adam w.k. @sabbatical@qoto.org

beck and phoenix also used this cool 3d stage projection technique that i hadn’t seen before. very nice!

drone light show in the background while beck did his thing at ontario place last night

@levisan my bro-in-law just switched to a flip phone. trying to break his dependency on his smartphone basically

@levisan i know there’s grey area cases — like say a gay baker objecting to doing a cake with a christian fundamentalist message (or vis versa 😉). i can see where things can get taken too far. where do the rights of the baker begin and the rights of the customer end? but the basic arrangement to me is better than any alternatives i can imagine

@levisan ah, well, that right already exists, it’s just trumped by exemptions to prevent prejudicial treatment in certain ways, like based on religion, sex, etc. which i’m grateful for tbh! where i grew up folks would be turned away from places for being christian, for example. glad it’s not like that here

@levisan ohh. yeah. well, in some cases ppl do get paid for their commutes but that’s rare. and that would incentivize people living far from work, penalize folks who maybe pay more to live closer

@levisan like a restraining order anyone can apply to whoever they don’t want to be around?

@levisan isn’t that the definition of being paid per hour?

@levisan what, like freedom of association?

grilling in the backyard at night

was shocked to find out that was all the real actors voices on the musical episode. and that last episode cliffhanger! i haven’t enjoyed star trek this much since TNG was still on the air, i think!

been watching the new star trek snw with my boy at the recommendation of my parents — just finished the second season and it’s gotten surprisingly good!

kai’s power tools

@caitp @damianogerli my memory is that google was a lot better — at least by the time i tried it in maybe 2000ish. altavista was good, but google quickly blew em out of the water

@damianogerli i remember using basically this pitch for trying google to my altavista-using friends at high school! great time while it lasted…

@seachanger an alternative without the regional spelling issues could be “villages”!

@seachanger the downside will be the british vs american spelling arguments — as a canadian i’m on team “neighbourhood” btw ;)

@seachanger the other upside to this term would be it intuitively encourages choosing a niche small/medium-sized instance/neighbourhood instead of an enormous “default” one

had a picnic/bbq to welcome my parents moving back to canada — luckily my truck juuust fit between the bollards at the park entrance, so i was able to haul all our stuff up the hill to the pavilion