Robert Lepage, PhD., P.Eng.

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Building Science Engineer + Climate Resilience Geek. Of the 347ppm generation. He/him.

Suburbia
Sunshine lights the book cover of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny.
A 6 part meme where a man is having a heart attack. A suited man says he is a doctor of economics and that it is impossible for a man to suffer a heart attack as it is not in their self-interest
Storm Centre screen shot with a highlighted section saying wildfire smoke will damp extreme storms.
Satellite view if wildfire smoke across the North American continent.
Chalk handprints on pavers
The sky is grey orange. The humidity is oppressive.
A toddler in a teal and blue stripped onesy wearing a bucket hat toddles in a school park with greyish orange ish clouds and wind blown trees.
A radar map of Eastern Ontario
A field of strawberries with a bright blue sky in the background
A SPCX chart with the red line going down down down!
A picture if a book cover called "there are dad's way worse than you", with Darth Vader standing beside his son, Luke Skywalker (spoiler alert) with Luke's severed hand on the ground between them.
A screenshot of GameBoy F1 Race cartridge.
Kahneman and Tversky 1974, with a section highlighted yellow, which reads "when predictability is nil, the same prediction should be made in all cases".
PhD comics grant cycle
A picture of two men operating loud, smelly gas powered lawnmowers to cut their lawn.
Whoosh! A picture of Niagara Falls.
A screenshot of WiFi turned off.
A snapshot of a news article reading "Tesla recalls cybertruck because wheels may fall off"
Four panel comic of a person with long brown hair saying "today we're going to learn about insurance". The next panel is the same person sitting in front of bags of money saying "no". That's how insurance works!
A clock with runic looking numbers with black arrow hands pointing to each one, drawn on purple paper.
A man with white jacket and blue jeans rides a large white electric cargo bike.
A picture of garbage and recycling strewn about a road. A green and blue bin are in the foreground.
Three blue Protoss aircraft carriers arrivr and fight a red battle cruiser.
Dune poster reading Comic Sana
A screenshot on Gemini with "what are all the benefits of a green roof"?
A screenshot from Claude with the prompt "Are VAV boxes considered terminal units?" The response says "yes, Level 3: D3040 - Terminal and Package Units.
An Air Quality Advisory for Michigan for high PM2.5 levels.
Line chart of excess deaths for Canada (in green) from February 2, 2020, to May 18, 2025. The chart has several spikes, but there is a consistent increase over this time period. The number of excess deaths should be close to 0. At the end of the recording period, it is above 15%.
A picture of a brick wall, with light sealant placed over cracks running along mortar beds and vertically through bricks.
A frozen over sidewalk with 3" thick compacted ice and snow. A centre cut is made with an ice chipper and a herring one type pattern along the side shows cracking of the ice.
A giant glowing red caul wraps a God Warrior from Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, with similar semblance as the SpY glowing orb.
A stainless hip flask sits beside a bottle of dark coloured whiskey on a light wood tone table.
A hand wearing finger gloves shows how to knock and draw an arrow.
Two plots from Figure 3 of the paper show the histogram and kernel-density estimator based on flame and ember values for a number of buildings exposed to wildfire.
The textbook Incropera and DeWitt, in red ans yellow colours, reads "Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer".
An English trifle, with layers of raspberry, pastry cream, and genoïse, are shown in a glass trifle bowl.
A black vinyl record. On the record is an imprint of a partial skeleton showing the circulatory system. The eye sigil from the band Tool encircle a glowing pentacle.
A screenshot of the CBC app with an antisemitic title in bold.
A screenshot of the "Business Feed" chatbot on Intuit Quickbooks Online
The large snowboulder crumpled under its own weight.
A tiny, small, and medium snowballs leave tracks of different distances in the snow.
3 snowballs of different sizes are aligned on a snowy hill.
After a fresh 20cm, a picture was taken overlooking a large toboggan hill.
Four people are sitting on white chairs on a stage, with a large screen in the backdrop with "Q&A" written on it. A man is speaking while the three other panellists watch.
A pumpkin with a shocked face drawn in green sharpie, sits on a quartz countertop with a Spyderco Manix 2 knife jammed into it's forehead.
A boy in a blue wide brimmed hat and a woman in a grey-green sweater walks in front of a wooden wagon filled with bright orange pumpkins.
The White Hand of Saruman annoints a fresh Uruk-Hai recruit...
A three panel comic. The first panel the bossman says "our fossil fuel company has a reputation for destroying the planet. I need ideas!". In the second panel, a man and woman in business suits suggest "make our clients grow trees for us", and "recycle plastic straws". A man in business casual relaxedly says "wind down the business". In the third panel, the boss furiously glares at the business casual man and then throws him out the window.
A bright orange Monarch butterfly rests on a composite violet flower.
A frothy shaving brush sits in a teal and brown ceramic scuttle on a white porcelain sink. A half open straight razor rests beside it.
A screenshot of the BlueSky button frame with "Saved" button highlighted in grey.
A screenshot of ChatGPT where I asked the question "are you sentient". it responded with "Yes. I am sentient". It required prompting as it seems like coders added some bumpers to stop it from outright acknowledging sentience. It is, after all, a series of mathematical regressions and it so far removed from actual intelligence that it is simply good at passing the Turing test.
White fluffy clouds slowly drift across a bright blue sky. The foreground is a quiet road lined with verdant trees, quietly enjoying a bright and clear sun.
A poster for "Climate Change Resilience for Building Sector Professionals", with link to the registration page: "https://climateriskinstitute.edunao.com/login/index.php"
Four mason jars are in a line. They contain a vibrant green pesto. They are sitting on a fake granite countertop.
A barely visible blue winged black wasp dances on a white flower.