Roberto Quinlan

Early morning shadows and frost on front lawns.

“Papers, please.”

As someone who spent many months in my research career poring over topographical maps for planning fieldwork, coupled w/ reading books about the Canadian WWII liberation of the Netherlands dealing with flooding for both combat defense & offense across a vast flat landscape, ... things are afoot...

There was a coyote barking about 2 backyards over. I got my dog to bark back and it sounds like the coyote approached to the next door neighbour's yard. What I didnt expect was that for the next half hour my dog was all amped up, perched up on the furniture barking at the back windows.

Opinion: Food inflation is going up. And there’s nothing anyone can do about it While world events have greatly contributed to food inflation, environmental factors are a major driver

I was told getting rid of the carbon tax would solve this problem.

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

YouTube video by Team Coco Bill Burr Wants Charities Out Of Sports | CONAN on TBS

Go to 1:00 mark of this classic Bill Burr moment on the Conan O'Brien show. The clip is from more than 10 years ago (!)
youtu.be/7n3WgiMftaU?...

My 16 year old daughter did not know who Colonel Sanders was when I pointed him out. And we ate KFC plenty of times when she was growing up. *head shake*
#bluejays

I’m in standing room at @torontobluejays.bsky.social , behind accessible seating, where a kid/teen in a wheelchair is distraught because he can’t see anything with everyone standing up. If anyone happens to be in a box or something with extra seats, this is your chance to do a good deed.

That extra poke in the eye just now was by Alejandro Kirk, who is Mexican. I think there's a parable in there somewhere.

YEAHHHHH!!!!!!
#bluejays

Updating my LEGO White House

This is where Pete Langdon at @unisouthampton.bsky.social Geography Dept goes back to Iceland in 2-3 yrs & collects sediment cores from lakes he studied previously for subfossil midges, re-analyzes them for mosquito subfossil remains, and BAM major research paper(s).

Pete, you owe me a beer mate.

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country.
Three specimens discovered in what was previously one of the few places in the world without the insects.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What does the skeet mean by 'first time in English'?

I have Lone Wolf & Cub comics in English that I bought in the mid-1980s.

In our family group chat someone just messaged "Someone in a Mathews jersey won a Game 7"
😅
#BlueJays

Queen's was started by a group of Scots Presbyterians and the university's governance model was based on either the University of Edinburgh or the University of Glasgow (I can't remember which) so OF COURSE the school spirit song shall be Scotland The Brave!

Last bite!

I didn't pay much attention to the football game - spend most of it catching up with people I haven't seen in years, and waiting to listen to the Queen's Band play Scotland the Brave on pipes & drums at halftime, brings back the memories. Often left after halftime to go to our year's keg party.

My final act as I leave Kingston #QueensU Homecoming - buying a fresh baguette from Pan Chancho which I will consume on the drive home as my late lunch/early dinner - yes, I will eat the whole baguette myself, I have walked/cycled across France & Spain so I know it is a fulfilling meal.

I brought my #Queensu Artsci'95 jacket out of storage for Homecoming and at some point this weekend I reached into an inner pocket and found the ticket stubs to the Homecoming games for the 5th and 10th yr reunions in 2000 and 2005.

In Kingston for #Queensu Homecoming.

In the early 1990s this locale was home of a revered late-nite eatery by the name of King of Donair.
Today, it is named House of Donair.
I hope it is of the same unbroken lineage, of sacred donair knowledge passed down through the generations...

Currently in Kingston for #Queensu Homecoming.

A story of inflation:
In the early 1990s, this Burger King at Princess St & Division in Kingston Ontario offered 5 Whoppers for $5 on Tuesday evenings. Now, they are offering 2 Whoppers for $10 & telling you it is some sort of "deal". Hmmkayyy budday.

You learn something new every day no matter how old you are. I'm walking the dog in Johnson Tew Park & came upon this sign next to a bird house 'Do Not Disturb! Ribbons Protect Bluebirds From Predatory House Sparrows'.
Huh, all these decades & I thought house sparrows were harmless to native birds.

It is so hot on one of the last days of September that there's a snake sunning itself on the sidewalk in front of my house. A very rare thing to say here in #HamOnt.

Milei's dogs have not been giving him good fiscal advice lately?

My backyard view while having breakfast this morning.

First tray of empanadas - done! #Chile 🇨🇦🇨🇱

Getting ready to make my first batch of empanadas for my family's 18th de septiembre 🇨🇱 get together today. Chilean-style empanadas includes some raisins, olive, and a slice of hard boiled egg, baked in the oven. #Chile 🇨🇦🇨🇱

Stage 1 of making a lot of empanadas de pino for my family's 18th de septiembre 🇨🇱 get together tomorrow (pino must be made the day before). My mom is making the empanadas de queso and my sister is making the ensalada chilena and pebre. Ohh it's gonna be good. Viva Chile! 🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

I think one of the neighbourhood wild rabbits met its end here last night - all this fur wasn't here yesterday.