Matt MacIntyre

@thinkontheclock.com

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code. music. coffee. climbing. bikes. outdoors. unapologetic gif responder. staff developer, drupal dept at VERB Interactive. đź“Ť#Kjipuktuk #Dartmouth #NovaScotia #BikeHfx #HaliSky

An orange bike is wedged between a bike rack and some poorly placed tables full of plants outside a grocery store in an urban setting.
Some of my deer friends. Two deer stand in a field. A fence is between us. The pasture is green, and a red barn is in the background. It is evening twilight.
a bulldozer is semi-submerged in half-frozen muskeg in the Canadian north.
A view from up high in Wentworth Nova Scotia. Blue sky with some wispy clouds top an idyllic green valley.
A black and white photo of an old streetcar in Australia, featuring a large cowcatcher-style front.
Andy Fillmore rides a bike over the Halifax Citadel hill.
a photo of an orange mountain bike against a white background.
A screenshot of the walk score for Preson Street in Halifax, Nova Scotia, indicating that you can perform most daily tasks without the need of a car.
A black plastic video game console and controller against a white background. The Sega Genesis.
A two panel meme of a car salesperson and a customer. The customer asks about cargo space. The salesperson replies “car no do that. Car no fly.”
An American crow looks at the camera as I take its picture. It’s sitting on a branch in a tree against a background of trees and blue sky with white clouds
A screenshot of a strava activity outlining a meandering route across the city of Halifax. The title is Counter Points + gym, and the description is Feelin Good.
A downy woodpecker hangs upside down from a rust-coloured globe feeder. It has a seed in its bill.
Some gloves, an apple, a spoon rest, and a watering can sit on a black induction range.
A black and white photo of a pen laying on a pad of graph paper.
Snow capped evergreen trees stand in the foreground of an idyllic snowy valley on a grey winter day in Nova Scotia.
A bonfire-lit field of evergreen trees is seen from below against a very starry night sky.
A photo of current Halifax Mayor Andy Fillmore, riding a bike on a Halifax street, smiling and waving at the camera.
A screenshot of a manipulated Wikipedia article on Transitive Relation, with the word relation changed to raccoon.
A bike leans against a wooden fence. There’s a water view on the left, then a road, then a path on which the bike will travel, lined by forest.
A bicycle stands against a picnic table, and a squirrel is leaning on the top tube surveying the scene.
A white man’s hand holds a book in the centre of the frame. The photo is portrait style with the book in sharp focus and the remainder of the photo in soft blur. The background of the photo is a bed and a closet, washed in reddish light. The spine of the book reads “microserfs Douglas coupland”. The cover of the book is a pattern of pixel art people in white briefs.
A white desk with a coffee mug and black coffee carafe sit in the foreground. In the background are some desk accoutrements, notebooks, and a bicycle on a wall/bulkhead in the background.
A black man—Andre Braugher as Detective Frank Pembleton—sits at a desk with a pen in his right hand. He’s wearing a lightly coloured shirt, a dark tie, and is wearing a gun harness. In the background are three people, occupied with newspapers and paperwork.
A point of view of a man sitting in a bouldering gym. His feet are outstretched in front of him, with black and white climbing shoes on his feet. The gym floor and mats stretch out in front, and in the background is the climbing wall with holds and problems of differing difficulty.
A pourover coffee maker sits precariously atop a pair of chopsticks, which are in turn on top of an orange cast iron French Press. The whole assembly sits on a bamboo cutting board on a grey kitchen counter.
The view is from above and slightly behind. A man sits cross legged with a small child sitting in his lap. The child has a red crayon clutched point up in her right hand. An array of books in front of them on a black and grey damask rug.
The wall of a 2 storey office building is filled with vibrant graffiti. The art appears to span multiple styles and times, and is very well done. There are two vehicles parked near the wall.
A black pen with the text Boxy 100 rests on an off-white page from a dot grid notebook. The ribbon bookmark from the notebook is strewn between the pen and the page.
A map of a section of the Halifax Regional Municipality, including Dartmouth and the Halifax peninsula. There are four pins showing PWSWeather stations.
A white family (mother, father, daughter) is on bikes as part of a larger group in an urban setting. The daughter is in a bike trailer.
An aerial view of the Halifax Commons Aquatic Centre. It’s a multi structure facility with a pool top left, a splash pad bottom left, and entry / exit points to the right. To the top of the frame is an adjacent street.
