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Back from an amazing 10 day trip to stunningly beautiful Scotland.

October 18 - 28, 2024

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I had another of those amusing bilingual moments this week when my MIL used the French word sous-entendu, meaning something inferred or implied, but not explicitly stated. It’s an amalgam of the word sous, meaning under, and entendu, the past participle of the verb to hear, but also having the meaning of having understood something, not just heard it.

So in French, an unspoken inference or implication is literally under-understood, which I’d like to petition be added to the English language as well.

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If you’re feeling stressed out, watching this on loop will likely help.

Bonus: listening to the below at the same time.

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Every fall, I try to make a point of spending one or two nights in Mont Tremblant National Park. I donate a few pints of blood to the mosquito gods, a few litres of sweat to the hiking gods, and I leave feeling lighter for completely different reasons. This year was no exception.

September 2 - 3, 2024

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this is for an argument w my friend

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Only a couple more of these First Day of School photos to go, then I suppose I’m make a montage and cry like a baby. 🥹

August 27, 2024

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Belated photo round up of our summer trip back to my homeland.

Vancouver Island, British Columbia

July 10 to 20, 2024

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Olimpic Games 2024

Gab Medina

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Had a small visitor by the pool.

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My morning commute lately.

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Today in Quebecers are f’ing insane.

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England & Wales place-names rendered into High German (morphologically reconstructed with attention to ultimate etymology and sound evolution processes)

to try to reconstruct a ‘plausible’-sounding german version of names, it was hard to decide whether to go right back to a shared proto-indo european root (as with Hagen- in Cardiff etc.), or to simply conjecture what may have become of a celtic name in german (as with Carlisle).

in order to try and keep it realistic the gazetteer of german place names was open in front of me, so that i could find actual attestation (in germany & austria) for most of the (parts of the) names on this map, even with shared etymologies.

Gottverdammt! stupid mistakes found: Yorch(scheier) should of course be **J****orch, Nordfolk should be Nord****v****olk, Marken should be Gemarken

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I love when singers think maybe their song requires a little prerequisite information so they just cover it real fast so everyone’s on the same page. I love that TLC opens No Scrubs quickly reviewing exactly what a scrub is and when ABBA was like “just in case you didn’t know, famed 19th century militant ruler Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated in the battle of Waterloo. We though perhaps not everyone would know that. Alright, so moving on to my love life, which is similar to that actually,”

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Happy birthday, Canada. Your popcorn is done.

It’s been a few years since I’ve been in town for the birthday bash. When did everyone decide to bankrupt themselves with fireworks? It sounds like Appomattox in our house right now with at least 5 competing displays. And these aren’t even the official ones, which start at 10!

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You’ve heard of Hot Girl Summer? This one is working on his Frat Boy Summer.

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