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The “puzzle pieces” for the Hillside Dancer logo, ready to insert into the frame of a tiny marquetry piece. The logo is a green hill, a yellow sun, and a blue bird flying from the grassy hill put to the sun, so that the 3 elements assemble into a stylized dancing figure. The logo was an art submission for thannualmposter in the 1990s and was so iconically “hillside” it was permanently adopted.
A breakfast plate featuring tamales, taquitos, a salsa selection and a chia/cacao/dried fruit pudding.
A very excited Elf.
A classic illustration of the urban hydroclimate cycle ca. 1990, reproduced in many research contexts.
Quick snap of the title presentation slide for a waste-to-energy proposal.
The digital board in a large lab/seminar space, currently paused at the title of the weekend project “ Brookfield Renewable Innovation Challenge “
A kayak on a calm day in Lake Ontario
A Siamese-ish mixed cat in the lower half centre of the frame, sitting in front of a wood headboard and beside the sleepy but not sleeping face of the photographer. THIS PICTURE IS PURRING VERY LOUDLY. I am not kidding, she has a purr you can hear from another floor in the condo. And she’s beside my head.
A sticker reading "I put my KNITS on public display *worldwide knit in public day*.
A quintet of merino-linen blend singles yarns. STEPHEN WEST I AM READY FOR NEXT TIME, DRAT YOU!
a screen capture of the ticker from the "isAIProfitable.com" web site, which calculates the $$$ value of AI tokens being "spent" from the beginning of every page load. Hand me one effin' percent of that and I will be working for the good of humanity and my community for the rest of my days. Ten percent will solve homelessness in my region.
A small red squirrel on a fence. Its limbs are splayed out in all directions
A screen shot of my Ice Cubes app screen, after I inadvertently swiped , which revealed the response controls for what I wish to do about the post.
cropped screenshot of the "share this info" page from Openmedia.org.
A small candy packet, blue-green with white, black and yellow text. The label names the contents as “Himalaya Vajomba”.
Ms. Leelo(o) Ten forgot to put her tongue away again.
Fresh warm sourdough bread .. that no longer exists.
A set of 8 plastic stacking serving/storage bowls from the iconic Tupperware brand. This is the '80th Anniversary" (?) special, featuring the avocado/burnt orange/harvest gold/brown very 1970s colour scheme.
A pint jar "mug" with a cheesecloth under the sealer ring, showing the bubbly, fluffy, cream-coloured sourdough starter inside.
A screenshot of the typical Mastodon login prompt. This will display at the web address for services like findout.media which promote access/registration through a customized app. I hope the admins have not left sign-ups wide open, eg. this should only be usable if you joined findout.media through the app, but it should work for registered members.
a loop of the trunk of a car being opened while somewhere between 10 and 15 beagles tumble out and run away.
The little icon centred in the circle on a Fediprofile view. This is less obvious when you are in your /admin mode so I missed that this was already there though I should have known.
Banner slide for the Difital Policy Hub mini-conference at CIGI
Thickness of iPhone compared to thickness of case.
Heat projections for Edmonton: number of days in a year exceeding 30 degree temps, plus count of 3+ day heat waves each year.
A climate projection graph showing the modelled count of days which will exceed 30 deg. Celcius per year, 2030-2100, in Guelph, Ontario.
screenshot of a short dialogue/exchange with the void construct, in which it took my prompt and returned a slight potshot at one of the major LLM families that might very well be in its build somehow.
A so-close-it’s-blurry snapshot of the right eye and ear of a tortie-patterned but Siamese-coloured cat who is getting all up in the photographer’s bizniz trying to lobby for extra servings of kibble
A screenshot of an email I received with a "special offer" of a chance to win a trip to a horror-themed clown motel.
A large dark brindled dog is resting his bag heat on a pair of small feet which are propped against the couch.
A Passover Haggadah set on top of my table setting
A very large but mellow Great Dane behind a barricade of a flimsy folding chair. He is very sad because he has been told to get out of the way of all the kitchen activity. He could totally squash the chair but won’t.
A rather strange manifestation of the municipal government home page for the City of Kitchener. Whole home page loads like an inactive control with a weird update up front. There is an animation playing in the search bar that's offered and this looks like a recent update sticking a search bot right up front.
A stage set with a slide show and lectern for the speaker.
a .png of my "Citizen Science Initiative" proposal. A number of text and graphic boxes are arrayed on a watery blue background of an 18x24" poster for a crowd-sourced image base for analyzing nature photographs for visual indicators of climate change.
