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“I will smoke P. Diddy like a cheap cigar.” IdleWords on training for marathons. I go running along the Mall once or twice a week (it really should be at least three times a week, but I’m not the morning person I once was), which is a five mile run from the Capitol to Lincoln […]
A lot happened in the three hours it took me to get home through all the traffic. The defection of Erap’s allies is practically complete: the military and the national police have withdrawn their support, and his cabinet members are resigning. The rally at Edsa has swollen to near-epic proportions. Erap has called for snap […]
Joined some friends in Halifax for a “CluedUpp” game, kind of a PokemonGo-like fairytale-themed augmented reality app scavenger hunt around the city. Amusingly the game producers appear to not have taken into account that the main quest giver’s virtual location on the Grand Parade was the site of a real life military ceremony the same […]
Welp, after two and a half years of dodging it, I finally managed to catch COVID-19. Some notes on the infection: Probably BA.5 subvariant, most likely caught from sick coworker’s presymptomatic exhalations on the one day I slacked off on masking at work while in an open-air workspace people walk through and pop into occasionally. […]
Tried visiting Clam Harbour Beach on a neighbour’s recommendation, bit farther than the Nova Scotia beaches we usually visit in our immediate area, but well worth the drive. The beach had fine sand and no rocks, with a gentle slope and shallow water, warmer than the water at most other Atlantic-facing beaches in Nova Scotia. […]
After a couple years, it’s become pretty clear that COVID isn’t just a droplet-spread respiratory virus, but a fast-evolving, airborne, neuroinvasive disease that can have long-term multi-organ inflammatory, autoimmune, and neurological effects, even for mild and asymptomatic cases. Contrary to received knowledge spuriously derived from previous pandemics caused by other pathogens, the SARS-CoV2 virus can […]
I had to drive up to Truro for my second vaccine dose so I wandered around town to see some sights and get some lunch. I’d heard about the local brown sauce pizza and wanted to give that a try, but all the pizza places I found downtown were closed, so I settled for some […]
Got my first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine dose in May and second dose in July. Only major side effects were muscle aches and fatigue the day after the second dose, gone the next morning. As of this week, wife and I are officially fully immunized — but not our son, so until a vaccine is approved […]
Figures that after I say “we’re doing okay” and an NYT op-ed calls Nova Scotia “a magical virus-free world”, that’s when Nova Scotia’s second wave would start.. Two COVID-19 cases hit schools in our immediate neighbourhood, so we pulled our kid from Pre-K out of an abundance of caution and started staying home again. New […]
Some recent media appearances, all relating to PicPedant suddenly being back on the journalism radar lately: Interview with Alexandre Capron of Info ou Intox on tips to spot and debunk viral images and detect when image mongers are automated spambots: Quelles sont vos bonnes résolutions pour 2020 ? 🤔 ❓ 👉 Pour bien commencer l’année, […]