Two big red buttons with the same markings. From monsters v aliens movie. One is for a latte and one launches all nuclear weapons.
This is how I feel when I'm trying to check email and need to use the Microsoft (aka microslop aka microsloth) authenticator app... wait until end for the poorly placed "reply" and "reply all" buttons in outlook.
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A crochet gibbon stuffed animal. Hand made.
One of my students asked me what my favorite primate is. Everyone has a favorite. I blurted out gibbon (tied for first with bonobos). A week later they gave me this work of art.
Dirty vodka martini on a guitar effects pedal in front of a Gibson Explorer electric guitar and amps.
I'm not familiar with the concept of "too early for alcohol"
A few of my favorite things...
Close up of Tony's fingers on a fret board of an electric guitar. Cut off finger tips have been replaced with plastic so he can keep playing.
Happy Birthday to Tony Iommi, guitarist for Black Sabbath. Had the finger tips on his fret hand chopped off in a horrible industrial accident. Stop playing guitar wasn't an option. So he made himself some new finger tips and invented heavy metal.
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Australian bass player Bob Daisley standing with arms crossed wearing leather jacket
Happy Birthday to Bob Daisley! If u can remember a lyric that ozzy sang "solo", Bob probably wrote it & never got proper credit or pay. Bob (with Lee Kerslake on drums also never credited) put the train in crazy train and so much more. I play bass because of Bob!
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Gibson Explorer electric guitar and Fender precision electric bass in front of 4 stacked amplifiers. Near an electronic drum kit and a gas stove
I reuse 2 names. My current/favorite instruments are always Glamdring & Orcrist. Currently my foe-hammer is a Fender P thru a chest-crushing 700 watt head & my goblin cleaver is a Gibson Explorer thru an ancient tube and recent solid state amps for a total goblin hacking ear-bleeding 125 watts.
Screen capture of an electronic signature for a reference letter in support of student application to grad school. Signed "the Dude"
Picture of actor Jeff Bridges playing "the Dude" wearing a bath robe and toasting with a drink in the film the big Labowski
I'm always happy write letters in support of students.
I think I will start signing them like this, including uploading this wonderful portrait.
Will it help or hurt students' chances?
I name mine after the various swords in Lord of the Rings.
I'm alive because of the vaccine!
Full martini glass with extra olives placed on a guitar effects pedal with a Gibson Explorer electric guitar and guitar amps in background.
Timeline cleanse from all the heartbreaking and soul crushing doom scrolling with a Q:
If I have a dirty vodka martini (my specialty) with extra olives, does that count as a serving of vegetables?
Night sky. Full moon so bright the trees are casting shadows on some fresh snow. Purple lens flare dot and street lamp far in the distance.
Little while ago the full moon was so bright the trees were casting shadows on some fresh snow.
Tablet on a bracket clipped to a microphone stand. In the back ground karaoke lyrics scroll on a TV screen. Lyrics are for Dirty Deeds by ACDC.
As all the crazy continues it's time for some karaoke.
"Dirty deeds, done dirt cheep"
Not anymore. Everything cost more.
You think that u can multitask & be awesome at what u do but u can never out awesome Jake E. Lee playing guitar on Bark at the Moon live. Entire song is amazing but watch at 1:29 and following as he hops up the stairs backwards to the bass line while play guitar.
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All you need:
All wheel drive.
Work (mostly) from home.
Stable internet.
Chest freezer full of food.
LCBO within stumbling distance.
Very snowy backyard with trees covered in snow.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow...
View from my home office.
Reacquainting myself with concepts including "snow belt" and "lake effect snow" in southern Ontario.
A dozen sail boats anchored in a silvery green bay with mountains and a castle on a hill in the distance. Island of kefalonian, greece
That's beautiful. Here's a pic i took on island of kefalonia in Greece a couple of years ago when i was taking a break from working on bronze age tombs. I feel like I'm back standing there after seeing your drawing.
Selfie of a man with brown hair and goatee wearing sunglasses standing on the bow of a sail boat at dock.
You capture the feeling I had while on my boat in the before times. I miss that feeling.
Patio table in a backyard covered in snow.
Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
House at night lit up with various lights, inflatable ghosts and monsters. Skull projected on side of a house
Happy Halloween!
Wispy clouds appear to be exploding from the top of a tall tree as the leaves start to turn red.
A moment of peace in a quiet backyard when it feels like all hell is breaking loose.
Bunny warming itself in the sun on a cool Autumn day in my backyard.
Five turtles sitting on logs in a swamp
They had friends nearby.
Protect your peace. Stay strong. Find allies. Never give up.
Small turtle with head poking out of water and body submerged in a small swampy area.
Look who I saw on my bike ride.
Long-term cognitive impairment from covid? Many students drawn to felxible on-line asynchronous course?
Start with: 100% support access to education & education as basic human right to frame question: 10% of my class of 270 students (more than ever) need accommodations. Happy to do it. Anyone seeing a trend? Why more? More accessing education (I hope yes) that didn't in past? Something bad? Any ideas?
Does anyone know where I can find videos and pictures of cats? Also ads for casinos? Can't find them anywhere.
I grew up riding that trail riding from central etobicoke all the way down to the lake and beyond. Some wierd and frightening bits. Good for you (and all of us) that you saw someone who needed it and helped.
I have the chest freezer. No utility sink yet. Every time I see a utility sink I think of my great grandmother and her sink and how she always had a giant block of homemade soap on her utility sink in her basement. Ready for any manner of emergency that required some scrubbing.
