Six years ago today, a Canadian-based team finally won the Stanley Cup. That was weird.

Here's a shot! Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Another shot. Right in front, they score! Henderson has scored for Canada! I know where I was 54 years ago right about now. (Watching the game in Grade 9 English class.)

Paul Henderson '72 Summit Series Winning Goal

Team Canada vs Russia 1972, Summit Series, Game 8 - The goal of the Century Visit http://www.heritagehockey.com to keep up-to-date on everything Team Canada 1972, and Paul Henderson. Check out our store as well for all your hockey memorabilia needs!

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selfie video creators with iPhones, I'm begging you: Settings > Camera > Mirror Front Camera, turn this OFF. If you don't, then the text on your shirt, on your hat, on that sign in the background is backwards. And it's very distracting.

ARRRRRRRGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS

Just back from seeing and thoroughly enjoying John Wilson's "The History of Concrete." Although I didn't learn much about the history of concrete, it was still a fun mind-bending free-association journey of random this and that and you should go see it, especially if you liked HBO's "How To"

He opened for kid rock this year, participated in the bud light boycott and has a song praising general lee

Uh oh.

Now that fall is here, it's time for the annual Canadian tradition where we all say "Who? Never heard of him. Couldn't the #CFL get <some act that I like that other people have never heard of> ? Were there no Canadians available? Can't we have BTO do 'Taking Care of Business' every year?"

oh, REDBLACKS, we were ALL wishing that field goal didn't make it

Please allow me to contribute this to your discussion - I took this photo in 2019 near where I live. I would like to join your potato fan club if memberships are still available.

My two most quoted and reposted and liked posts over the past few months have both been about potatoes. I didn't realize I was at the center of a potato fan club.

the Project Builder Historical Appreciation Society is saddened by the move from ".pbxproj" to ".xcodeproj" we remain happy that the prefix "NS" is still around.

Updating your Xcode project configuration file format | Apple Developer Documentation

Configure your Xcode project to use the JSON project configuration file format that’s more human-readable and editable by coding intelligence agents.

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I cannot resist the siren call of a weird USB cable

It is very strange to stumble across the world of Sports Mascots Performers on LinkedIn and realize that the person personifying the mascot for team A might've been performing for their big rival team B last year

If you didn't have a chance to make it to the Western Fair in London yet, here's the winner of the largest potato competition.

First Oakville Wind Orchestra rehearsal of the season last night. I have some homework - I need to watch "The Greatest Showman" and "La La Land" if I'm going to understand what it is we're playing.

This came up in my memories today Some good preso ideas, but he's completely wrong on the "There are more people alive today than have ever died" bit. Scientific American quotes a researcher who in 2002 calculated that 106 billion people have ever been born. www.scientificamerican.com/ar...

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Conor's Latest Online Program: Leading Oneself and Others https://www.udemy.com/course/leading-yourself-and-others/?referralCode=10BFF3989625D970CA0D Develop a Strategy to live a Meaningful Business and Professional Life I am Conor Neill. I teach. I share tips. I ask questions. I'm a member of EO, President of Vistage in Spain and teach at IESE Business School. Shout out if you've been there or done that ;-) on https://www.facebook.com/rhetorical on https://twitter.com/conorneill on https://es.linkedin.com/in/conor I'd love you to subscribe. My best ideas for videos come from your questions. What is your struggle? Subscribe for my new educational videos: http://bit.ly/utube-rhetorical Watch this video and more in the "Develop Your Speaking Skills" Playlist: http://bit.ly/speakcourse I have been teaching Persuasive Communications on MBA courses at IESE Business School for 10 years. This is part of a collection of short lessons compiled from my courses and shared for use both as a support to my classes, and a way of sharing this valuable knowledge to a wider audience via these awesome digital tools ;-) Visit my channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/rhetoricaljourney?feature=mhee Subscribe to receive new videos in your feed: http://bit.ly/utube-rhetorical http://www.conorneill.com What are the first words of a speech? What should be the first sentence of a speech? How can you engage an audience from the first moment? There are 3 ways to start a speech.

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Looks like I picked the right time to binge-watch Widow's Bay.

I found some (sketchy) USB-C "voltage adapters" that work for (most) of these terrible things: www.amazon.ca/dp/B0H2PFL55L (off the .ca store)

You want to know why I have a huge box of cables that I don't dare throw out? THIS IS WHY

My daughter is a teacher. When students submit something with an em dash in it, she asks them "OK, show me how you type one of those."

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Attached: 1 image I find it absurd that the em dash is now widely perceived as an indicator of AI use. I have used it since childhood; it is part of my writing style. Sometimes inserting a brief aside within a sentence, at other times emphasizing the conclusion of a thought. In any case, I use em dashs deliberately, and I am absolutely certain that many other writers do the same.

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Once again I have managed to buy a gadget that is supposedly USB-C rechargeable, but only if you use the mutant USB cable that came with it. Grrrr.

Thanks to everyone, and 14,000 Argos fans at the game, for the birthday wishes. But… I finally make it to 6-7 and now the kids aren't doing that any more? What? I thought I'd finally caught up with the trends. I guess that given I'm now 2/3 of the way there, I'll just tell people I'm "mostly 100."

The Ontario Science Centre was a wonderful Centennial project, a spectacular gift from the people of Ontario to future generations — and we should all be ashamed of how the current government is diminishing it. www.thestar.com/news/gta/onta...

Steve Hayman 🇨🇦@shayman.bsky.social · 2w ago

I was lucky to have a little hack of mine on display at the Science Centre, very briefly - a touch-screen paint program called "Finger Painter" based on Electrohome Telidon terminals fitted with touchscreen overlays that I think lasted most of the summer of 1983 touchscreens used to be futuristic.

At Koerner Hall with all the other hexa-, septa-and octogenarians to see Lighthouse. All 22 of them!

The Toronto Argonauts had better not reciprocate.

Nick Veronica@nickveronica.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Buffalo Bills announced that they will play both the American and Canadian national anthem for the first time at the Highmark Stadium opener. They're definitely making a push to expand their fanbase in southern Ontario, and this shows unity as a border city. The Sabres have always done this.

There's some upcoming Severance tie-in with this inner-vs-outer display thing, surely

i have this hard to control reflex to tell my manager which one they should send me

What I really should do is go back and watch Apple product intros from a few years ago which are still full of neat features I have yet to start using.

i do not want a folding iPhone …. i don't really need a folding iPhone … it might be kind of cool to have a folding iPhone … aaargh