Chris Lawson

Close to perfect. Three being too many.

Longtime Ottawa radio host Lowell Green dead at 89 | CBC News Award-winning Ottawa broadcaster, writer, and community organizer Lowell Green — a fixture on the local airwaves for decades —died on Saturday at the age of 89, his family says.

Rage-farmer before rage farming was cool. Good riddance. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

When I was told to come get my bin, I asked "What do people without a car do if they need recycling bins?" The answer? "You can have someone come on your behalf to collect the new bins for you."

Ottawa residents must now pick up new recycling bins Residents are being directed to pick up new blue bins from one of two Miller Waste Services locations in Ottawa.

"We only give out one bin and you've got to come get it… half way across town." Great recycling system we've got now, Ontario. Did Doug Ford come up with this? Why yes, yes he did. ottawacitizen.com/news/ottawa-...

Amazon’s painful Melania documentary is an unintentionally perfect portrait of American cruelty Brett Ratner film follows the first lady in the lead up to Donald Trump’s 2025 presidential inauguration

Barry Hertz's review made me laugh out loud. www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/film...

Do people like the new #ottawa recycling regime? I just moved and the city has already delivered my new green bin. But I have to drive out to Kanata or the east end to get blue and black bins. Seems to me the private contractor is doing the cheap and cheerless.

Four bedroom freehold house in Old Ottawa South

Want to buy a house? I got one for you. It's been a fabulous home for me and my family for the last eighteen years. We've looked after it, built it up, shined and polished it always thinking it would be our forever home. But life makes other plans…

Badge of honour for Mark Carney

It really seems like the Incels and mass shooters are running law enforcement in the US. All power to those who are protesting. And I hope what’s left of the congressional opposition comes and joins you

This is very sad. He owned every episode of the Wire he was in. A brilliant character and he made it real. The scene where he's testifying in his defence at the corruption trial will forever be etched in my mind.

New digs

Earlier this week I got the keys to my new home, a row house in the same neighbourhood in which I currently reside. It's much smaller, needs a bunch of work, doesn't have the light, amenities etc. But it'll be great, eventually. My partner of 22 years and I are going our separate ways.…

New digs

https://cmkl.ca/2025/12/27/new-digs/

Less widely reported is the surge in sales of mattresses with zippers and currency-stuffing cavities.

Next ask why instead of a cheat sheet, don't they just use ChatGPT. It'll have kid in stitches for the rest of the afternoon.

How does that guy have any credibility to talk on anything. He has some nerve. He should be looking for a rock to hide under.

He even looks like Pete Hegseth. How does he have any credibility at all? I would like to hope 'Hauled up on corruption charges' still means something to people up here, even if it doesn't down south.

Thinking about the 14 women murdered at École Polytechnique in 1989. It shook the world back then. But the ferocity and depth of the violence and misogyny we've seen since has made it into almost a footnote. My thoughts are of the lives that could have been and of the loss their loved ones felt.

Some kinds of shifters and brakes yes. Like the big chunky mountain bike front/back shifters yes. Grip shifters worked better though. Road bike brifters not at all. Brakes are fine usually because the levers are further away from the bars.

Black Diamond snowmobile mitts

I used to use snowmobile mitts like these. I was riding a flat bar bike with easy-to-hit shifters and brakes. Sometimes with thin, smart-phone compatible liners underneath.

Montreal aims to turn abandoned east end cinema into affordable housing | CBC News Soraya Martinez Ferrada announced Wednesday that by exercising its right of first refusal, the City of Montreal will be able to demolish the former Cinéma Paradis and transfer the land to a non-profit...

It's good Montréal is building social housing. Do they have to let themselves be swindled? In July, the Guzzo family sold the land for $800,000 to Investissements Denmar Inc. In September, the land was put up for sale for $1,679,000 … just two months earlier." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The Overton window in action. There was a time when we were outraged that the construction trades unions endorsed Liberals. Now we get to be outraged that they endorsed DoFo and got rewarded for it. I despair.

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81 Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

Why is Celtic Music holding on to it? Do they think there will be a massive re-commercialization of acoustic folk any time ever whereupon their ship will finally come in and they'll be billionaires?

You can still be location-tracking averse. Drawing a route on RWGPS or Strava and uploading it to Epic Ride Weather doesn't require you to ride that route while your GPS is recording. In fact if you know where you're going, you don't have to use a GPS or a phone at all.

Neither app lets you draw your own route, I'm afraid. They just analyze routes created elsewhere. You can use anything that can create a GPX, TCX or FIT file and upload the file, though.

Have you tried Epic Ride Weather or MyWindsock? You feed them routes from Strava or RideWithGPS and they tell you how the wind and temperature will affect your ride. They just talk in terms of added effort. They leave the judgement and self-loathing to you.

Well cuz what you don’t see are the keys to the boat it stole to get across the Channel.

Good bye Uncle Rusty: N – 1

It's the widely and most resolutely held belief amongst cyclists that the ideal number of bicycles to own is N + 1 where 'N' is the number you currently own. So one must wonder how it is possible that I might even consider actually reducing the herd. But it's true I'm…

So I got the SpikeVax yesterday to fend off the latest COVID. Odd marketing if you ask me. Sorta like Moderna asked RFK Jr for naming suggestions. Though it does hurt more than the others I've had.

Don't know who needs to know this but the best way to give your Canva document to a web person for your website is as a Powerpoint Export. Not PDF. Not JPG. Thanks for reading. This has been very therapeutic.