Another funny comment is that my map of Cyprus only has four places on it. Well those are the only four places mentioned in the text! That's easy to fix though, I can add as many as they'd like

A translation company sent me a project for "MTPE", machine translation post-editing, which sucks, but good for a few bucks. There was no translated file, so did they want me to translate it? They said "You can machine translate it and proofread it." They can't even imagine human translators anymore

My daughter (safely in another room): why are you waving a knife like that

Uh because if I'm using a sharp knife in the kitchen I have to pretend I'm in the knife fight scene from Under Siege? Obviously

II. Vienna, Etudes - Death of Kaspar YouTube video by Esa-Pekka Salonen - Topic

Today's movie is one I have actually seen before, The Red Violin, classic Canadiana

Another one is Constance of Aragon, who was queen of Hungary and then queen of Sicily/married to the holy Roman Emperor

Eleanor of Aquitaine, Anne of Brittany...

As a Leafs fan it feels wrong to cheer for Montreal, but the Canadiens are a fun team and exciting to watch. But I can never be a fan of the true enemy, the Senators

a man with white hair is saying i feel like i 'm taking crazy pills ALT: a man with white hair is saying i feel like i 'm taking crazy pills

But various recent popes have definitely been involved in covering up lots of crimes??? And the Catholic Church has totally justified war and violence many times in the past??!

Since my wife is still recovering from her surgery, but she's the one with the Costco membership, I had to go to Costco with my parents. You never want your parents to see how much you spend at Costco, so embarrassing

I had to upgrade to the newest version of Excel this year but it sucks. The ancient version I had before could do lots of complicated equations and the new version prefers to simply crash.

Also I discovered I can do pretty much exactly the same stuff much faster and more easily on Google Sheets

And take your hat off at the dinner table

My incision 👹
My wife's incision 🥰

This is a dance off. If you see this, repost a dance, or you're eliminated

I was in first place in fantasy hockey the whole season but my team all decided to take a nap for the championship week, so I finished in 2nd! Fortunately it's just a random league this year with people I don't know and no money is involved

Thou shalt not horn in on thy husband's racket

Today it's my wife's turn to have surgery to remove a weird lump. Unlike mine though, apparently hers isn't weird and cancerous, just regular weird

Can Google Notebook read 16th-century English chancery hand? Haha no of course not, but just for fun I upload this image of a will from 1541 anyway. It had absolutely no idea and probably at least 90% of was completely made up. Very amusing

He used to be R. Scott Gemmill. He still is, but he used to be too

It's also on Nick Fury's tombstone in whichever Avengers movie he fakes his death

This all reminds me of the conflict between Emperor Frederick II and various popes, except those popes were all jerks and Frederick was cool, so it's not quite the same

We were watching the astronauts, er...landing? But they didn't "land", they were in the ocean. The English word "splashdown" just isn't as satisfying as the French equivalents, "atterrissage" and "amerrissage"

And it works for any planet or moon, "alunissage", "amarsissage", "atitanissage"

He's got that lye burn from Fight Club

My wife is away for the weekend so you know what that means...I can make all the food she doesn't like. Meatball time aw yeah

Basically everyone from high school went to UWO since we already lived within walking distance of it.

Watching Hot Shots!, which I must have seen hundreds of times when I was a kid, but I haven't watched it in probably 30 years. It's still hilarious

Mushrooms are the worst of all rooms

When I first got my acoustic guitar 30 (!) years ago I thought "I must learn Yesterday". Well, it has a weird fingerpicking pattern and the guitar is actually tuned down a whole tone...but I learned it eventually. Now, can I make an electric guitar sound like a string quartet? Surprisingly, yes?!

I thought I would try something that sounded easier: Song 2 by Blur. It was meant to be a parody of a grunge song, how hard could it be? Well they couldn't stop being Blur, so it turns out it's actually surprisingly complicated. But they cheated too, no way just 1 person played all that live