Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Last passionfruit of the year

Last passionfruit off potted passionflower - I got four this year - I brought it indoors and let it ripen until it fell off. Tasted good. I don't know what variety it is - I bought it at Canadian Tire and it didn't have label.

 

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Technology Memories - Pocket Fax

 In the early 90s I saw a CITY-TV news crew with this little cellular fax viewers - a small box like a slide viewer which were like this, but had a screen inside:




Credit: In Memoriam: Gilles Péris y Saborit,  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

It probably worked like the Faxview, made by Bolton Engineering in 1997.

They could receive faxes from CITY-TV and read them on it. CITY-TV was big on cutting edge technology and had an online presence years before other channels.

Saturday, November 25, 2023

Gynobfuscation

Women could gynobfuscate as a reprisal to mansplaining. "Sure, Rayleigh scattering explains why the sky is blue! But why does it taste minty?"

Sun Dog, November 25, 2023


 

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Raven's Roost


Ravens roost at night in huge colonies in the winter - I don't know why some are sitting on the ground - some would fly up into the trees - they have a social structure and they may be waiting on the ground for their sleeping mates. They also are thought to exchange information on good scavenging places, and they make lots of noise before they go to sleep.



 

American bittersweet, orange berries, Summerstown Forest


Orange red berries, American bittersweet, Celastrus scandens, a climbing vine, Summerstown Forest, near Williamstown, Ontario.

 

Tuesday, November 21, 2023

Rites of late fall - septic tank installation

 


Sunny day, bright yellow crane, putting in a new septic tank before the ground freezes.