Let's Make Some Art, Dammit

June 26, 2024. The Ottawa River east of the airport. Another day in the office working on CList, and I took a quick lunch hour ride along the river. There was a whole set of aircraft flying over, from WWII vintage to modern fighters, so it was hard to keep my eyes on the trail. Took some photos but I'm going with this one since I did a Snowbirds photo a couple of days ago. https://flic.kr/p/2q19Tdr

June 25, 2024. This is some artwork on display here in Casselman. There's a whole slew of these painted mannequins as part of a community art project (you're supposed to vote for your favourite but I think picking a winner cheapens it). https://flic.kr/p/2q1fMNs

June 23, 2024. No biking yesterday because of the weather. This photo is from our walk through the Mer Bleue forest. My left foot is still hurting quite a lot. https://flic.kr/p/2q1gLDt

June 21, 2024. Another day working in the office, working on a project called 'CList'. Over lunch I cycled downtown to get some Hungarian paprika paste. This is from the little forested area just alongside the NRC campus; I notice that there's a bit of standing water. NRC keeps eating into this bit of forest to build new buildings, and I imagine they'll eventually wipe it out. https://flic.kr/p/2q1euar

June 17, 2024. Worked from home on a nice Monday and then did a quick loop to St. Albert after. This is a farm just north of St. Albert. https://flic.kr/p/2q1eqUU

June 15, 2024. I took a couple days to recover after my trip (by working in the office) and then we went out for a Saturday walk in Mer Bleue forest (I fdorgot the battery for my camera so this is just a phone pic). https://flic.kr/p/2q1fYnj

June 12, 2024. Flew back from Ireland today, landing in Toronto, where I had this shrimp laksa at the airport hotel. It was absolutely delicious. It was so much nicer to just hit the hotel on landing than to make my way from Toronto home. https://flic.kr/p/2pXNJB6

June 11, 2024. This is the Scottish Provident Building and front of Belfast City Hall, viewed not long after I got off the train. I picked up a hop-on hop-off here to view some of the more far flung areas and I also walked a good 6 or 7 kilometers (on increasingly painful feet) to see the city closer to the ground. Belfast is a big beautiful disparate complex city that defies explanation in a simple set of photos, but I learned a ton. https://flic.kr/p/2pXMtJf

June 10, 2024. These are just east of Galway, jutting out into Galway Bay, a branch of the North Atlantic. Had a brilliant day today, waking up early and taking the train to Galway, then getting one of those city bicycles and touring along the coast and around the city. I also walked a little bit after my bike ride. The weather was beautiful and the city was colourful and alive. https://flic.kr/p/2pXDV9K

June 9, 2024. This is the each at Balbriggan, Ireland, on a cool and raining day. It's easy to see the man walking along the beach, but less easy to see his dog swimming in the surf. I watched as they went back and forth playing with each other as I waited for the train back to Dublin. Today was about figuring out how the trains work and taking a short test trip up the coast; I wanted to go south but the tracks were being repaired; I also went to the wrong train station to start the day. In the end I had a nice walk through this coastal time, even dropping in on their Pride Day ceremonies. https://flic.kr/p/2pXFmGj

June 8, 2024. Here I am taking a selfie in my new suit jacket. One of the objectives of the trip was just this, because I can't get the right fit in North America (all my suit jackets have been of European origin (Nottingham, Glasgow...) but I keep losing them). I moved today from the awful DCU Rooms residence to a hotel in the city centre, and basically made it mostly a rest day. https://flic.kr/p/2pXDJpd

June 7, 2024. St. Patrick's Cathedral, in downtown Dublin. After another full day of meetings, the an online interview with Jim Groom and company, I decided to go for a short walk, which turned into a long walk, all the way into the city and ending here. Couldn't wait to get to sleep after. https://flic.kr/p/2pW85Gj

June 6, 2024. This is an Irish pub called Fagans in the Drumconfra area of Dublin. We were here after a ful day of meetings and presentations on democracy. https://flic.kr/p/2pW5EZK

June 1, 2024. Baseball at Rogers Centre Saturday afternoon. A dog of a game, an uninspired 8-1 loss. https://flic.kr/p/2pVzfhq

May 31, 2024. Blue Jays vs Pirates at Rogers Centre. Baseball weekend is early this year because the travel worked out that much better. We took the train down (I had a MS Teams meeting on the train) and booked into a Sonder. The game went 14 innings and got a little weird near the end - our section started singling (Hey baby... ooo... aaa) and we carried the Jays to a walk off win. https://flic.kr/p/2pVyKEz

May 30, 2024. Grass outside a basement window. Missed yesterday's photo, here's today's. Things are hectic. https://flic.kr/p/2pVsjzu

May 28, 2024. View of Montreal from our hotel room at the SENS downtown. Caught the train home this morning. Anyhow, yesterday I attended the wrong conference in the morning, and they asked me to participate as a speaker today, which I did - but from home, over Zoom, because of the train schedule. https://flic.kr/p/2pVz5t7

May 27, 2024. This is the opening at the Accessible Canada Accessible World conference here in Montreal. I was in attendance expecting to give a talk a bit later. The talk, however, was for a different conference in the same building. Mistake corrected, I reluctantly left this conference and joined the one on artificial intelligence in education I was supposed to attend. https://flic.kr/p/2pVyuhX

May 25, 2024. Scene from my bike ride today. I am *way* behind in uploading these (It's June 5 as I write) but I've actually taken the daily photos, I've just been slow uploading. https://flic.kr/p/2pVyit2