We have many times more than this ripening outside. Picking them takes me back to my childhood (still leaving many for the birds).
The other day a tiny little bird - a warbler - sat in the pink flower for a bit as I watched, etching the image in my memory. #smallstories
25x50 Day 1. Photos: https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=35034352186%40N01&view_all=1&text=%2025x50day1
June 30, 2018. 25x50 Day 1. It was incredibly warm outside today so I got an early start to the bike ride. On the way back from Avonmore I stopped at Warwick Forest to take a few photos. later, while I was stopped and having a drink of water (hydrate! hydrate! hydrate!) one of my spokes popped. Heat expansion plus metal fatigue? So disappointed. It will be a few days before Day 2, I'm afraid.
I'll keep you all up-to-date on 25x50 with stories and photos, and keep the running total here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p7xloEL4M_bXmphKnOJWLF-RQYtuWX8xtUdyFXKMelE/edit#gid=709359872
This year's cycling challenge...
Every year I set an annual target of 2000 km, which I've met only once. Last year I hit 1600. This year I have 573 so far. Last year's challenge was 20x50 - 20 days of 50 km, which I finished, for 1000 km.
This year, then, I'm making it a 25x50 challenge. I have a bit more time this year, and a pretty good start to the season. That's 1250, which gets me to over 1800 total.
I'm going to to get those extra 200 km by extending some of the 50 km rides a bit.
Circle of Life
One more day before vacay... getting geared up for this year's cycling challenge :)
Blog post: Why ActivityPub is the future https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/06/why-activitypub-is-the-future/
Today was a nice ride to Avonmore and back, followed by a nap. This turkey vulture was spotted en route. The photo makes me think that I should be preparing my camera settings more carefully ahead of time to get the best quality photo in a hurry - even with some time I couldn't focus properly and the shutter speed was too slow. Still, it's a magnificent bird. And it was cleaning the road of roadkill - what a friend.
Just finished a very difficult 54 km ride (two flats, very hot, strong winds) after a 60 km ride yesterday. Good weekend riding but I'm a little stiff and sore now.
The only thing I actually do for 'work' is commuting and meetings. The rest is stuff I've always done. This is a pattern that does back to 1987.
Except for periods during that time I also spent some time teaching (but that only added a few hours per week (contact time) to my schedule, as the rest of it inherently prepared me to teach).
Before then I spent five years working on the student newspaper (and it was before internet access anyways) and was 'studying' for my degree.
Staying up late watching David Bowie videos...
Wow, it's only taken Twitter about a million years to realise that people use favouriting as bookmarking.
When is Mastodon going to get this feature?
One day in (I think) 2011 a guy flew in from Ottawa to meet with all the NRC staff and close our office. While he was in the air the government changed its mind and our office was saved; we had the meeting and he said "no changes effecting this office". That was the day I stopped being afraid of losing my job. In my mind, I had already lost it that day, and I was just going to do whatever I wanted from that point forward. Oh, and no loyalty. #smallstories
The dentist gave me a needle right at the front and it didn't hurt! I made sure to compliment him on this. #smallstories
If I recall correctly, just as Marx said "everything is political", Aristotle would have said "everything is based on moral intent".
Maybe we need a new concept. I'll go out on a limb and give it a name - OERSS. Open Educational Rersource - Student Sharing. Or Open Educational RSS. Take your pick. It's open resources found, created, used and shared by students. The real open educational resources. https://www.downes.ca/post/68169
I was waiting for someone to tell me it's not a duck, it's a crane.
Duck!
