Photosynthesis is a pretty elaborate game with more strategy than you might expect from trees ☀️🌲
There’s sure to be a good caper behind this busted safe in the middle of the woods
Happy birthday to my favourite daughter!
Lucy couldn’t quite manage the last burpee challenge in today’s One Academy Collision class
My favourite gym has a charity event on Saturday supporting Nellie’s Shelter for women & children. If you’re new to One Academy, your first class if free! So, a great chance to get a good workout & support an important cause
I’m really enjoying these Biggest Ideas in the Universe videos from Sean Carroll. Sufficiently nerdy to be interesting without getting too detailed.
Lots of good 90s music nostalgia on this Incomparable episode
China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station is intensely creative and very entertaining 📚
A big thanks to Brie and Paul for the homemade masks!
I'm not analyzing COVID data, though I'm impressed with Ontario's open data
I’m neither an epidemiologist nor a medical doctor. So, no one wants to see my amateur disease modelling. That said, I’ve complained in the past about Ontario’s open data practices. So, I was very impressed with the usefulness of the data the Province is providing for COVID: a straightforward csv file that is regularly updated from a stable URL. Using the data is easy. Here’s an example of creating a table of daily counts and cumulative totals:
Apple’s Mobility Trends tool is intriguing. Curious to see that transit declines early, quickly, and the most. Makes sense, I suppose, given that transit users are in close proximity.
What is Real by Adam Becker is a great book on the measurement problem in quantum physics. Becker writes very clearly about the actual physics of the problem and the fascinating history. Such a clear example of how science is a human endeavour with politics and personalities 🔭📚
Simple brew tea shortcut
Since I’m mostly stuck inside these days, I find I’m drinking more tea than usual. So, as a modification of my brew coffee shortcut, I’ve created a brew tea shortcut. This one is slightly more complicated, since I want to do different things depending on if the tea is caffeinated or not. We start by making this choice: Then, if we choose caffeine, we log this to the Health app:
A small change to my quarantine home office with large ergonomic impacts: I’ve added a Lamicall iPad stand. Much better and more flexible positioning of the iPad with this simple device.
I hadn’t expected to see gas below $1/L ever again 🚗
Quarantine home gym weights 💪
A simple Shortcut for tracking workout time
I’ve been tracking my time at work for a while now, with the help of Toggl and Timery. Now that I’m working from home, work and home life are blending together, making it even more useful to track what I’m doing. Physical exercise is essential to my sanity. So, I wanted to integrate my Apple Watch workouts into my time tracking. I thought I’d be able to leverage integration with the Health app through Shortcuts to add in workout times.
The face you make when you’re dealt 23 damage in one round
A good day for board games
I’ve found the Eno’s new album Mixing Colours really helpful while working from home under quarantine with the rest of my family. 🎧