3 people facing the camera on a sunny day. From left to right they are a man, a woman, and a small child. They are wearing bike helmets and smiling for the camera and standing on a residential street.
2 large murals on the side of a 2 storey greyish-blue building, viewed from the adjacent alley. The sky is blue. The mural on the left has a black background with multicoloured text at the top that reads "I'm so glad you're here", and flowers on the bottom in the same colours as the text. The mural on the right is puffins against an illustrated background with shades of blue and a pink circle.
A photo of a room dimly lit with reddish light. In the foreground is an Xbox controller in front of an iPad. On the screen of the iPad is the video game Celeste.
A screenshot of an iOS widget provided by an app called Literature Clock. The text says "This is the evening. This is the night. It's is New Year's Eve. In about twenty-eight minutes it will be midnight. I still have twenty-eight minutes left. I have to recollect my thoughts. At twelve o'clock I should be done thinking."
A screenshot of the app Carrot (a weather app various Apple operating systems). It reads: Partly cloudy for the hour. Temperature 21 degrees. Feels like 28 degrees. Wet bulb 19 degrees. Precipitation chance 0. Precipitation past hour 0. Wind speed 5km/h southerly. Wind gusts 0km/h. UV Index 1. Humidity 88%. Dew point 19 degrees. Pressure 101kPa. Cloud cover 40%.
A screenshot of a web search about Brazil nuts that reads: People also ask How many Brazil nuts should you eat a day? A Quick Review Eating too many Brazil nuts can lead to selenium toxicity, which has symptoms like diarrhea, nausea, and a metallic taste in the mouth. Limiting intake to about one to three Brazil nuts per day is best.May 26, 2024 Brazil Nuts: Benefits, Nutrition, and Risks - Health
A professional cyclist dressed all in yellow against a yellow background wearing a futuristic looking helmet.
A screenshot of Google Street View showing the Charles and Creighton Street intersection in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It's a classic cross-shaped intersection, where 2 one way streets intersect. There's colorful art on the pavement in the middle of the intersection. The green grass lining the sidewalks suggests that it's summer time. The sky is overcast, and residential buildings line the streets in view.
A screenshot of the Nova Scotia registry of motor vehicles driver handbook, illustrating various methods by which a driver should signal their intention.
A screenshot of a website called Contrarian in the Google Chrome web browser. It is Parker Barss Donham's blog.
A orange mountain bike with drop bars leans against a white car in the parking garage of a condo building.
Two helmeted guineafowl on a patio in rural Nova Scotia.
A goldfinch in flight against a winter, but not snowy, forested background.
A blue jay in profile sits on a perch against a clear blue sky.
A screenshot of the television show Parks and Recreation showing Chris Pratt as his character Andy Dwyer exclaiming "New Band Name I Call It". Chris is dressed in a plaid long sleeved shirt and has an excited look on his face. He's sitting in a small-town city hall style office.
Another world, another time… in the age of wonder.
A screenshot of the HaliSky feed in BlueSky social, showing a post of some shrimp spring rolls on a plate with dipping sauce and garnishes.
A large paper dragon is lit from inside
Judy Dench sits at a table.
A band mid-song on a stage lit with orange and purple lighting. There are 5 men in the band, 3 guitars, a bass guitar, and a drummer. Everyone sings.
A 4 panel meme of Brazilian soap opera star Renata Sorrah as her character Nazaré Tedesco. In each panel her face displays varying degrees of confusion, and there are various mathematical diagrams overlaid, to give the impression that these are her thoughts.
A pile of demolition rubble sits in the foreground against a background of the city of Halifax. Locally iconic building The Pavilion is the building being demolished.
A honey-brown dog rests on a couch, with a city visible through the glass doors behind her. She’s looking at something off camera, likely a baby playing on the floor.
A coastal view of Cape Chignecto from a hiker’s vantage point at a cliff’s edge. Jagged coast line extends into the distance, bookended by lush Acadian forest on one side, and blue waters from the Bay of Fundy on the other.
A CRT television set rests on its side, displaying a white band of light across its normally horizontal, but now vertical, axis.
A screenshot from the movie Starship Troopers, with similarly dressed futuristic soldiers standing in a row, visible in profile. The soldier nearest the camera has her head turned to face the camera, and appears to be speaking. The caption says "I'm doing my part!"
A screenshot of a gmail inbox, showing the increasingly stark titles of some spam emails.