Pizza on the BBQ

A homemade pizza topped with cheese and fresh basil leaves is baking on a pizza stone inside an oven.

Lined that up surprisingly well, if accidentally

A scatter plot shows data points with blue circles representing heart, lungs, temperature, and oxygen levels from high to typical, and a pink circle representing sleep quality in the low range.

🏊‍♂️ Swimming in a Haliburton lake is so much nicer than a Toronto pool

A serene lake surrounded by forest under a partly cloudy sky is shown with details of an afternoon swim including distance, time, and average pace.

Finished reading: Surprising no one, Alias Grace A Novel by Margaret Atwood is very well written📚

Getting dinner ready with my sous chef

🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Midnight Rider by The Allman Brothers Band from Idlewild South (Deluxe Edition). An easy-going song about freedom and resilience

After experimenting with many different apps and approaches, I’m back to integrating everything into Reeder. I like the clean, consistent aesthetic, easy gestures for actions, and ease of integrating diverse sources.

🏃‍♂️ I’m glad to have finished this run before the big thunderstorm rolled through

A calm, overcast scene shows a large body of water surrounded by dense green trees, with running statistics from a HealthFit app overlaying the image.

Turned into a nice day

A calm lake at sunset reflects the sky with soft clouds, surrounded by trees, and features a small dock and a floating platform.

Finished reading: Titanium Noir by Nick Harkaway is a fun noir detective mystery📚

Finished reading: The Casino Shift by Brian Goldman is a rather sobering look at the poor state of emergency medicine in Canada. Seems like a disaster waiting to happen through neglect, partly motivated by ERs’ amazing ability to adapt and get by with less, until they can’t anymore 📚

Finished reading: The Will of the Many by James Islington was a fun read: think Roman senators in Hunger Games at Hogwarts 📚

George is delighted to be back in a lake

Much better weather today 😁

A serene lake reflects the sunlight with a forested shoreline under a clear blue sky.

🏃‍♂️ At least running in the rain keeps the heat down

A calm lake surrounded by dense trees is shown on a rainy day, with overlay text indicating a 7.18 km run taking 42 minutes at an average pace of 5 minutes and 54 seconds per kilometer.

Arrived to our cottage vacation in a torrential thunderstorm! That’s okay though. Still better than being at work and the storm won’t last

🎧 A fun Mindscape interview with Luis Bettencourt on scaling laws in cities. Bettencourt inspired some of my research on pollinator networks. So, this was also nostalgic

🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Angeles by Elliott Smith from Either/Or. Although Waltz, No. 2 (XO) is a slightly better song, I think Angeles is a better first listen song.

🎧 As a small gesture of support for independent podcasts, I’ve switched from Apple Podcasts to Overcast (again). Overcast is certainly a better app and I’m happy to support it with another year of subscription revenue

🎉 The Hemispheric Views June-boree was tremendous fun! I’m delighted to have achieved third place and received a fantastic trophy.

A 3.5 floppy disk labeled with Hemispheric Views, JUNE BOREE, and 39 DAYS / THE GAUNTLET Ver. 2026 is displayed standing on a wooden stand.