Ian Hecht 🇨🇦

@ianhecht.com

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Husband of @mandinnithegreat.bsky.social . Father of three. 20+ year teaching veteran. #ETAD M.Ed. grad. Writer. Huge, huge nerd... (he/him)

Tumblr post: Did the name Odysseus already exist before the Odyssey? Or was home just like "This is my new book 'The Journey's and our hero's name... Journathan"
Batman Forever (1995) Bruce Wayne: "We're 5 little items of an everyday sort. You'll find us all in a tennis court". In... A-E-I-O-U. Vowels. Alfred Pennyworth: Not entirely unclever, sir, but what do a clock, a match, chess pawns, and vowels have in common? What do these riddles mean? Bruce Wayne: Every riddle has a number in the question and they arrived at this order: 13, 1, 8, and 5. Alfred Pennyworth: 13, 1, 8, and 5. What do they mean? Bruce Wayne: Perhaps letters of the alphabet? Alfred Pennyworth: Of course, 13 is M. Bruce Wayne: 1 would be A, 8 would be H, and 5 would be E. Alfred Pennyworth: M-A-H-E. Bruce Wayne: Perhaps 1 and 8 are 18. Alfred Pennyworth: 18 is R. M-R-E. Bruce Wayne: How about Mr. E.? Alfred Pennyworth: Mystery. Bruce Wayne: And another name for mystery? Alfred Pennyworth: Enigma. Bruce Wayne: Mr. E. Nygma. Edward Nygma. Stickley's suicide was obviously a computer-generated forgery. Alfred Pennyworth: You really are quite bright, despite what people say. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112462/quotes?item=qt0400745
A white man standing outside, wearing a blue shirt. On the shirt, two Mon Calamari from the Star Wars franchise, dressed in Greek-style clothing and armour, are looking at a giant floating horse that is styled like a stormtrooper.
Meme from Pawn Stars which reads "Best I can do is staff the 'swim in poop' office", referencing RFK Jr.'s photographed swim in Rock Creek, a waterway containing high levels of E.coli.
Shopping list divided into sections like deli, condiments, produce, etc. Under "medical products", the app has put "corn on the cob".
Eggo waffles topped with vanilla ice cream, sliced strawberries, caramel, strawberry and chocolate syrup, and whipped cream.
Lynn Johnson's For Better or For Worse comic in three panels: 1. Mother standing over daughter eating at a table. Mom: Elizabeth, you've made an awful mess with your lunch! Daughter: No, I didn't! 2. Mom, pointing to mess of food under the table. Mom: Well... what do you call that? 3. Daughter smiling back at Mom. Daughter: Leftunders?
A desktop computer three-monitor setup
A drawing of a guillotine with the text "Don't get mad, get carpentry" superimposed.
Panels of fencing made of at least inch-diametre metal bars.
Black cat sitting next to the headrest of the rear seat of a vehicle.
This is a screengrab of a video I made in 2015 showing a few of my NaNoWriMo posters on a wall in my classroom.
2012 Tom Toro cartoon for the New Yorker with a man in a business suit and three children sitting around a fire in a cave. The man says, "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."
March Mammal Madness tournament bracket showing wins and losses.
Image of "Baghdad Bob" saying the war in Iraq is going well for Saddam's troops.
Cover image from the film The Cutting Edge, featuring Moira Kelly as a spoiled figure skater and D.B. Sweeney as a washed out hockey player, who come together after each has a disastrous turn at the 1988 Calgary Olympics, to try to turn things around in Albertville.
Mike Meyers as Dr. Evil saying "one billion dollars".
Weather app showing current temperatures in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan for January 23rd,2026. The temperature is -37°C, with windchill making it feel like -47°C. It's damn cold.
A map with Alberta, Canada prominently highlighted. To its west are, apparently, British Columbia (correct) and Montana (incorrect) and to its east is Northwest Territories (incorrect since the formation of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905). There is also a province/state level label that says Medicine Hat, which is a small city in Alberta. The placement of the cities and lakes appears random. The caption below the image says "Saskatchewan".
Photo of a very large carrot next to a Coke bottle. The carrot is longer than the bottle and nearly as wide.
Six panel comic of a cow being lowered to lick a sleeping man's hair.
Slow motion video of a Canadian and a Saskatchewan flag waving in the breeze
A photo collage of Thor, Loki, Jane Foster and Darcy from the MCU Thor movies, labelled as Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff respectively.
Amusing Harry Potter graphic
Stages of tattoo process, from stencil to linework to colour fill for a forearm tattoo with a microphone, bass guitar, keyboard and music notes all done in a bright, colourful style.
Blue Jays player Daulton Varsho puts on the celebratory home run jacket before entering the dugout.
Screenshot of the Washington Post app front page, where a story titled "She marched against Trump in 2017. Now, she says, ‘just let it all burn.'" has significantly larger text and a feature photo, above a smaller headline for a story titled "D.C. rally larger than expected as Trump protests emerge across U.S."
Meme from King of the Hill: If those kids could read, they'd be very upset.
Tweet from Rick Lee James "AI created image from the phrase, 'Jesus flipping over the table in the temple. '" Image is a man in white robes doing a flip over a table covered in a red cloth.
Oh, right. The war plans. The war plans for the Houthis, the war plans chosen especially to kill Houthis, Houthis's war plans. Those war plans?
Meme of two women yelling at a cat. Blonde woman is yelling "Axe the sales tax on homes!" and the cat replies "Axe the sales! Tax on homes".
Kermit drinking tea
Abolish the Canadian laws that protect US Big Tech companies from Canadian competition. Make it legal to reverse-engineer, jailbreak and modify American technology products and services. Don't ask Facebook to pay a link tax to Canadian newspapers, make it legal to jailbreak all of Meta's apps and block all the ads in them, so Mark Zuckerberg doesn't make a dime off of us. Make it legal for Canadian mechanics to jailbreak your Tesla and unlock every subscription feature, like autopilot and full access to your battery, for one price, forever. So you get more out of your car, and when you sell it, the next owner continues to enjoy those features, meaning they'll pay more for your used car. That's how you hurt Elon Musk: not by being performatively appalled at his Nazi salutes. That doesn't cost him a dime. He loves the attention. No! Strike at the rent-extracting, insanely high-margin aftermarket subscriptions he relies on for his Swastikar business.
Trump also brought up his idea that Canada should become America’s “51st state,” an aggressively stupid threat against a long-time ally. The president also made the ridiculous claim that the European Union “was formed to screw the United States.”
Screenshot of Torment Nexus meme.
Drone shot of fireworks exploding over a frozen lake