Tomber et Revenir

(Update: I'll be in Seattle from July 20-30. If you are reading this, there is a pretty good chance you have a means of getting hold of me and would love to hang out. If somehow you don't have a way to contact me, you can

Mashed Canada Managed Democracy

(Note: trying out some new footnote hack, it works much better on the webpage, which is now, properly, https://garbage.today/) It's been too long since I have written but I have several good excuses! The first: the city really has come alive (prend de vie) now that

C'est Incroyable!

I generally don't write directly about current events and I expect most people don't read this blog for that kind of content. That said, the brutal police crackdown - 2300 arrests at the time of this post - of students protesting the US support of a

Passed tests, failed rebellions

Le cours numéro 1 est terminé! The exams consisted of four parts: * Production orale (speaking): Randomly chosen partners have two conversations. I was most worried about this, but a little practice was allowed first and we could choose out of three topics so it was cool. * Compréhension lire/Production ecrit

But that's enough about the weather and cosmic horror

The snow was gone for a whole day and like the entire city came out. This warm spell just so happened to coincide with my first foray into the tech scene in Montreal: a meetup ostensibly for people interested in the Python programming language. But really, the language choice serves

Spoilers for a 2500 year old text I guess

It has not been a terrifically busy week, but by far the highlight was Sashay, Oy Vey! A Drag Brunch Megillah Reading. Join Auntie Semitism and Femmeschewitz for a glamorous retelling of one of our classic problematic faves, the Book of Esther. The Book so messy you have to put

A distressing amount of maple syrup

So if you can believe it, despite my last name I've never been to a Saint Patrick's Day parade. Seattle either has an insufficient quantity of people who purport to be Irish or it's just never been on my radar. But this part of

I'm at the church/cabaret/library rollerskating night

Spring break - semaine de relâche or maybe congé printemps - is weird as an adult but I really needed the break. The break coincides with Montréal en Lumiére, the big winter festival. We went out for Nuit Blanche specifically, an evening where the city stays open all night -

Suspiciously Inexpensive Spaghetti

Learning a language is a funny thing for adults. It's hard to not occasionally have a moment which is slightly infantalizing. Sometimes this happens with the coursework itself, which is often dual use with children's education: Sometimes it's in the videos that we occasionally

Various Maladies and Half Earth Socialism

I don't talk about games a lot here but I wanted to briefly talk about two fun new games I'm currently engaged with. Minesweeper: Cold and Flu Season Edition The first one is simple: a losing game of minesweeper; in the form of choosing where to

An Evil Hot Dog Calling Me Things

Apologies for the problems with the previous post - I've been trying to write these in Markdown and import them in, but the Ghost editor is a little wonky. You get what you pay for I guess. So what's new?! A metric fuckton of French! My

THE BONES HAVE SPOKEN

Another quick update - hope everyone has made it from Substack. Wrote some trash code for a trash problem My partner was griping about what sounded like a problem that should have been solved in, I don't know, 1997: mail merge. For those fortunate enough not to have