Christopher Solar 🇨🇦

Giving couch-cushion fort vibes.

There were some skaters but don't know how fun it was, with blades sinking into the mush!

I just walked across the ice and it's very very soft!

There's a button they press to flip the "M" over when they need War-a-Lago mode.

Summer? We're getting summer?

Heading out for a McLiver and fries, or maybe some Liver McNuggets.

Walnut top, legs, and rails. Painted plywood slats with applied copper from the Parliament buildings. 99"L x 28"H.

A long curving console table with a dark walnut top and legs and a wraparound facade of wooden slats painted with a vibrant abstract pattern in primary colours.

Detail photo of the left end of the table showing the painted slats wrapping around the curved end of the table.

Detail photo of the right end of the table showing the painted slats wrapping across the face and around the curved end of the table.

Latest work: a big curving console table created in collaboration with artist Jason Baerg. I designed and built the structure and sent Jason a box of bare wooden slats. He painted them with this vibrant design and sent them back. I attached reclaimed copper over top, and put it all together.

The artwork is just a little memento, something to help you remember the last time you saw your bike before it was stolen.

aka the "wheel bender" rack

He can't wait to get started working together deleting the stories that move the world (for the tax write-offs).

It's a bike lane with a big picture of a bike on it but sure, any other use takes priority 🙃

Thanks to the @shawnmenard.bsky.social team this is being addressed (I hope) but I can't help but imagine a world in which a construction contractor (and their city overseers) wouldn't just dump signs in a bike lane and say, "yeah, that's a good spot for this sign for the next 5 years."

Forcing me to vote in a federal election with just a pencil and a piece of paper, like some caveman.

Every time I read about this cranky old billionaire who owns the only river crossing my mental image is Walder Frey.

When a small country is really really into one sport and that sport has a shitload of medals on offer at the games?

Speedskating sure has a lot of events, but they should take a medalmaxxing tip from swimming and add a whole set of races just for backwards skating.

Me: oh phew, the bike lanes are finally open again!
City: screw you, cyclists!

The recent lane closure was not Lansdowne 2.0, it was bridge work, but these stupid construction signs are for Lansdowne. Two signs blocking the bike lane plus another sign taking half the sidewalk.

Our mayor sure does love using his personal website to promote city business.

Once again: if this is the city's vision for the market, why isn't it on a city web page? Why am I being directed to mark sutcliffe dot ca? Aren't you the mayor?

There's a ski jumping / nordic ski center overlooking Oslo and getting there is easy on the light rail system.

A carton of Marlboro cigarettes on a store shelf. The warning label on the package reads "DEATH CUTS EFFCIENCY".

Eventually these warnings will break through.

The Conservatives can always address this at the Leadership Revi- [touches earpiece]
wait, what? just had one? he sailed through?

Had to fill out a W-8BEN yesterday (did some writing for a US magazine). I used to sell pieces now and then to US clients but I abandoned that from the outset of this admin...kind of with relief because shipping there was already such a hostile process.

Speaking of, could do "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" with "The Wrecking Crew" in the middle.

It's bad enough for it to exist on any intersection, but to have it active on a *MUP CROSSING* is really rubbing it in.

The dreaded revert-red virus has infected the signals at Trillium MUP and Gladstone. Wait for a green light, watch it get taken away just as you start to cross. I thought we'd eliminated this disease but it keeps coming back! (councillors have been emailed) #ottbike

He dropped out of community college after two months! He doesn't have any course credits to brag about, basket weaving or otherwise.

I remember at some point Pat King pulled up on Bank St in a ridiculous super-oversized pickup but he didn't hang around after seeing the crowd.

With 99% of people going the limit (or less) it would also be pretty simple to pick out the (apocryphal) drivers with hacked speed limiters.