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15C Below – Time for an Icewine Tour
This Christmas we decided to give our oldest son tickets to the Niagara Icewine Festival as a Christmas present. Yes, we know it might sound odd to some but he’s an old soul and has […]
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Notable Science Losses from 2018
As humans, we have to deal with loss. It is, unfortunately, a fact of nature. It may be a direct loss of a family member or a friend. It could also have been an indirect […]
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A little chatbot to play with for 2019
“Hey, Google. What are the AI predictions for 2019?” “My apologies, I don’t understand.” That’s about all you can expect from the Google assistant, and pretty much most of the smart speakers out there. Don’t […]
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Cricket Pancakes Anyone? Future Foods – Chirp! Chirp!
This morning I took the plunge in deciding to give cricket powder a try. I’ve eaten bugs before, grubs, mealworms, Cajun crickets, chocolate covered ants and the like. It’s not a foreign concept for me […]
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This post is for the crapper
I was not kidding when I said this post is for the crapper. I literally meant it. A little bit ago the family was sitting watching TV. I heard water running but dismissed it as […]
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Steemians – Come One, Come All to Toronto
It’s a hot, hazy day here in Toronto and it’s about to get hotter. Just over two weeks to the SteemCreators Conference & SMT Summit put on by @steemcreators. Let me tell you, I’m pretty […]
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What did you do this summer?
What have you been up to this summer? We’ve made the summer pilgrimage up to the cottage. Around mid-summer, I take some time off and head for the Haliburton Highlands. It’s a vast oasis of low […]
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Name the EXOMARS Rover CONTEST – 10SBD
It’s time for a contest! On Friday the European Space Agency launched its contest to name the ExoMars rover. I’ve entered the contest with dreams of winning. I thought that it would be bloody cool if […]
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Odessa – An Ode to Odyssey for ExoMars Rover
There is a competition that was just announced by the European Space Agency (ESA). @fredrikka just posted about it. The contest? Name the ExoMars 2020 rover. As soon as I read his post a name […]
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Beware of Heracleum mantegazzianum – Giant Hogweed
No, that’s not a spell from Harry Potter. Although it sounds like something from Harry Potter, Heracleum mantegazzianum is better known as Giant Hogweed (still not helping my case.) Oddly enough it actually belongs to the […]