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And so doing a bit of research on the high Arctic, and wondering what all lives up there - I mean, I have some ideas, but wanted certainty...
So I go to google and get the standard AI Summary and really, I mean, it's not too tough...
Yes. Yes, I'm having all sorts of new inspirations, the Emus of the High Arctic...
Which I have to say makes me doubt the rest of it and it looks like I'll need some better sources...
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What a sober and heartening speech Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made at Davos. With all that's going on in the world, south of the border, etc. his was a refreshing take.
You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZCGD3ZTlZw
Compare that with a certain other "World Leader's" speech here (if you can bear it).
The Madman, Convicted Rapist, Pedophile, Fraudster & Proud American President Donald J. Trump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNM5m1pAfSI
Watching Carney, and you're proud to be Canadian. A voice of reason in troubling times. Yet there are still those that would vote, even now, for Pierre Poilievre. So clearly we have our own problems. And Danielle Smith still walks free, plundering Alberta's resources, privatizing healthcare and inciting an uninformed, hillbilly populace to join the US.
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Saw this in the antique shop and I immediately thought of the old bosses nephew, Andrea, whom I've frequently mentioned.
For reasons which aren't so innocent and can't be elaborated upon here...
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Now my web-rounds have mostly consisted of doom-scrolling reddit and the news, which is no way to achieve mental health. Especially given the news as of late...
You know what I mean.
But - recalling better days here's a couple of links I've probably posted in the past.
The first is Jason Kottke - Link: https://kottke.org/
Who's good, because while he's as well agonizing over the state of the union, he's also got other things going on. And it's important to remember there are other things going on, this news cycle can be paralytic.
The second is Futility Closet - Link: https://www.futilitycloset.com/
Which is updated daily, and a respite from the day to day assault on our attention spans.
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Ha! And - finally I have done it; at the restaurant we've hired some new staff and I've wrestled weekends off. Saturday and Sunday, specifically, and if I'm fortunate I'll be able to dovetail my other days into doubles meaning that I'll have 4 1/2 days off per week.
Which would suit me just fine.
The Saturdays off, well, I'll be able to attend the theatre, develop a better (and healthier) social life, get up to all sorts of things...
Starting today. Yayy!
Now - at the library, blogging and having done some maintenance on the database, the back-end, front-end, mentioned my uneventful and rather boring life it's time to read a bit my book of the moment - Richard Hakluyt - "Voyages and Discoveries" - rather abbreviated from it's original million and a half words to a comfortable 150, 000; a sixteenth scholars thorough documenting of all of Britains sea-voyages, often in the first person, descriptions of distant times and lands when the world - to Britain largely - was still a vast and unexplored place.
Anyways, it's great reading...