Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Absolut BRRRR

It was hella cold out today, but I still went running because I’m an IDIOT. And now this is my body temp:

Mild hypothermia is my specialty.

Explore Disaster!

Apparently “this data is shared in order for individuals (Calgarians and visitors), businesses, and organizations to understand and prepare for potential disaster risks in the city.”

All cities should have something like this publicly available, really. It’s super interesting and informative. Also:

A nice little summary. I’m surprised the risk for critical infrastructure failure/disruption isn’t higher in the winter than the summer. I guess we’re more prepared for winter. Or maybe this is based heavily on last summer’s heat dome when our power grid was about to fail due to all the electricity used for cooling.

THE LIST

  • OH MY GOD
  • I am 100% obsessed with how much of a silly nerd Nick Gehlfuss is. He’s like the polar opposite of the character he plays on Med.

Edit: of course he’s an Aquarius.

  • I am thankful for my unfailing ability to fall asleep and stay asleep. It sounds like so many people have trouble either falling asleep or staying asleep at night, but I am definitely not one of those people. I can fall asleep anywhere, anytime, and stay asleep through pretty much anything.
  • “Pretty much anything” includes 15 alarms, though, so sometimes it’s a less than ideal arrangement.

THAT’S ALL!

I have nothing to say today…

…other than my shock and joy at this video still being up on YouTube.

I think about this every once and a while, mainly because that harmonizing part actually slaps and I’d love to hear the whole song performed on this toy.

Also, I love how the comments are with me on how much people just randomly think about this vid, haha.

If the first verse of “All Star” was written by Guy Fieri

Somebody once sold me
A bunch of ravioli
With 40,000 spices inside
It was looking kind of wild
But actually was mild
So I went into my trailer and cried

That’s…that’s all. This stems from a Jeopardy question, don’t even ask.

FOAM

Man, this has some serious late aughts vibes.  

The clothing, the way they talk, everything.

I dig their happiness, man.

Guess who got a migraine for Christmas?

ME!

(I’m so freaking special!)

I also got a book about Coldplay and one of their concerts on DVD! Thanks, Nate!

I’m not good at very many things…

But I am a fast typist.

Pika Pika!

So two of my students in calculus gave me this bad boy as a present today:

A Pikachu!

…or IS it?

OH JEEBUS IT’S A DITTO

The Last List of 2021

  • I’ve been watching Chicago Med on Netflix. It’s no Chicago Hope, but it’s pretty good. It’s got Oliver Platt in it, so that’s snazzy. I also really like the actor who plays Dr. Halstead (Nick Gehlfuss). I’ve never seen him in anything else, but I like him in this. Seems like a cool dude.
  • This is great.
  • Oooh. Journals.
  • This is a super cool idea for a clock.
  • Remember RAB? Remember how much we quoted that in college? I miss those times sometimes.
  • Get ready for a CRAP TON of book reviews over the coming month or so. It’s supposed to be obnoxiously cold for weeks (like, in the -30s), so I’ll be stuck inside using the treadmill and burning through books.

BYE!

(This is so dumb, I know.)

Today’s deep thought: we spend time and energy to create soft pasta, then dry it out to make it hard, then eventually put it in water to make it soft again. 

Today’s Deep Thought™ is brought to you by sleep deprivation and spaghetti.

Ba-dum, ba-dum-dum-dum!

I’m getting weird “I’ve seen this report somewhere before” vibes from this.

Or maybe those are “yeah I lived in Tucson and I remember how many trailer parks there were” vibes.

We, surprisingly, didn’t live in a trailer park when we lived in Tucson. I say “surprisingly” because we lived in one in Moscow for several years. It was a nice trailer park. We had a nice trailer. That’s where Annabelle showed up and claimed us as her new family.

But I remember my mom and I would always drive through this one big trailer park in Tucson and we would think about the possibility of each of us living in our own trailer right next to each other (because we’re weird).

But then I went back to Moscow so that was that. And then she came back to Moscow. And lived in a trailer, hahahaha.

ANYWAY.

GOOD JOB, ALBERTA

This freaking province, man.

We’re not even the most populous asldfjweurdfhlsdfhssd.

Y’all sick of my Calgary pictures yet?

TOO BAD!

I am sad and I hate my life

That’s the blog, now go the hell away.

So this is kinda cool:

The picture of the skyfall I took in February showed up on a site listing a bunch of cool weather phenomena.

IDN Times is based in Indonesia.

Woo!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…

Calgary is a beautiful city.

I recognize a lot of these places thanks to walking everywhere, haha. I think my favorite thing about this video is how it shows just how many walking/biking paths Calgary has. Did you know that Calgary has the most extensive network of urban paths/bike paths in North America?

(I’m glad I picked Calgary over Ottawa)

The one place I don’t recognize at all is at 1:36. That path looks fantastic; I’ll have to figure out where this is and go walk/run it.

END!

THE AUGUST LIST

  • Does anyone even care about these?

That’s it. That’s the list.

Your Optimism is Overwhelming, SAIT

So SAIT had this giant thing on one of their buildings:

The small text says “Our world’s never needed you more” so I guess they’re trying to be optimistic about everything, but when the big “screw you and your hope for a normal existence” message is like 20 times bigger than the “oh wait hey hi we love you and need you” message, it maybe doesn’t project the message they were hoping it would.

Read Yesterday’s Blog

Now go away.

*more whining*

I don’t caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare about aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanything

Including blogging

Go away.

This Is The Future

Are you ready for the water war era?

I’m not.

It’s terrifying.

‘Berta

I got my Alberta driver’s license today!

…am I cool now?

(Sorry not sorry for the short blog.)

Uh…

That’s because the present sucks, yo.

At least with the past we can reminisce and with the future we can imagine that things will be better.

But the present is in the toilet.

I don’t want to blog.

I don’t want to do anything.