🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — Salesmen, Cheats and Liars by Lowest of the Low from Shakespeare My Butt…. Great Canadian indie rock
🎧 A reliable signal of Fall: a new season of Quirks and Quarks
Build Canada has a useful resource for the upcoming municipal elections in Toronto
Got some wood guitar picks from Tree Picks. Sound good and feel nice
A large coffee kind of day
I like the new Recaps feature in Everlog. It uses on-device AI models to create monthly and annual summaries of journal entries. Works well and the mechanics are carefully explained to provide comfort about privacy implications
🎶🚴 Cheap Beer by FIDLAR got me through a tough interval on the bike this morning
🏃♂️ Action shot from my coach at this morning’s track workout
🎵 Match Head Girl by Iceage is some good pick-me-up punk rock. The whole album keeps up the energy
🏊♂️ A short test swim in the new lake. I’m looking forward to exploring the shoreline
Finished reading: I enjoyed Jack the Bodiless by Julian May. A fun premise and interesting mystery📚
🏃♂️ 400km of trails in the Haliburton Forest to explore
Nice to see Apple starting to put more effort into generating health insights, like readiness. I have much of this already via other products, but they’re scattered about and don’t integrate well together.
🎵 Song of the week for my daughter — The Night Starts Here by Stars from In Our Bedroom After the War. The two singers work well together
Notes on the week of August 31 2026
Some highlights from last week, as recorded on the following Tuesday. Queen‘s Engineering Casa Domenico 2026 Blue Mountain Spartan race Transcript
Dropped kid #2 off at Queen’s University to start engineering. Very excited for him! Now my wife and I need to sort out a new rhythm in a house without our kids
Unplug America is a great site from @todmaffin.com that lists Canadian alternatives to US tech products 🇨🇦
My daughter passed along some impressive footage from yesterday’s storm
🏃♂️ New running shoes day!
Aftermath of last night’s big storm