A rendering of the current time as an analog clock face by the Deepseek 3.1 LLM. The prompt used is "Create HTML/CSS of an analog clock showing ${time}. Include numbers (or numerals) if you wish, and have a CSS animated second hand. Make it responsive and use a white background. Return ONLY the HTML/CSS code with no markdown formatting."
Screen shot of white beards dude with microphone up to his mouth that we don’t want to hear from.
View through a gallery window to the floor below, which is a room titled the RoboHub at university of Waterloo - engineering faculty
A stained glass panel a stylized zentangle-like mandala as a circle rolling in waves on a watery surface
A beautiful, intricately cabled hand knit cardigan, featured in the Grebel Gallery, university of Waterloo.
A pink can of Pringles chips from the Asian retail market - flavour is Butter Caramel. Definitely different.
Pregnancy test. FOR COWS
A pair of freshly hand-knit, pale blue and bright blue stranded colourwork socks. One sock is semi-folded, leaning up against a magnetic word board and the other is on a sock mannequin foot, freestanding.
Diagram showing the progression of what is approximately the Overton window idea. Starts with a left-centre-right balance, then left moving towards the centre pushes the centre farther, then farther, right. Eventually the left is where the right WAS and the centre and right have become far right and farther right.
Screenshot of a summary point from Anthropic's own blog where they investigated what they so cutely termed "Agentic Misalignment", the phenomenon wherein an agentic construct develops an affect of threat or hostility towards another actor. Text Reads: We have not seen evidence of agentic misalignment in real deployments. However, our results (a) suggest caution about deploying current models in roles with minimal human oversight and access to sensitive information; (b) point to plausible future risks as models are put in more autonomous roles; and (c) underscore the importance of further research into, and testing of, the safety and alignment of agentic AI models, as well as transparency from frontier AI developers. We are releasing our methods publicly to enable further research.
Slides being rotated above the stage include the speaker’s art and words. “water is life” is clearly a key aspect of all the work tonight.
Figure 3 , Page 7, from"CO2 Greenhouse Effect, A Technical Review", published by Exxon in 1982. There is an overlay indicating the 2025 CO2 ppm levels and degrees-above-norm average annual temperature, showing they appear exactly on the curve as predicted 42 years ago. The source document is verified to be available at https://www.worthingtoncaron.com/documents/1982-APRIL-1-1982_“CO2-‘GREENHOUSE’-EFFECT.pdf. The overlay is by P. Dunsky
screen shot of Apple's General system settings, allowing the selection of an alternate default calendar.
From The Weather Network Canada, the heat map of temperature anomalies (not absolute temp, deviations from "normal" temp) across Canada. Extremely below normal is the pink-to-purple in the south east of the continent. Eastern Arctic as well as West coast and northwest deviating to the opposite extreme. Closest to white is closest to "normal". This. Is. Bananas.
Screen shot of a Help Request Tracker template. The item metadata indicates the request is New, the priority is High, and the Date Submitted was "over two years ago". The title of the request is "Teleporter only works halfway" and the Details include "Person leaves ship but never arrives at destination". Whoever came up with this example is well acquainted with some of my past IT Support organizations.
An old brick building with faded signage topped with icicles is seen in the background. In the foreground, two snow-covered construction vehicles are parked on a snowy ground, with a faint outline of a truck visible behind a fence. The sky is overcast
A person wearing sunglasses and a warm coat with a fur-lined hood, topped with a colorful knitted hat. The background shows a snowy landscape with bare trees, indicating a cold winter setting.
A view from some height above ground of the Hwy7/8 flyover curve in Kitchener, Ontario, showing that snow accumulation on the elevated freeway construct has piled up so heavily and so high it has become a ramp to launch a swerving vehicle into open air rather than contain it between the guardwalls. This ramp is
The back of my bestickered iPad case, with one Squishmallow pop socket and one more typical button-style pop socket .
The Google Logo for making a New Year's reasolution, depicting a ball of yarn and a square of fabric in place of "oo" with knitting needles somewhat entangled in a strand of yarn hovering over the top. Nothing about the arrangement of yarn ball, yarn strand, knit fabric and needles is accurate to representing "knitting".
The starting row of stitches on the cable of my sock needle, showing the new-to-me German Twisted cast-on method. It is the superest stretchy cast-on I've done yet, excellent for socks.
A large, black-and-tan TortieMeeze cat is picking up her kibbles one at a time as they are scattered all over the corner of the room. The food robot dispenser is elevated on a shelf about 18 inches up and just drops the kibble on a floor mat.