All I’ll say is the one-hour switch is not a huge thing for me to deal with. It’s only 60 minutes!
But, it would be nice if the BC government simply made it permanent instead of waiting for the now erratic, unreliable, ignorant, racist and untenable US government to take action first.
This has been an unplanned somewhat political post, thanks to tariffs and other actions and comments from some increasingly senile old white guy who wears a lot of orange makeup because he is a clown, and we are all part of the circus now.
To compensate, I give you this acrobatic cat:
I just like the kindly and gentle depiction of shooting down creativity. Mean ol’ Grandma.
It can’t be cats all the time.
A funny cat.
Trees don’t make you feel anxious or full of existential dread.
I mean, unless it’s stormy and one looks like it’s going to fall on you, which has admittedly happened to me.
But in general, trees don’t do that and I like that about them.
THIS POST IS COMPLETELY UNRELATED TO CURRENT WORLD EVENTS1Haha, naw. It’s totally related to it. But I am actually doing fine, here with my trees and nature and such..
Because there was a 5.4 earthquake about 100 km northwest of the Lower Mainland.
I felt it as two brief rolling waves passing through the ground under the condo (which is on the ground floor). It’s been quite some time since I felt one, but my quakedar immediately pinged with the first rumble.
Yes, quakedar.
This is my one political post this year. Enjoy!
I have tweaked some of the fonts on the site again (but not all of them, so there is a bit of a crazy quilt effect going on here).
Specifically:
Body font: JetBrains Mono
Heading 2 font (used for post titles): Ubuntu Mono
As an added bonus for me, because WP doesn’t “see” JetBrains Mono in the editor, it is using Bold Segoe UI at 17px instead.
I’m all about the monospaced fonts. For now. For today. We’ll see what happens tomorrow.
EDIT: I have already changed the Header font to Barlow Semi Condensed, mere minutes later.
EDIT 2: I've now changed the sidebar to JetBrains Mono and also made the background colour of the site blue, and the sidebar a greenish-yellow. Or a yellowish-green.
EDIT 3: I've updated the blue in the logo to make it a bit lighter and it seems WP just needed to cache the fonts, as the editor now shows JetBrains Mono, as nature intended. More tweaking undoubtedly to come.
It’s the day after Valentine’s Day, it’s cheap!
I really want some marshmallow hearts or something, but I was down this morning (in weight, not mood), so I will steer clear.
Instead, here is a Valentine’s cat. I’m not actually sure where the cat is supposed to be, but, you know, hearts and stuff!
An interweb pal suggested the perfectly stupid name 7-11’s Big Gulf as a substitute for the real life and even more stupid renaming (for Americans) of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
Because I am easily amused, I created this as it might look in the web version of Apple Maps:
Thank you and good night.
I was reading Phil Plait’s newsletter today (I highly recommend it if you’re a science/space nerd) and he happened to mention the size of our galaxy, the Milky Way. It’s about 100,000 light years across.
And I know the universe is big. We all know that. But think about this: Our own galaxy, which is just one of anywhere from 100 to 200 billion estimated galaxies, would take 100,000 years to cross end to end, and only if you were travelling at the speed of light, which we can’t do.
That is very big.
It makes you wonder how weird the universe can get, because it is so vast we will never see most of it.
This concludes my cosmic deep thought for the day.
