Levi Breederland @levisan@qoto.org

I've realised that when someone asks me to do something without giving any indication of how important it is or what kind of deadline there might be, I prioritise it in part based on how I was asked. The more annoying the wording and method of communication are, the longer it'll take me to get to a request, probably out of subconsious spite

If you blatantly disregard applicable rules of driving that are designed to protect the life of others, we can't be friends

I tried this method of making coffee but it didn't work

I must not have an Italian mother.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZUQ5An3qzE

@mike To be fair, as long as they're not saying "new" it's not wrong, right?

I didn't watch the stream but I can hear Tim Cook saying "gorgeous design" in my head clear as day

"Reading" is to audiobooks as "cycling" is to Peloton

@vic he also got a regular moose ticket. He gets everything he can and brings both rifles and archery gear so as to be prepared anything. I’ll have to ask if he’s ever actually opted for a bow when it comes to moose!

[friend talking about going hunting]
Me: you got a spreadsheet for that?

I wonder if Monroe realised/knew that the Dutch are behind both https://xkcd.com/2241/

Reading about Dunbar's Number and wondering how many relationships I have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number

Anecdotally, Vancouver drivers are worse at following the rules than Edmonton or Seattle drivers, and Seattle drives have a higher chance of driving unregistered vehicles than the other two.

I wish English had other common words for winter/spring/summer-y periods like we have “autumn” for 🍂 and can thus distinguish it from astronomical fall without having to say extra words.

Dutch thing of the day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bourtange

I thought every job looked cooler if the person had a Peli case but then my kids got their faces painted and the artist’s gear was in one

What's the craic? https://buttondown.com/levisan/archive/121/

Me checking in on CBC, 1941, colourised

I'm not a fan of marketing "the community" as a promo of donating to a post-consumption-donation product

After 24 years of being consciously aware of the Olympics and being reasonably indifferent to the concept of the whole (though interested in several parts within) I have developed three opinions that I am recording here to look up in two years.

Any sport that has an extant “best of the world” competition should not be in the Olympics.

The Olympics started as a competition of pure athleticism. Events that require the opinions of judges should not be included.

We shouldn't be talling medals by nations. Nations should participate as the pool from which teams can be made and their local Olympic committees deciding which athletes can partake, but that's it. It shouldn't be a competition between nations.

You encounter a situation with no dress code or social expectations.

It's too warm to comfortably wear both long sleeves and trousers, and two cool for both short sleeves and shorts.

Do you opt for short sleeves or shorts?

Idea: get the loved ones of a person who has dementia to put their speech into a voice "AI", so that if they aren't contactable (or dead) the person with dementia can still "call" them and thus the caretakers can avoid a frusterated patient

@sabbatical Those giant double plug things were wild!