Dave 🇨🇦 / is on Nostr

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Last Notes

2025-04-16 22:42:22

Mechanical keyboard nerds: I’m happy for you and all, but please enjoy in your own space.
Nobody needs your clack-clacking in a coffee shop.

2025-04-15 17:01:16

On the weekend someone interjected into the conversation that we were “talking about things that happened in the 1900s”
Something about that framing really does put it in sharp relief that anything that took place in years with a 1 in front of them happened over a quarter of a century ago.

2025-04-11 22:22:30

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@nprofile…rnt9 someone had to provide the counterbalance.

2025-04-11 22:01:52

On a roughly 8 year avatar update cycle apparently.
There has been absolutely no intention behind this emerging rainbow palette, but I guess I know what 2033’s colour needs to be.
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/114/321/582/071/577/597/original/728b5e3e1543b7d5.jpeg

2025-03-21 21:04:00

I can only assume there’s a whole series of these, encouraging Canadians to travel at home by riffing on places that share names with their more well-known southern counterparts.
But my first exposure being a $65B company advertising a town of 3000 did catch me off guard.
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/114/202/446/214/453/299/original/ccaaf8c898e378a6.jpeg

2025-03-11 19:52:19

One of my favourite public art pieces remains this anti-billboard installation just on the US side of the BC/WA border. No idea when I'll see it next.
https://leadpencilstudio.org/Non-Sign-II
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/114/145/534/137/501/505/original/ed97c70b2c64d6a2.png

2025-03-05 02:52:37

In a pretty standard year we'd normally make 5-10 trips across the US border to various west coast destinations (and beyond) for day trips, weekend getaways, and slightly longer stays.
This year instead, we've so far booked Victoria, BC and Montreal, QC with a pretty good possibility of Mexico as well because hey, we're in this together now.

2025-02-24 20:32:26

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@nprofile…rnt9 *slow blink and soft purr of acknowledgment*

2025-02-23 18:09:50

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@nprofile…rnt9 Hobbes! https://cosocial.ca/@daveshea/113915367878610113

2025-02-23 17:53:44

Our household consumption of multi-hour YouTube videos with scurrying small animals has sharply spiked.
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/114/054/477/922/748/352/original/7eb734b3f5fd64e1.jpeg

2025-01-15 20:58:55

This pigeon-sized Merlin falcon came to say hi on the 12th floor.
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/113/834/375/924/619/959/original/b8bda56d1e423bf9.jpeg

2024-11-22 22:42:07

Had no expectations for today’s visit to University of Oregon’s campus gallery. Watterson originals were a pleasant surprise.
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/113/529/016/987/037/262/original/827910b729233658.jpeg

2024-09-27 17:26:40

Ever edit a PDF in MacOS Preview and have it mysteriously go password protected, effectively locking you out?
It's been a bug for at least two years, and the workaround I've found is to edit the PDF in Chrome instead – which you can still do even after the MacOS password has been inflicted on it. Which I have many questions about.
PDF is the gift that keeps on giving.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/10fxqr0/mac_set_password_on_my_pdf_file_without_my/

2024-09-10 01:42:59

There has never, not once in the entire history of this planet, been a person who has been able to nail the Markdown syntax for a link without looking up which order the brackets go in.

2024-05-11 02:49:13

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@npub1c35…9pmh I’m increasingly liking our chances out west 🤞

2024-04-09 02:11:52

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@npub1c35…9pmh yes! Wasn’t red for us, but I certainly noticed that. Did you see the satellites too? That part was *special*

2024-02-13 21:39:40

I’m loving this new Slack feature that causes conversations/ channels to get arbitrarily pinned to some date in the past so that every time you jump to it from another channel, you have to manually scroll all the way down to current to see the new messages.
Just loving it.

2024-01-19 00:48:21

At this point I’m resigned to the fact that I’ll never be able to spell occasion or necessary on my own without autocorrect help.