Dad in London 🇬🇧. Let me show you what I found down this sketchy alley

Chad points at things London Edition ☝️🤓 Part 4: Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. The boys are up in Manchester this weekend so I took the stadium tour. Took a ton of pics of the pitch, and of course the mural of Sonny

Chad in front of Tottenham Hotspur StadiumChad pitch side at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. To the right is the South Stands above which is the Cockerel and the sky walkSpurs motto: To dare is to doChad at the wall mural of Son Heung-Min

Chad points at things London Edition ☝️🤓 Part 3: Not so much pointing in this edition which focuses on tall pointy things. Walked down Fleet St and the Strand, past King’s College, saw the Camel Corps Memorial, Cleopatra’s Needle, crossed the Thames again, saw the Eye and then it was Big Ben time.

Chad points at an obeliskChad does not point to Big Ben and Westminster across the Westminster BridgeChad Selfie at the foot of Big BenBig Ben reflects off of the rainy flagstones at night

Chad points at things London Edition ☝️🤓 Part 2: St Paul’s Cathedral where I spent an inordinate amount of time staring at the dome, avoiding walking over people in the crypt, huffing up tight circular stairs to the roof, then freezing while taking in the view.

Chad points to the front of St Paul’s. can’t see the massive dome from this angleChad points up to the inside of St Paul’s massive dome which is damn impressiveChad at the back of the quire pointing to an impressive cross Chad points to a bust of Lawrence of Arabia in the St Paul crypt

Chad points at things London Edition ☝️🤓 Part 1: Tower Bridge, the Globe Theatre, the absolute unit of a building Tate Modern Art Museum, then crossing the bridge to St Paul’s

Chad pointing at Tower BridgeChad pointing at the Globe TheatreNo Chad in this wide angle photo of the giant Tate Museum building with the sign “See great art from around the world”Chad points at the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral from the south

Omg I slept 9 hours.

Time to do some laundry then explore London.

Attended a talk by some g0v.tw and ocf.tw reps from Taiwan at Newspeak House. They covered the evolution of the #opensource community in Taiwan, the relation with the gov, and the “Bloody Truth” of OS economics :lolsob: We then had a wide-ranging conversation and 🍕💖

A presenter shows a slide on a projector screen outlining the 44 Taiwanese open source partner communitiesA presenter stands in front of a slide with the words INDUSTRY ECONOMICS super-titled "Bloody Truth" 🤣Stickers of mascots from the Ministry of Digital Affairs including Disobedience Hacker, Standards Architect, and Gardener for All

After having a massive fish & chips I stopped by a Sainsbury’s and picked up some Jaffa Cakes and Walker’s Salt & Vinegar before heading back to the hotel. 🇬🇧 Might have to put on some Doctor Who to round out the evening. 🙃

Also, Brick Lane is a dream for street photography. I will have my GRIV out tomorrow for a wander 📸

Checked out the Newspeak House venue to prep for #PfP✨London, ended up staying for the Open Rights Group meetup, then got a massive fish&chips and hung out with faculty and fellows and even met some visitors from the Taiwan open source community passing through from FOSDEM. 💖

After a 3 hour delay due to a water pump issue—which they couldn’t fix so just shut down the system resulting in no coffee, tea, or running water in the bathrooms for the 9hr flight—I finally took off to London 🇬🇧 Slept the whole way and checked into my hotel. Everything is so… British 😂

Flying over Vancouver at nightThe route from Vancouver to London over the ArcticTop of the clouds from an airplane

How boring people people are actually interesting (and how they can help you do crimes) — advice for a 14 year old from the inimitable Mike Monteiro 😊

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First newsletter of the year is out the door! Can’t believe I have been writing these little notes since mid 2020

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Bunch of info in here, but the migration to YT and Spotify is real and worrisome (/cc @justinjackson.ca @dmathewwws.com)

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Played my first game of MOTHERSHIP tonight. Lots of fun! 👽🚀 #ttrpg

Had a lovely compliment this morning in a meeting: “You are a Zipper, always bringing communities together!” 🥹

My wife remarked, “Are you sure he wasn’t just telling you to shut up?” 😏🤐 🤣

Stay grounded out there! 😘

Church bells in the evening in Vancouver ⛪️🔔

At The Permanent for a little Internet Archive Canada thing 🥂

Chad pointing up to a glass skylightThe skylight and the mezzanine with two server racks blinking

Watched The Sound of Music with the kids tonight 🎶 🦌🌞🤳🏃‍♂️‍➡️🪡⬅️🫖

Christopher Plummer tearing the Nazi flag in half in an iconic scene