Christopher Solar 🇨🇦
Furniture designer/maker, cyclist, inside the Ottawa bubble. He/Him.
- Let the games begin! Maybe this will bar me from entry into the States at some point in the future but it's worth it.
- This is just a staggering amount of technology and infrastructure and externalized risk all to avoid paying a cab driver.
- Not satire cybernews.com/news/waymo-o...
- According to my rudimentary Italian, two or more of these machines are called Zamboni. No 's', it's already a plural. One by itself would be a Zambono.
- Side bar: am I the only one who winces at "let's take back [city/country/whatever]" as a slogan? It's just highlighting the stupid partisan tug of war that plays out in our politics. Both sides use it interchangeably. You take it, I take it back, you take it back from me, etc.. Us, them, us, them.
- A "smart home" is one where your ability to turn on the lights depends on the status of a Google server somewhere. share.google/67gmX4KD2k22...
- Looking at a floorplan for a client's bathroom just now and the helpful AI summary from Adobe immediately brought to mind this @eleanormorton.bsky.social bit.
- We Have AI Now www.youtube.com/shorts/8-lgJ...
- open browser, see endless posts with the same video of sleepy-eyed head-cocked Trump giving a speech, close browser
- I keep seeing "Yellow warning - snow" pop up on my phone and did the people behind this not realize that it reads as "Yellow snow warning".
- Why haven't I seen the op-eds about how great it will be for the Democrats to pick up two more senators for Greenland?
- Good arguments but I would quibble against the comparison to Times Square which was, after all, still in the public realm. X is more akin to putting the "vice, sin, and abuse" of 1970's Times Square inside the food court of a decrepit privately-owned shopping mall.
- "Our facility also boasts several mysterious bathroom puddles." I once had to take my daughter to a birthday party at Cosmic Adventures, whose policy was that everyone had to leave their shoes at the entrance. Walking into the men's/boys bathroom in sock feet is an experience I will never forget.
- Ottawa South #ottbike: one northbound car lane plus the bike lane out of service on the Bank St. bridge. Replaced with "cars/bikes single file" signage. Really hope this is not a 5-year-long L2.0 thing!
