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!
Wife & daughter went to a cat cafe 🐈🫖 but my allergies prevented me so I opted for the Witch Cafe 🧙☕️ across the road. Drinking a sage latte, checking out the wands and spell components. You can get a tarot reading! Blessed 💫✨😊 www.instagram.com/moonbrewm…
Had a full day in Montréal: met with a friend, a lot of walking around, visited the Notre Dame Basilica, ate lobster poutine, and saw Just for Laughs on stage! #travel #photography
Walking around Montreal this morning I stumbled upon the Just for Laughs Festival! Other than smoked meat sandwiches this is probably the thing most Westerners like me know about Montreal. I grew up watching the Anglo comics on stage. Cool to see it in person!
Finally touched down in Montréal. That’s a LOT of travel just to end up in the same country. 😅
Woke up at 5am, ready to head to the airport for our family trip to Quebec. 🥱
Check email ✉️
Flight cancelled 🙅
Early morning panic 😵💫
Check in to rescheduled flight 👨✈️
Go back to sleep for an hour 😴
Finished Black Powder War by Naomi Novik 📚
Whoever thought Napoleon crushing Europe could be described as “light” and “fun”? 🙃 Well, there are dragons and this isn’t Malazan.
Anyways, I am 22/20 for my 2025 Reading Goal. Was shooting for more papers but can’t quite help myself. #books #reading
Started listening to Black Powder War by Naomi Novik 📚 in the car on my drive to Kelowna and back. Got 71% the way in over the weekend. Fun to be with these characters again, and a nice light break from Malazan.
Back through the mountains 🏔️ to the coast 🌊
It’s that time of year where I visit my pal Nathan and check out his new keyboard with custom printed angled keycaps. #keebs
Last year’s edition: www.flickr.com/photos/sa…
Driving up into the mountains for the weekend
The new GAIIN (The Global AI Initiatives Navigator) released by the OECD is a pretty amazing resource for tracking #AI policy and investment country by country. Here is the profile for #Canada: oecd.ai/en/dashbo…
Got my latest enjoylunacoffee.com order ☕️
Looking forward to some lovely Ethiopian beans
Catching up on this year’s Gion Matsuri in Kyoto. Looks so hot! 🥵
Bloedel Conservatory
Date night in Olympic Village. Lovely view of Science World.
We are setting up our #meshtastic devices together @z-space.ca and just added a ton of new nodes in Vancouver! I can see nodes all the way to Seattle!
Started Empire of AI by Karen Hao today 📚
Already 20% in. Very readable!
Did I just have the perfect evening? 😻 #ra-men #archery #ra-rchery
TTRPG hole
Unboxing my new Starter Set of The One Ring. (Now some very personal blogging that will only interest a few of you) Last week I wrote about the fantasy hole I have been in. Contributing to this is the fact that we are also in a Table Top Role Playing Game hole as well. I have been playing TTRPGs with the same group since 2013. We started together after a big Board Game Night where we organized two simultaneous sessions of The Red Box to introduce people to tabletop gaming.