Notes | Brutkey

Ross of Ottawa
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Lots of windy days lately, and another one today.

We're making a lasagna on the deck – layer of snow, a layer of leaves, another layer of snow, another layer of leaves, and repeat…

#ottawa

Ross of Ottawa
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Turned on the whole-house humidifier this week as it's been getting dry. Seems to be having the desired effect.

I sometimes forget that you can get some nice long-term data visualization in #HomeAssistant.

I've got another chore now though too. The takeoff tap that supplies water to our humidifier has a slow leak. Those junky needle-valve things have been outlawed for new installs with good reason.

#sensors #homeAutomation

A graph of humidity shows the rise over the summer to a dip below 40% recently, then rising up to mid forties in December.

Ross of Ottawa
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Related #poll to the last one. I'VE ALWAYS WONDERED THIS…

If your name has short forms (eg. Bill for William, or Kate for Katherine) do you hate that, or like it?

I've lived without the option – can't do much with Ross, though a few people tried to affectionately do Ro' when I was a kid. lol

#names

Ross of Ottawa
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I'm lucky with just 3 syllables, though my surname is weird (Finn) and needs spelling.

I always envied people I'd hear on the phone at work who could just say their name and it was clear how to spell it…
"Hi this is Dave Smith, can I check my order?"

More annoying must be a name that sounds ordinary but you have to spell it still:

"Hi it's Deayve Smith - that's spelled Dee ee ay vee aych ee," Condolences my friends. 😆

Ross of Ottawa
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I've had some Tamil colleagues with super long names - that must be hard to use in western countries.

Ross of Ottawa
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Noticing someone with a double-barrelled last name and long first name.

Made me remember a person I met with a triple hyphenated last name! Must've been tough to wield day-to-day!

A #poll…

For your regular every-day name, eg introducing yourself (not your full legal name) how many syllables does it take to say it?

#names #syllables

Ross of Ottawa
@ottaross@mastodon.social

I'm lucky with just 3 syllables, though my surname is weird (Finn) and needs spelling.

I always envied people I'd hear on the phone at work who could just say their name and it was clear how to spell it…
"Hi this is Dave Smith, can I check my order?"

More annoying must be a name that sounds ordinary but you have to spell it still:

"Hi it's Deayve Smith - that's spelled Dee ee ay vee aych ee," Condolences my friends. 😆

Ross of Ottawa
@ottaross@mastodon.social

Noticing someone with a double-barrelled last name and long first name.

Made me remember a person I met with a triple hyphenated last name! Must've been tough to wield day-to-day!

A #poll…

For your regular every-day name, eg introducing yourself (not your full legal name) how many syllables does it take to say it?

#names #syllables

Ross of Ottawa
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Dark days these. Just for a bit of a pick-me-up, we got a roaring fire going in the fireplace and assembled a nice summer-ish Niçoise salad for supper.

#NicoiseSalad #fireplace #cosy #supper

A Niçoise salad featuring garden potatoes, radishes, green beans, carrot and seared tuna steak, and a hard boiled egg.

A fireplace holds a few logs well engulfed in flames. There's a log to the left and some tools to the right.

Ross of Ottawa
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Using #Blender this morning, for the first time in a few months!

I usually try to remind myself to do some modelling every month, for fear of losing all memory of the highly-required shortcut sequences.

Glad to say they're all still installed in my brain. I'm being careful NOT try to think of them – just do them.

Z - slide left - wireframe
tab - 1 vertices mode.

I'd never remember if I had to describe them to someone, but my fingers just know what to do. 😆

Ross of Ottawa
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A breadmaking day, mostly cuz I didn't get around to employing the energetic sourdough starter on the weekend.

Three loaves - this time with a touch of garden sage and thyme, just for something different. Probably not really enough to really notice.

#breadposting #sourdough

Three loaves of bread, two boules and an oblong loaf, cooking on a rack. Unusual for me to do two boules in one batch, but I succumbed to pressure.

Ross of Ottawa
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The location of Le Hibou on Sussex today vs in its heyday.

Looks vacant these days.I think these shops are owned and managed by the NCC, and i've heard anecdotally that they are horrible landlords. A far cry from Le Hibou's time when they were given discounted rent to encourage the arts scene.

#leHibou

A brick street-level late 19th century storefront with lots of character. It's two stories, with a 3 storey-dormered section next door.

An old grainy photo shows the front of the Coffeehouse in the late 60s, maybe 1970. The signs in the window indicate that famed Americana folk and blues performers Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee were playing there at the time.

Ross of Ottawa
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Wouldn't it be something if someone could re-open the famed coffeehouse in the same spot again! Sadly the NCC with lack of vision would likely stand in their way.